NEW YORK CITY — Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates has brokered the sale of three properties, totaling 51,000 square feet, in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn. ITF Corp + 735 Bedford Ave LLC sold the properties for $7.5 million to Moses Wertheimer. The properties are located at 11/13/15 Spencer St., 466 Flushing Ave. and 23/25/27 Spencer St. Aqua Best Inc., a seafood distributor, currently occupies 5,000 square feet of the space. Neil Dolgin of Kalmon Dolgin represented the seller in the transaction; the buyer was self-represented.
YORKTOWN, N.Y. — GHP Office Realty LLC has launched a $6 million renovation program at Northern Westchester Executive Park, a 26-acre office park in Yorktown. The parks consists of the a 68,000-square-foot medical office property at 2649 Strang Blvd. and a 150,000-square-foot technology/medical/laboratory/call center at 2651 Strang Blvd. Renovations at 2649 Strang Blvd. will include a state-of-the-art fitness center, a café and upgraded common areas. Renovations at 2651 Strang Blvd. will include the interior demolition of 100,000 square feet of flex, office, medical, lab, technology and call center, and the installation of new windows and heating and ventilating systems. Current tenants at the park are ENT & Allergy Associates, Hudson Valley Hematology, North Shore-Long Island JHS, Northern Westchester County Dental, Hudson Valley Oral Surgery, Dialysis Clinic Inc. and Mercy College’s Yorktown Campus.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has arranged the sale the Ridge Street portfolio, three contiguous mixed-use buildings located on the Lower East Side. A partnership between Admiral Capital Group and Four Winds Realty purchased the properties for $50 million from Judah Klausner and Richard Freedman. Located at 198-200 Rivington St., 110-114 Ridge St. and 118 Ridge St., the portfolio includes 64,000 square feet featuring 61 residential units, three retail stores and one 6,250-square-foot community facility space. Deborah Gutoff of Eastern Consolidated procured the buyer, while Gutoff and Ronda Rogovin, also of Eastern Consolidated, represented the sellers in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Crest Realties has acquired a multifamily building in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood for $9 million. Located at 140 Wadsworth Ave., the six-story building features 31 apartments and four professional offices. The property is adjacent to 4240 Broadway and near 4300 Broadway, two multifamily properties that Crest Realties purchased in November 2013 for $23.7 million. Peter Vanderpool and Lazer Sternhell of Cignature Realty Associates represented the buyer and the seller, 140 Wadsworth (a local family estate), in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY AND GREENWICH, CONN. — Avant Capital Partners has originated $6.3 million in bridge loans for two properties in Manhattan and Greenwich. The project located in Manhattan’s Midtown West neighborhood comprises three contiguous mixed-use properties offering 20 apartments and three ground-floor retail units in a total of 16,916 square feet. In Greenwich, the asset consists of four under-construction condominium units. Each unit will feature three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and high-end interior finishes, including hardwood floors and high ceilings. The average unit size for the condos is 3,650 square feet.
It’s no longer a secret that Brooklyn is booming, particularly the borough’s retail scene. Retail rents have climbed continuously over the last five years. Retail density has increased almost exponentially. A recent study by CPEX of Brooklyn’s notable retail corridors (meaning areas with rents averaging more than $35 per square foot) found the number of these corridors has increased 80 percent in just two years. But what’s driving Brooklyn’s record pace of retail growth? Several market factors have created a perfect storm for Brooklyn’s retail resurgence. Development in the borough has peaked over the past two years, with permits for new residential developments up 116 percent in that timespan. Nearly 20,000 new units are in the pipeline, almost twice the number of permits in Manhattan and 149 percent more than the other outer boroughs combined. The office vacancy rate has dropped to 4.2 percent in Brooklyn, the lowest in the United States. Tourism continues to spike thanks to the borough’s noteworthy parks, the year-round arts and cultural events in the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Cultural District, and the Barclays Center’s sporting and concert events. In the meantime, hotel developments are trying to keep pace with the influx of tourists …
SCARSDALE, N.Y. — Developer Amba P. Sharma has opened The Ambassador of Scarsdale, an assisted living community located at 9 Saxon Wood Road in Scarsdale. The 115-unit property features studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom residences, a secure on-site memory care program, a fitness center, fully equipped medical offices, a restaurant, fine arts studio, full-service beauty salon and spa, a living room and lounge with fireplaces, and a business center. The project team includes Stamford, Conn.-based Perkins Eastman Architects, Jasper Design and Solutions-Advisors.
NEW YORK CITY — CIT Group Inc., through CIT Real Estate Finance, has provided a $57.5 million senior secured loan to a joint venture between RedSky Capital LLC, JZ Capital Partners and other investors. The joint venture will use the loan to acquire a property along the Brooklyn waterfront. Located in the Greenpoint neighborhood, the property includes 112,226 square feet of land and 19,820 square feet of pier space. The partnership plans to develop a 40-story residential tower on the site when leases for the existing industrial buildings expire in the next two years. The project plans include both market-rate and affordable rental apartments and 100,000 square feet of ground-level retail space. The financing was provided by CIT Bank.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has arranged the off-market sale of a development site located at 207 West 79th St. on the Upper West Side. Anbau Enterprises purchased the 6,600-square-foot site for $39 million from 79th Street Associates LLC. The site offers 60,000 buildable square feet. The buyer plans to demolish the existing five-story building and develop a 13-story luxury condominium project on the site. George Moss of Eastern Consolidated procured the buyer, while Deborah Gutoff, also of Eastern Consolidated, represented the seller in the transaction.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Philadelphia Mills, Pa.-based PaperWorks Industries has signed a lease for 496,200 square feet of industrial space in Syracuse. PaperWorks has leased the space from Orangeball LLC through 2032. Dennis Hennessy of COR Brokerage represented the landlord, while Mark Rupprecht of CBRE/Syracuse represented the tenant in the transaction. Additional terms of the lease were not released.