NEW YORK CITY — Caspi Development and Mactaggart Family & Partners LP have acquired 134-136 Broadway, a 23,064-square-foot, six-story office building in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. The sales price was $18.8 million. Michael Sherman of The Manhattes Group represented the buyers in the transaction. The seller was 134-136 Broadway LLC. Caspi and Mactaggart intend to turn the property into a boutique office building for high-tech and creative office tenants.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a four-story apartment building in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. The 17-unit property, which is located at 400 6th Ave., sold for $6.5 million at a capitalization rate of 3.4 percent. The sales price equates to $604 per square foot. Matt Fotis and Matthew Shapiro of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was also a private investor.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the $9.9 million sale of 43-10/24 Queens Blvd., an 8,521-square-foot retail building in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens. The single-story property features 95 feet of retail frontage and currently houses eight retail tenants. Tom Donovan, Will Suarez, Eugene Kim, Maurice Suede and Sean Rucker of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was undisclosed.
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Cottage Row Apartments, a 21-unit apartment property located in Schenectady for $1.7 million. Located at 1 Cottage Row, the apartment building is situated in the historic Stockade District of Schenectady. Units at the complex feature hardwood floors as well as spacious outdoor patios and decks. Chip Collins of Marcus & Millichap represented seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was also a private investor.
NEW YORK CITY — Seagis Property Group has acquired six warehouse buildings in South Queens for an undisclosed price. The properties, which are located in the JFK submarket of Queens, total 68,000 square feet. Seagis now owns 52 buildings totaling 1 million square feet across New York City.
NEW YORK CITY — Creative working environment Spaces will open its third location in New York City on May 29 at 230 Park Ave. Spaces 230 Park Avenue will provide a 54,000 square-foot creative co-working environment for businesses and will feature a 4,000-square-foot business club as well as private rooms and dedicated desk space. The location joins Spaces 1740 Broadway and Spaces Long Island City as the third Spaces location in New York City. Additional Spaces locations are planned for Hudson Yards, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Spaces workspace model lets startups, small business owners and more established entities focus on growing their companies without the distraction of office logistics.
NEW YORK CITY — The Feil Organization has leased a 1,541-square-foot space to Blue Bottle Coffee on the ground floor of 257 Park Ave. South, a 226,000-square-foot mixed-use building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The café, which sells coffee beans less than 48 hours out of the roaster, will have 23 feet of frontage on Park Avenue South. Blue Bottle Coffee joins retail tenants such as Bravo Pizza and FedEx Office Print & Ship Center. Office tenants at the building include the Environmental Defense Fund, OpenSlate and Independence Care System. Drew Weiss, Mark Frankel and Jeff Roseman of Newmark Knight Frank arranged the 10-year lease on behalf of Blue Bottle Coffee, and Randall Briskin of Feil represented the company internally. Blue Bottle Coffee is expected to move into the space in July.
NEW YORK CITY — PCCP LLC has provided a $45.9 million senior loan to Forkosh Development Group for the development of a 20-story residential condominium at 157-161 E. 28th St. in Manhattan. Forkosh acquired three vacant apartment buildings at the site in January for $17 million in an all-cash transaction. The privately owned real estate development firm will build a boutique condo development on the site of the former apartment buildings. Once completed, the project will offer units with open layouts, floor-to-ceiling windows and hardwood floors.
NEW YORK CITY — Cignature Realty Associates LLC has arranged the sale of 3594 Broadway, a 15,072-square-foot apartment building in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The six-story building features 25 units and was built in 1910. Peter Vanderpool of Cignature Realty represented both the seller, Sugar Hill Capital Partners, and the buyer, City Skyline Realty, a local private investment company.
NEW YORK CITY — Google has leased 8,000 square feet of retail space at 350 Sixth Ave. in Manhattan. The three-week lease will serve as a technology pop-up for the tech giant and will feature mini-golf, games, giveaways and demonstrations of the company’s newest tech products. The site will be located one block from the A, C, E, B, D, F and M subway lines. The asking rent was $225 per square foot. Google’s pop-up will take occupancy in the last week of May 2018 and will run through the first two weeks of June. Lee & Associates represented both Google and the landlord, Nuovo Ciao-Di LLC, in the lease negotiations.
