New school space at MetroTech = "a successful venture between a school... and one of our country’s leading real-estate businesses"

A press release from Brooklyn Friends School, A 21st Century School Grows in Brooklyn: Brooklyn Friends School Celebrates Ribbon-Cutting for New High School Facility at One MetroTech, hails a new collaboration--er, rental agreement--with landlord Forest City Ratner, which has had to accommodate a broader range of tenants as financial services and other large firms downsize their space.

In the citations below, all emphases are added:

Brooklyn Friends School celebrates its third century in downtown Brooklyn with the opening of a distinctly 21st-century school building. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new, 40,000 square foot facility for the 9th through 12th grade Upper School takes place on Tues. Sept. 8, 4:15 pm at 116 Lawrence Street.
The new facility, which will welcome 200 students and 40 faculty members in September, is a stand-alone “building within a building” at One MetroTech Center (the first facility constructed in MetroTech). It is just one block away from the school’s main building at 375 Pearl Street.
The college-preparatory Quaker school, with 895 students from age 2 through 12th grade, has partnered with Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), to bring the new facility to life. “This project is more than just a building,” said Head of School Dr. Larry Weiss, in announcing the opening of the new high school. “It’s a successful venture between a school with an enduring imprint on the borough of Brooklyn and one of our country’s leading real-estate businesses. We are grateful that FCRC’s creative, forward-thinking acumen brought their company and our school together in this enterprise.”
Dr. Weiss continued, “Having a new high school facility for BFS is a long-held dream which is finally being realized thanks to the enormous efforts of our School’s Board of Trustees and to many other friends and supporters. That we were able to secure the space in MetroTech – a thriving center for commerce, academia, and government – brings all of us joy beyond measure.”
The School signed a long-term lease for the property with FCRC in October 2013, and construction began in September 2014. FX FOWLE Architects designed the building, and FCRC provided infrastructure support.
Spread across three floors, the academic space has more than 40 classrooms, seminar rooms and faculty offices, as well as four visual art studios, three music studio classrooms, four science laboratories, a black box theater classroom, a wet darkroom and digital media center, a dance studio, a fully-equipped fitness center, a high-tech library, and a café which can double as a community meeting space for almost 300 people. The entire space is wired for the Internet and every classroom has been designed with the latest-generation technology for teaching and learning. All BFS Upper School students have school-issued Chromebook computers.
The project is being financed primarily by a loan from TD Bank. The loan will be paid back through voluntary giving to the not-for-profit school. A multi-year capital campaign, called “Light the Way” has already raised $2 million with support from BFS trustees, alumni, parents, grandparents, and community members.
The new facility ­– the only one of its kind in MetroTech ­– has been designed to serve an enrollment of 240 students who experience a world-class education culminating in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program. Brooklyn Friends School is one of only 11 IB World Schools in New York City, and the school’s IB graduates have continued their education at colleges such as Yale, Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and NYU, among many others.
Founded by the Religious Society of Friends at 110 Schermerhorn Street in 1867, BFS is one of the oldest continually operating independent schools in New York City and is recognized as one of the most diverse independent schools in the region. There are five educational divisions: Family Center for two year-olds; Preschool for three and four year-olds; Lower School for Kindergarten through fourth grade; Middle School for grades five through eight, and Upper School for grades nine through twelve.
At all levels, the educational program fosters critical thinking skills, intellectual rigor, and emotional intelligence. The School’s graduates are compassionate, curious, and confident global citizens who let their lives speak in the spirit of leadership and service. Notable alumni include award-winning writer Francine Prose, New York Times journalist William Glaberson, the actors Fisher Stevens and Dan Hedaya, New School professor and economist Dr. Darrick Hamilton, and Therese (Tay) Hohoff, the editor of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

In the Brooklyn Reader

The news was also adapted by the Brooklyn Reader under the more real estate-oriented headline,
Brooklyn Friends School Opens High School in MetroTech in Partnership with Forest City Ratner Companies. Note how the term "partnered with"--which could refer to any agreement--has become "part of a partnership":

The popular Quaker grammar school Brooklyn Friends School on Tuesday welcomed an additional 200 students and 40 faculty members to a second facility: its new high school, located at One MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn.
The new, 40,000 square-foot facility for 9th- through 12th-graders is a stand-alone “building within a building,” occupying the first three floors of One MetroTech Center, just one block away from the school’s main building at 375 Pearl Street.
The school’s new opening is a part of a partnership with real estate giant Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC).
“It’s a successful venture between a school with an enduring imprint on the borough of Brooklyn and one of our country’s leading real-estate businesses,” said Dr. Larry Weiss, the new high school’s principal. “We are grateful that FCRC’s creative, forward-thinking acumen brought their company and our school together in this enterprise.”
The School signed a long-term lease for the property with FCRC in October 2013, and construction began in September 2014, with FCRC providing infrastructure support for the facility’s construction.
Spread across three floors, the academic space has more than 40 classrooms, seminar rooms and faculty offices, as well as four visual art studios, three music studio classrooms, four science laboratories, a black box theater classroom, a wet darkroom and digital media center, a dance studio, a fully-equipped fitness center, a high-tech library, and a café which can double as a community meeting space for almost 300 people. The entire space is wired for the Internet and every classroom has been designed with the latest-generation technology for teaching and learning, all BFS Upper School students have school-issued Chromebook computers.
The new facility ­– the only one of its kind in MetroTech ­– was designed to serve an enrollment of 240 students, all of whom will be working towards completing an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program at the end of their fourth year. Brooklyn Friends School is one of only 11 IB World Schools in New York City.