NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $27 million sale of a 17,185-square-foot office building located at 25 E. 22nd St. in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Audrey Cappell, whose three nonprofit organizations previously occupied the six-story building, sold the asset to Japanese publishing and comic book company Kodansha USA. The nonprofits are relocating to a nearby property to accommodate their growth. The building also housed Nike’s New York City office in the 1990s. Craig Waggner, John Ciraulo, Jack Stephen, Carri Lyon and Mark Mandell of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the deal.
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HAUPPAGE, N.Y. — A partnership between Chicago-based Venture One Real Estate and New York City-based Affinius Capital has delivered a 123,970-square-foot speculative industrial project in the Long Island community of Hauppage. The site at 49 Wireless Blvd. is located within Hauppage Innovation Park, and the building features a clear height of 36 feet, 130-foot truck court depths and parking for 131 cars and 40 trailers. Cushman & Wakefield is marketing the property for lease.
BUFFALO — San Francisco-based mortgage banking firm Gantry has arranged a $38.1 million construction loan for The Lawrence, a 132-unit multifamily project that will be located adjacent to the Niagara Medical Campus in Buffalo. Units will come in studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, and the project will include the construction of a 78-space parking garage. Daniel Monte of Gantry arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan through an undisclosed regional bank. The borrower and developer, a private joint venture, also requested anonymity.
NEW YORK CITY — LaGuardia Community College has signed a 10-year, 210,334-square-foot office lease extension in the Long Island City area of Queens. The educational institution will continue to occupy four of the eight floors at Queen’s Atrium, a 425,300-square-foot building located at 30-20 Thomson Ave. that was originally built in 1914,. Ira Schuman of Savills represented LaGuardia Community College in the lease negotiations. Randall Briskin represented the landlord, The Feil Organization, on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — Bridge Industrial has acquired a 128,148-square-foot property located at 58-95 Maurice Ave. in the Maspeth area of Queens. The newly renovated building was originally constructed on 2.8 acres in 1998 and features a clear height of 20 feet, 10 drive-in doors and three loading docks. Tyler Peck of JLL represented the seller, Turnbridge Equities, in the transaction. Bridge Industrial was self-represented. The property was fully leased to three tenants at the time of sale.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has arranged a $70.6 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of a 108-unit apartment building located at 200 E. 23rd St. in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood. Known as Gemma Gramercy, the newly constructed building rises 20 stories and was 80 percent occupied at the time of the loan closing. Residences come in studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Amenities include a fitness center, rooftop terrace, coworking space, lounge and entertainment room, media room and package handling services. Evan Pariser, Michael Shmuely, Michael Zaremski and John Flynn of JLL originated the 10-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower and developer, SMA Equities.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Ariel Property Advisors has arranged the $26 million sale of a 237-unit multifamily property in The Bronx. The 17-story building sits on a five-acre site at 1500 Noble Ave., in between the West Farms and Parkchester neighborhoods. The unit mix consists of 50 one-bedrooms, 136 two-bedrooms and 51 three-bedrooms. Victor Sozio, Shimon Shkury, Jason Gold, Daniel Mahfar and Gabriel Elyaszadeh of Ariel represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.9 million sale of a 10,900-square-foot retail and medical office building in Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay neighborhood. The building at 1670 E. 17th St. has 12 suites and is zoned for up to 4,700 square feet of expansion. Jakub Nowak of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were private investors that requested anonymity, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $7.5 million sale of an assemblage of three industrial-zoned lots in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint area. The assemblage consists of three lots along Huron Street, and the largest of the three parcels houses a 15,000-square-foot building. Thomas Brennan and Jakub Nowak of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Vincent Pan and Tina Lin of Ritz Realty represented the buyer, which also plans to occupy the site. Both parties requested anonymity.
NEW YORK CITY — Investment banking advisory firm Evercore has signed a 95,000-square-foot office lease expansion at Park Avenue Plaza, a 45-story, 1.2 million-square-foot building in Midtown Manhattan. Evercore’s additional space is located across floors 39 through 41, and the company now occupies about 500,000 square feet total at Park Avenue Plaza. Alan Desino of Colliers represented Evercore in the lease negotiations. Marc Packman, Charles Laginestra, Clark Briffel and Josh Fisher represented the landlord, Fisher Brothers, on an internal basis.