NEW YORK CITY — Colliers International has arranged a long-term retail lease for 3,295 square feet at 223 E. 59th St. in New York City’s Upper East Side. London-based Savoir Beds will open its first company-owned store in New York at the location this fall. First created for The Savory Hotel in London in 1905, the company’s tailor-made beds are recognized as one of the world’s most luxurious sleeping systems. Peter Simel, James Emden and Timothy Pond of Colliers represented the tenant in the transaction. The name of the landlord was not released. Savior’s U.S. flagship store opened in SoHo earlier this year.
NEW YORK CITY — Target Corp. has signed a 15-year lease with Muss Development for 20,795 square feet of space at 7000 Austin Street, a mixed-use property located in the Forest Hills section of Queens. The new flexible-format store — the first in the city — is slated to open in mid-2016. The two-story Target will feature an assortment of goods tailored to city dwellers, including fresh groceries, a pharmacy, health and beauty necessities, tech accessories, electronics and home goods designed for single-family homes and condos. Target will take the space currently occupied by Barnes & Noble, which declined to exercise an extension option. Additional tenants at the fully leased property include Starbucks Coffee, Men’s Wearhouse, Eddie Bauer, TITLE Boxing Club and T.G.I. Friday’s. Jeffrey Howard and Doug Weinstein of Ripco Real Estate represented Target, while Muss Development had in-house representation for the transaction.
GREAT NECK, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged a $1.5 million first mortgage loan for an apartment building located at 15 Beach Road in Great Neck. Built in 1950, the three-story building includes 54 apartments, on-site outdoor parking spots, 27 garages, gardens and a courtyard. The seven-year loan, which was placed with a savings bank, features a fixed interest rate of 3.5 percent and a 30-year amortization schedule. Jeremiah Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes secured the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
NEW YORK CITY — lululemon athletica inc. has leased 6,400 square feet of retail space at 50 Bond St. in New York City’s NoHo district. The athletic apparel company will occupy the space that Eva Scrivo Salon is vacating. The two-level retail unit features 13-foot ceilings on the ground floor and more than 30 feet of frontage on Bond Street. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel and built in 1896, the property also features six full-floor residential condominiums. The landlord, Thor Equities, recently acquired the retail unit. Terms of the lease were not released. Eva Scrivo Salon is relocating to 5,500 square feet at 193 Fifth Ave. in the Flatiron district.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a mixed-use building located at 1260 Broadway in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Situated between Green and Lexington avenues, the 7,000-square-foot property sold for $2.2 million, or $314 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The four-story walk-up building consists of three two-bedroom apartments, three one-bedroom apartments and one retail unit. Renovated in 2000, the property is fully free market with preferential rents. A preferential rent is a rent that an owner agrees to charge that is lower than the legal regulated rent that the owner could lawfully collect. Michael Amirkhanian of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged a $2 million first mortgage loan for a multifamily property located at 33 Williams St. in Mount Vernon’s Fleetwood section. Built in 1932, the seven-story property, which is situated on 1.1 acres, features 116 apartments, 26 on-site outdoor parking spots, 60 garage spots, gardens and a courtyard. The self-liquidating loan was placed with a savings bank at a 15-year fixed interest rate of 3.6 percent. Jeremiah Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ have completed their merger to form one of the largest commercial real estate services firms in the world. The new company will have a combined total of $5 billion in revenue, 43,000 employees, more than 4.3 billion square feet under management and $191 billion in transaction value. The firm will be led by Chairman and CEO Brett White and Global President Tod Lickerman. “This is a game-changing event in commercial real estate,” says White. “Both legacy firms has been aggressively growing their respective platforms and deepening their reach into the market with new acquisitions and talent. Now we have the opportunity to see these ambitions come together — capturing the momentum in the market and clearly claiming our position at the top of the industry.” Cushman & Wakefield now operates in more than 60 countries around the world, providing global commercial real estate service in every service line and every major geographical area in the world. Cushman & Wakefield is majority owned by an investor group led by TPG, PAG and OTTP.
CEDARHURST, N.Y. — Cedarhurst-based Paradigm Commercial Real Estate LLC has secured $47 million in refinancing for a package of 25 retail buildings located throughout the Bronx and Westchester counties. The properties are occupied by mom-and-pop shops, most of which have short-term leases. Michael Edery of Paradigm Commercial arranged the fully non-recourse loan, which features a 70 percent loan-to-value, for the borrower, a private family office. Proceeds of the loan will be used to expand the borrower’s portfolio, which currently includes 100 properties.
NEW YORK CITY — Schur Management Cos. has broken ground on a $42 million mixed-use development located at 2030 Creston Ave. in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx. Creston Apartments will feature 110,761 square feet of above-grade buildable square footage, including 114 apartments, 11,234 square feet of ground-floor retail space, 908 square feet of community facility space and 10,657 square feet of underground parking for 40 cars. The residential mix will include seven studio apartments, 49 one-bedroom apartments, 46 two-bedroom apartments and 12 three-bedroom apartments. On-site amenities will include a study center with desks and computers, a fully equipped laundry room and an outdoor landscaped recreation area. Funding for the project is coming from the NYC Housing Development Corp., NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Bronx Borough President’s Office, Capital One bank and the Hudson Housing Corp. The project team includes MacQuesten Cos. as general contractor, Aufgang Architects as architect, and Best Development Group as consultant to the developer. The target date for completion is September 2017.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of an office building located at 1713 Eighth Ave. in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Heights neighborhood. The four-story, 12,800-square-foot building sold for $5.3 million, or $418 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The property consists of 47 small units set up as creative artist or office spaces. Aaron Warkov and Richard Velotta of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not disclosed.