NEW YORK CITY — PEI Group, a research and consulting firm for various investment vehicles, has signed a 10-year, 14,341-square-foot office lease at 530 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The tenant is relocating from 142 West 42nd Street to the 14th floor of the 535,000-square-foot building, which was originally constructed in 1957. John Ryan, Brooks Hauf and Patrick Steffens of Avison Young, along with internal agents William Elder, Andrew Ackerman and Walter Rooney, represented the landlord, RXR, in the lease negotiations. Joseph Gervino of Avison Young represented PEI Group.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $12.2 million sale of a 93-unit apartment building in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood. The name and address of the property were not disclosed. Seth Glasser, Michael Fusco, Binyamin Katz and Joe Koicim of Marcus & Millichap brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were both family-run companies that requested anonymity.
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Locally based developer Blue Communities has broken ground on Royal Blue, a 54-unit multifamily project in the Long Island community of Mineola. The building will rise six stories and span 101,000 square feet. Units will come in one- and two-bedroom floor plans, with rents starting at $3,500 per month for a one-bedroom apartment. Completion is slated for 2024.
NEW YORK CITY — Developer Lendlease has broken ground on 1 Java Street, an 834-unit waterfront multifamily project in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. Designed by architecture firm Marvel, the development will comprise five interconnected buildings across a full city block. In addition, 1 Java Street will house 13,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and 30 percent of the units will be reserved as affordable housing. A syndicate of lenders led by Bank of America provided $360 million in construction financing for the project, which Lendlease is developing in partnership with Australian pension fund Aware Super. Completion is slated for late 2025.
SIDNEY, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has negotiated the sale of Hidden Hollows, a 50-unit apartment complex in Sidney, a village in upstate New York’s Delaware County. The garden-style complex consists of five two-story buildings on a 5.1-acre site. The unit mix comprises 32 three-bedroom apartments and 18 four-bedroom residences, and the property also includes 50 covered parking spaces. Ed Graf and Ted Sannella of Houlihan-Parnes brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — The New York City School Construction Authority has signed a 15,330-square-foot office lease at 1070 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn. The academic design-build firm has committed to leasing the entire ground floor for 15 years. Geoff Bailey and Scott Rothstein of RIPCO Real Estate represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Bert Baradian of Cornerstone Group represented School Construction Authority.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Douglaston Development is nearing completion of 3Eleven, a 938-unit multifamily project located at 311 Eleventh Ave. in Manhattan’s West Chelsea neighborhood. The 60-story building houses 703 market-rate apartments and 235 affordable housing units, as well as 60,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenity space and 15,000 square feet of retail space. Units come in studio, one- and two-bedroom formats and are furnished with stainless steel appliances and individual washers and dryers. Amenities include an outdoor pool, multiple roof decks, a fitness center, children’s play area, multiple resident lounges, music studios and indoor and outdoor dog runs. Rents start at roughly $4,200 per month for a studio apartment.
AUBURN, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of B&C Storage, a 229-unit self-storage facility in Auburn, about 30 miles west of Syracuse. The facility was originally built on 2.8 acres in 1980 and comprises 24,094 net rentable square feet of non-climate-controlled space. The sale included an adjacent parcel that spans a third of an acre. Luke Dawley, Nathan Coe, Brett Hatcher and Gabriel Coe of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer and seller, both of which were limited liability companies that requested anonymity, in the transaction. John Horowitz of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record.
NEW YORK CITY — Northmarq has arranged a $22 million loan for the refinancing of Village Greens Shopping Center, a 75,697-square-foot retail property in Staten Island’s Arden Heights neighborhood. Grocer Key Food anchors the center, which was originally built in 1989, and other tenants include CVS Pharmacy and JP Morgan Chase Bank. Robert Delitsky and Dylan Hamer of Northmarq arranged the fixed-rate loan through insurance giant Nationwide on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
NEW YORK CITY — Investment and advisory firm Flexpoint Ford will open a 19,522-square-foot office at One Vanderbilt, a 77-story, 1.7 million-square-foot tower in Midtown Manhattan that was developed by locally based real estate giant SL Green. Architect SPECTOR Cos. designed Flexpoint Ford’s space. Cresa and Clune Construction Co. handled the build-out. The project is nearing completion, though a formal opening date was not disclosed.