NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated the $54 million sale of a multifamily development site located at 555 Broadway in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Brendan Maddigan, Stephen Palmese, Ethan Stanton, Michael Mazzara and Winfield Clifford of JLL represented the seller, The Collective, a co-living operator based in the United Kingdom, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, a joint venture between The Loketch Group, The Joyland Group and Meral Property Group that plans to develop a 250,000-square-foot community with retail space. In addition, a portion of the units will be reserved as affordable housing. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
NEWARK, N.J. — Los Angeles-based Parkview Financial has provided a $90 million construction loan for Phase I of The Halo, a 43-story high-rise apartment building in Newark. Phase I will consist of 297 units with a mix that comprises 156 studios, 84 one-bedroom units and 57 two-bedroom units. Amenities will include a pool, sauna, fitness center, multiple lounge rooms, a game room, conference rooms with private office suites, shared workspaces and a rooftop deck. The borrower, New Jersey-based Acier Holdings, has secured approval to develop up to 949 units across three towers on the site. Two New York City-based firms, INOA Architecture and general contractor Hudson Meridian HM, are respectively designing and constructing the project. Construction of the initial phase is set to begin immediately, with completion slated for January 2024.
NEW YORK CITY — Greystone has arranged a $125 million bridge loan for the refinancing of The Smile, a 233-unit apartment building located at 158 E. 126th St. in Harlem. The property, which includes 25,000 square feet of commercial space that is leased to Beth Israel Medical Center, features a mix of market-rate residences (70 percent) and affordable housing units (30 percent). Amenities include coworking space, a fitness center, spa and an outdoor space with four pools, a lounge and a movie theater. Drew Fletcher and Matthew Klauer led a Greystone team that arranged the loan through insurance giant AIG on behalf of the borrower, a partnership between New York-based Blumenfeld Development Group and global asset manager Invesco Real Estate.
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — CBRE has negotiated the $79.5 million sale of Chappaqua Crossing, a 120,986-square-foot shopping center located in New York’s Westchester County that is part of the redevelopment of the 114-acre former Reader’s Digest headquarters campus. Tenants at the newly built center include anchors Whole Foods Market and Life Time Fitness, as well as Starbucks and Chase Bank. Jeffrey Dunne, David Gavin, Steve Bardsley, Jeremy Neuer and Travis Langer of CBRE represented the seller, a joint venture between global investment advisor Summit Development and The Grossman Cos., in the transaction. The team procured an undisclosed investment management firm as the buyer.
AMITYVILLE, N.Y. — Webster Bank has provided a $22.3 million loan for the refinancing of a 146-bed behavioral hospital in the Long Island community of Amityville. The facility spans 146,000 square feet and provides care for patients with acute psychiatric disorders. Anthony Sardo, Elliott Throne and C.J. Kodani of JLL arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, an entity doing business as 81 Louden Real Estate Group LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm TerraCRG has arranged the $30 million sale of an industrial site located at 360 Kingsland Ave. in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint area. According to LoopNet Inc., the site spans 98,250 square feet and houses a 17,000-square-foot manufacturing and office facility. The site is zoned for up to 196,000 buildable square feet of commercial space. Dan Marks and Daniel Lebor of TerraCRG represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. The buyer was private equity firm Sitex Group.
NEW YORK CITY — Brookfield Properties has topped out Two Manhattan West, a 58-story office tower located within the eight-acre Manhattan West mixed-use development that opened last fall. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Two Manhattan West will feature more than 2 million square feet of office space upon completion, which is slated for 2023. The building is 25 percent preleased, with law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore committed as an anchor tenant. Brookfield completed the 67-story, 2.1 million-square-foot One Manhattan West in late 2019.
NEW YORK CITY — Seton Education Partners, a nonprofit owner-operator of charter schools, has entered into a leasehold condominium agreement with Bolivar Development to open a 73,000-square-foot school at 1936 Jerome Ave. in The Bronx. The structure of the deal allows Seton to own the condo unit that will house the school for 39 years before ownership reverts to the developer. The school will be operated under the Brilla Public Charter School brand and will ultimately serve more than 800 students in grades K-8. Stephen Powers and Lindsay Ornstein of OPEN Impact Real Estate, along with Jake Cinti and Alexander Smith of Transwestern, represented Seton in the deal. Jim Lester and Peter Fine represented Bolivar Development on an internal basis. The new building is expected to open for the 2024-2025 academic year, initially serving students in grades K-4 and expanding through eighth grade by 2028.
NEW YORK CITY — Global One Real Estate Fund, an affiliate of New York-based Nelson Management Group, has acquired Evergreen Gardens, a 357-unit affordable housing building in the Soundview neighborhood of The Bronx, for $15.5 million. The two-building, transit-oriented property includes 253 parking spaces. Daniel Parker of Hodges Ward Elliott represented the seller, New York City-based Milstein Properties, in the transaction. The New York City Housing Development Corp. provided $23.6 million in permanent financing to cover the acquisition of the property, as well as to fund capital improvements and preserve affordability,
NEW YORK CITY— Locally based private equity firm KPG Funds and LaSalle Global Partner Solutions have purchased 480 Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood with plans to redevelop the property into a boutique office building with retail space. The new ownership purchased the building in conjunction with 155 Spring, a nearby office and retail asset, from Maryland-based REIT Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO). The redevelopment will include rebranding the building as 40 Crosby.