I want to enable a group of developers the create tables owned by a specific user.

I ASSUME this is based on roles, ie:

create a master user "mis".
create a role "mis_devel".
Grant this role to all developers.

Somehow (here's where I get lost) give this role the
ability to create tables owned by "mis".

Or is this not possible, so I need to merely grant all
users the ability to create tables as "dbo" which
is the database owner.

This is a shared development environment so made them all "Database Owners" and told them to prefic dbo. in front of every table access statement.