FRANKLIN AND MONROE, N.J. — HFF has arranged $24.6 million in refinancing for a two-property industrial portfolio totaling 470,866 square feet in Franklin and Monroe. The borrowers are Matrix Development Group and a fund advised by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing. HFF secured a $17.3 million loan for 1 Heller Park Lane in Franklin and a $7.3 million loan for 20 S. Middlesex Ave. in Monroe through Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC. The 324,337-square-foot 1 Heller Park Lane property features a 296,337-square-foot warehouse building and a 28,000-square-foot truck terminal building. Renovated in 2015, the property is fully leased to Promotion in Motion Inc., a candy and fruit snack manufacturer. Completed in 1992, the 146,529-square-foot warehouse property at 20 S. Middlesex Ave. features 19,069 square feet of office space and is leased to three tenants. Thomas Didio and Jim Cadranell of HFF represented the borrower in the financing transaction.
New Jersey
MedAssets Inc. Leases 105,959 SF Office Building at Saddle River Executive Center in New Jersey
by Amy Works
SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — Alpharetta, Ga.-based MedAssets Inc. has signed a 105,959-square-foot full-building lease at Saddle River Executive Center. The Class A office space is located at 1 Route 17 in Saddle River. William McCaffery, Marc Krieger and Steven Getzeiler of Avison Young represented the landlord, Madison Core Property Fund, while John Flack and James Scancarella of Cresa represented the tenant in the transaction.
ASBURY, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of ABM Self Storage, a 59,562-square-foot self-storage facility located at 190 New Jersey Highway 173 in Asbury. A limited liability company acquired the asset for $4.6 million. Situated on 5.8 acres, the four-building property features 400 storage units. Anthony Asencio, Michael Mele, Ben Sgambati and Alan Cafiero of Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office represented the seller, a developer, and the buyer in the transaction.
HARRISON, N.J. — Ironstate Development Co. and The Pegasus Group have opened Harrison Station 330, a collection of 329 rental apartments in Harrison. Situated one block from the Harrison PATH station, the property features studio, one- and two-bedroom residences, a lobby/lounge, a courtyard with a swimming pool, a fitness center, and 9,600 square feet of street-level retail space. Revitalizing the former industrial area, the residential community is the third phase of a multi-phase development that the companies are constructing adjacent to the PATH station. The project’s first two phases include 275 apartments, more than 20,000 square feet of street-level retail space and a 138-key Element hotel. Once completed, the overall development will feature 2,250 residences and 80,000 square feet retail, in addition to the hotel. Residences at Harrison 330 currently offer monthly rents starting at $1,555.
WESTVILLE, N.J. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged the sale of Inverness Apartments, a garden-style apartment complex located at 5600 Shetland Way in Westville. Coolidge Inverness LLC sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $27.3 million. Situated on more than 30 acres, the property features 368 multifamily units. Robert Tiburzi of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors brokered the transaction.
Onyx Equities, Rubenstein Partners Completes $9M Renovation of New Jersey Office Property
by Amy Works
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — Onyx Equities and Rubenstein Partners have completed a $9 million renovation of a 300,000-square-foot office property located at 211 Mount Airy Road in Basking Ridge. The repositioning program included a new multistory lobby with a 15-foot media wall, refurbished common areas, a fitness center with locker rooms, a cafeteria and a 127-seat auditorium. Additionally, the building’s façade was removed and replaced with a glass curtain wall allowing more natural light and views of the 52-acre campus. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is handling leasing for the property, which is owned by Onyx and Rubenstein.
AVENEL, N.J. — Sitex Group has acquired a 20-acre site located at 215 Blair Road in Avenel within the Exit 12 submarket in New Jersey for an undisclosed price. The property includes a 175,000-square-foot warehouse facility with four acres of trailer parking, as well as excess land for development of a 200,000-square-foot cross-dock distribution facility. Sitex plans to rehabilitate the existing property, which is a former C&S Wholesale Grocers/White Rose Foods warehouse, and construct a 200,000-square-foot speculative logistics facility with 36-foot ceiling heights, 53 loading docks and several acres of on-site trailer parking. Mindy Lissner, William Waxman, Steven Beyda, Kevin Dudley, Robert Pine, Jennifer Ferrara and Susan Strauss-Rickwalder of CBRE represented the buyer and undisclosed seller in the transaction.
RANDOLPH, MIDDLESEX, LONG BEACH, ELIZABETH AND MARLBORO, N.J. — Procida Funding’s 100 Mile Fund, a local real estate investment vehicle, has closed three loans totaling $6.3 million for properties in Central New Jersey. In the first deal, Procida Fund secured a $1.3 million first mortgage for the acquisition and pre-construction work of a development site. The borrower, ER Real Estate Management LLC, plans to build a 12,500-square-foot medical office property on the site in Randolph. In the second transaction, the fund provided a $2.7 million bridge loan to Naval Crest Associates I & II LLC to pay off an existing mortgage loan and modify and amend a mortgage on two properties in Middlesex and Long Beach. In the final deal, Procida provided a $2.3 million bridge loan for the acquisition of three gas stations in Elizabeth and Marlboro. With these three transactions, Procida Funding has closed 19 debt investments totaling more than $100 million year-to-date.
CINNAMINSON, N.J. — HFF has brokered the sale of Riverline Self Storage, a self-storage facility located at 1714 Bannard St. in Cinnaminson, a suburb of Philadelphia. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-based Prime Group purchased the 381-unit property for $5.4 million. The two-building property totals 63,539 rentable square feet, with the property’s 381 climate-controlled units totaling 36,586 rentable square feet and occupying portions of both two-story buildings. The remaining 26,953 square feet is occupied by a combination of office, retail and warehouse tenants. Richard Schontz and Barbara Guffey of HFF represented the seller, a local private investor, in the transaction.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — A partnership between The KRE Group, Oxford Realty Group and Blue Vista Capital Management has acquired Royal Gardens Apartments, located at 3060 New Brunswick Ave. in Piscataway, for $107.2 million. Situated on 36 acres, the 550-unit property features 258 one-bedroom apartments and 292 two-bedroom units. The partnership plans to install additional amenities and property improvements at the community, including an outdoor swimming pool. The property was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Joseph Brecher of Gebroe-Hammer Associates represented the seller in the transaction.