MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — Lifeline Systems Co., a provider of medical alert devices and technology, has signed a 41,375-square-foot office lease in Marlborough, a western suburb of Boston. The tenant will relocate from nearby Framingham to the third floor of a 116,786-square-foot building at 200 Donald Lynch Blvd. in 2023. Kelleher & Sadowsky represented the landlord, Minardi Ltd., in the lease negotiations.
BRAINTREE, MASS. — Locally based developer Onshore Properties will develop Banner Park, a 326,000-square-foot industrial project located on a 130-acre site in the southern Boston suburb of Braintree. Both of Banner Park’s two buildings will total approximately 163,000 square feet and feature clear heights of 40 feet. Combined, the facilities will offer 19 loading docks and parking for up to 560 vehicles. Colliers is marketing the development for lease.
WATERTOWN, MASS. — A partnership between two locally based firms, Davis Cos. and Boston Development Group, has topped out a 224,000-square-foot life sciences building located at 66 Galen St. in the western Boston suburb of Watertown. Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, the project marks Phase I of a 450,000-square-foot campus that will comprise two buildings and multiple acres of open green space. The first building will house six tenant spaces, a fitness center, rooftop terrace, underground parking and ground-floor retail space. Completion is slated for 2023.
BEDFORD, MASS. — A joint venture between Redgate, Optimum Asset Management and AEW Capital Management has acquired a 166,000-square-foot office building in the northwestern Boston suburb of Bedford with plans to implement a life sciences conversion program. Tom Sullivan and Ross Fishman of Cushman & Wakefield arranged $82.2 million in acquisition and conversion financing through Ares on behalf of the joint venture. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
KINGSTON, MASS. — The American Red Cross has signed a 5,000-square-foot retail lease at Summer Hill Plaza in Kingston, a grocery-anchored center located south of Boston in Plymouth County. Don Mace and Rob Grady of locally based advisory firm KeyPoint Partners represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant was not disclosed.
FALL RIVER, MASS. — Greystone has provided a $15.3 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of a historic, 103-unit multifamily asset in Fall River, located near the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border. Commonwealth Landing was originally built in the 1880s as a cotton mill and was converted into a multifamily complex with one-, two- and three-bedroom units in 2016. Shana Daby of Greystone originated the fixed-rate, nonrecourse loan, which features three years of interest-only payments, on behalf of the borrower, an entity doing business as Mechanics Mill Two LLC. Michael Corso of Kingston Capital provided debt advisory services.
WORCESTER, MASS. — Shawmut Design & Construction has topped out a $325 million academic building that will be part of the UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester. The nine-story, 350,000-square-foot building will primarily be used to house and conduct biomedical research. Construction originally began in November 2020 and is slated to be complete in 2024.
LAWRENCE, MASS. — Reed Community Partners has completed Pac10 Lofts, an affordable housing project that will be located in the northern Boston suburb of Lawrence. Of the 180 units, 18 are reserved for households earning 30 percent or less of the area median income (AMI); 112 earmarked for renters earning 60 percent or less of AMI; and 40 are workforce housing units for households earning up to 80 percent of AMI. The remaining 10 residences will be rented at market rates. MassHousing recently provided $40.8 million in permanent financing for the community, which the development team expects to be fully leased by the end of the year. Rogue Architecture PLLC designed the community, and LaRosa Construction Co. served as the general contractor.
LENOX, MASS. — Denver-based Mission Hill Hospitality, a division of private equity firm KSL Capital Partners, has acquired two select-service hotels totaling 171 rooms in the western Massachusetts city of Lenox. Courtyard Lenox Berkshires totals 92 rooms and was built on 6.7 acres in 2017. The Hampton Inn & Suites Berkshires-Lenox comprises 79 rooms and was constructed on a 6.6-acre site in 2008. Alan Suzuki, Matthew Enright and Emily Zhang of JLL represented the locally based seller, Toole Cos., in the transaction.
PEABODY, MASS. — Locally based brokerage firm Atlantic Capital Partners has negotiated the sale of a 95,886-square-foot, single-tenant retail building in the northern Boston suburb of Peabody that is fully leased to Texas-based home improvement retailer At Home. The property is located just west of North Shore Mall and adjacent to a grocery-anchored shopping center. Justin Smith, Chris Peterson, Sam Koonce and Cole Van Gelder of Atlantic Capital Partners represented the buyer and seller, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.