New York

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NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 128-130 Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn’s Kensington neighborhood. Sugar Hill Capital Partners acquired the two-story, eight-unit building for $2.2 million, or approximately $316 per square foot. The property features five ground-floor commercial units and three three-bedroom units on the upper level. Additionally, the property features approximately 4,800 buildable square feet as of right. Adam Hess, Sam Shalumov, Eddie Setton and Kirill Galperin of TerraCRG were the sole brokers in the transaction.

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NEW YORK CITY — Heritage Equity Partners and Rubenstein Partners are co-developing 25 Kent Avenue, a 480,000-square-foot project in Brooklyn. The ground-up property will be Brooklyn’s first speculative commercial building in 40 years. Designed by Gensler and HWKN, the building will feature office and light industrial space for creative arts, makers and technology firms. While site preparation is underway, the project has entered the official land use review process known as Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) with construction slated to begin later this year.

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NEW YORK CITY — Manhattan-based George Comfort & Sons Inc. has partnered with ASB Capital Management to acquire a 48,000-square-foot mixed-use building at 7 W. 18th St. in Manhattan’s Flatiron District for an undisclosed price. The fully occupied nine-story building is tenanted by homenature, a home furnishing retailer, on the ground floor and a variety of office tenants on the upper floors. The name of the seller was not released.

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NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sales of two properties in Brooklyn totaling $7.6 million. In the first transaction, a private investor acquired an 80-foot by 90-foot development site located at 242-248 Newkirk Ave. in Brooklyn. The site, which offers 30,497 buildable square feet, sold for $4 million. The site has approved plans for a seven-story, 45-unit apartment building. Derek Bestreich, Steve Reynolds and Thomas Reynolds of Marcus & Milichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer in the transaction. In the second deal, a private investor purchased an eight-unit apartment property, located at 592 Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn, for $3.6 million. Bestreich, Lucien Sproviero and Adam Lobel of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer in the sale.

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NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has arranged the sale of a multifamily property located at 161 E. 96th St. in Manhattan. Encore Manhattan LLC acquired the 9,160-square-foot property from a private investor for $6.5 million. The five-story building features 19 large studio apartments. Additionally, the property offers significant future development potential as R104 zoning providing approximately 25,230 buildable square feet as-of-right, or 16,070 square feet of air rights over the existing structure. Michael Tortorici, Howard Raber, Shimon Shkury, Victor Sozio and Matthew Gillis of Ariel Properties Advisors represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.

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NEW YORK CITY — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and The Durst Organization have announced that One World Trade Center is ending the year by reaching a major milestone of leasing 2 million square feet of Class A office space. The 1,776-foot tall tower reached this milestone with the signing of two new leases for pre-built space on the property’s 84th floor: a 12,000-square-foot transaction with SHVO, an international developer of luxury residential, hospitality and mixed-use projects; and a 10,000-square-foot lease with Juno Lab, a sharing economy venture. One World Trade Center now includes a roster of 24 tenants in a variety of business sectors, including media, technology, financial services and advertising. The landlord, The Durst Organization, was represented in-house by Karen Kuznick, along with Tara Stacom, Justin Royce, Barry Zeller, Connor Daugstrup and Peter Trivelas of Cushman & Wakefield. Elliott Warren of the Kaufman Organization represented Juno Lab in the transaction, while SHVO was represented in-house.

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NEW YORK CITY — Equicap has arranged $5 million in permanent financing for a mixed-use property located in the Chinatown section of New York City. The 20-unit property features four retail units and 16 apartments. The borrower, a large not-for-profit, plans to renovate and re-tenant the retail portion of the property. Daniel Hilpert of Equicap negotiated the five-year loan at a 3.25 percent interest rate.

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SODUS AND WILLIAMSON, N.Y. — KeyBank has provided a $3.9 million letter of credit to SWIIRD Preservation LLC, an entity owned by CB Emmanuel Realty LLC. Located in Sodus and Williamson, the affordable housing properties total 96 one-bedroom apartments. Ninety-four of the 96 residences will utilize NYC HCR project-based rental assistance vouchers, keeping the units affordable to low-income senior and special needs residents for at least 15 years. Joe Eicheldinger of KeyBank’s Community Development Lending arranged the financing, which was used to rehab the properties.

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NEW YORK CITY — Maefield Development has acquired the leasehold interest in the DoubleTree Hotel, located at 1568 Broadway in Times Square. Sunstone Hotel Investors sold the 468-room asset for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is part of a planned redevelopment of the property into a premier cultural, entertainment, retail and hospitality experience. The redevelopment will include a renovated luxury hotel, prime street-front retail and entertainment space, a large high-resolution LED screen, and the restoration and enhancement of the Palace Theatre. Construction is slated to begin in the first half of 2017.

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NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has brokered the sale of a 70,000-square-foot office building located at 22-24 W. 38th St. in Midtown. Dalan Management acquired the asset for $43.5 million. The 12-story property features ground-floor retail space. Ron Solarz and Nataliya Stemakh of Eastern Consolidated represented the seller, 22 West 38th Street Associates LLC, while Ben Tapper, also of Eastern Consolidated, represented the buyer in the transaction. Gary Meese of Eastern Consolidated served as analyst for the deal.

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