EATONTOWN, N.J. — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) has secured $10 million in refinancing for West Ridge Corporate Center in Eatontown. HFF placed the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with Principal Commercial Capital for the borrower, Bollerman Real Estate Services Inc. Located at One Industrial Way West, the five-building, 113,715-square-foot office/flex complex is currently 96 percent leased. Michael Klein led the HFF team representing Bollerman in the financing.
CHICAGO — NorthMarq Capital has secured a $13.3 million refinancing loan for the Kingsbury Center, a mixed-used property in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. The 10-year loan includes a 25-year amortization schedule. Sue Blumberg and Eric Kanz of NorthMarq Capital’s Chicago office arranged the financing for the borrower, which includes the Hochberg family, through its correspondent relationship with a life insurance company. The 135,256-square-foot property, located at 344 W. Hubbard St., was 100 percent occupied at the time of sale. Tenants in the Kingsbury Center include Petco, Ace Hardware and CVS as retailers. Related Companies and The Habitat Company hold office space.
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — Rubenstein Partners has received $28.5 million in refinancing for 211 Mount Airy Road, a 305,000-square-foot office property in Basking Ridge. Rubenstein Partners along with its partner, Onyx Equities, recently completed a redevelopment plan to improve and modernize the property. The partnership additionally signed a 61,676 square feet lease with Avaya Inc. The property features a full cafeteria, state-of-the-art fitness facilities and a 127-seat auditorium and conference center. Wells Fargo is providing the five-year loan facility.
CLEVELAND — Love Funding has closed on a $15.3 million loan to renovate a large, historic city block in downtown Cleveland into a loft apartment community. West 25th Street Lofts will offer 83 market-rate loft apartments in four adjacent buildings in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, including one that was originally constructed in 1866 to house the Jacob Beahr Brewery. In short, the apartments will replace a vacant group of buildings on West 25th Street. The developers of the $27.4 million project are Rick Foran of Foran Group Development LLC and Chris Smythe of Smythe Property Advisors LLC. Love Funding Midwest Regional Director Bruce Gerhart secured the financing through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 221(d)(4) loan insurance program. The HUD program provided the development team with low-rate, non-recourse financing for the duration of construction and for a subsequent 40-year term. The loan was originally slated to be finalized in 2014, but the closing of a charter school in one of the newer buildings enabled the development team to add another 22 units to the project, according to Love Funding. Since then, the immediate area has benefited from further development, leadingUSA Today to name the area one of the 10 “up and coming” neighborhoods in the United States. …
DALLAS — Churchill Capital Co. of Dallas has arranged a $4.7 million loan for the acquisition and improvement of a 173-unit Class C multifamily community located at 1810 John West Road in northeast Dallas. The Buckner Village Apartments are garden-style, one- and two-story units with one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. The 7.6-acre complex was fully renovated in 2009 and features gated access, a pool and a playground. Duke Stone and Steve Forson of Churchill Capital arranged the three-year, floating-rate loan through a local bank on behalf of the borrower, JAG Re-Development.
ARLINGTON, VA. — HFF has arranged $62.5 million in financing for the development of the leasehold interest in 1008 North Glebe, a planned 15-story, 267-unit apartment and retail tower in Arlington, a northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. The Shooshan Co. will develop the Class A property on Marymount University’s Ballston Center Campus, located at the intersection of North Glebe Road, North Fairfax Drive and I-66 in the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor. Adjacent to the new project will be a 165,000-square-foot classroom/office building owned by Marymount University. The combined project is slated for a spring 2017 completion. Sue Carras, Walter Coker and Brian Crivella led HFF’s debt placement team to arrange the construction loan through SunTrust Bank.
PLANO, TEXAS — HFF has arranged $10.2 million in first lien financing for the acquisition of Ruisseau Village, a 124,567-square-foot neighborhood retail center in Plano. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, a private real estate investor, to place the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through Morgan Stanley Bank N.A. Located at 3303-3309 N. Central Expressway, Ruisseau Village is situated on 12.6 acres at the northwest corner of West Parker Road and North Central Expressway, which connects Plano to downtown Dallas. Renovated in 2014, the center consists of two single-story buildings leased to Top Golf, Hertz, Boxes to Go, Monarch Dental, Jazzercise, Kelly Moore Paints, The Mum Shop, Rover Dramawerks and restaurants including Bavarian Grill and A-Star Buffett. Kevin Mackenzie, Greg Brown and Jim Curtin led HFF’s debt placement team representing the borrower.
DALLAS — HFF has arranged the sale of and arranged financing for Energy Square, a 948,678-square-foot, Class A office project in Dallas. HFF marketed the property on behalf of the sellers, Lincoln Property Co., Champion Partners and Long Wharf Real Estate Partners. Energy Square was purchased by a partnership between GlenStar Properties and USAA Real Estate Co. The new owner was also assisted in securing floating-rate financing through Wells Fargo Bank by HFF. Energy Square consists of a 10.3-acre site containing three buildings, plus a one-acre development site zoned for a mixed-use development. The properties feature a fitness center, three conference centers, multiple food service options, Grub Burger Bar restaurant, an outdoor plaza and direct access to the DART Light Rail. Energy Square is 82 percent leased to tenants including New York Life Insurance Co., Davaco and Advanced Homecare. Located at 4925 and 4849 Greenville Ave. and 6688 N. Central Expressway, respectively, Energy Square is situated just off the North Central Expressway near Southern Methodist University north of downtown Dallas.
LAKEVIEW TERRACE, CALIF. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $9.6 million refinance of Lakeview Terrace Center, a 78,634-square-foot shopping center located in Lakeview Terrace. David Blum of NorthMarq arranged the cash-out, 10-year term loan with 1.5 years’ interest followed by a 30-year amortization schedule through a CMBS lender. The largest tenant in the unanchored center is Lakeview Farmers Market.
JERSEY CITY, BRICK AND NEPTUNE, N.J., AND COBLESKILL, N.Y. — Cronheim Mortgage has secured $26.9 million in financing for four individual properties located in Jersey City, Brick, Neptune and Cobleskill. Each loan was structured on a 10/30 basis for affiliated entities of New York-based National Realty & Development Corp. The properties include Old Colony Square, a 100,073-square-foot retail center in Jersey City owned by Grand Street Realty; LHOP Holding LP’s 13-building Lions Head Office Park in Brick; two retail pads in Neptune owned by Red Baron Property Resources LP; and C.P. Plaza LP’s 24,500-square-foot retail center in Cobleskill. Andrew Stewart, Dev Morris and Allison Moravec of Cronheim Mortgage arranged the financing.
