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Mayor Newsom Announces 12 New Pavement to Parks Projects for 2010
San Francisco’s two newest Pavement to Parks plazas got an official launch ceremony this afternoon after several months of public use, along with a promise from the Mayor to build twelve more public spaces like them before the end of the year. The twelve new locations will include a new plaza at the intersection of
24th Street and Noe Street in Noe Valley and Parklets, or wooden
sidewalk extensions, on Divisadero Street in Nopa, 22nd Street in the
Mission, Columbus Avenue in North Beach, and Clement Street in the Richmond.
February 25, 2010
Carlyle Group’s New Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership: Donuts
As the federal deficit squeezes the Obama administration's options for
financing ambitious new infrastructure projects, public-private
partnerships (PPPs) are gaining
currency as a possible solution. And in an illustration of PPPs'
potential, the $86 billion private-equity firm Carlyle Group yesterday struck a deal with the state of Connecticut to run ... 23 highway rest stops.
November 20, 2009