Norton’s Economic Development Work in D.C. Results in Her Selection to Special Congressional Panel on Public-Private Partnerships

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Congresswoman, the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, has been selected to join a special bipartisan 11-member panel to explore the current state of public-private partnerships across all modes of transportation and infrastructure, and how the public investment in infrastructure can be used to attract private resources. Norton has used her work on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to develop initiatives that have resulted in successful public-private partnerships. Among them are the Old Post Office building redevelopment, which is now underway; the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood, along M Street; the NoMa neighborhood, where a new Metro station – the only one to be funded by the private sector, the District of Columbia, and the federal government – drew investment and resulted in the development in the neighborhood; and the Southwest Ecodistrict, an underused portion of the National Mall.

"I am pleased to have been selected to serve on the public-private partnership panel, and I believe that some of our work in the District can be translated nationally," said Norton. "Over the decades the public financing of infrastructure has been huge, but too often is not leveraged to get public benefit from the private investment that could result."

Published: January 16, 2014