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State Explores Private Equity
The Portland Business Journal highlights Rockefeller Foundation's support of the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange, a platform to accelerate new public-private finance models for infrastructure projects in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Excerpt: Oregon, California and Washington are in the early stages of a new partnership to explore ways of accessing private capital for public projects — from schools to roads to wastewater treatment facilities.
Though the effort is nascent, Gov. John Kitzhaber said last week that he hopes what emerges is a way for the three states to create economies of scale to address infrastructure needs that in Oregon alone could reach $200 billion over the next 20 years.
