BOSTON — A partnership between investment firm Quaker Lane Capital and Boston-based private equity group Alcion Ventures has purchased a 63,000-square-foot boutique office and retail building located at 110 Canal St. within Boston’s North Station submarket. The building features exposed brick walls, lofty ceilings and open floor plates. CBRE has been tapped to market the property to creative office users.
AVON, MASS. — Axiom Capital Corp. has arranged a $10 million loan for the refinancing of a cold storage facility in Avon, located south of Boston. Built in 1988 and renovated between 2009 and 2012, the property features a clear height of 30 to 32 feet, 25 dock doors and 5.3 million cubic feet of storage space. An undisclosed life insurance company provided the seven-year, fixed-rate loan to the borrower, an undisclosed private owner/developer. The property has been leased to a global cold storage operator since 2013.
REVERE, MASS. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has placed a $5 million loan for the refinancing of a 30-unit apartment building in Revere, a northeastern suburb of Boston. Robert Damigella of MMCC arranged the 20-year loan, which carried a fixed interest rate and a 30-year amortization schedule, on behalf of the undisclosed borrower. The direct lender was also not disclosed.
WAREHAM, MASS. — Horvath & Tremblay, a national brokerage firm based in metro Boston, has negotiated the $7.2 million sale of Wareham Marketplace, a 35,247-square-foot retail center located about 70 miles south of Boston. German discount grocer Aldi anchors the newly constructed property. Other tenants include Dollar Tree, AutoZone, Wendy’s and Mattress Firm. The pad sites occupied by the latter three tenants were not part of the sale and are being marketed separately. Bob Horvath and Todd Tremblay of Horvath & Tremblay represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
NEWARK, N.J. — PGIM Real Estate, the real estate investment and financing business of PGIM, has provided $178 million in fixed-rate debt for the refinancing of a national portfolio of five manufactured housing communities. The properties total 1,731 sites and are located in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois and Florida. Amenities of the portfolio, which was 99 percent occupied at the time of the loan closing, include pools, fitness centers, putting greens, clubhouses, bocce ball courts and dog parks. In addition, four of the five properties feature age restrictions. The borrower was Chicago-based Hometown America. Bellwether Enterprise arranged the debt.
BELLINGHAM, MASS. — Restaurant equipment and foodservices supplier TriMark USA LLC has signed a 345,000-square-foot, full-building industrial lease at Bellingham Distribution Center, located about 40 miles southwest of Boston. Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. developed the building, which features a clear height of 36 feet, 130-foot truck court depths and 227 car parking spaces, in partnership with global investment manager Barings. Ed Jarosz and Rick Schuhwerk of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Ellison Patten and James Tambone of Lincoln Property Co. represented the landlord on an internal basis.
By Taylor Williams The business of trading retail properties is booming across the greater Boston area, and the combination of cheap capital, a desire to recoup lost business and potential changes in tax law are prompting buyers and sellers alike to transact at a frenetic pace. As is often the case in times of robust investment sales activity, low interest rates are the straw that stirs the drink. At its latest meeting in June, the Federal Reserve opted to hold the federal funds rate — the short-term rate by which lending between financial institutions is priced — at a target range of 0 to 0.25 percent. The Fed cut rates by 100 basis points to this target range in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and has kept them there ever since. A fiscal policy defined by record-low rates is persisting even in the face of inflation, which hit its highest mark in 13 years when the U.S. Consumer Price Index rose by 5.4 percent in June 2021 relative to June 2020. Economists have cited sustained injections of federal stimulus and relief money and elevated government spending in response to the pandemic as the key drivers of this …
MINNEAPOLIS AND BOSTON — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $157.3 million joint venture equity partnership for the development of three bulk distribution and life sciences projects in Minnesota and North Carolina. Colin Ryan, John Huguenard, David Berglund, Pete Pittroff and Patrick Nally of JLL arranged the equity investment with Rockpoint Group LLC, a Boston-based real estate private equity firm, on behalf of the Minneapolis-based developer, Oppidan Investment Co. Blake Hastings, Jay Moore and Tim Brent of Oppidan are leading the project development. “We are excited to embark on a programmatic relationship with Rockpoint and continue to grow the industrial and logistics vertical at Oppidan,” says Blake Hastings, president of Oppidan. “Our cultures are very well aligned, and we look forward to a long, deep relationship.” The portfolio will include nine buildings on three construction sites that total about 1.6 million square feet. Five buildings are expected to begin construction this year, and completion of all nine are anticipated by 2023. The Minnesota facilities are planned for industrial use while the North Carolina facilities will be for life sciences firms. Two of the nine buildings will be within Chaska Creek Industrial Park, which is 26.5 miles from Minneapolis in Chaska. …
WELLESLEY, MASS. — The Vascular Care Group has signed a 9,843-square-foot healthcare lease at 981 Worcester St. in Wellesley, a western suburb of Boston. The two-story building spans 28,120 square feet. Dan Krysiak and Michael Greeley of Newmark represented the landlord, CEA Wellesley Trust, in the lease negotiations. Michael Milano of Spinnaker Healthcare Advisors represented the tenant.
BEDFORD, MASS. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the $54.5 million sale of Bedford Marketplace, a 153,000-square-foot shopping center in the northwestern Boston suburb of Bedford. The sales price equates to $355 per square foot. Whole Foods Market anchors the center, which also houses tenants such as Marshalls, Cambridge Savings Bank, Bank of America, Brookline Bank, U.S. Post Office, AFC Urgent Care and Lincoln Liquors. Jim Koury of IPA represented the seller, RFPS 181 Owner LLC, and procured the buyer, Ramco Property Acquisitions LLC. Bedford Marketplace was 97 percent leased at the time of sale.
