SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Ziegler has arranged $61.3 million in bond financing for Aldersly Garden Retirement Community, a continuing care retirement community in San Rafael, a northern suburb of San Francisco. The community was originally founded and incorporated in 1921 by Danish organizations as a retirement home serving the Danish-American communities in California and Nevada. The property is situated on an approximately 3.5-acre campus. Life Care Services LLC has provided management and marketing services since 2004. The borrower will use the proceeds of the bonds, together with an equity contribution, to fund the construction of a 35-unit residential care facility consisting of larger, more marketable apartments, additional common areas and more parking. The bonds were issued through the California Municipal Finance Authority and amortize over a 30-year period.
Loans
NEW YORK CITY — KeyBank has provided a $17.7 million Fannie Mae acquisition loan for Broadway Terrace, a 131-unit apartment complex located in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood. The garden-style property was originally built in 1927 and consists of eight four-story buildings. Alan Isenstadt and John Ward of KeyBank originated the financing, specific terms of which were not disclosed, on behalf of the borrower, Meridian Capital.
JLL Arranges $49.2M in Construction Financing for Birtcher Logistics Center in Fontana, California
by Jeff Shaw
FONTANA, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $49.2 million in construction financing for Birtcher Logistics Center Fontana, a Class A industrial distribution facility currently being built in Fontana. The 330,048-square-foot project is set for completion in the first quarter of 2024. Situated on more than 13 acres, the facility will feature 36-foot clear heights, 51 dock-high doors, 85 trailer parking stalls and a 185-foot truck court. The borrower, Birtcher Development LLC, secured the three-year loan with two one-year extensions from a life insurance company. JLL Capital Markets’ debt advisory team, led by Greg Brown, Peter Thompson and Spencer Seibring, arranged the financing.
SAN FRANCISCO — Gantry has secured $8.2 million in permanent financing for an office building at 499 Jackson St. in San Francisco’s Jackson Square Historic District. The five-story, 18,000-square-foot building boasts a rooftop deck and street-level retail that’s currently occupied by Postscript. Artis Ventures, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, anchors the office space. Gantry’s Tom Dao, Erinn Cooke and Nan Carlevarini represented the borrower, a private investor. The financing, provided by one of Gantry’s correspondent life company lenders, is a 30-year amortizing, fixed-rate loan with potential for future additional funding.
KPG Funds Receives $50M Construction Loan for Boutique Office Project in Lower Manhattan’s SoHo District
by Jeff Shaw
NEW YORK CITY — KPG Funds has received a $50 million construction loan for 40 Crosby, a boutique office redevelopment project in the high-end SoHo district of Lower Manhattan. The five-story cast iron building totals 70,000 square feet, including prime retail space on the ground floor with Broadway frontage. KPG plans to rebrand the property as The Crosby upon completion. KPG bought the asset in early 2022 and immediately began planning the redevelopment. Sabal Investment Holdings and GDS Brightstar provided the construction loan. Nick Scribani, Dustin Stolly and Jordy Roeschlaub at Newmark arranged the financing. According to Rod Kritsberg, KPG’s co-founder and chief investment officer, the three-year construction loan will be used to give 40 Crosby a full-building renovation, keeping in line with KPG Funds’ standard to transform it into one of the “most desirable office and retail assets in the neighborhood.” Improvements will consist of a separate entrance on Crosby Street with high-end, pre-built office space and significant capital allocated to the lease-up of the specialty retail space fronting Broadway. The asset offers flexible floorplates to cater to multiple tenants or contiguous floors for a flagship headquarters location. The office space features up to 18-foot ceiling heights, 20 oversized windows bringing …
Tishman Speyer Obtains $150M Construction Loan for Mazza Gallerie Mall Redevelopment in D.C.
by John Nelson
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tishman Speyer has secured a $150 million construction loan to fund the mixed-use redevelopment of Mazza Gallerie, an obsolete, three-story shopping mall in Washington, D.C.’s Friendship Heights neighborhood. The mall closed its last store this past Christmas, according to local media reports. RBC Capital Markets provided the financing. The reimagined development will comprise 320 rental apartments and 90,000 square feet of retail space, including 20,000 square feet of new ground-level retail space fronting Wisconsin Avenue. Tishman Speyer will maintain the mall’s 70,000-square-foot retail concourse that will once again be anchored by T.J. Maxx. The redevelopment will also maintain over 800 parking spots across four below-grade levels. Demolition of the existing structure is underway, and completion of the residential portion and first wave of new retail openings is anticipated for 2025. The project’s design-build team includes general contractors Davis Construction and Smoot Construction and architects 3XN and Eric Colbert & Associates (architect of record).
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of financing for Meacham Commerce Center Building 1, a 334,750-square-foot industrial property in Fort Worth. The cross-dock facility was built on 19.4 acres in 2022 and features 36-foot clear heights, 70 dock-high doors, four drive-in ramps and parking for 240 cars and 103 trailers. Colby Mueck, John Beeler and John David Johnson of JLL arranged the loan through Protective Life Insurance Co. on behalf of the borrower, McCormack Commercial. Meacham Commerce Center will ultimately consist of four buildings totaling roughly 1.3 million square feet across 80 acres.
Marcus & Millichap Arranges $6.5M in Acquisition Financing for Industrial Property in Santa Ana, California
by Jeff Shaw
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged an acquisition loan of $6.4 million for an industrial property in Santa Ana. The 19,152-square-foot asset is located at 1820 S. Santa Fe St. Richard Knorr of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. secured the financing with a national bank. The loan features a 6.14 percent interest rate with a 25-year self-liquidating term. Drew Wetherholt and Colin Wu of Marcus & Millichap arranged the sale. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based investment and development firm Innovo Property Group has received $354 million in financing for a 720,000-square-foot industrial project located at 28-90 Review Ave. in the Long Island City area of Queens. Innovo received construction financing from Axos Bank and Cerberus Capital Management and equity from Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The breakdown of each component within the capital stack was not disclosed. Completion of the project is slated for 2025. Christopher Peck, Peter Rotchford, Tyler Peck and Nicco Lupo of JLL arranged the financing.
SAN FRANCISCO — Westfield has made plans to pull out of San Francisco and surrender the San Francisco Centre mall to the property’s lender, reports CNN. The decision follows the closure of stores including Banana Republic and Nordstrom. A spokesperson for Westfield previously attributed the closure of the latter to “unsafe conditions for customers, retailers and employees.” According to SFGATE, Westfield and its partner, Brookfield Properties, have ceased loan payments on the mall. In a statement provided to the publication, Westfield noted that it has operated San Francisco Centre for more than 20 years and that it has “made the difficult decision to begin the process to transfer management of the shopping center to our lender,” citing “declines in sales, occupancy and foot traffic.” The company also stated that the property’s debt “is nonrecourse and this action has no impact on the rest of [Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s] debt.”