NEW YORK CITY — Developer and operator StorQuest Self Storage has opened a new facility at 155 King St. in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. The number of units was not disclosed, but the five-story property spans approximately 84,000 net rentable square feet. Construction began in mid-2020. The property is StorQuest’s second in Brooklyn and 10th in the state of New York.
NEW YORK CITY — Los Angeles-based PCCP LLC has provided a loan of an undisclosed amount for the refinancing of 80 Broad Street, a 36-story office tower in Manhattan’s Financial District. The 423,777-square-foot building was originally constructed in 1931 and includes 12,385 square feet of retail space and private terraces on select floors. Ken Ziebelman, Grant Frankel and Ethan Pond of Eastdil Secured arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between New York City-based Broad Street Development and Invesco Real Estate. Since 2018, ownership has invested more than $9 million in capital improvements to the property.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — San Francisco-based mortgage banking firm Gantry has arranged a trio of loans totaling $31.9 million for the refinancing of three multifamily properties totaling 426 units in Upstate New York. In the first deal, a correspondent agency lender provided a 10-year loan that carried a fixed interest rate, five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule for a 181-unit property in Central New York. In the second transaction, a life insurance company funded a 20-year loan that was also structured with a fixed rate and multiple years of interest-only payments for a 176-unit asset in Buffalo. A Wall Street-based lender provided the final loan with similar terms for a 69-unit property in Rochester. Tom Grzebinski and Jack Stelianou of Gantry placed all three loans on behalf of undisclosed borrowers.
NEW YORK CITY — Private equity firm Sycamore Partners Management has acquired Ste. Michelle Wine Estates for $1.2 billion. The transaction is the largest private equity purchase of a wine business in the U.S., according to Bank of the West, which led financing for the acquisition. Altria Group Inc. was the seller, according to reports by Bloomberg. Ste. Michelle Wine Estates is the third-largest premium winery in the U.S. with over 30,000 acres of vineyards spread across three states. Some of the company’s popular brands include Chateau Ste. Michelle, 14 Hands, Patz & Hall, Northstar, Erath and Stags Leap. Chateau Ste. Michelle is one of the largest brands in the Pacific Northwest, located roughly 18 miles northeast of Seattle in Woodinville, Wash. The winery — which produces 60 percent of Washington’s annual wine sales — also owns 3,900 acres of vineyards in the Columbia Valley of Eastern Washington, including Canoe Ridge Estate and Cold Creek. New York City-based Sycamore Partners specializes in consumer, distribution and retail-related investments. The firm has approximately $10 billion in aggregate committed capital. Bank of the West, headquartered in San Francisco, is one of the largest commercial lenders to the wine industry in the U.S. —Katie Sloan
SYOSSET, N.Y. — Simi Capital Group, an investment firm with offices in New York City and Miami, and Cerberus Capital Management have acquired an industrial building located in the Long Island community of Syosset for $15 million. The building sits on a six-acre site. The seller was not disclosed. The new ownership plans to utilize the property as an outdoor storage facility.
NEW YORK CITY — The Yucaipa Cos., a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has acquired the American Stock Exchange Building, a commercial property located at 123 Greenwich St. in Manhattan. The 14-story building was originally constructed in 1921; the namesake tenant vacated the premises after merging with the New York Stock Exchange in 2008. Today, the building plays host to conferences, trade shows, fashion shows, art exhibitions and private parties. National direct lender iBorrow provided $97.1 million in acquisition financing to Yucaipa, which plans to reposition the building as a private membership club operated by Membership Collective Group, the parent company of Soho House.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Greystone has arranged a $77.2 million bridge loan for the refinancing of The Rockwell, a 114-unit apartment building in New Rochelle, a northern suburb of New York City. The property includes 21,000 square feet of retail space that is leased to CVS, Smokehouse Tailgate Grill, Finish Line PT and Kung Fu Tea. Drew Fletcher, Matthew Klauer and Jesse Kopecky of Greystone arranged the debt through Cerberus Capital Management on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between locally based developer Young Cos. and private investor Phil Craft.
NEW YORK CITY — Telemedicine provider LifeMD Inc. has signed a 7,500-square-foot office lease at 236 Fifth Avenue, an 11-story building in Midtown Manhattan that was originally built in 1907. The owner, Kaufman Organization, acquired the property in 2018 and implemented a value-add program. Grant Greenspan and Jared Sternberg represented the landlord on an internal basis in the lease negotiations. Joshua Berg of Newmark represented the tenant, which plans to take occupancy of the space in December.
SHIRLEY, N.Y. — Colliers International has negotiated the $9.2 million sale of a 61,916-square-foot industrial building in the Long Island community of Shirley. The sales price equates to $149 per square foot. The building is leased to rubber products supplier Frank Lowe for the next five years. Jordan Baruch and Matthew Kucker of Colliers represented the buyer, Port Washington, N.Y.-based BEB Capital, in the transaction. Jason Maietta, Tommy Rosati and Brandon Lichtenstein, also with Colliers, represented the seller, Warco LLC, a real estate entity affiliated with Frank Lowe.
NEW YORK CITY — Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals, which develops therapies to make bone marrow transplants safer and more accessible, has signed a 10,000-square-foot life sciences lease at the Mink Building in Manhattan. The tenant will relocate from the Downstate campus of State University of New York (SUNY). Owned by The Janus Property Co., the 150,000-square-foot Mink Building is located within the Manhattanville Factory District, adjacent to Columbia University and City College on the Upper West Side. The deal brings the building’s occupancy rate to 80 percent.