NEW YORK CITY — Triangle Equities has completed the development of a nine-story mixed-use building located at 42-05 Parsons Blvd. in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. The 28,546-square-foot condominium building features 14 residential units and five office units. The lower level of the building is being offered as a community facility space, totaling 6,755 square feet in five separate units. The space features 13-foot ceilings, a separate elevator and staircase and a private entryway. The top floors offer 14 two-bedroom/bathroom condos and two three-bedroom/bathroom penthouses on the top two floors. Ranging in price from $550,000 to more than $1 million, the residential condos feature hardwood floors, private balconies/terraces, walk-in closets, stacked washer/dryers and a video intercom entry system. Block & Lot Real Estate & Management is representing the ownership in all residential sales, while Cushman & Wakefield is handling the sale of the community facility space.
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NEW YORK CITY — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) has brokered the sale of a mixed-use property located at 3671 Broadway in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. Broadway 152 LLC purchased the 69,876-square-foot property from G-Way Management LLC for $27 million, or $386 per square foot. Built in 1908, the six-story building features 48 residential units and six ground-level retail spaces. The apartments feature hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, exposed brick walls and recessed lighting. Peter Von Der Ahe, Scott Edelstein, Joe Koicim, Seth Glasser and Rafi Moskowitz of IPA, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. has closed the acquisition of a €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion U.S.) pan-European office portfolio that the company entered into an agreement to purchase in 2014. The approximately 186,000-square-meter (2 million-square-foot) portfolio comprises 11 Class A office properties located in seven of Europe’s top markets: London, UK; Paris, France; Hamburg, Germany; Milan, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Gothenburg, Sweden. NorthStar Realty financed the acquisition with €530 million of the seven year senior mortgages, denominated primarily in the local currencies of the respective properties, with a current weighted average interest rate of approximately 1.8 percent. NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. is a diversified commercial real estate company that is organized as a REIT. NorthStar Realty is managed by an affiliate of NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc. (NYSE: NSAM), a global asset management firm.
BUFFALO AND SOUTH WALES, N.Y. — Hanley Investment Group has brokered the sale of four triple-net-leased 7-Eleven stores in Buffalo and South Wales for a combined total of $3 million. In Buffalo, a Tacoma, Wash.-based private investor purchased two 7-Eleven stores from a Buffalo-based investor. The 2,835-square-foot property at 741 Kenmore Ave. sold for $800,000, and the 2,842-square-foot property at 975 Abbott Road sold for $800,000. Jeremy McChesney of Hanley Investment Group represented both the seller and buyer in the transaction. Also in Buffalo, a private investor from San Francisco purchased a 7-Eleven property at 959 Niagara St. for $851,000. Michael Chow of Jones Pacific Land Co. represented the buyer, while McChesney represented the seller, a local private investor, in the deal. In South Wales, a Hermosa Beach, Calif.-based private investor sold a 2,080-square-foot 7-Eleven store at 6444 Olean Road to a San Francisco-based private investor for $525,000. McChesney represented the seller, while Chow represented the buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Greystone has acquired a retail development site at 108 Chambers St. in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood. Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. sold the property for $17 million. Located on the corner of Church and Chambers streets, the site features a 2,000-square-foot building with ground-floor retail space and approximately 12,000 square feet of air rights.
NEW YORK CITY — Hodges Ward Elliot (HWE) has brokered the sale of The New York EDITION hotel, located at 5 Madison Ave. in New York City. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) purchased the hotel for $343 million from Marriott International. In 2013, Marriott announced its intention to sell three EDITION hotels — London, Miami and New York — to ADIA for a total of $816 million while maintaining long-term management agreements. This sale marks the final closing of that agreement. The Miami Beach EDITION sold in February 2015 and The London EDITION closed in 2014. HWE represented Marriott in all three transactions.
MONSEY, N.Y. — Cronheim Mortgage has arranged $8.5 million in financing for 69-P Edison Court, a 328-unit apartment complex located in Monsey. The 10-year loan, which was provided by Voya Insurance and Annuity Co., features a 3.1 percent interest rate. Constructed in 1973, the 13-building property features a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units featuring hardwood floors, air conditioning, walk-in closets, and a patio, balcony or deck. Dev Morris and Andrew Stewart of Cronheim Mortgage arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
NEW YORK CITY — Cignature Realty Associates has brokered the sale of a three-building apartment community located at 1345-1349 Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattanville for $7.7 million. The five-story buildings feature 25 apartments and six storefronts. Peter Vanderpool and Lazer Sternhell of Cignature Realty Associates represented the seller, Brooklyn-based 1345 Amsterdam Avenue Owner LLC, and the buyer, Manhattan-based 1345 Amsterdam Avenue LLC, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Kushner Cos. has acquired a 16-building portfolio of Manhattan and Brooklyn multifamily properties for $131.5 million from Stone Street Properties and HIG Realty Partners. The portfolio, which also includes five retail stores, consists of 14 Manhattan buildings totaling 251 units in the Upper East Side, Murray Hill, East Village and Greenwich Village, and two buildings, totaling 40 units, in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill district.
NEW YORK CITY — American Realty Capital New York City REIT Inc., a public non-traded REIT, has acquired an office property located at 123 William St. in downtown Manhattan, for $253 million, or $470 per square foot. The 27-story building features 545,000 square feet of rentable space. The acquisition was funded with a combination of cash and mortgage financing.