Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Public/Private Partnerships

Mayor Newsom Announces 12 New Pavement to Parks Projects for 2010

By Matthew Roth | Feb 25, 2010 | 8 Comments

Photo of Showplace Triangle Plaza, formerly a street and parking lot. Photo: Captin Nod 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 […]

Carlyle Group’s New Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership: Donuts

By Elana Schor | Nov 20, 2009 | No Comments

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. […]