NEW YORK CITY — Urban Standard Capital has provided a $2.3 million acquisition loan for a multifamily and retail building located at the corner of Montague and Henry streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. The three-story building houses nine residential units and features retail space on the ground and second floors. The borrower, a partnership between Conway Capital and Davean Holdings, will use a portion of the proceeds to renovate the building.
NEW YORK CITY — Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) reported fourth-quarter results that exceeded the company’s expectations, thanks to 21 percent year-over-year growth in digital sales across all of its brands. In addition, the department store chain reported that comparable in-store sales during the period that included the holiday shopping season were down 17 percent. However, that performance beat the company’s projections, and contributed to Macy’s posting its first profitable quarter in a year, CNBC reported. Product categories such as home beauty and jewelry led the pronounced spike in digital sales, and Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette said that the company anticipates that within the next three years, it will reach $10 billion in annual online revenue. In February 2020, the company announced that it planned to close 125 underperforming stores, or about 20 percent of its total count, by early 2023. Macy’s stock price opened at $15.31 per share on Tuesday, Feb. 23, down slightly from $15.68 per share a year ago.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based firm Caspi Development has topped out the Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet’s New York, a 96-room hotel that is being developed at 456 Greenwich St. in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. Upon completion in mid-2022, the eight-story hotel will house several food and beverage concepts, as well as a pool, spa and a screening room. Construction of the hotel, which will be operated under the French luxury brand Group Barrière, began in 2017.
NEW YORK CITY — Los Angeles-based chef Matthew Kenney will open a plant-based restaurant concept at a 7,900-square-foot space at 1245 Broadway in Manhattan. Anthony Stanford and Henry Rossignol of CBRE represented the tenant and the landlord, a partnership between locally based developer GDSNY and Stockholm-based Klovern, in the negotiations.
NEW YORK CITY AND NASVHILLE — SomeraRoad, a development and investment firm with offices in New York City and Nashville, has acquired a portfolio of eight industrial assets totaling 1.5 million square feet $137 million. Each of the properties, which are located in the Southeast and Midwest regions, was fully leased to a single tenant at the time of sale. The roster includes users such as FedEx, McFarling Foods and Black Gold Farms. Ian Ross, Fergus Campbell, Amit Patel and Blake Toline negotiated the transaction for SomeraRoad on an internal basis. The seller was not disclosed. Dustin Stolly and Jordan Roeschlaub of Newmark arranged a $91 million acquisition loan through Capital One on behalf of SomeraRoad.
NEW YORK CITY — Los Angeles-based PCCP LLC has provided a $32.7 million loan for the refinancing of the leasehold interest of Renoir House, a 151-unit apartment building located at 225 E. 63rd St. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. An investment fund sponsored by San Francisco-based Carmel Partners acquired the leasehold interest in the property, which was built in 1962, in November 2011. Since that time, the firm has upgraded the property by renovating units, installing and improving amenity spaces and modernizing common areas. Specific loan terms were not disclosed.
ROME, N.Y. — Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has brokered the sale of The Terrace at Woodland, a 46-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Central New York city of Rome. An independent owner-operator sold the property to a regional owner-operator for $10 million, or approximately $217,000 per unit. Built in 2009, The Terrace at Woodland is licensed for 48 assisted living beds and 12 memory care beds. During the 12 months prior to sale, the community averaged 90 percent occupancy.
SHERRILL, N.Y. — Briggs & Stratton, a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of gasoline engines, has signed a 566,706-square-foot industrial lease at Silver City Industrial Campus in Sherrill, an eastern suburb of Syracuse. Silver City Industrial Campus spans 90 acres and 864,668 square feet and includes 200,000 square feet of land for future expansion. A partnership between Florida-based firm Index Investment Group and OX Group owns the property.
NEW YORK CITY — Avison Young has brokered the sale of two four-story multifamily properties in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood for a combined $7.5 million. The four-unit property at 349 E. 13th St. sold for $3.5 million, and the five-unit building at 405 E. 6th St. went for $4 million. Brandon Polakoff of Avison Young represented the undisclosed seller and the California-based 1031 exchange buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) has entered into an agreement to sell its 25 percent interest in Tower 46, a mixed-use building located at 55 W. 46th St. in Manhattan, for $275 million. SL Green acquired its stake in the building, which includes office, retail and multifamily uses, in 2014. The buyer is a fund backed by Brookfield Asset Management. Paul Gillen, Anthony Ledesma and Kyle van Buitenen of Hodges Ward Elliott represented SL Green in the transaction, which is expected to close before the end of the first quarter.