ATHENS, GA. AND NEW YORK CITY — Athens-based Landmark Properties and New York-based Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (BREIT) have formed a joint venture partnership in order to recapitalize and acquire eight student housing properties totaling 5,416 beds across the United States. TSB Capital Advisors acted as financial advisor to both Landmark Properties and BREIT in the $784 million deal. The sellers and the locations of the eight student housing properties were not disclosed. Blackstone completed the transaction because the company was looking to grow its student housing portfolio. Jacob Werner of Blackstone said the eight properties are at leading colleges that have rising enrollments. Landmark Properties is a student housing developer and owner-operator with $7.7 billion of properties under management currently. With this most recent student housing transaction, Landmark’s portfolio includes 79 student housing communities. The firm unveiled plans in July to develop three new student housing projects with a total of 2,544 beds across three states.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A joint venture led by locally based development and investment firm Rose Associates Inc. has received $181.9 million in financing for a multifamily redevelopment project in White Plains, a northern suburb of New York City. Los Angeles-based Pacific Western Bank provided a $134.5 million senior construction loan for the project. New York City-based Square Mile Capital contributed a $47.4 million preferred equity investment to round out the capital stack. The joint venture, the other members of which were not disclosed, will convert a vacant office building located at 440 Hamilton Ave. into a 13-story, 255-unit apartment community that will be known as The Lofts. This building will include 3,400 square feet of retail space. The development team also plans to construct a seven-story, 213-unit multifamily family building on the site from the ground up. The final piece of construction will be a six-story, 575-space parking garage. The development will feature a suite of Class A amenities that includes a pool and a fitness center. Of the development’s 468 total units, 8 percent (approximately 37 residences) will be earmarked as affordable housing. Specific income restrictions for these units were not disclosed. A construction timeline for the groundbreaking …
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors LLC has arranged a $19.4 million loan for the refinancing of a 602-unit multifamily portfolio in the Binghamton area. The portfolio consists of 13 properties that range in size from eight to 144 units and include both garden-style suburban communities and urban buildings. The nonrecourse loan was structured with a fixed interest rate of 2.98 percent for five years. The undisclosed borrower intends to use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements. Ed Graf and Ted Sannella led the transaction for Houlihan-Parnes.
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. — Simone Development Cos. has sold the 15-acre site of the former Rubber Co. of American Polymer Corp. manufacturing plant in the Long Island community of Hicksville. The facility was originally constructed in 1945 to produce plastics and latex and in subsequent years has been owned by various manufacturers, including Occidental Chemical Corp, Sybron Corp. and Bayer Corp. Paul Leone of CBRE represented the buyer, a fund backed by Brookfield Asset Management, in the transaction. Jim MacDonald negotiated the sale on an internal basis for Simone Development. The new ownership plans to develop a warehouse/distribution center on the site.
NEW YORK CITY — Avison Young has debuted its new space for its New York City office on the third and fourth floors of 530 Fifth Avenue, a 26-story building in Midtown Manhattan. Global architecture firm Vocon designed the new office, and Avison Young’s project management team oversaw construction. The industrial-themed space features an open layout, exposed ceiling piping, a green wall in the reception area and both assigned desks and private offices. RXR Realty owns the building, which was originally constructed in 1957.
NEW YORK CITY — Harbor Group International (HGI) has entered into an agreement to buy 51 West 52nd Street, an office building in Midtown Manhattan known as the CBS Building, for $760 million. As the former owner-occupier, ViacomCBS will lease back its space on a short-term basis. The deal marks the first sale of the building since it originally opened in 1964. HGI plans to implement a significant capital program to reposition the property in support of a long-term leasing plan. Updates will include significant upgrades to the lobby and other tenant amenities. CBRE leases the building. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a $106 million acquisition loan for an office condominium located at 12 MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn. The condo consists of five floors totaling 186,000 square feet that are situated within a larger building whose lower 25 floors are owned by the City of New York. Gideon Gil, Lauren Kaufman, Steve Kohn and Alex Hernandez of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the five-year, interest-only loan through Starwood Property Trust on behalf of the borrower, an entity doing business as 60 Guilders. Doug Harmon, Adam Spies, Adam Doneger, Dan OBrien, Rachel Humphrey and Meaghan Philbin of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the sale of the asset.
NEW YORK CITY — Law firm Freehill Hogan & Mahar has signed a 17,333-square-foot office lease renewal at 80 Pine Street, a 1.2 million-square-foot building that occupies a full city block in Lower Manhattan. Howard Nottingham and Allyson Bowen of Savills represented the tenant in the negotiations for the 11-year lease. Kevin Daly represented the landlord, The Rudin Family, on an internal basis. The deal coincides with the completion of the first phase of Rudin’s capital improvement program, which included the renovation of the lobby and entrances.
NEW YORK CITY AND TORONTO — KKR, a global private equity firm based in New York City, has agreed to sell a national portfolio of warehouses and distribution centers to Oxford Properties Group, a real estate owner and manager based in Toronto. The $2.2 billion deal is expected to close in the coming months. The portfolio comprises 149 properties located across 12 major industrial U.S. markets, including the Inland Empire in California, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago, Houston, Tampa, Orlando, San Diego and the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. corridor. Since 2018, KKR and its management platform Alpha Industrial Properties assembled and maintained the portfolio across 50 individual transactions. The firm’s decision to focus on high-barrier-to-entry sites near major population centers attracted the strong offer from Oxford Properties, which is looking to allocate one-third of its global equity in industrial real estate. “Growing our U.S. industrial business is one of Oxford’s highest-conviction global investment strategies as we continue to build, buy and invest in the physical infrastructure that serves the digital economy,” says Ankit Bhatt, vice president of investments at Oxford Properties and leader of the firm’s U.S. industrial investment strategy. ”High-quality, infill, consumption-driven industrial portfolios of scale trade infrequently, so this transaction is …
NEW YORK CITY — TMRW Life Sciences, which provides management systems and solutions for in vitro fertilization, has signed a 38,000-square-foot lease at 250 Hudson Street in Manhattan. The tenant currently occupies a portion (5,500 square feet) of the seventh floor of the 15-story building and will relocate from that space to occupy the entire sixth floor and part of the ground floor. Mitti Liebersohn of Avison Young represented TMRW Life Sciences in the lease negotiations. Brett Greenberg and Adam Rappaport represented the landlord, Jack Resnick & Sons, on an internal basis.