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NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Ariel Property Advisors has arranged a $6.5 million acquisition loan for a 12,500-square-foot retail building in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. The building formerly housed a Rite Aid store. Matthew Dzbanek and Matt Swerdlow of Ariel arranged the five-year bank loan, which carried an interest rate of 6.25 percent. The borrower is an owner and operator of stores of regional grocer Foodtown.