Loans

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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Locally based developer LCOR is underway on construction of a  307-unit apartment building at 247 North Ave. in New Rochelle, located north of New York City. The 28-story development will include 18,000 square feet of commercial space and offer studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. Roughly 10 percent (31) of the units will be reserved as affordable housing for renters earning 80 percent or less of the area median income. Bob Tonnessen and Steven Klein of JLL arranged $94 million in construction financing through Pacific Life for the project. Completion is slated for mid-2025.

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NEW YORK CITY — Derby Copeland Capital, a locally based lending and investment firm, has provided a $9.8 million acquisition loan for 414-416 West Broadway, a 13,396-square-foot, mixed-use property in Manhattan’s SoHo district. The borrower was not disclosed. The four-story building consists of four newly renovated apartments, one unrenovated apartment, one office suite and a ground-floor retail space with a contiguous basement. Marcus & Millichap brokered the $13.2 million sale of the property on behalf on behalf of the seller, Valroge Corp.

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Red Oak Capital Holdings has provided $8 million in financing under its opportunistic bridge loan program to a partnership between Frank Kimball and Scott D. Greenberg for an office building located at 1300 U St. in Sacramento. The borrower will use the loan to pay off outstanding debt and complete space planning and permitting on the property. The loan was structured with a fixed rate of 11 percent and a two-year term with two six-month renewal options. The interest-only loan represents 33.47 percent of the asset’s “as-stabilized” value of $23.9 million. Situated on 1.7 acres, the single-story 47,456-square-foot building is currently in shell condition and will be built out for the California Highway Patrol, which signed a long-term lease for the space. The property provides surface parking for 77 vehicles.

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NEW YORK CITY — Merchants Capital has provided $320 million in financing for the renovation of Edenwald Houses, an affordable housing complex in The Bronx that was originally developed in the 1950s and is home to more than 5,000 residents. The property is the second-largest New York City Housing Authority property in the state and the largest in The Bronx. Merchants Capital secured a New York Housing Development Corp. Freddie Mac Risk Share Loan on behalf of the property developer, Camber Property Group. The funds will support an intensive, four-year construction period to fully rehabilitate the property.

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BAYONNE, N.J. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $36 million loan for the refinancing of City Line Bayonne, a 162-unit apartment complex in Northern New Jersey. The property features 16 studios, 124 one-bedroom units and 22 two-bedroom residences, as well as amenities such as a rooftop deck, fitness center and a pet spa. John Banas, Kris Wood, John Wilson, Rhett Saltiel and Erik DiGirolamo of Walker & Dunlop originated the 10-year loan on behalf of the borrower, locally based developer The PRC Group. The direct lender was not disclosed.

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NEW YORK CITY — Short Term Capital, a locally based family office, has funded a $4.5 million acquisition loan for a 13,000-square-foot, five-story office building located at 150 W. 36th St. in Midtown Manhattan. The borrower, an undisclosed private investor, is under contract to purchase the building, which includes ground-floor retail space, from Falcon Properties for $6.5 million.

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WILMINGTON, DEL. — Pennsylvania-based developer MRA Group has received $63 million for the redevelopment of Chestnut Run Innovation & Science Park, a 164-acre, 14-building development in Wilmington. MRA Group will use the funds to continue renovations of the campus’ 14 buildings to support lab, R&D and advanced manufacturing uses. Additional plans for the campus include a hotel, fitness center, conference facilities, an outdoor amphitheater and accommodations for food services. Fulton Bank, in conjunction with Nuveen Green Capital through C-PACE, financed $50 million of the funds, while WSFS Bank provided the remaining $13 million.

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BROCKTON, MASS. — MassHousing has provided $12.9 million in financing for Bixby Brockton Apartments, a 106-unit affordable seniors housing complex located on the southern outskirts of Boston. The complex houses 88 one-bedroom apartments and 18 two-bedroom apartments, with two units occupied by maintenance and security staff. The borrower, Affordable Housing & Services Collaborative Inc., will use the proceeds to fund capital improvements and extend the property’s affordability status. Among the improvements slated for the property are unit repairs, two new heating systems, a new fence, security camera upgrades and the extension of a laundry room.

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Multifamily Markets Navigate Challenges Alex Virtue

When Zelman & Associates’ 2023 Virtual Housing Summit opens in September, Alex Virtue will take the stage as a newly appointed managing director who has been charged with expanding the firm’s investment banking coverage of multifamily and other commercial real estate property sectors. Virtue joined the institutional research advisory and investment firm in May with over two decades of experience in mergers and acquisition transactions and capital raising across real estate sectors in both the public and private capital markets. His resume includes senior positions with Merrill Lynch, Eastdil Secured/Wells Fargo Securities, CBRE Capital Advisors and Xebec, an industrial developer and asset manager. Zelman & Associates, founded in 2007, was acquired by Bethesda, Md.-based commercial real estate finance and advisory firm Walker & Dunlop in 2021. “My focus at Zelman and Walker & Dunlop is broadening the firm’s reach on entity-level transactions in multifamily and related housing sectors such as single-family rentals, built-for-rent, student housing, affordable housing and manufactured housing communities, as well as other commercial real estate sectors,” says Virtue “I would characterize my concentration as bringing traditional banking investment expertise, knowledge and services across the Walker & Dunlop platform and working with my colleagues to bring these advisory …

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MCLEAN, VA. — Capital One has provided $200 million in financing in separate deals for four multifamily properties totaling roughly 1,300 units in New York and New Jersey. Balance sheet transactions included a refinance of Ramblewood Apartments in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and a refinance of Mid-Island in Bayshore, New York. Both deals featured fixed-rate loans with full term interest-only payments. Agency transactions included a seven-year, fixed-rate Freddie Mac loan with full-term, interest-only payments to refinance Eagle Rock Apartments at Freehold in Freehold, New Jersey. The team also arranged a Freddie Mac supplemental loan for Vista Point Apartments in Wappinger Falls, New York. Abe Hirsch and Zev Karpel of Meridian Capital Group arranged the loans on behalf of the borrower, Eagle Rock. Todd Phillips and Michael Maidhof led the transactions for Capital One.

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