NEW YORK CITY — Creative working environment Spaces will open its third location in New York City on May 29 at 230 Park Ave. Spaces 230 Park Avenue will provide a 54,000 square-foot creative co-working environment for businesses and will feature a 4,000-square-foot business club as well as private rooms and dedicated desk space. The location joins Spaces 1740 Broadway and Spaces Long Island City as the third Spaces location in New York City. Additional Spaces locations are planned for Hudson Yards, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Spaces workspace model lets startups, small business owners and more established entities focus on growing their companies without the distraction of office logistics.
NEW YORK CITY — The Feil Organization has leased a 1,541-square-foot space to Blue Bottle Coffee on the ground floor of 257 Park Ave. South, a 226,000-square-foot mixed-use building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The café, which sells coffee beans less than 48 hours out of the roaster, will have 23 feet of frontage on Park Avenue South. Blue Bottle Coffee joins retail tenants such as Bravo Pizza and FedEx Office Print & Ship Center. Office tenants at the building include the Environmental Defense Fund, OpenSlate and Independence Care System. Drew Weiss, Mark Frankel and Jeff Roseman of Newmark Knight Frank arranged the 10-year lease on behalf of Blue Bottle Coffee, and Randall Briskin of Feil represented the company internally. Blue Bottle Coffee is expected to move into the space in July.
NEW YORK CITY — PCCP LLC has provided a $45.9 million senior loan to Forkosh Development Group for the development of a 20-story residential condominium at 157-161 E. 28th St. in Manhattan. Forkosh acquired three vacant apartment buildings at the site in January for $17 million in an all-cash transaction. The privately owned real estate development firm will build a boutique condo development on the site of the former apartment buildings. Once completed, the project will offer units with open layouts, floor-to-ceiling windows and hardwood floors.
NEW YORK CITY — Cignature Realty Associates LLC has arranged the sale of 3594 Broadway, a 15,072-square-foot apartment building in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The six-story building features 25 units and was built in 1910. Peter Vanderpool of Cignature Realty represented both the seller, Sugar Hill Capital Partners, and the buyer, City Skyline Realty, a local private investment company.
NEW YORK CITY — Google has leased 8,000 square feet of retail space at 350 Sixth Ave. in Manhattan. The three-week lease will serve as a technology pop-up for the tech giant and will feature mini-golf, games, giveaways and demonstrations of the company’s newest tech products. The site will be located one block from the A, C, E, B, D, F and M subway lines. The asking rent was $225 per square foot. Google’s pop-up will take occupancy in the last week of May 2018 and will run through the first two weeks of June. Lee & Associates represented both Google and the landlord, Nuovo Ciao-Di LLC, in the lease negotiations.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the $9.3 million sale of 309 East 92nd St., a five-story, 8,600-square-foot apartment building locatedon Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, 309 East 92 LLC, in the transaction. The 10-unit, free-market apartment building includes nine four-bedroom units and one two-bedroom unit. The property underwent a renovation project, which included the construction of a roof deck, in 2015.
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors and GHP Office Realty have secured $30 million in refinancing for a Class A office building located at 660 White Plains Road in Tarrytown. GHP Office Realty, Houlihan-Parnes Realtors and RD Management purchased the building in 2017. The loan was structured into two facilities to preserve an existing below-market rate and provide for additional funds to complete all renovations and tenant build-outs. The loan is for a term of 12 years with the initial rate fixed for seven years. The 296,780-square-foot office building is currently 98 percent occupied with a tenant roster that includes Prestige Brands, ENT and Allergy Associates, and KeyBank National Association.
NEW YORK CITY — Pembrook Capital Management has provided a $32.7 million first mortgage loan to finance the condominium conversion of a restored mansion in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The borrower was undisclosed. Located at 320 East 82nd St., Park Mansion will offer six full-floor units with outdoor space. Units range in size from 2,243 to 4,447 square feet with three to four bedrooms. Amenities will include a private gym, bike storage, individually locked storage rooms and a key-locked elevator. The property, which was originally constructed in 1900, is located between Central Park and Carl Shurz Park.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of 333-335 Irving Ave., a mixed-use conversion opportunity in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The sales price was $11.5 million. DJ Johnson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Standard Tinsmith Supply, in the transaction. The buyer was Cheskie Weisz. 333-335 Irving Ave. consists of two lots. The first has an existing 12,500-square-foot warehouse and the second is a vacant 75-foot by 100-foot lot offering 31,500 buildable square feet. Nearby retailers include Starbucks, Dollar Tree and CVS, as well as a number of local bars and restaurants.
NEW YORK CITY — Rockefeller Group has signed Blank Rome to a 138,000-square-foot office lease at 1271 Avenue of the Americas. Blank Rome will occupy floors 15 through 17, as well as part of the 14th floor. The law firm plans to relocate from the Chrysler Building in 2019. Ken Rapp, David Kleinhandler, Tim Dempsey and Zachary Weil of CBRE represented Blank Rome in the transaction. Built in 1959, the 48-story skyscraper was originally designed by Harrison & Abramovitz & Harris, the architects for all of Rockefeller Center. 1271 Avenue of the Americas is currently undergoing extensive renovations designed by the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. The project began in 2016 and is slated to be complete by the end of 2019. Major League Baseball and Mizuho Americas have also recently signed leases at the building.