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NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of an office building located at 9 DeKalb Ave. in downtown Brooklyn. JDS Development and The Chetrit Group acquired the 70,000-square-foot landmark property, which was delivered vacant, for $90 million in an all-cash transaction. The five-story property, which previously operated as a bank with offices on the upper floors, features 315,000 square feet of transferrable development rights. The air rights can be put to use at a neighboring development site or used to build out the maximum envelope of the property to 450,000 square feet. Bob Knakal, James Nelson and Stephen Palmese of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.