Loans

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TEMPE, ARIZ. — Knighthead Funding has arranged an $11 million refinancing loan for The Heights on Lemon, a multifamily property in Tempe. The loan will refinance the existing facility and provide financial flexibility to the borrower, 1224 Lemon LLC, and its sponsor, Robert La France. With more than 11 years of multi-state real estate investor experience, La France acquired The Heights on Lemon in 2021. Built in 1976 and fully renovated in 2021, The Heights on Lemon features 65 apartments spread across four buildings. The property was 98 leased at the time of financing. The asset offers 84 parking spaces, a community pool and in-unit washers/dryers. Reuben Hedaya and Noah Schulman of Pivot Real Estate represented the borrower.

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ALTOONA, IOWA — Associated Bank has arranged an $84 million loan for the construction of a 622,788-square-foot heavy manufacturing facility in Altoona. Enclave is the developer and borrower. The loan was arranged and led by Associated Bank as administrative agent with syndicate lenders First National Bank of Omaha and Wintrust Financial. The project is a build-to-suit for Robinson Inc. to provide flexible production capacity for metal bending, large format cutting, metal forming, welding, fabricating and assembly, and electrical integration. Marking its first manufacturing facility outside of Wisconsin, Robinson will now have close to 1.4 million square feet of manufacturing space across Wisconsin and Iowa to better serve its energy sector customers. The City of Altoona is investing $9 million for infrastructure improvements, and Robinson will invest $76 million for upgrades. The plant will create more than 100 new jobs when completed in early 2027. Valor Contracting, a division of Enclave, is the general contractor. John Rent of Associated Bank handled the loan arrangements and closing.

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FORT LEE, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged an $85.5 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of FIAT House, a 309-unit apartment complex in the Northern New Jersey community of Fort Lee. The newly constructed property consists of two buildings that rise 12 and 13 stories and house one- and two-bedroom units. Amenities include a golf simulator and cinema room, a landscaped rooftop deck with cabanas and fire pits, a library, a gym, coworking areas and private offices. John Alascio, Chuck Kohaut and Chris Meloni of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the 10-year loan through Greystone on behalf of the owner.

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NEW YORK CITY — Nuveen Real Estate has provided $47 million in first mortgage financing for Storage Post East Village, a 1,959-unit self-storage facility in Manhattan’s East Village. The landmarked building at 444 E. 10th St. was originally constructed in 1928 as the Wheatsworth Building. Storage Post and its equity partner, Almanac Realty Investors, acquired the building in 2022 and redeveloped it to support storage use. Today, the facility features 78,812 net rentable square feet of entirely climate-controlled space. Steven Klein and Robert Tonnessen of JLL arranged the loan through Nuveen on behalf of ownership.

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BERKELEY, CALIF. — Article Student Living, an operating platform of QuadReal Property Group, has received refinancing for IDENTITY Logan Park, a two-phase student housing community serving the University of California, Berkeley. JLL Capital Markets secured financing with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management for the borrower. Totaling 720 beds, IDENTITY Logan Park I and II are located at 2050 Durant Ave. and 2370 Durant Ave., less than half a mile from UC Berkeley’s campus in downtown Berkeley. The community features two buildings completed in 2022 and 2023 with a total of 204 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Units feature stainless steel appliances, in-unit washers/dryers and smart TVs. Community amenities include a 24-hour fitness center, rooftop sky lounge, study spaces and a dedicated campus shuttle service for residents.

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COEUR D’ALENE AND SANDPOINT, IDAHO — Gantry has secured a total of $21.2 million in two permanent loans to refinance maturing debt for a pair of medical office buildings in Coeur d’Alene and Sandpoint. The financing included a $9.7 million loan for a 38,000-square-foot property located at 423 N. Third Ave. in Sandpoint and an $11.5 million loan for a 60,000-square-foot facility at 1919 Lincoln Way in Coeur d’Alene. Both assets feature outpatient and family medicine providers tied to local hospital systems. Demetri Koston and Abi Hunter of Gantry’s Inland Northwest production team represented the single borrower, a private real estate investor, for both loans. The five-year, fixed-rate loans were provided by a single pension fund lender from Gantry’s roster of debt sources and include prepayment flexibility after a 30-year amortization.

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CHICAGO — Northwind Group, a Manhattan-based real estate private equity firm and debt fund manager, has provided a $58.5 million first mortgage loan for the acquisition and lease-up of 175 West Jackson Boulevard, a 22-story office building totaling more than 1.4 million square feet in Chicago’s Central Loop. The property also includes a 240-space parking garage. The loan was structured with $33.5 million initial advance at closing, with an additional $25 million reserved as a “good news” facility to fund future accretive leasing costs. A joint venture between 601W Cos. and David Werner Real Estate Investments was the buyer. The financing facilitated the acquisition at a significantly reset basis, reflecting an approximately 85 percent discount to the property’s prior purchase price by Brookfield, according to Northwind. The building has undergone extensive renovations and modernization, with over $24 million of capital improvements completed by prior ownership, including a new amenity center and rooftop space on the 22nd floor.

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SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Z Modular has received a $62.3 million bridge loan for the refinancing of Flatz 512, a 384-unit multifamily property located roughly midway between Austin and San Antonio in San Marcos. A partnership between New York-based Castle Lanterra and global investment management firm InterVest Capital Partners provided the loan. The newly constructed property offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, clubhouse and outdoor grilling and dining stations.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — PACE Loan Group (PLG) has provided a $45.5 million C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) loan for Island Waterpark at Showboat, a 120,000-square-foot entertainment venue in Atlantic City. The venue opened in summer 2023 via conversion of a surface parking lot at the adjacent Showboat Resort and includes 10 water slides, a multi-level children’s play structure, lazy river, four restaurants and three bars. The borrower, Bart Blatstein of Philadelphia-based Tower Investments Inc., will use a portion of the proceeds to pay down existing construction debt on the property.

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BOSTON — Newmark has arranged a $690 million CMBS loan for the refinancing of a 13-property, 4,077-unit multifamily portfolio in the Sun Belt. The borrower, Boston-based West Shore, is refinancing properties in five Florida cities — Daytona Beach, Gainesville, Melbourne, Ocala and Tallahassee — as well as Columbia and Lexington, S.C.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Bryan, Texas. Purvesh Gosalia arranged the cash-out, single-asset single-borrower (SASB) refinancing through Citi. The transaction represents the largest multifamily closing in the United States year-to-date, according to Newmark.

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