NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between two locally based developers, Fetner Properties and Lions Group, has topped out The Italic, a 50-story apartment building located at 26-32 Jackson Ave. in the Long Island City area of Queens. Designed by SLCE Architects and built by Hunter Roberts, the building will ultimately house a mix of 365 market-rate and affordable units. Information on floor plans and amenities, as well as a tentative completion date, was not disclosed.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Cappelli Development Co. has begun leasing Encore, a 241-unit apartment building in New Rochelle, a northern suburb of New York City. The 28-story building offers studio, one- and two-bedroom units that are furnished with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, walk-in closets and individual washers and dryers. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, children’s playroom, multi-sport simulator, coworking lounge and a catering kitchen. Rents start at roughly $1,900 per month for a studio apartment.
HYDE PARK, N.Y. —A partnership between locally based developer T-Rex Capital and Pennsylvania-based owner-operator Shaner Hotel Group is nearing completion of a 137-room, Marriott-branded hotel in Hyde Park, about 85 miles north of Manhattan. The hotel will be located within Bellefield at Historic Hyde Park, a $1 billion mixed-use development, and will operate under Marriott’s Residence Inn brand. Rooms will feature kitchens and workstations, and amenities will include a fitness center, 3,180 square feet of meeting space, a 150-person ballroom and multiple onsite food-and-beverage options. The hotel will welcome its first guests early next year.
NEW YORK CITY — An investor group comprising Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management has made a bid to buy out Macy’s (NYSE: M) for $5.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The offer from two of the retailer’s largest shareholders would include taking the company private. Real estate investment firm Arkhouse and global asset manager Brigade submitted the acquisition proposal Dec. 1, according to the publication. Macy’s boasts a total real estate portfolio value of $8.5 billion, according to J.P. Morgan analysts cited by Reuters. Equating to $21 per share, the offer follows six quarters of net sales declines, reports Reuters. Shares are down roughly 15.8 percent this year and closed at $17.39 Friday, but saw a surge Monday following the news, trading at $20.13. Adjusted net income in the third quarter of this year was reported as $59 million by the retailer, including all Bloomingdale’s stores, marking a year-over-year decline of $84 million. Net sales for the quarter totaled $5 billion, down 7 percent from the third quarter of 2022, with comparable decreases to both digital and brick-and-mortar sales. Recently, the Macy’s retail strategy has included partnerships with Toys “R” Us, as well as a focus on the introduction of …
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) has agreed to sell the fee ownership interest in 625 Madison Avenue, a 563,000-square-foot office building in Midtown Manhattan, for $632.5 million. The 17-story building is located between 58th and 59th streets and includes ground-floor retail space. In connection with the sale, SL Green and its partners will originate a $234.5 million preferred equity investment in the property, and the locally based real estate giant will use net proceeds from the sale for repayment of corporate debt. The buyer was an undisclosed global investment group.
FRANKFORT, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Big Blue Self Storage, a 420-unit facility in Frankfort, located east of Syracuse in upstate New York. Built in 2009, the facility spans 47,325 net rentable square feet of climate- and non-climate-controlled space across a mix of drive-up, interior and outdoor parking spaces. The property can also support future expansion. Kevin Bledsoe, Matthew Junkin and Andreas Makris of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction and procured the buyer, Moove in Self Storage. John Horowitz of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record.
DEWITT, N.Y. — Locally based financial intermediary Largo Capital has arranged a $21.7 million loan for the refinancing of a 285,000-square-foot industrial building in DeWitt, located just outside of Syracuse. The newly constructed building is situated within a larger 97-acre development and features 27 dock-high doors and two drive-in doors. Jack Phillips of Largo Capital arranged the financing. The direct lender and borrower were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Ariel Property Advisors has negotiated the $9.2 million sale of an 81-unit, rent-stabilized multifamily building located at 75-89 Wadsworth Terrace in Manhattan’s Washington Heights area. Victor Sozio, Shimon Shkury, Alexander Taic and Jake Brody of Ariel represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also not disclosed. The deal traded at a cap rate of 6.38 percent.
By Taylor Williams Across Manhattan’s major retail corridors and pockets, leasing agents, operators and owners are all gaining greater clarity on what levels of rent various submarkets can bear and, by extension, how much spaces are truly worth. After three years of disruptions of the public health and financial variety — each devastating in its own right — a reset of sorts is a major windfall for the country’s largest and arguably most dynamic retail market. Closing deals is challenging enough when all parties are on the same page and the economy is stable. When markets are going through tumultuous phases of discovery in which perceived valuations of spaces fluctuate wildly, negotiations tend to flame out even more quickly — if they even get going at all. “A year ago in Manhattan, you could have two adjacent stores, and one might have been asking for $120 per square foot while the other wanted $220 per square foot,” says Chase Welles, partner at TSCG, an Atlanta-based brokerage and consulting firm that is active in New York City. “There’s certainly more definition relative to last year, and the range of asking rents in each submarket has narrowed.” “The market has become more …
NEW YORK CITY — Bank OZK has provided a $95 million construction loan for a 194-unit multifamily project that is under construction at 300 E. 50th St. in Manhattan’s Turtle Bay neighborhood. Designed by BKSK Architects, the 23-story building will feature studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a fitness center, coworking lounge, rooftop garden, grilling terrace and a catering kitchen. The project also includes 4,888 square feet of commercial space, and 30 percent of the units will be reserved as affordable housing. The borrower and developer is a joint venture between locally based developer MAG Partners, global investment firm Safanad and Global Holdings Management Corp. Completion is scheduled for late 2025.
