PISCATAWAY, N.J. — New York City-basedRockefeller Group has sold Constitution Logistics Center, a 147,000-square-foot industrial property located in the Northern New Jersey community of Piscataway. The buyer was Bridge Industrial. Rockefeller Group acquired the 18-acre site in 2023 and demolished a 100,000-square-foot office building that was previously owned and occupied by WS Audiology/Sivantos Group. Building features include a clear height of 36 feet, 41 loading docks, 3,000 square feet of office space and parking for 123 cars and 57 trailers. Marc Petrella and Michael Kimmel of KBC Advisors represented Rockefeller Group in the transaction.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — IAVI has signed a 29,782-square-foot life sciences lease in Jersey City. The nonprofit scientific research organization will relocate its vaccine design and development operations from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to the 350,000-square-foot building at 95 Greene St., which was originally built as a manufacturing facility for Colgate Palmolive. John Isaacs, Joseph DeRosa and Conor Dolan led the CBRE team that represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. RegenLab USA did the same relocation earlier this year.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Abra Health has signed a 24,908-square-foot retail sublease in Secaucus. The operator of pediatric primary care and dental clinics is backfilling a space previously occupied by The Vitamin Shoppe and will utilize the space to centralize its billing operations and establish a call center. Jeff Kolodkin and Andrew Kirshenbaum of Newmark represented Abra Health in the lease transaction.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — CBRE has arranged the $221.5 million sale of Lenox and Quinn Apartments, two adjacent buildings totaling 408 units in Jersey City’s Paulus Hook neighborhood. Built in 2017, Lenox consists of 255 units and includes a 257-space automated parking garage. Quinn was constructed in 2018 and totals 153 units. According to Apartments.com, both properties offer studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Both properties also house various Class A amenities. Jeffrey Dunne, Stuart MacKenzie, Eric Apfel, Travis Langer and Daniel Blumenkrantz of CBRE represented the seller, institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, Hines Interests.
FORT LEE, N.J. — Regional developer UNLMTD Real Estate has begun leasing FIAT House, a 300-unit multifamily project in the Northern New Jersey community of Fort Lee. The site is located at the foot of the George Washington Bridge. Units come in studio, one- and two-bedroom formats, and the property houses more than 30,000 square feet of amenity and social gathering spaces. The developer is constructing the project in partnership with Italian automaker FIAT, and residents will have access to a car-sharing program of FIAT electric vehicles. Rents start at $2,400 per month for a studio apartment.
MILLSTONE, N.J. — Soligent has signed an industrial lease in the Central New Jersey community of Millstone. The distributor of clean energy products and services will occupy just under half of a 132,930-square-foot building. The space features a clear height of 32 feet, 4,000 square feet of office space and battery charging stations inside the warehouse for electric forklifts. Peak Construction Corp. is handling the build-out of the space. Boston-based Cabot Properties owns the building.
FREEHOLD, N.J. — Ziegler has arranged $42.5 million in bond financing for the acquisition of Applewood, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Freehold, an eastern suburb of Trenton. Located on approximately 44 acres, Applewood opened in 1990 and offers 300 independent living units, 37 assisted living units, 11 memory care units and 60 skilled nursing units. The acquisition was completed utilizing a mix of tax-exempt and taxable debt. The borrower is FellowshipLIFE, a nonprofit owner-operator of CCRCs in New Jersey.
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Stop & Shop to Close 32 Stores in the Northeast
QUINCY, MASS. — Stop & Shop, a grocery store chain based in the Boston suburb of Quincy, has announced plans to close 32 locations by the end of this year. Situated throughout the Northeast, the stores — described in a press release as “underperforming” — are located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. According to the grocer, the affected stores will shutter on or before Nov. 2. Associates at the locations will be offered other employment within the company. “As we announced in May, Stop & Shop has evaluated its overall store portfolio and made the difficult decision to close underperforming stores to create a healthy base for the future growth of our brand,” says Gordon Reid, president of Stop & Shop. The company has remodeled 190 stores since 2018, and Reid notes that the remodeled stores are performing better than the stores selected for closure. Accordingly, Stop & Shop plans to focus on “growth through price investments and store remodels.” Following the closures, Stop & Shop’s portfolio will comprise more than 350 stores across five states, with 81 stores in Connecticut, 115 in Massachusetts, 47 in New Jersey, 91 in New York and 25 in …
LIVINGSTON, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $13.5 million sale of a 34,599-square-foot medical office building located in the Northern New Jersey community of Livingston. The three-story building at 315 E. Northfield Road is home to several medical practices across a variety of specialty fields. Alan Cafiero, Brian Kaplan, David Cafiero and Dean Matuszewicz of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a New Jersey-based partnership, in the transaction. Cafiero and Joe Koicim, also with Marcus & Millichap, procured the buyer, a New York-based limited liability company.
FLEMINGTON, N.J. — Locally based developer Larken Associates has broken ground on Flemington Junction Business Center II, a 50,000-square-foot industrial flex project that will be located about 60 miles southwest of Manhattan. The building will feature a clear height of 32 feet, and units can be subdivided to spaces as small as 3,125 square feet. Core Enterprises is providing construction management services for the project, which is slated for a fourth-quarter delivery.