While visiting friends in San Francisco in 2018, investor Ross Calvin watched golden hour shine across the Bay and found it was missing one thing: a Statue of Liberty.
Seven years later, Calvin is working to build his own West Coast colossus: a 450-foot (137-meter) statue of the Greek god Prometheus on Alcatraz island, tall enough for his head to poke above the Golden Gate Bridge. The monument to the Titan who defied the gods would dwarf Lady Liberty, a mere 305 feet by comparison. To Calvin, Prometheus exemplifies the “fundamental dynamism that defines the West” — never mind the ...