WESTBROOK AND BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — Arbor Realty Trust has funded two loans, totaling $34.5 million, in Connecticut. The firm provided a $32.6 million for a retail property located in Westbrook. Funded under Arbor’s balance sheet bridge load program, the three-year interest-only, floating-rate loan features two one-year extension periods, allows the borrower to acquire the property and provides tenant improvement capital to execute a new 10-year lease to H&M. The name of the borrower was not released. Additionally, Arbor provided a $1.9 million acquisition loan for a 32-unit multifamily property in Bridgeport to an undisclosed borrower. Funded under the Freddie Mac small business loan product line, the 20-year loan features a fixed rate and a 30-year amortization schedule.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — The Connection Inc. has signed a lease for 13,000 square feet of office space at 900 Chapel St. in New Haven. The private, non-profit human service and community development agency will occupy the full penthouse floor at the 142,439-square-foot office tower. Jeffrey Williams and Hollis Pugh of Colliers International Group represented the tenant, while John Keogh of Dow Condon dba Colliers International represented the landlord, PMC Property Group, in the deal.
SOUTHPORT, CONN. — Maplewood Senior Living has purchased 27 acres in Southport where it will build a 92,000-square-foot seniors housing community. Construction will begin this summer on Maplewood at Southport, a three-story, 98-unit assisted living and memory care center. Stein-Troost is the architect for the project, Landtech Engineering is the civil engineer, Milone & McBroom is the landscape architect and KBE Building Corp. of Farmington is the contractor.
OLD SAYBROOK, CONN. — Northeast Private Client Group has negotiated the $2.2 million sale of a 6,500-square-foot retail property known as The Starbucks Building in Old Saybrook. The property is located at 15-19 Main St. Bradley Balletto of Northeast Private Client Group’s Shelton, Conn., office represented the seller, Prospect Realty Partners, and procured the buyer, Developers Consolidated Realty, in the transaction. Tenants at the property include Starbucks and Ben & Jerry’s.
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. — Steve Pappas of Chozick Realty’s Hartford office has negotiated the $4.5 million sale of Central Townhouse and College West Apartments in New Britain. The two garden-style complexes sold in a single transaction. Central Townhouse, located at 608 Allen St., consists of 42 apartment units in four buildings on a 1.8-acre site. The unit mix includes a single one-bedroom, 35 two-bedroom and six three-bedroom units. College West Apartments, located at 499 Allen St., consists of 22 apartment units on a .59-acre site. The apartments are all two-bedroom units of 900 square feet. Chozick Realty represented the seller, Allen Street Ventures LLC, and procured the purchaser, Up Realty LLC, a New York-based investment group.
MOOSUP, CONN. — KeyBank’s community development lending and investment team has financed a $6 million bridge-to-HUD loan for Vesta Corp. for the acquisition of Moosup Apartments. The property is an 89-unit multifamily complex consisting of nine two-story buildings in the rural community of Moosup. Moosup Apartments includes one-, two- and three- bedroom townhomes. Of the 89 units, 27 are covered by a Section 8 HAP contract. KeyBank’s Kelly Frank arranged the financing.
WINDSOR, CONN. — CBRE has negotiated the $5.2 million sale of 100 Corporate Drive, a 100 percent leased, 69,000-square-foot office building in Windsor. An affiliate of Minneapolis-based Ryan Cos. US sold the property to Bradstreet & Chandler, a Boston-based real estate firm. CBRE’s John McCormick and Patrick Mulready represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. CBRE will also handle leasing and property management of the building. 100 Corporate Drive is a two-story property located near I-91 in the Day Hill corporate area of Windsor. Constructed in 1984 and recently renovated, the property’s tenants include ADP, Sedgwick Claims Management, Health Management Services, Oxford Global and LGCY Power.
BROOKFIELD, CONN. — HKS Capital Partners has arranged $26.5 million in permanent refinancing for Barnbeck Place, a 165-unit apartment complex in Brookfield. The property sits on nine acres. John Harrington of HKS Capital Partners negotiated the financing for the owner/ borrower, the BRT Organization and the DiMarco Group. David Garcia of OritaniBank provided the seven-year, fixed-rate loan.
ESSEX, CONN. — Penny Parker of Lyman Real Estate has arranged the $1.4 million sale of three contiguous parcels of land totaling 3.8 acres at 21-29 Plains Road in Essex. The buyer, Essex Holdings, plans to develop a 52-unit multifamily property known as Essex Station. Parker represented both the buyer and the sellers, Truehold Essex LLC, which sold one parcel, and Costa Family LLC, which sold the other two. Essex Station will include one- and two-bedroom units with porches, nine-foot ceilings, gas fireplaces, marble bath vanities, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.
STAMFORD, CONN. — UC Funds has acquired the Residence Inn by Marriott under construction in Stamford for $40 million. The property will be the only extended-stay hotel in downtown Stamford. Construction on the eight-story hotel is 60 percent complete, with delivery expected next winter. The 156-room property will include a fitness center, business center, breakfast area and meeting space.