NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between locally based investment firm Taconic Partners, global asset manager Nuveen Real Estate and Flatiron Equities has acquired 309-324 East 95th Street in Upper Manhattan for $70 million. The property was originally constructed in 1927 as a manufacturing facility but was repurposed in the 1980s. The site now houses a five-story office building that connects with a two-story garage. Barry Goodman of Newmark represented the partnership in the transaction. The seller was not disclosed. Potential redevelopment plans are currently being evaluated.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) has agreed to sell its ownership interest in the office condos and parking garage at 110 East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan for $117 million. SL Green is selling its stake, the size of which was not disclosed, to Meadow Partners in a deal that is expected to close before the end of the year. The office condos, which comprise a portion of the ground floor and the sixth through 18th floors, were originally built in 1923. The property is located across from Grand Central Station and One Vanderbilt, SL Green’s 1.7 million-square-foot office skyscraper. The locally based investment and development firm previously sold the office condos in 2007 and regained control of that component of the site in 2011. SL Green acquired the garage in 2013.
NEW YORK CITY — Berkadia has provided a $22.6 million HUD loan for the permanent refinancing of Scheuer House of Manhattan Beach, a 149-unit Section 8 seniors housing property in Brooklyn. The property consists of one eight-story building and two five-story buildings that were respectively constructed in 1964 and 1932. Laura Smith of Berkadia originated the loan through HUD’s 223(f) program. The borrower, New York-based nonprofit JASA, will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements and preserve affordability.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based investment and development firm SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) has sold 1080 Amsterdam Avenue, a 96-unit apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, for $42.5 million. The elevator building is located just south of Columbia University’s campus and includes two commercial spaces. Marc Sznajderman, Andrew Sasson, Chad Sinsheimer and Justin Bomba of Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group represented SL Green, which recently renovated the property and sold it in a joint venture with Stonehenge, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the $14.8 million sale of an 83-unit multifamily property located at 4755 White Plains Road in The Bronx. Built in 1939, the property includes five retail spaces and 11 parking spaces. Aaron Jungreis, Ben Khakshoor and Alex Fuchs of Rosewood Realty represented the seller, a private investor, and procured the buyer, an entity doing business as 4755WP LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Bloomberg has signed a 191,207-square-foot office lease expansion at 919 Third Avenue in Manhattan. The media giant is taking an additional five floors, increasing its total footprint at the 47-story, 1.5 million-square-foot building to 748,415 square feet. Craig Reicher and Howard Fiddle of CBRE represented Bloomberg in the lease negotiations. Robert Alexander, Ryan Alexander, Emily Chabrier and Alex D’Amario of CBRE represented the landlord, SL Green. The building is currently undergoing renovations.
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. — Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health provider and private employer, has signed eight lease renewals totaling 32,413 square feet for an additional 10 years in Lake Success, located in Nassau County on Long Island. The practices of Northwell, which include primary care, gastroenterology and pulmonary disease, are spread among multiple floors at 2001 Marcus Avenue, a 214,000-square-foot medical office building. Kevin Driscoll represented the landlord, The Feil Organization, in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Tom Ruggiero and Brian Palumbo provided in-house legal counsel to Feil, while David Leno provided counsel to Northwell Health on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $170 million loan for the refinancing of 122 Fifth Avenue, a 300,000-square-foot office building located near Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood. The property was originally built in 1900 and includes retail space. Aaron Appel, Jonathan Schwartz, Keith Kurland, Adam Schwartz, Sean Bastian and Michael Ianno of Walker & Dunlop arranged the loan through PCCP LLC. The borrower, Bromley Cos., which has owned the building for more than 40 years, will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements.
BOSTON — Cabot Properties Inc. has sold its Value Fund V portfolio in two separate transactions for a total of $2.8 billion. Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (BREIT) acquired the portfolio, which features logistics properties in the United States and Europe. The U.S. portfolio includes 102 properties totaling 15.2 million square feet located in major logistics markets such as the Inland Empire, California; Eastern Pennsylvania; South Florida; and the New York metropolitan area. In a separate transaction, Blackstone’s European Core Plus business and its affiliates acquired the remaining European properties, which feature 22 properties totaling 2.2 million square feet of industrial space. The properties are located in European markets such as the Midlands, North West and South East in the United Kingdom; Amsterdam; and Düsseldorf in Germany. “The sale of our Value Fund V portfolio completes our most ambitious logistics property investment program over the past 20 years,” says Franz Colloredo-Mansfeld, chairman and chief executive officer of Cabot. “This portfolio was created through 90 transactions, including 24 development projects throughout the U.S., U.K. and Europe completed over the past five years. We are pleased to have now completed approximately $5 billion in three transactions with Blackstone Real Estate over …
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Rockport Mortgage has arranged $86.6 million in financing for Park Lake Apartments, a 240-unit affordable housing property located in the Long Island community of Hempstead. Park Lake Apartments consists of 14 two-story buildings on an 11-acre site. The borrower is an entity controlled by Metropolitan Realty Group and Silver Street Development Corp. The proceeds of the loan, in connection with equity from the sale of the 4 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, will be used acquire and rehabilitate the property. Rockport Mortgage arranged the loan, which was structured with a fixed interest rate and a 40-year amortization schedule following the two-year construction period, through HUD’s 221(d)(4) program. Renovations are expected to last about 18 months and will include upgrades to cabinets, countertops, appliances and fixtures, flooring and utility systems.