NEW YORK CITY — Silver Arch Capital Partners has secured a $30.4 million loan for the purchase of the Out Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The borrower, real estate management company Merchants Hospitality, has entered a partnership with hotel and restaurant branding company Cachet Hospitality Group to rebrand the 105-room, three-story hotel as the Cachet Boutique New York. A New York-based investment firm was the lender. Playboy Enterprises has partnered with Cachet to construct a Playboy Club franchise location on the property’s ground floor. Expected to open later this year, Cachet Boutique New York will feature an open-air garden and an outdoor spa. A central feature of the hotel, the Great Lawn, will be a 2,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor wine bar and meeting space. The Eden restaurant will provide on-site dining space. The property is located on West 42nd Street between 10th and 11th avenues. The Carlton Group’s Howard Michaels and Steven Weiss represented the borrower in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has secured the $39 million sale of a six-building multifamily portfolio in the Bronx. The portfolio includes 209 rent-stabilized apartments and spans 186,520 square feet in the Mount Hope, Fordham Heights and University Heights neighborhoods. The addresses are 2442 Morris Ave.; 2226, 2322 and 2333 Loring Place N.; and 1715-1717 & 1727-1729 Walton Ave. Rosewood’s Aaron Jungreis represented the seller, Emerald Equity Group. Marcus & Millichap’s Seth Glasser, Michael Fusco, Peter Von der Ahe and Joe Koicim represented the buyer, Pistilli Realty Group, an Astoria-based investment firm led by the Pistilli family. The buildings sold for $206 per square foot.
WOODMERE, N.Y. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of The Woodmere Club, a golf and country club in Woodmere, to a joint-venture real estate investment entity. Cushman & Wakefield’s metropolitan area capital markets group orchestrated the deal. Weiss Properties and 2020 Acquisitions purchased the 110-acre property, which is located at 99 Meadow Drive. The club features the original clubhouse built in 1908, 18 holes of golf, six tennis courts, a swimming pool, fitness center and several dining options.
NEW YORK CITY — Besen & Associates has negotiated the $11.4 million acquisition of a multifamily property located at 24-10 through 24-20 29th St. in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. The property includes three four-story buildings containing 27 units. There are eight two-bedroom apartments and 19 three-bedroom apartments. The buildings total 25,000 square feet on a 15,000-square-foot lot with 150 feet of street frontage. The property was built in 1935 and is located two blocks from subway lines N and Q. Greg Corbin and Aaron Kline of Besen & Associates represented the buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital, the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment, has secured $37 million in financing for The Larkspur, a mixed-use property in the Central Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. The eight-story building includes 116 apartment units along with seven ground-floor commercial spaces. Bellwether provided a fixed-rate CMBS loan with a 12-year term through Fannie Mae. The terms of the financing ensure that at least 20 percent of the units are reserved for low-income families or individuals. Jim Gillespie of Bellwether Enterprise’s New York office arranged the loan for The Lemle & Wolff Cos.
NEW YORK CITY — Developer BRP Cos. and general contractor CNY Group have broken ground on The Crossing at Jamaica Station, a $407 million, two-building development in downtown Jamaica in the Queens borough of New York City. The 669-unit affordable housing development will be situated at the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) Jamaica Station, which features a link to AirTrain JFK, John F. Kennedy’s International Airport’s mass transit line. The Crossing will feature a 30-story high-rise located at Archer Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard between the Long Island Rail Road and three MTA subway lines. The other building will span 15 stories. FXFOWLE Architects designed both buildings to achieve LEED Silver certification. In addition to housing, the property will feature 45,000 square feet of retail and community space and 187 above-grade parking spaces. The development is part of Greater Jamaica’s revival and represents the largest private investment in downtown Jamaica in decades, according to CNY Group. Goldman Sachs provided $300 million in construction financing on behalf of BRP. The developer will also use $41.6 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit equity and $65.2 million in tax-exempt bonds issued by the New York City Housing Development Corp. The New York City Department …
EAST SETAUKET, N.Y. — HFF has secured an $81.5 million recapitalization for Stony Brook Technology Center, an eight-building medical office portfolio totaling 261,824 square feet in the Long Island community of East Setauket. HFF represented the borrower, TRITEC Real Estate, and procured the lender, a fund advised by UBS Real Estate & Private Markets. Completed between 1987 and 2007, the portfolio is located in a master-planned business park. Stony Brook University occupies more than 65 percent of the buildings. The HFF team representing TRITEC included Andrew Scandalios, Jose Cruz and Michael Gigliotti.
NEW YORK CITY –– Equity Office has signed a lease with investment advisory firm Cyrus Capital Partners to move the Cyrus headquarters to a 23,356-square-foot space at the 36-story Park Avenue Tower in Manhattan. Cyrus Capital, an SEC-registered investment advisor, will occupy 15,048 square feet across the 34th floor and 8,308 square feet on the 35th floor. Equity Office will build out the space for the tenant, including construction of an internal staircase to connect the two floors, with completion slated for the fourth quarter of 2017. While the buildout of Cyrus Capital’s new space is occurring, the firm will occupy space on the sixth floor, relocating from 399 Park Ave. in May. Ben Friedland and Silvio Petriello of CBRE represented Cyrus Capital in the transaction. Zach Freeman and Scott Silverstein internally represented Equity Office, along with Brian Waterman, Jared Horowitz, Ben Shapiro, Brent Ozarowski and Lance Korman of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged a joint venture for the development of 69 West Broadway, a ground-up condominium project in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. HFF worked on behalf of the developer, Cape Advisors, along with private equity fund Forum Absolute Equity Partners to arrange the investment with a European fund. The fund contributed in excess of $21 million toward the $120 million total project cost. BKSK Architects is designing the property, which will occupy the block between Warren and Murray streets at West Broadway. The eight-story 69 West Broadway development will include 24 units situated above ground-floor retail. Eric Anton led HFF’s equity placement team.
NEW YORK CITY — Equicap has secured a $5.8 million construction loan for a mixed-use development in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. The site is located directly above an L train subway stop and within walking distance to the JMZ trains. The developer obtained approval from the MTA for the project. The property will feature five condo units and one ground-floor retail space.