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The Public Private Strategy
Group (PPSG) provides
strategic consulting and project
management services to public
agencies and private corporations
active in the government sector.
Founded and staffed by
professionals with years of
experience in public sector
management, PPSG leads
transformational change efforts
by government entities and
designs public private
partnerships that strengthen
public agency operations and
balance sheets. PPSG has
established practices in the
following areas of public
enterprise: Innovative
Finance, Transportation
and Education.
Founded in 1996, PPSG is led
by two partners, each of whom
has organized and directed large
organizations in both the public
and private sectors. The
firm serves as a catalyst in
stimulating private investment in
public projects and its partners
have an established record of
developing creative solutions to
budgetary and operational
challenges faced by public
enterprises. Included among these
are:
- Executing sale/leaseback of public buildings to enhance facility operations and to provide new funding source for public agencies;
- Securing $500 million of federal grant funding for a major new light rail system;
- Leading the successful turnaround of over 100 underperforming public schools in major urban centers across the country;
- Pioneering the use of tax advantaged leasing to lower the cost of capital funding for public entities;
- Developing a landmark partnership between public agency and national developer for the development of prime urban real estate; and
- Advising the Department of Education of a major state on the takeover, redesign and reform of its largest urban school district.
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