NEW YORK CITY — Brax Realty has brokered the $12.2M sale of a two multifamily buildings on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The properties, which were built in 1910, are located at 432-434 E. 89th St. and contain 41 residential units. Alan Stenson of Brax Realty represented the buyer, S.W. Management, in the transaction. The seller was H S Realty Associates.
Acquisitions
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2 million sale of a four-story, mixed-use building in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Located at 40 Nostrand Ave., the property consists of one retail unit and six residential units. Matt Fotis and Dylan Renicker of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was also a private investor.
TINLEY PARK, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated the $7 million sale of an 84,388-square-foot industrial building in Tinley Park, about 30 miles south of Chicago. The property is located at 8201 W. 183rd St. Terry Grapenthin, Jeff Galanteand Ryan Earley of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, 7600 Grant BR LLC. The seller was not disclosed. The property was 80 percent leased at the time of sale.
BLUE ASH, OHIO — Colliers International has brokered the $2.9 million sale of the Corporate Centre of Blue Ash, a 57,722-square-foot flex office building in suburban Cincinnati. Built in 1990, the property is located at 11101 Kenwood Road. Tenants include Fastsigns, Handyman Connection, Ohio State Auditor, Parallel Technologies Inc., Sellyourmac.com, Sheppard Insurance and Financial and IT support company 4bis.com. Steve Timmel, Jeff Johnston, Chris Prosser, Will Roberts and Matt Smyth of Colliers brokered the transaction. Midwest Properties Corp. purchased the asset from LNR Partners.
TAMPA, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Tampa City Center, an office tower located at 201 N. Franklin St. in downtown Tampa. A partnership between affiliates of Miami-based Banyan Street Capital and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management acquired the 38-story property for $110 million. An affiliate of Alliance Partners HSP, the East Coast operating arm of the Shilder Group, sold the property. Mike Davis, Rick Brugge and Michael Lerner of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal. Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Masonite, Morgan & Morgan, FieldCore (a division of GE), CDW, PNC Bank and The University Club are tenants at the 757,425-square-foot, Class A office building. Via a skybridge, the tower is connected to the 520-room Hilton Tampa Downtown, with 30,000 square feet of meeting and conference space; 211 Restaurant; Starbucks Coffee; and Fort Brooke parking garage, a covered parking facility owned by the City of Tampa. Jason Hochman, Chris Lentz, Michael Ryan and Brian Linnihan of Cushman & Wakefield’s Equity, Debt & Structured Finance Group assisted the buyer in securing an $84 million acquisition loan. Funded by HSBC Bank, the loan includes proceeds at acquisition plus future funding for capital improvements to …
LEXINGTON, KY. — Ziff Properties has purchased the former Golden Burley Tobacco Warehouse and Building Materials Warehouse located on Angliana Avenue in Lexington for an undisclosed price. Fred Pfister of Silvestri Craig Realtors facilitated the transaction. The name of the seller and sales price were not released. Ziff Properties plans to convert the property, which is situated on 3.5 acres, into a Class A self-storage facility with 103,500 square feet of climate- and non-climate-controlled units. CubeSmart Self Storage will manage the asset.
HOUSTON — 29th Street Capital, a privately held investment firm with offices in San Francisco and Chicago, has acquired Cali Sommerall Apartments, a 368-unit multifamily asset located in Houston’s Copperfield/Bear Creek submarket. The company will invest in new countertops and paint for the unit interiors, as well as upgrades to the amenity spaces, which include a pool, coffee bar, dog park, fitness center and a grilling station. The seller was not disclosed.
Brennan Investment Buys 194,519 SF Industrial Facility in Louisville for Sale-Leaseback Deal
by Amy Works
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Brennan Investment Group has acquired an industrial property located at 1300 W. Park Road in the Bullitt submarket of Louisville. Concurrent with the acquisition, the 194,519-square-foot property was leased back to the seller, a joint venture between Westfall Technik and a client of Arch Street Capital Advisors. The building is fully occupied by Amaray, a specialized global plastic packaging company, which was simultaneously acquired by Westfall Technik. Amaray has occupied the property since 2003.
HOUSTON — The Meritex Co., a Minnesota-based investment firm, has purchased Park 225, a 121,520-square-foot light industrial building located at the interchange of Highway 225 and Beltway 8 in Houston. The property was fully leased to four tenants at the time of sale. Tom Lynch of CBRE brokered the deal. Stream Realty Partners will manage the property. With this acquisition, Meritex now owns more than 500,000 square feet of industrial space in the metro Houston area.
NEW CANEY, TEXAS — Dallas-based retail brokerage firm STRIVE has arranged the sale of Brookshire Brothers Shopping Center, a 55,944-square-foot retail asset in New Caney, a northern suburb of Houston. The five-mile radius around the property, which is anchored by a 42,000-square-foot Brookshire Brothers, has seen its population increase by more than 25 percent since 2010. Daniel Wenz of STRIVE represented the Florida-based seller in the transaction and procured the local buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.