Washington, DC and the Unique Infrastructure Challenges of Being the Nation’s Capital
The City of Washington, DC a finalist in the third round of the City Accelerator, is focused on finding viable and sustainable ways of funding public infrastructure.
This summary is a part of Washington, DC’s application to a City Accelerator cohort on financing public infrastructure. Your feedback on the videos will inform final selection of the cities.
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What is Washington proposing?
The District of Columbia recently launched an executive office to specifically focus on leveraging public private partnerships in service of funding infrastructure projects. In a high growth city like this one, there is an incredible urgency to secure resources for both existing and new infrastructure. After recently launching the Office of Public Private Partnerships, the challenge now is to figure out how to prioritize projects, quickly identify opportunities for innovative partnership, and execute projects. The City Accelerator would help the District focus on a single class of projects to test whether an interagency planning and prioritization process leads to the identification and acquisition of executable financing options.
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A detailed description of the mission and purpose of the City Accelerator’s cohort on funding public infrastructure.
Public response is one of several criteria being used by the City Accelerator to select cohort cities. The number of ratings or comments by themselves do not determine final status or selection.
ciara
On: 12-03-2017i do not think i like this site thank you
gerald ubigau
On: 02-27-2017the infrastructure is too large and inefficient
Mark Scott
On: 04-07-2016Really leery. DC's highly-acclaimed 1999 P3 financing of Oyster school is a disaster. The IRS says its a tax scam, plus DC officials have admitted that its costing DC taxpayers a lot more than what they received in return.
Jennifer Hara
On: 02-29-2016Job well done! Street lights and WIFI - I get it!
AJ
On: 02-18-2016Awesome work.
Dartanion Williams
On: 02-17-2016Looking forward to DC serving as a model city for the rest of the nation!
Lionel Sims
On: 02-17-2016This is GREAT!!
CM
On: 02-17-2016Go DC
Nathan Mulat
On: 02-17-2016Love this!