NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield served as the exclusive advisor to Chris Xu, founder and president of United Construction and Development Group, in arranging $44 million in financing for the acquisition of an under construction dual-branded Marriott hotel located at 148-18 Archer Ave. in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. Morris Betesh and Omar Ferreira, both formerly of Cushman & Wakefield, secured the non-recourse loan, which features full-term interest-only payments and two one-year extension options, for the borrower. Slated for completion in late 2017, the property will be a 15-story, 203,800-square-foot building consisting of a Marriott Courtyard and Fairfield Inn & Suites. The Marriot Courtyard will feature 224 rooms, while the Fairfield Inn & Suites will offer 114 room. Additionally, the building will provide a 42-space underground parking garage. Betesh is now at Meridian Capital Group.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sinatra & Company Real Estate has acquired 10 mixed-use properties in Buffalo for a combined total of $12.7 million. Roger Chainani’s 1000 Elmwood Associates LLC and 1256 Hertel Avenue Associates LLC sold the properties. The properties include a variety of uses and tenants: – 427 Elmwood features a three-story, 10,246-square-foot mixed-use building with two retail businesses, a restaurant space, 4,000 square feet of vacant office space and two apartments. – 494 Elmwood is a 12,938-square-foot restaurant property occupied by Tokyo Shanghai Restaurant. – 500 Elmwood is a 3,024-square-foot building with restaurant, retail and apartment space. – 502 Elmwood is a single-story, 2,464-square-foot restaurant building, which will be occupied by House of Hummus. – Saigon Café occupies the 6,992-square-foot restaurant property at 520 Elmwood. – Mezza Restaurant & Lounge occupies the 3,747-square-foot building at 929 Elmwood. – 1000 Elmwood is a 10,560-square-foot mixed-use building currently occupied by The Market on Elmwood and Ashker’s on the first floor with residential or office space on the second floor. – India Gate and Hong Kong Kitchen occupy the 6,710-square-foot building at 1116 Elmwood. – The properties at 1122 Elmwood and 1256 Hertel Ave. both offer retail space.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged $17 million in financing for 185 Avenue B, a newly constructed apartment property in Manhattan’s East Village. An HFF team, led by Steven Klein, secured a 15-year, fixed-rate loan through Allianz Real Estate of America for the undisclosed borrower. Completed in 2016, the seven-story building comprises 40 studio and one-bedroom apartment units featuring nine-foot ceilings, noise-buffering double-paned windows and intercom systems.
NEW YORK CITY — Bestreich Realty Group has arranged the sales of two mixed-use properties located in Brooklyn. In the first transaction, Starr Lofts sold a newly constructed 4,500-square-foot mixed-use building, located at 100 Starr St. in Bushwick. Private investors acquired the property, which features eight multifamily units, for $3.2 million. Derek Bestreich, Steve Reynolds, Tom Reynolds and Greg Rhodes of Bestreich Realty represented the buyer and seller in the deal. In the second transaction, Alchemy acquired a 20,468-square-foot mixed-use property located at 649 Argyle Road in Ditmas Park for $3.9 million. The property features 19 apartments and three retail stores. Bestreich, Erik Rodriguez and Brian Underkofler of Bestreich Realty represented the buyer and seller, a private investor, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 219 E. 60th St. in Manhattan’s Midtown East section for $5.2 million. Vacant at the time of sale, the five-story building features retail space on the ground and second floors and open-floorplan offices on the remaining floors, which leaves options available for a residential conversion. Clint Olsen, Alex Woodlief and Will Conrad of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller, while Leslie Wang of Essential New York Real Estate represented the buyer, Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society, in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Related Cos., Oxford Properties Group and Mitsui Fudosan America Inc. has received $1.5 billion in construction financing for 50 Hudson Yards, a 58-story office tower located within the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s West Side. The joint venture has also committed $2.3 billion, bringing the total planned construction costs to $3.8 billion. Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Bank of China and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. served as co-lead arrangers for the $1.5 billion senior construction loan. Located at the northwest corner of 33rd Street and 10th Avenue, the 2.9 million-square-foot building will be New York City’s fourth largest commercial office tower, according to the joint venture. BlackRock, an investment management firm, will locate its corporate headquarters at the property, occupying 850,000 square feet across 15 floors. The building — designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners — will feature access points on all four sides and a subway concourse below; private sky lobbies; outdoor terraces; executive valet parking; on-site bike storage; connection to shops and restaurants at Hudson Yards; and an outdoor observation deck. Site work has commenced with vertical construction scheduled to begin this fall. The building is slated for completion in 2022. Related Cos. and Oxford Properties …
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sinatra & Company Real Estate and People Inc. have broken ground on Jefferson Avenue Apartments, a $24 million, two-building project in Buffalo’s Masten District. The project will include 84 mixed-income units, with 16 units to be reserved for people who have developmental disabilities but live independently. The apartment buildings will feature one- and two-bedroom units, a community room with a small kitchen, on-site laundry facilities, green space and off-street parking. The project will also include a 23,000-square-foot space that will house a recruitment and program services office for People Inc. Development team partners include Creative Structures Services, Bellamy Enterprises and Long Associates Architects. Financing for the project is expected to come from the City of Buffalo, Empire State Development, NYS Housing Finance Agency, NYS Housing and Community Renewal and the NYS Office for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, as well as federal and state low-income housing tax credits.
NEW YORK CITY — Meyer Last and Ross Wasserman of Fried Frank acted as counsel to Downtown NYC Owner LLC, a joint venture of MHP Real Estate Services and Clarion Partners, in connection with a nine-floor, 276,000-square-foot lease to New York City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services at 180 Maiden Lane, a 1.2-million-square-foot Class A building in Lower Manhattan. The city’s Department of Investigation will consolidate from five separate offices into one location.
NEW YORK CITY — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) has brokered the $60.9 million sale of 321 East 22nd Street, a multifamily property in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood. The property is located within three blocks of the 4, 6, N, Q, R and W train lines and near Gramercy Park and Madison Square Park. The six-story building encompasses 117 residential units and 2,800 square feet of commercial space, which is leased to Synergy Fitness. Jeff Julien, Rob Hinckley and Andrew Scandalios of HFF represented the seller, Benedict Realty Group, and procured the buyer, Akelius.
Albany, N.Y. — DMG Investments has broken ground on a 322-bed student housing community located near the State University of New York at Albany campus in Albany. The $30.5 million community will be located at the former Red Carpet Inn site at 1385 Washington Ave. The four-story, 142,000-square-foot property will offer one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom, fully furnished units with bed-to-bath parity. Shared amenities will include partially underground parking, in-unit washers and dryers, a fitness center, study room, resident’s lounge, gaming room, on-site tanning and courtyards. A timeline for the project has yet to be announced.