NEW YORK CITY — Cape Advisors has launched sales at 30 Warren, a 12-story multifamily building in Tribeca. Designed by Post-Office Architectes, the 12-story development features 23 condominiums ranging from one- to three-bedroom homes, including three full-floor penthouses with direct elevator entry and library areas. Residences range from 1,000 square feet to more than 2,500 square feet, with prices ranging from $2 million to $8 million. On-site amenities include an attended lobby, fitness center, children’s playroom, bicycle storage and private storage. The project is slated for completion in the fall of 2017.
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NEW YORK CITY — Besen & Associates has arranged the sale of two contiguous three-story residential buildings located at 316 and 318 E. 81st St. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. An undisclosed buyer acquired the assets for $9.2 million, or $750 per buildable square foot. With a total of 12,232 buildable square feet, the buyer plans to develop the properties in luxury residential housing. The asset at 316 E. 81st St. is a single-family property and the property at 318 E. 81st St. is a seven-unit multifamily building. Jess Cirolli-Quinones of Besen & Associates represented the buyer, while Rolfe Haas, also of Besen & Associates, represented the undisclosed seller.
NEW YORK CITY — Cogswell Lee Development, in partnership with architect/developer GLUCK+, has launched sales at 150 Rivington, a residential building located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The multifamily building features 45 one-, two- and three-bedroom condominiums ranging from 543 square feet to more than 1,600 square feet. One-bedroom units start at $995,000; two-bedroom condos at $1.6 million; three-bedrooms at $2.7 million; and three-bedroom penthouses at $3.8 million. Slated for completion in the first quarter of 2018, the property will feature a 24-hour attended lobby, superintendent and porter services, a package room, cold storage, bicycle storage, a fitness center, a 1,500-square-foot roof terrace and 12,000 square feet of retail space.
NEW YORK CITY — Kamber Management Co. has launched a $20 million capital investment plan for Tower 45, a 40-story Class A office building located at 120 W. 45th St. in Manhattan. Kohn Pederson Fox will redesign the entrance, façade, lobby and elevator cabs of the 458,446-square-foot property. Additionally, Milo Kleinberg Design Associates is creating new interior design concepts for common areas, including hallways, bathrooms and a new pre-built suite program. Current office tenants at the 26-year-old property include Procter & Gamble, TIBCO Software, Shrodinger, Lipsky Goodkind and Co., and Bobby Van’s Steakhouse.
NEW YORK CITY — NAI Long Island has announced its expansion with the formation of a new division, NAI Queens. The division will specialize in the sale of investment properties in the Queens market, as well as provide other real estate services to Queens clients. Brian Sarath has joined the new division as a senior director. Most recently, Sarath serviced as director of the capital markets group of Massey Knakal, subsequently Cushman & Wakefield, since 2000. To date, Sarath has sold more than 220 buildings and loans with an aggregate value of $620 million.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of three adjacent multifamily buildings, totaling 24 units, located at 308-312 W. 113th St. in New York City. The Meshberg Group acquired the eight-unit buildings from Yassky Properties for $8 million. Peter Von Der Ahe, Seth Glasser and Jacob Kahn of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
WinnDevelopment, GDD Properties Break Ground on $200M Redevelopment of The Sibley Building in Rochester
by Katie Sloan
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — WinnDevelopment and GDD Properties, in a public-private partnership with New York State, have broken ground on the $200 million redevelopment of The Sibley Building, located at the intersection of East Avenue and East Main Street in downtown Rochester. The Sibley Building opened in 1868 as the city’s first department store, and earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The property will be rebranded as Sibley Square, with the name, logo and signage to be changed in the coming weeks. The phased redevelopment will begin with the $100 million construction of 96 modern apartments on the ninth through 12th floors of the building. Phase I will also include the addition of boutique retail, local artisan foodservice tenants, office space and active senior living apartments, as well as a complete rehabilitation of the façade and windows of the property. The residential components of the building will be named The Lofts at Sibley and The Residences at Sibley. Leases for active adult units at The Residences will be available by the end of this year. Redevelopment of the top floor of the building, once home to the Tea Room of the Sibley Department Store, is …
Alchemy Properties to Convert Upper Floors of Landmark Woolworth Building into Luxury Condos
by Amy Works
NEW YORK CITY — Alchemy Properties Inc. has received $220 million in financing for the conversion of the upper floors of the landmark Woolworth Building into luxury condominiums called The Woolworth Tower Residences. Reed Smith LLP represented the lender, United Overseas Bank Limited, New York Agency, in the financing. The luxury condominium conversion will be designed by Thierry Despont. Built in 1913, the Neo-Gothic tower was commissioned by Frank W. Woolworth and designed by Cass Gilbert. The Reed Smith LLP team included Joseph Sarcinella, Gerard Hefner, Crystal Persaud, Konstantinos Melitsanopoulos and Rose Plager-Unger.
NEW YORK CITY — Big City Realty has acquired an apartment building located at 605 W. 151st St. in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. Waterbury Realty Management sold the six-story, 31,000-square-foot property for $7.6 million. Built in 1920, the property features 25 apartment units and 14,136 square feet of air rights. Peter Vanderpool and Lazer Sternhell of Cignature Realty Group represented the buyer and the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — GFI Realty Services has arranged the sale of a pair of five-story, walk-up apartment buildings in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood. CSG Equities acquired the properties, which are located at 218-220 Park Place, for $6.6 million. The buyer plans to convert the buildings, which total 7,300 square feet, into luxury condominiums. Isaac Moskowitz and Yosef Katz of GFI Realty represented the seller, while Sasha Berg, also of GFI Realty, represented the buyer.