NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of 307 East 85th Street, a mixed-use building located in New York City. The 9,625-square-foot property sold for $6.4 million. Peter Von Der Ahe, Joseph Koicim, David Lloyd and Daniel Handweiler of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer, a private investor, in the transaction. The five-story building offers 15 residential units and one commercial unit. The apartment mix includes four studio units, six one-bedroom units and five two-bedroom units.
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SELDEN, N.Y. — Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) has opened a $29.8 million William J. Lindsay Life Sciences Building in Selden. Patchogue, N.Y.-based BBS Architects served as architect, interior designer, and civil, mechanical and electrical engineer for the building, which is aiming to achieve LEED Gold certification. Approximately 5,000 students will attend classes in the new building in the spring semester beginning in January 2015. Additionally, the building will also allow for the expansion of science classes to include an additional 100 students in the spring and 300 students next fall. The project team included J. Petrocelli Contracting, Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, Greenman-Pedersen, Ysrael A. Seinuk and Bladykas Engineering. New York State and Suffolk County financed the project in equal parts.
NEW YORK CITY — The 18-story, 56,500-square-foot Cambria Suites is slated to open in November. Located at 125 West 28th St., the property is the first Cambria Suites hotel in New York City. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architect (GKA), the property will feature 135 suites and a rooftop terrace. As this is the first Cambria Suites in the city, GKA was tasked with not only designing the outer shell of the building, but also designing and programming the hotel’s interior configuration, including the suites, lobby reception, concierge, lounge and dining areas, a ground-floor meeting room and a fitness facility. The design and solution created by GKA will serve as the model for all subsequent New York City Cambria Suites, including the 196-room property at 30 West 46th St. that is slated to top out later this year.
NEW YORK CITY — The Daten Group has purchased a vacant former gas station site located at 840 Fulton St. in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood. The New York City-based development firm bought the asset, which includes air rights of the neighboring property, for $7.4 million from Fulvan Realty LLC. The Daten Group plans to develop a seven-story, 40,000-square-foot building on the property. Designed by KBA Architects, the property will features 38 residential units, 20 of which will be affordable, and 5,000 square feet of retail space. Construction for the $20 million development is slated to start in early 2015, with completion set for March 2017. Vibe Living, The Daten Group’s rental management company, will manage and market the property. David Behin of MNS Real Estate’s Investment Sales and Capital Advisory Division represented the Daten Group in the acquisition.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has brokered the sale of a development site in Brooklyn’s Park Slope section. Located at 359 Seventh St., the site sold for $1.86 million or more than $450 per buildable square foot. The buyer plans to construct a condominium on the 20.5-foot wide vacant lot, which offers approximately 4,100 buildable square feet. Mark Spinelli, Michael Tortorici, Daniel Tropp and Jonathan Berman of Ariel Properties represented the seller, a private investor, and procured the buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — CPEX Real Estate has brokered the sale of a development site at 88 Schermerhorn St. in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Rockwood Capital and Heights Realty Advisors purchased the site for $11 million or $330 per buildable square foot. The 3,333-square-foot includes vacant 10,570-square-foot building. Zoned for C5-4 with a special downtown Brooklyn overlay, the site has a maximum floor area ratio of 10, permitting up to approximately 33,330 buildable square feet as of right for residential use. Sean Kelly of CPEX’s Development & Conversion Investment Sales team represented the seller, 88 Schermerhorn LLC, which originally purchased the property in 2013 for $3.75 million. CPEX also procured the buyers in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital Group has arranged a $50.6 million mortgage to refinance a multifamily portfolio of properties located throughout Brooklyn and New York City. The borrower is Manhattan-based Fine Times Inc. The 17-property multifamily building portfolio totals 281 units located on West 68th Street, West 69th Street, West 70th Street, West 71st Street, West 73rd Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and on Columbia Heights, Pierrepont Street and Montague Terrance in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The seven-year loan, provided by a regional balance sheet lender, features a 3.38 percent fixed rate, three years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. Shamir Seidman of Meridian Capital’s New York City headquarters negotiated the transaction.
YONKERS, N.Y. — GHP Office Realty has arranged the sale of a three-story mixed-use building located at 1179 Yonkers Ave. in Yonkers. Juster Development purchased the property for $4 million or $200 per square foot. The building features 20 rent-regulated apartments and seven retail stores. Jamie Schwartz of GHP Office Realty represented the seller, a private New York City investor, in the deal. Gary Juster and Michael Juster, principals of Juster Development, served as in-house representation for the buyer. John Dunne of Lynn, Gartner, Dunn & Covello LLP provided legal counsel for the seller, while Steven Hirsch of Hirsch & Gibaldi LLP was counsel for the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — Alpha Realty has brokered the sale of 306 Fifth Avenue, a residential building located in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. The six-story building sold for $8.3 million. Built in 2002, the 16,525-square-foot building features 10 residential apartments and one commercial unit. Additionally, there is a 421(a) tax abatement in effect on the property until 2025. Lev Mavashev of Alpha Realty represented the seller, the original developers, and the buyer, a Manhattan-based investor, in the off-market transaction. The transaction achieved a 19.8x rent roll multiple and a cap rate of 4.8 percent.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based HAP Investments LLC is developing a new project at 284 Wadsworth Ave. in Washington Heights. Known as HAP 4.1, the six-story, 11,000-square-foot development will offer 10 one- and two-bedroom apartments and basement space. The project team will employ Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) wall system for building construction. HAP has selected Design AIDD Architecture to design the project. HAP is currently developing 11 other projects in Upper Manhattan and Chelsea as well as one in Jersey City, N.J.