NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $2.4 million sale of a 2,100-square-foot mixed-use building in Brooklyn. The property is located at 488 Metropolitan Ave. Shaun Riney and Michael Salvatico of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The team also represented the buyer, who was undisclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.9 million sale of a 4,620-square-foot mixed-use property in Brooklyn. The property is located at 148 Metropolitan Ave. in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Shaun Riney, Michael Salvatico and John Barney of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was a private investor.
NEW YORK CITY — Bessemer Trust has signed a 239,000-square-foot lease at the Time Life Building in Midtown Manhattan. The privately owned wealth management company will occupy the top seven floors at the 48-story skyscraper. Located at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, the tower was built in 1959 as part of Rockefeller Center. Cushman & Wakefield represented Bessemer Trust in the transaction. An in-house Rockefeller Group leasing team represented the building’s owner. Terms of the lease were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has brokered the $3.2 million sale of a six-story multifamily building in East Harlem. Located at 57 E. 130th St., the newly constructed property includes five units and spans 6,268 square feet. The units feature Bosch appliances and walnut cabinetry in the kitchens as well as marble tiling with Grohe and Toto finishes in the bathrooms. Matthew L. Gillis, Michael A. Tortorici, Victor Sozio, Marko Agbaba, and Daniel Mahfar of Ariel Property Advisors represented the seller, Yoori Oh of Verse Development LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was Joshua Lee.
NEW YORK CITY — Mission Capital Advisors has arranged a $137 million refinancing for the Holiday Inn Manhattan-Financial District, a 50-story, 492-room hotel in Manhattan. Located at 99 Washington St., the property was built in 2014 and is the tallest Holiday Inn in the world. Beau Williams, Ari Hirt, Steven Buchwald, Alex Draganiuk and Jamie Matheny of Mission Capital represented the borrower, real estate development firm Golden Seahorse, in securing the 10-year, interest-only loan at a fixed rate through lender Ladder Capital. The property also includes the St. George Tavern, a full-service restaurant and event space. Proceeds from the loan were used to refinance an existing first mortgage and return capital to the borrower.
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK CITY — Ivanhoé Cambridge has acquired Callahan Capital Properties (CCP) for an undisclosed price. The transaction will internalize all investment and asset management responsibilities. In 2012, Ivanhoé Cambridge partnered with CCP to expand its U.S. office properties platform. At the time of closing, the platform’s assets under management were in excess of $10 billion. Some prominent office properties that the partnership owns in New York include 85 Broad St., 1411 Broadway and Three Bryant Park. In Chicago, the duo owns 125 S. Wacker Drive and 180 North LaSalle. Canada-based Ivanhoé Cambridge, which has an office in New York, develops and invests in real estate properties, projects and companies. The company is the real estate investment arm of Quebec’s public pension fund manager. Through subsidiaries and partnerships, the company holds interests in more than 1,000 buildings, primarily in the residential, office, retail, industrial and logistics sectors. Chicago-based CCP is a real estate private equity firm founded in 2006 by Tim Callahan, the former CEO of Trizec Properties, an office real estate investment trust. Eastdil Secured advised on the transaction. — Kristin Hiller
NEW YORK CITY — Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group LLC has arranged a $97 million loan for the site acquisition and development of 540 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. The site is located on the northeast corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue at the nexus of three downtown submarkets: Flatiron, Chelsea and Greenwich Village.The borrowers, Landsea Homes and DNA Development LLC, acquired the property from Extell Development and plan to build a mixed-use building with residential and retail space at the site. An affiliate of Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies provided the loan, which was arranged by Patrick Hanlon, Sean Meehan and Ross Cumming of Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group LLC. A timeline for the project was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Sugar Hill Capital Partners has acquired a two-building multifamily community in Brooklyn for $5.6 million. Located at 932-938 Eastern Parkway, the 24,600-square-foot property consists of 24 units. The seller was real estate investor and film producer Joseph Scarpinito. Jacob Stavsky of Venture Capital Properties represented both the buyer and seller in the off-market transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Leviathan Capital has secured an $8 million refinancing for a 33,000-square-foot office building in the Bronx. The property is currently net leased to the NYC Department of Education. Leviathan secured a non-recourse loan for the undisclosed borrower with a fixed rate of 10 years at 4.9 percent. The loan provided the borrower with a $5 million cash-out.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has arranged the $3.4 million sale of a development site located at 1408 Cromwell Ave. in the Bronx. The vacant lot is situated in the Jerome Avenue District, which was recently rezoned to residential under New York City’s affordable housing plan. The rezoning covers 92 blocks and is expected to generate approximately 4,600 new units of housing. Jason Gold, Michael Tortorici and Daniel Mahfar of Ariel Property Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also undisclosed.