PROVINCETOWN, MASS. — Nonprofit developer The Community Builders (TCB) has broken ground on Province Post, a 65-unit mixed-income housing project that will be located in Provincetown, situated at the tip of Cape Cod. The building’s affordable housing component will be for renters earning from 80 percent to below 30 percent of the area median income. Units will come in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. A tentative completion date was not announced.
MEDFORD, MASS. — Locally based brokerage firm ABG Commercial Realty has negotiated the $8 million sale of a 28,600-square-foot industrial building in Medford, a northern suburb of Boston. The building at 118 Mystic Ave. was fully leased to Verizon at the time of sale. Bernard Gibbons of ABG Commercial represented the buyer, Empire Management, in the transaction. The seller was local development and investment firm Marcus Partners.
ANDOVER, MASS. — AdvanCell has signed a 128,000-square-foot life sciences lease in the northern Boston suburb of Andover. The clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company will occupy the entirety of the building at 1 Corporate Drive, which is located within Innovation Park, a 340,000-square-foot development. The deal brings Phase II of Innovation Park, which is owned by life sciences REIT IQHQ, to full occupancy. Information on third-party brokers who were involved in the lease negotiations was not disclosed.
WOBURN, MASS. — Kadima Industrial Partners has purchased a 62,500-square-foot building in Woburn, a northern suburb of Boston. The shallow-bay building at 215 Salem St. features 16 loading docks, a clear height of 17 feet and 90-foot truck court depths. Tommy Hovey, David Coffman and Michael Restivo of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Ryan Parker, also with JLL, arranged acquisition financing for the deal through Webster 5 Cent Savings Bank. The building was leased to eight tenants at the time of sale.
BEDFORD, MASS. — Affinity Group Food Service NE has signed a 13,000-square-foot office lease in Bedford, a northwestern suburb of Boston. The food-and-beverage sales and marketing company will relocate its headquarters this fall from Lawrence to Bedford Woods, a two-building, 330,000-square-foot complex that was developed in 2001. Cummings Properties owns Bedford Woods.
NORWOOD, MASS. — Colliers has arranged the $44.5 million construction loan for a 145-unit multifamily project in Norwood, located southwest of Boston. The site is located at 259 Lenox St., and the new five-story building will offer studio, one- and two-bedroom units, 20 percent of which will be earmarked as affordable housing. Amenities will include an outdoor pool, fitness center, golf simulator, coworking spaces and grilling and dining stations. Patrick Boyle, Matt Lombardi Jr. and Rose Liu of Colliers arranged the loan through Beacon Bank on behalf of the developer, Tremont Asset Management.
SHREWSBURY, MASS. — Industrial Commercial Properties (ICP) has acquired a 680,000-square-foot industrial campus in Shrewsbury, located in Worcester County. The development at 65 Chestnut St. consists of two buildings that were built in the 1980s. According to LoopNet Inc., the buildings feature clear heights of roughly 21.5 to 28.5 feet. In addition, the campus has the electrical capacity to support up to 15 megawatts of power. ICP plans to reposition the campus to support manufacturing usage and has already received zoning approval for that initiative. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
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American Healthcare REIT Acquires Eight Seniors Housing Communities for $696M
IRVINE, CALIF. — American Healthcare REIT Inc. (NYSE: AHR) has acquired eight senior housing communities in six states for $696 million. The properties, which collectively comprise 867 units and were built between 2020 and 2022, are located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Georgia. Newmark acted as AHR’s real estate advisor for the transaction. While there were multiple sellers, all eight properties were marketed together. AHR purchased 10 communities all together but assigned the purchase and sale agreements of two properties to another institutional investor. “This series of transactions is an example of disciplined capital allocation supported by strong execution,” says Jeff Hanson, chairman and CEO of AHR. “We understood that only a solution for all 10 communities would clear the market. Rather than either walking away from a highly strategic opportunity or compromising our capital allocation discipline to secure it, we constructed a solution that required neither.” The purchase gives the Irvine-based company a larger presence in the Northeastern seniors housing market. The Northeast properties in the portfolio are located primarily in wealthy suburban markets such as Philadelphia’s Main Line, Westport, Conn., and suburban Boston. AHR is strengthening this newfound foothold via a new operating relationship with Massachusetts-based LCB …
WORCESTER, MASS. — JLL has arranged a $39 million bridge loan for the refinancing of The Arbella at Bramble Hill, a 123-unit active adult complex in the central Massachusetts city of Worcester. The newly built, 17.3-acre complex offers 57 one-bedroom and 66 two-bedroom apartments with an average size of 1,049 square feet that are housed across three buildings, as well as an 8,500-square-foot clubhouse. Amenities include a fitness center, wellness spa and salon, indoor pool, bistro, great room, multimedia theater, golf simulator and outdoor grilling and dining stations. Residents also have access to onsite pickleball and bocce courts, a community garden and a dog park. Henry Schaffer and Madeline Joyce of JLL arranged the loan through Eastern Bank on behalf of the owner, The United Group of Cos.
BILLERICA, MASS. — Frontrunner Bus Group has signed an 88,000-square-foot industrial lease in Billerica, a northern suburb of Boston. The provider of bussing services plans to relocate its headquarters to the 136,421-square-foot building at 23 Esquire Road, which includes 20,000 square feet of office space. Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Dan Driscoll, Greg Klemmer, Tim Brodigan, Anne Coe and Will Torrence of Colliers represented the landlord, a partnership between two local real estate companies, Marcus Partners and Rhino Capital Advisors.
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