SPI’s President/CEO Mary Scott Nabers was recently featured on Smart and Resilient Cities discussing the growing support for the congressional reauthorization of the country’s EB-5 Program.
Strategic Partnerships, Inc. CEO Mary Scott Nabers will lead a round table discussion on how to avoid a failed public-private partnership at the Oct. 3-4 P3 Higher Education Summit in San Diego. The event is one of the largest gatherings of campus leaders and P3 development experts in the U.S.
| Date: | October 3, 2016—October 4, 2016 |
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| Event: | Nabers to present at higher education P3 conference in California |
| Sponsor: | Higher Education Summit |
| Location: | San Diego, CA |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
SPI’s President/CEO Mary Scott Nabers was recently featured on Economic Development blog discussing use of green spaces ability to recruit business and industry to a given area and positively affect the city’s economic growth.
Mary Scott Nabers, president and CEO of Strategic Partnerships, Inc. and co-founder of the Gemini Global Group, will again be among the speakers for the annual CG/LA Infrastructure-sponsored North American Infrastructure Leadership Forum. This year’s event, the organization’s eighth, is set for Oct. 25-27 in Denver.
| Date: | October 25, 2016—October 27, 2016 |
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| Event: | Nabers to speak at North American Infrastructure Leadership Forum |
| Sponsor: | CG/LA Infrastructure |
| Location: | Denver, CO |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
Unique collaborations between the public and private sector are redeveloping vacant big box stores, often referred to as “ghostboxes,” into valuable public assets such as libraries, wellness centers, museums, educational facilities and more.
The FTA recently launched a new program called the Mobility on Demand (MOD) sandbox, signaling a shift in public transportation. It encourages and incentivizes ridesharing companies to collaborate and work with public transit authorities.
According to a recent report, the top 10 public pension funds quadrupled their investments in infrastructure in the last five years – to more than $17 billion. At the end of the first quarter of this year, the number of public pension funds investing in unlisted infrastructure funds rose 12 percent from last year and 76 percent from five years ago.