NEW YORK CITY — Capital One has provided a $145 million, seven-year, floating-rate loan to Jamestown Properties to refinance 88 Leonard Street, an apartment building located in Manhattan. Capital One Municipal Funding purchased $112.5 million in tax-exempt bonds, and Capital One purchased $32.5 million in taxable bonds that were issued by the New York State Housing Finance Agency to finance the property. Paul Kesicki of Capital One closed the transaction. Constructed in 2007, the 21-story building features 352 apartment units, 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and an attached 249-car parking garage. Community amenities include a roof deck on the 14th floor, a second-floor terrace with outdoor fireplace and whirlpool, and a full suite of concierge services. Units feature upscale appliances, granite countertops and wood cabinetry.
NEW YORK CITY — Trinity Place Holdings has entered into an option agreement to acquire a newly built apartment building, located at 237 11th St. in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, for $81 million. The 12-story building features 105 apartment units and 6,264 square feet of retail space, which is leased to Starbucks Coffee. On-site amenities include a courtyard garden, party room, fitness center, tenant lounge, bicycle storage room, parking and a landscaped rooftop terrace. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018. The name of the seller was not released.
NEW YORK CITY — Cottonwood Group and CCB International (CCBI) have closed on a $55 million secured credit facility for the development of an Aloft Hotel at Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side. The hotel, which is part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, is currently under construction. Cottonwood, through its subsidiary, CW Credit Services, partnered with CCBI to replace an existing land loan and help secure a land lease for the hotel. Upon completion, Aloft Hotel at Hudson Yards will feature 420 hotel rooms. The hotel will expand the brand’s footprint in New York City, joining Aloft Manhattan, Aloft Harlem and Aloft Brooklyn.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of a four-property multifamily portfolio located in the greater Albany area. ROCO LLC acquired the portfolio from GGMW LLC for an undisclosed price. Totaling 274 units, the portfolio includes the 80-unit Willowbrook Luxury Apartment Homes, the 73-unit Greenbush Terrace community for residents who are 55 or older, the 20-unit Maplewood Estates, and the 101-unit Greenbush Station. Victor Nolletti, Steve Witten, Eric Pentore and Wes Klockner of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal. J.D. Parker of Marcus & Millichap is the broker of record in New York.
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges $44M in Acquisition Financing for Dual-Branded Marriott Hotel in Queens
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield served as the exclusive advisor to Chris Xu, founder and president of United Construction and Development Group, in arranging $44 million in financing for the acquisition of an under construction dual-branded Marriott hotel located at 148-18 Archer Ave. in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. Morris Betesh and Omar Ferreira, both formerly of Cushman & Wakefield, secured the non-recourse loan, which features full-term interest-only payments and two one-year extension options, for the borrower. Slated for completion in late 2017, the property will be a 15-story, 203,800-square-foot building consisting of a Marriott Courtyard and Fairfield Inn & Suites. The Marriot Courtyard will feature 224 rooms, while the Fairfield Inn & Suites will offer 114 room. Additionally, the building will provide a 42-space underground parking garage. Betesh is now at Meridian Capital Group.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sinatra & Company Real Estate has acquired 10 mixed-use properties in Buffalo for a combined total of $12.7 million. Roger Chainani’s 1000 Elmwood Associates LLC and 1256 Hertel Avenue Associates LLC sold the properties. The properties include a variety of uses and tenants: – 427 Elmwood features a three-story, 10,246-square-foot mixed-use building with two retail businesses, a restaurant space, 4,000 square feet of vacant office space and two apartments. – 494 Elmwood is a 12,938-square-foot restaurant property occupied by Tokyo Shanghai Restaurant. – 500 Elmwood is a 3,024-square-foot building with restaurant, retail and apartment space. – 502 Elmwood is a single-story, 2,464-square-foot restaurant building, which will be occupied by House of Hummus. – Saigon Café occupies the 6,992-square-foot restaurant property at 520 Elmwood. – Mezza Restaurant & Lounge occupies the 3,747-square-foot building at 929 Elmwood. – 1000 Elmwood is a 10,560-square-foot mixed-use building currently occupied by The Market on Elmwood and Ashker’s on the first floor with residential or office space on the second floor. – India Gate and Hong Kong Kitchen occupy the 6,710-square-foot building at 1116 Elmwood. – The properties at 1122 Elmwood and 1256 Hertel Ave. both offer retail space.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged $17 million in financing for 185 Avenue B, a newly constructed apartment property in Manhattan’s East Village. An HFF team, led by Steven Klein, secured a 15-year, fixed-rate loan through Allianz Real Estate of America for the undisclosed borrower. Completed in 2016, the seven-story building comprises 40 studio and one-bedroom apartment units featuring nine-foot ceilings, noise-buffering double-paned windows and intercom systems.
NEW YORK CITY — Bestreich Realty Group has arranged the sales of two mixed-use properties located in Brooklyn. In the first transaction, Starr Lofts sold a newly constructed 4,500-square-foot mixed-use building, located at 100 Starr St. in Bushwick. Private investors acquired the property, which features eight multifamily units, for $3.2 million. Derek Bestreich, Steve Reynolds, Tom Reynolds and Greg Rhodes of Bestreich Realty represented the buyer and seller in the deal. In the second transaction, Alchemy acquired a 20,468-square-foot mixed-use property located at 649 Argyle Road in Ditmas Park for $3.9 million. The property features 19 apartments and three retail stores. Bestreich, Erik Rodriguez and Brian Underkofler of Bestreich Realty represented the buyer and seller, a private investor, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 219 E. 60th St. in Manhattan’s Midtown East section for $5.2 million. Vacant at the time of sale, the five-story building features retail space on the ground and second floors and open-floorplan offices on the remaining floors, which leaves options available for a residential conversion. Clint Olsen, Alex Woodlief and Will Conrad of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller, while Leslie Wang of Essential New York Real Estate represented the buyer, Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society, in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Related Cos., Oxford Properties Group and Mitsui Fudosan America Inc. has received $1.5 billion in construction financing for 50 Hudson Yards, a 58-story office tower located within the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s West Side. The joint venture has also committed $2.3 billion, bringing the total planned construction costs to $3.8 billion. Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Bank of China and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. served as co-lead arrangers for the $1.5 billion senior construction loan. Located at the northwest corner of 33rd Street and 10th Avenue, the 2.9 million-square-foot building will be New York City’s fourth largest commercial office tower, according to the joint venture. BlackRock, an investment management firm, will locate its corporate headquarters at the property, occupying 850,000 square feet across 15 floors. The building — designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners — will feature access points on all four sides and a subway concourse below; private sky lobbies; outdoor terraces; executive valet parking; on-site bike storage; connection to shops and restaurants at Hudson Yards; and an outdoor observation deck. Site work has commenced with vertical construction scheduled to begin this fall. The building is slated for completion in 2022. Related Cos. and Oxford Properties …