SAYVILLE, N.Y. — NAI Long Island has negotiated the $1.6 million sale of a medical office building in Sayville. Located at 160 Middle Road, the 7,300-square-foot property is currently occupied by Long Island Family Medical Group. Gary Pezza of NAI Long Island represented the seller, John A. Zimmerly, M.D., in the transaction. The buyer was 1449 Holdings LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Youngwoo & Associates has broken ground on the Radio Tower & Hotel, a 235,000-square-foot, mixed-use property in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The 22-story building will include 155,000 square feet of office space, a 221-room boutique hotel and 8,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. The property is located on Amsterdam Avenue between 180th and 181st Streets. Youngwoo & Associates acquired the site, which was formerly a gas station, in 2013.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $11.8 million sale of a two-building apartment community in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. Located at 439-441 Henry St., the property includes 73 feet of residential frontage on Henry Street. Matt Fotis and Dylan Renicker of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was also a private investor.
NEW YORK CITY — Jonathan Rose Cos., The NHP Foundation and Nuveen have acquired Shore Hill Housing, a two-building, 558-unit affordable seniors housing property in Brooklyn, for approximately $150 million. The seller was NYU Langone, a hospital system with many buildings located adjacent to the site. The property consists of two interconnected, 14-story towers in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn totaling 414,127 square feet. The property was built in 1977 and sits on 2.7 acres along Shore Road. The unit mix includes 325 studios and 233 one-bedrooms. The buyers financed the acquisition with a $102 million Freddie Mac loan arranged through PGIM Real Estate Finance. The Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund IV LP, along with joint-venture partner NHP and Nuveen, will invest $52 million of equity in the property. “We are making a long-term investment to preserve an important affordable housing property for seniors with a conventional debt and private equity execution,” says Joshua Plattner, who led the acquisition for Rose. The venture will invest in capital improvements to increase energy efficiency, reduce the carbon footprint and enhance the resident services at Shore Hill as part of Rose’s Communities of Opportunity programming. “We are excited about the opportunity to …
NEW YORK CITY — Landsea Homes and Leyton Properties have broken ground on a 14-story condominium tower on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Located at 212 W. 93rd St., the property will include 20 residences atop a new 9,350-square-foot synagogue that will occupy the first two floors. The developers purchased the site from Congregation Shaare Zedek. The building was designed by Eran Chen of ODA New York and draws inspiration from the neighborhood’s historic pre-war architecture. The completion date for the property was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between hotel owner-operator MCR and real estate developer and manager Building and Land Technology has secured a $647.5M refinancing for a 53-property hotel portfolio spanning 15 states and 31 markets. The 5,958-room portfolio includes 33 Marriot-branded properties and 20 Hilton-branded properties. The assets are 12 years old on average. Bank of America led the financing, which also included Wells Fargo and two mezzanine lenders. The proceeds will go towards repaying current loans as well as returning capital to the joint venture. Terms of the financing were not disclosed. MCR has offices in New York City and Dallas and is the sixth-largest hotel owner-operator in the United States. MCR’s hotels are operated under 11 different brands. Stamford, Connecticut-based BLT was founded in 1982 and has invested in more than 25 million square feet of commercial, hotel and residential properties across 26 states. — David Cohen
NEW YORK CITY — Seniors housing REIT giant Welltower Inc. (NYSE:HCN) and international real estate firm Hines have announced plans for a 17-story seniors housing community on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The project will be the second of its type for the partnership. A 16-story seniors housing community named The Welltower is currently under construction in Midtown. An undisclosed “passive institutional investor” is also involved in both projects. The companies acquired the development site, located at Broadway and 85thStreet. Plans call for a 140,000-square-foot “The Welltower West” building rising from the 9,100-square-foot plot. Existing commercial structures on the site will be demolished to make way for construction. SLCE Architects LLP will design the project. Sarah Hawkins and Bevin Littlehale of Hines and John Olympitis and Talal Khan of Welltower, both out of their respective New York regional offices, led the transaction teams on the land acquisition.
SEATTLE — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has officially selected New York City and Arlington, Va., as the homes for its second headquarters, confirming reports last week of the e-commerce giant’s decision to split HQ2. Amazon will invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters locations, with more than 25,000 employees in each new headquarters. Both campuses will feature 4 million square feet of new office space, which is expandable up to 8 million square feet at each location. New York City and Arlington will join Seattle as the company’s three headquarters in North America. “These two locations will allow us to attract world-class talent that will help us to continue inventing for customers for years to come,” says Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. “The team did a great job selecting these sites, and we look forward to becoming an even bigger part of these communities.” The New York location will be in Queens’ Long Island City neighborhood. The Arlington office will be in River Landing, a newly branded neighborhood encompassing parts of Pentagon City and Crystal City in Arlington and Potomac Yard in nearby Alexandria. Amazon estimates the incremental tax revenue to exceed $10 billion for the New York location …
NEW YORK CITY — Greystone has provided an $8.2 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance a three-property multifamily portfolio in Queens. The portfolio consists of three, rent-stabilized properties totaling 52 units. The properties are located at 177-50 South Conduit Ave., 176-20 and 177-16 South Conduit Ave. Amenities at the properties include on-site laundry, covered parking and community rooms as well as video security. Terms of the financing included a 10-year term and a 30-year amortization schedule. The borrower was undisclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — HREC Capital Markets Group has arranged the $7.4 million refinancing of the leasehold interest in the Look Hotel Red Hook in Brooklyn. Located at 17 Seabring St. in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, the property is adjacent to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The hotel was recently renovated and upgraded to the Choice Hotels’ boutique Ascend Collection. Greg Porter and Mike Armstrong of HREC represented the borrower, Brooklyn Hotel Group, in securing a floating-rate, non-recourse loan from a private New York-based investment company.
