NEW YORK CITY — Whole Foods Market will open a 54,000-square-foot store at 63 Madison Ave. in Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood on Wednesday, June 1. The store will offer produce sourced from 20 local farms, full-service meat and seafood counters, a bakery, prepared foods section, wellness and beauty section and a selection of more than 180 craft beers.
NEW YORK CITY — Avanath Capital Management, a private real estate investment management firm, has purchased two multifamily communities in Brooklyn. The Irvine, Calif.-based company purchased the two properties, which total 601 apartments and 42,643 square feet of ground-floor retail space, for $315 million. The properties also include 82,681 square feet of parking. The seller was not disclosed, but multiple outlets report the seller as Greenland USA, a residential and commercial real estate developer based in China. Located at 38 6th Ave. and 535 Carlton Ave., the two communities are situated adjacent to Barclays Center, the home arena of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise. A little over one-third of the units are reserved for residents with incomes between 40 percent and 100 percent of area median income (AMI). The buildings were constructed in 2017 as part of the ongoing Pacific Park New York Development initiative, which Avanath Capital says is Brooklyn’s largest development project to date. In addition to the two multifamily properties, at full completion the site will host eight acres of public open space, a new public middle school, 13 other residential buildings and more than 7.3 million square feet of residential, commercial and retail space. Amenities at …
BROOKHAVEN, N.Y. — CBRE has brokered the $28.5 million sale of 5000 Corporate Court, a 264,482-square-foot office building in Brookhaven, located on Long Island. Tenants include the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service. Jeffrey Dunne, Steven Bardsley, Jeremy Neuer, Stuart MacKenzie, Travis Langer and Philip Heilpern of CBRE represented the seller, Office Properties Income Trust, in the transaction. CBRE also procured the buyer, Northpath Investments.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — JD.com, a global e-commerce firm based in Beijing, has signed a 216,892-square-foot industrial lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Piscataway. Indianapolis-based REIT Duke Realty (NYSE: DRE) is developing the facility, which will feature a clear height of 40 feet and 38 trailer parking spaces, with a target completion date of this fall. Noah Balanoff and Jacquelyn Severino of Colliers, along with internal agents Ben Rosen and Gregg Bazzani, represented Duke Realty in the lease negotiations. Chuck Fern, Jason Barton and Thomas Tucci of Cushman & Wakefield, along with Andy Ho of Kander Pacific Inc., represented the tenant.
NEW YORK CITY — Seattle-based lender Columbia Pacific Advisors has provided a $36 million loan for the refinancing of an industrial property located along the Hudson River in The Bronx. The property is a 480,000-square-foot outdoor storage yard that is situated on a 14-acre site. The borrower is locally based developer Dynamic Star. Will Nelson led the transaction for Columbia Pacific Advisors.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Ariel Property Advisors has negotiated the $22.5 million sale of a 96-unit multifamily building located in the Morris Heights area of The Bronx. Constructed in 2004, the building rises 13 stories and spans 93,430 square feet. The unit mix comprises one studio, 22 one-bedroom apartments and 73 two-bedroom residences. Daniel Mahfar, Victor Sozio and Shimon Shkury of Ariel Property Advisors brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based private equity firm Urban Standard Capital has funded a $6.2 million construction loan for a multifamily project in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood that will comprise 10 residential units and one commercial space. The six-story building’s residential units will have an average size of 970 square feet, and the commercial component will span 1,300 square feet. Isaac & Stern is the project architect. The borrower is Avdoo & Partners Development.
NEW YORK CITY — SVB Securities, an investment bank specializing in the healthcare and technology sectors, has signed a 68,183-square-foot office lease expansion at 1301 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. The tenant now occupies 139,176 square feet at the 1.7 million-square-foot building, which is owned by locally based investment firm Paramount Group Inc. (NYSE: PGRE).
ISLIP, N.Y. — A public-private partnership between The Town of Islip, Suffolk County and JLL has unveiled plans for Midway Crossing, a $2.8 billion mixed-use project that will be located on Long Island. The Long Island Regional Planning Council approved the project, which will be the largest commercial or residential development on Long Island in the last 50 years, on the evening of Thursday, May 12. Midway Crossing will span approximately 2.7 million square feet across 179 acres. Plans currently call for a variety of uses, including life sciences, healthcare and hospitality, as well as a convention center and traditional retail, restaurant and entertainment space. The development team expects these uses to collectively generate more than $4.5 billion in annual economic impact upon completion. The location is near Long Island MacArthur Airport, as well as the Ronkonkoma Station of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), establishing Midway Crossing as a multimodal transit hub. Under the current development plan, the airport and train station would be connected via an 1,800-foot corridor. The development team also plans to make various infrastructural improvements at the airport that could have as much as $1.9 billion in additional economic impact. Beyond the economic benefits, the …
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based firm Midwood Investment & Development has acquired Candela Tower, a 158-unit apartment building in Manhattan’s West Village area, for $102 million. Named after its designer, Rosario Candela, the 20-story building was originally constructed in 1931 and includes 6,721 square feet of retail space. Cushman & Wakefield’s Adam Spies, Adam Doneger and Marcella Fasulo represented the seller, BlackRock, in the deal. MetLife Investment Management provided $63.5 million in acquisition financing to Midwood, which plans to upgrade the unit interiors and amenity spaces.