NEW YORK CITY — Thorofare Capital has funded a $7.5 million bridge loan for a hotel located in Brooklyn. The fixed-rate loan has a 65 percent loan-to-value ratio. Proceeds of the loan will be used to refinance the 56-room hotel. The name of the borrower was not released.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Treeline, a value-add asset developer, owner and investor, has received $106 million in first mortgage and mezzanine financing for its four-building Garden City Plaza office portfolio, located at 100, 200, 300 and 400 Garden City Plaza in Garden City. The loans consist of $86 million in new first mortgage financing provided through Terry Livingston of Wells Fargo, and a $20 million mezzanine loan provided through Robert Dirks of Principal Real Estate Investors. Proceeds of the financing will be used to buy out an existing equity partner and retire construction financing for a new restaurant for Maggiano’s Little Italy, which will open its first Long Island location at the property. The 600,000-square-foot portfolio is 90 percent leased. Robert Turner, Adam Spies and Joshua King of Eastdil Secured arranged the financing for the borrower.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale the sale of retail property located at 163-30 Cross Bay Blvd. in the Howard Bay neighborhood of Queens. The property sold for $12.6 million. Originally built in 2009, the property underwent a substantial renovation in 2014. The 9,767-square-foot property is currently triple-net leased to Duane Reade through October 2028. Duane Reade subsequently subleased the space to Key Foods. Bob Knakal, Jonathan Hageman and Brian Sarath of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG), New York City’s largest commercial property owner, has completed the sale of two properties with a total value of $508 million. The first sale is the leased fee interest in 885 Third Ave. in Manhattan, also known as “The Lipstick Building,” for a gross sales price of $453 million, or $713 per square foot. The deal was originally announced in October. A partnership between Ceruzzi Properties and Shanhai Municipal Investment USA is the buyer, according to the Commercial Observer, a New York-based publication covering commercial real estate transactions. SL Green acquired the leased fee interest in 885 Third Ave. in a joint venture in 2007 at a gross asset valuation of $317 million and fully consolidated its position in 2010 at a valuation of $352 million. As part of the transaction, SL Green will retain a preferred equity position. The sale, executed at a capitalization rate of 3.8 percent, will generate net proceeds to SL Green of approximately $45 million. The second sale is the company’s 90 percent stake in the residential condominium at 248-252 Bedford Ave., a 72-unit multifamily building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at a gross asset valuation of $55 …
NEW YORK CITY — Jamestown LP, a national real estate investment and management company, has acquired a 49 percent joint venture stake in ownership of two office properties in Manhattan for an undisclosed sum. Under the new partnership agreement, George Comfort & Sons and Loeb Partners Realty will together retain a majority interest in the assets. The properties include 63 Madison Avenue, a 15-story, 870,000-square-foot office building that is fully occupied by notable tenants such as New York Life and CBS; and 200 Madison Avenue, a 26-story, 750,000-square-foot office building that is 99 percent leased to 20 tenants, including Philips-Van Heusen, Roche BoBois and Greater New York Mutual Insurance. Doug Harmon, Adam Spies, Adam Doneger and Josh King of Eastdil Secured provided financial advice for the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has brokered the sale of a mixed-use property located at 86-90 Bushwick Ave., aka 811 Grand St., in Brooklyn’s East Williamsburg neighborhood. The property sold for $9 million, or $445 per square foot. The four-story building features 12 rent-regulated residential units and four retail units. The apartment units are a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Eskor Edem of Eastern Consolidated represented the seller, a longtime owner, while Jonathan Schwartz, also of Eastern Consolidated, represented the buyer, a local investor, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Cignature Realty Associates has brokered the sale of a residential building located at 4300 Broadway in Upper Manhattan. Quantum Equities sold the property to Sugar Hill Capital Partners for $21.6 million. Built in 1955, the six-story, elevator-serviced building features 54 residential units and a 6,000-square-foot vacant retail space. The rent-regulated building features a mix of studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments. Lazer Sternhell and Peter Vanderpool of Cignature Realty Associates represented both parties in the off-market transaction.
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Kendal Corp. has opened the first phase of the repositioning and expansion of Kendal at Ithaca, a full-service seniors housing community located on a 105-acre campus in Ithaca. The opening marks the completion of a $30 million expansion, which began in 2012. Master planned by Perkins Eastman, the new property features an inviting entrance and reception area, expanded fitness center, new casual dining bistro, 24 new high-end apartments for independent living and a new skilled nursing center, which replaced the original care center. The second phase redevelopment will transform former nursing rooms into an enlarged health clinic for the community. The single-story skilled nursing center was designed on the neighborhood model, which divides the center into three distinct neighborhoods, each with its own kitchen and pantry, dining and living rooms and 16 private resident rooms with sensitively designed outdoor space. The master plan also includes interior and exterior renovations to the main dining room and common areas, as well as passive and active outdoor courtyards and an expansion of the community’s preexisting walking paths.
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Slate Property Group and GreenOak Real Estate has acquired RiverTower at Sutton Place, located at 420 E. 54th St. in New York City’s Sutton Place neighborhood. Equity Residential sold the property for $390 million. The 38-story residential building features 311 rental units in one-, two- or three-plus bedroom layouts, a bicycle room, 28,000-square-foot landscaped plaza, an on-site 182-car parking garage and a fitness center. The joint venture plans to reposition RiverTower at Sutton as the premier, full service rental property in Sutton Place through a comprehensive building renovation and unit upgrades. Darcy Stacom and William Shanahan of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of an apartment building located at 440 W. 47th St. in Manhattan’s Midtown West neighborhood. The asset sold for $23.5 million, or $760 per square foot. The five-story building consists of one commercial unit and 46 residential units. The unit mix includes two studios, four one-bedroom units, 39 two-bedroom units and one three-bedroom unit. Sixteen of the units are rent stabilized and 30 are free-market units. Bob Knakal, Jonathan Hageman and Chris Brodhead of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.