ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mag Mile Capital, a Chicago-based commercial mortgage banking firm, has arranged a $14.5 million CMBS loan for a 210-room, Marriott-branded hotel in Rochester. The hotel was built in 1979 and is located near Rochester International Airport. The five-year, nonrecourse loan carried a 65 percent loan-to-value ratio and a 30-year amortization schedule with two years of interest-only payments. Prabhat Jayara of Mag Mile Capital originated the loan through Morgan Stanley on behalf of the borrower, Sai Global Investments.
NEW YORK CITY — Haussmann Development has begun leasing The Eve, a 76-unit apartment complex in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. The Eve features studio, one- and two-bedroom units, 23 of which are reserved as affordable housing, and select residences offer private balconies. Amenities include a rooftop deck with grilling stations, fitness center, children’s play area, clubroom and a pet washing station. Rents start at about $3,100 per month for a studio apartment.
NEW YORK CITY — Ogletree Deakins has signed an 18,000-square-foot office lease at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The law firm is relocating and expanding its headquarters from 599 Lexington Ave. to the 24th floor of the 31-story building at 1270 Avenue of the Americas. Michael Berg, Sofia Bruno, Elizabeth Cooper and Brendan Dwyer of JLL represented Ogletree Deakins in the lease negotiations. Blythe Kinsler and Kate Walker internally represented the landlord, Tishman Speyer.
NEW YORK CITY — TileBar has signed a 34,000-square-foot office lease in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The provider of bathroom, kitchen and flooring products will occupy the entire third and fourth floors at 53 West 23rd Street, bringing the building to full occupancy. Locally based brokerage firm Adams & Co. represented both TileBar and the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations.
WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — Kaplan Career Academy has signed a 15-year, 38,500-square-foot lease in Wappingers Falls, about 85 miles north of New York City. The school, which is part of the Greenburgh North-Castle Union Free School District, will relocate from nearby New Windsor to the building at 29 Marshall Road. The new space will serve as the new home for the Special Act School, which serves students with disabilities. Stephen Powers, Alexander Smith and Kate Whitman of OPEN Impact Real Estate represented Kaplan Career Academy in the lease negotiations. Thylan Associates represented the undisclosed landlord.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based developer Slate Property Group and Queens Future LLC, which is a joint venture between Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock International, have formed a partnership to develop a 450-unit affordable housing project. The site at 54-19 100th St. is located adjacent to an existing affordable housing complex in the borough’s Corona neighborhood and currently houses a parking lot. Queens Future will provide financial support to a to-be-named nonprofit organization that will work with Slate to develop and manage the property. Units will feature a range of floor plans and income restrictions, and the property will have community and amenity space, including an improved outdoor area and a new children’s playground for the surrounding buildings.
LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — UFP Industries (NASDAQ: UFPI) will open a 240,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehousing facility in Lackawanna, located just south of Buffalo, a project that represents a capital investment of about $77 million. The Michigan-based provider of commercial and residential construction products has purchased 30 acres for construction of the facility, which will be used to supply decking products. The facility is being developed as part of a $250 million initiative to grow and expand the company’s Deckorators product line over the next five years. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between New York City-based ZG Capital Partners and Miami-based Rialto Capital Management has completed the renovation of Park 53 in Manhattan. The 20-story office building, which is located at 45 E. 53rd St. in the Plaza District, was originally built in 1991. New York City-based architecture firm MdeAs designed the project, which included an expansion and refresh of the lobby, entryway and elevators. In addition, MdeAs collaborated with Vocon to re-program the ground floor with an 8,600-square-foot restaurant with an accompanying wine cellar and private dining area and to design a new amenity space on the second floor.
NEW YORK CITY — Intuit has signed a 77,000-square-foot office lease expansion at 51 Astor Place in Manhattan’s East Village. The financial technology platform currently occupies the entire third floor at the 400,000-square-foot building. The expansion is for three additional full floors of space, as well as ground-floor retail space, for a total footprint of 115,000 square feet. Paul Glickman, Mitchell Konsker, Benjamin Bass and Cynthia Wasserberger of JLL, along with internal agents Jeffrey Sussman and Matt Pynn, represented the landlord, Edward J. Minskoff Equities, in the lease negotiations. Bart Lammersen, Justin Haber and Kyle Riker, also with JLL, represented Intuit.
MONTAUK, N.Y. — JLL has arranged a $235 million loan for the refinancing of the 20-acre Gurney’s Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa, located on the eastern tip of the Long Island peninsula. The property’s hospitality component totals 158 units: 109 guestrooms, 35 suites, eight beachfront cottages and six residences. In addition to a 2,000-foot private beach, the resort features five onsite food-and-beverage venues, four pools, a salon, 25,000 square feet of meeting and event space, a 30,000-square-foot spa and a fitness center. In addition, the owner, a partnership between BLDG Management Co. Inc. and Metrovest Equities, recently completed a capital improvement program at the property that upgraded guestrooms, common areas and amenity spaces. Christopher Peck, Kevin Davis, Mark Fisher and Connor Medzigian of JLL arranged the debt through a joint venture between Smith Hill Capital and Bain Capital.
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