The role of government is evolving from problem-solver to partnership-builder and, as usual, that change is being driven by city governments.
Juniper has had a long-standing partnership with server builder IBM, and it teamed up with the computing company again for a cloud computing release in February.
Apple in August also announced a partnership with home builder Brookfield Residential to create a smart-home community.
Seven years ago the Partnership invited modular builders from all over the country to come to New York City and was turned down by all except DeLuxe.
Arnold Karp, the president of Karp Associates, a building firm in New Canaan, has bought No. 50 Chatham and, in partnership with Cidermill Builders of Oxford, wants to build three houses in place of the single one that had been there before.
That initial intentional partnership between the Builders Exchange and the Saint Paul Board of Education and public schools gave birth to this community-centric community college.
After the previous owner, Terrapin Industries LLC, filed for bankruptcy, the property was bought from a lender by SoHo Builders, a partnership of Mr. Adjmi, a real estate investor, and Mr. Hart, a builder, for $3.4 million.
Mr. Musk said the chargers would dispense free electricity generated without emissions through a partnership with SolarCity, a builder and installer of photovoltaic equipment led by Peter and Lyndon Rive, cousins of Mr. Musk.
BioRegional Quintain, the environmental group's development arm, emphasizes such quality-of-life advantages to potential buyers in new complexes like the 170-apartment One Brighton, just completed in partnership with the house builder Crest Nicholson, Mr. Desai said.
Usually the concept homes are put up in partnership with a local builder, but this year's conference was held in Las Vegas, perhaps the nation's most disastrous real estate market, and it was presumed no investor there would be willing to take a risk, even a small one, on the Home for the New Economy.
