SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — Hudson Valley Property Group has purchased two affordable housing communities totaling 220 units in Spring Valley, about 35 miles north of New York City. The properties include the 144-unit Lakeview Village and the 76-unit Highview Apartments. The new ownership plans to invest in capital upgrades to preserve affordability; all apartments will subsequently be restricted to tenants earning 60 percent or less of the area median income (AMI). Renovations will include energy-efficient upgrades such as Energy Star-rated appliances, high-efficiency heating and cooling systems and LED bulbs; updated bathrooms and new flooring; ventilation upgrades; and other cosmetic improvements. Plans are also in place for common spaces to receive green building and cosmetic upgrades.
NEW YORK CITY — Accounting and advisory firm BDO USA has signed a 15-year, 145,000-square-foot office lease at 200 Park Avenue, a 58-story tower in Midtown Manhattan. In January 2024, the tenant will consolidate its three Manhattan offices to three entire floors, as well as a dedicated portion of the lobby of the 3.1 million-square-foot building. Mitti Liebersohn, Mark Robbins, Keith Caggiano, Jeff Lindenmeyer and Jeff Burger of Avison Young represented BDO USA in the lease negotiations. Gus Field and Megan Sheehan represented the landlord, Tishman Speyer, which owns the building in partnership with Irvine Co. Office Properties, on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the $7.2 million sale of a multifamily building located in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn. Built in 1961, the seven-story building spans 30,000 square feet and consists of 42 rent-stabilized residential units and one office unit. Aaron Jungreis and Nick Pappas of Rosewood Realty represented the seller, The Baldwin LLC, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, Meridian Properties LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Los Angeles-based Parkview Financial has provided a $50 million construction loan for a multifamily project in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. The 13-story building will consist of 143 condominiums and 40,034 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. The property will offer a mix of 11 studios, 48 one-bedroom apartments and 84 two-bedroom units with an average unit size of 743 square feet. Amenities will include a fitness center and a rooftop terrace. The borrower and developer, Ming Garden Realty LLC, expects to complete the project in fall 2023.
NEW YORK CITY — Real estate services firm Orchard Technologies Inc. has signed a 107,443-square-foot office lease at 195 Broadway, a 29-story building in Manhattan’s Financial District. Orchard will occupy part of the 24th floor, as well as the entire 25th and 26th floors of the 1.1 million-square-foot tower, which formerly housed the world headquarters of AT&T and is thus known locally as The Telegraph Building. Peter Trivelas and Gary Ceder of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant, which plans to take occupancy of the space early next year, in the lease negotiations. Andrew Wiener represented the landlord, L&L Holding Co., on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of the Interstate Industrial Portfolio, a collection of 15 buildings totaling approximately 2.5 million square feet located in various markets throughout the Northeast. Those markets include Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Columbus, Ohio, as well as the Upstate New York cities of Syracuse, Rochester and Albany. Cushman & Wakefield’s David Bernhaut, Kyle Schmidt, Ryan Larkin and Seth Zuidema represented the seller, Heritage Capital Group, in the transaction. Gideon Gil, Alex Lapidus and Meredith Donovan, also with Cushman & Wakefield, arranged $114.2 million in acquisition financing on behalf of the undisclosed buyer. An affiliate of LoanCore Capital provided the loan. The portfolio was 97 percent leased at the time of sale.
PORT JEFFERSON STATION, N.Y. — South Carolina-based multifamily development and management firm Greystar has acquired The Vistas of Port Jefferson, a 244-unit, 55-plus apartment community on Long Island, for $118 million. Built in 2019, the property’s unit mix comprises 36 one-bedroom units, 144 two-bedroom units, and 64 two-bedroom townhouses. In addition, 15 percent of the residences are reserved for renters earning between 30 and 80 percent of the area median income. Amenities include a pool, clubhouse, fitness center and walking/biking trails. Benjamin Co. sold the property to Greystar for a per-unit price of roughly $483,600. Michael Tuccillo of Marcus & Millichap and Jack Bick of S. Charaton Realty brokered the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — The Davis Cos., a Boston-based development and investment firm, will build a 17-story self-storage facility at 155-165 W. 29th St. in Manhattan’s Chelsea District. The property will span approximately 180,000 square feet and feature more than 6,300 units of various sizes. Davis, which is developing the project in partnership with Highland Development Ventures LLC, has completed demolitions of the existing structures on the site and expects to open the facility in spring 2023. Mancini Duffy is the project architect, and Cauldwell-Wingate Construction is the general contractor. Santander Bank and United Overseas Bank provided construction financing.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Talonvest Capital Inc., a California-based boutique financial advisory firm, has arranged a $118.2 million bridge loan for the refinancing of a portfolio of four self-storage facilities located in and around New York City. The properties, which total 320,819 net rentable square feet across 5,148 units, are located in Brooklyn, Long Island City (Queens), Yonkers and White Plains. The portfolio also included 12,380 square feet of commercial space. An undisclosed global investment management firm provided the nonrecourse, floating-rate loan to the borrower, self-storage owner-operator Clutter Inc. Jim Davies, Kim Bishop, Eric Snyder, David DiRienzo and Tom Sherlock of Talonvest handled the debt placement.
MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Middle Island Self Storage, a 726-unit facility managed by Public Storage on Long Island. Built on five-plus acres in 2019, the 74,601-square-foot property sold for $25 million, or $34,435 per unit. Nathan Coe, Brett Hatcher and Gabriel Coe of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction. The facility was 91 percent occupied at the time of sale.