HAVERTOWN, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 2,735-square foot, retail property located at 800 N. Eagle Road in Havertown. The net-leased property, which was renovated in 2017, sold for $2.4 million or approximately $877 per square foot. Mark Taylor, Shannon Bona and Derrick Dougherty of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a partnership, in the transaction. The undisclosed buyer acquired the property as part of a 1031 exchange. The current tenants at the property are convenience store Swiss Farms and Tony Roni’s, a pizzeria.
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LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — Muroff Daigle Hospitality Group has orchestrated the sale of The Wingate by Wyndham – Lake George in Lake George. HELI IP LLC acquired the hotel for $7.3 million from seller Adirondack Lodging LLC. The Wingate opened in 2007 and includes 96 updated guestrooms and suites as well as an indoor and outdoor pool and fitness facility. Mitch Muroff of Muroff Daigle Hospitality Group represented the seller in the transaction.
Axiom Capital Arranges $20.5M Construction Loan for Industrial Facility in Wayne, New Jersey
by David Cohen
WAYNE, N.J. — Axiom Capital Corp. has arranged a $20.5 million construction loan for the development of a 418,000-square-foot industrial facility in Wayne. The lender was a life insurance company. Once complete, the property will include 40-foot clear heights and 42 truck dock positions as well as 40,000 square feet of office space. The borrower was a private investor.
PHILADELPHIA — Binswanger has negotiated the sale of a 247,447-square-foot industrial facility in Philadelphia for $14.3 million. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania purchased the property, located at 3250 S. 76th St., from seller GMIP South 76thStreet LP. Chris Pennington of Binswanger represented the buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Besen & Associates has brokered the $7.8 million sale of 84 Second Avenue, a 4,812-square-foot, four-story, mixed-use building in Manhattan. The property is located in Manhattan’s East Village and consists of four apartments and two retail units. Amit Doshi, Ron Cohen, Shallini Mehra and Shlomo Gelernter of Besen represented the seller, who was undisclosed, in the transaction. The buyer was also undisclosed.
NEWARK, N.J. — Progress Capital has secured a $4.8 million refinancing for a six-story multifamily property in Newark. Located at 469 Elizabeth Ave., the building contains 58 residential units and was built in 2016. Brad Domenico of Progress Capital arranged the loan with an initial five-year, 4 percent fixed-rate. After the initial term, the loan becomes a variable rate with a 20-year term and a 30-year amortization. The lender was undisclosed. The proceeds of the loan will be used to retire the existing debt on the property and provide a cash-out to the undisclosed borrower, which will be used to fund additional property acquisitions.
PREIT Signs Global Incubator 1776 to 11,000 SF Lease at Cherry Hill Mall in New Jersey
by David Cohen
Cherry Hill, N.J. — PREIT has signed 1776 to a lease at Cherry Hill Mall, a 1.3 million-square-foot shopping center in Cherry Hill, located nine miles east of Philadelphia. Founded in 2013, 1776 is a public benefit corporation that scouts and funds business startups focused on sectors like education, energy, transportation and financial services. The incubator will occupy more than 11,000 square feet of space at the property for its local member community, which will focus on retail and e-commerce initiatives and will be home to corporate and startup members in the retail and e-commerce industries. This will be the first mall location for 1776, which joins tenants including Nordstrom, Apple, Zara, Hugo Boss, The LEGO Store, The North Face Seasons 52 and Maggiano’s.
Rent Growth, Higher Demand Lead to Improved Outlook for Connecticut Multifamily Market
by David Cohen
More apartments are being rented in Southern Connecticut, which is benefiting multifamily properties in the Fairfield County/New Haven region in several important ways. For New Haven, this means the return of rent growth. In Fairfield County, the added demand for rentals continues to support new development. An improved outlook for both markets has also positively influenced investment activity. In 2017, multifamily operators in the New Haven metropolitan area had one of their best years since the recession, thanks to improvements on multiple fronts. Appeal for apartments has generated the second-highest net absorption level so far this decade. Demand increased in the city itself, where Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital offer numerous employment opportunities, as well as in the surrounding greater New Haven suburbs. Absorption of rental units surpassed that of deliveries by a multiple of three, facilitating a major drop in vacancy. The metro’s overall vacancy rate at the end of the first quarter was 4.7 percent, 270 basis points below where it was just two years ago. Equally important, healthier demand has also aided rent values. Monthly effective rates started to rise in 2017 after retreating in 2015 and 2016, with rent growth nearing 6 percent year over …
NEW YORK CITY — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $235 million loan for the construction of One Willoughby Square, a 34-story, Class A office tower in downtown Brooklyn. One Willoughby Square will rise 560 feet above the future Willoughby Park, a one-acre public green space on top of a 700-space underground parking garage in Brooklyn’s Tech Triangle. The building will feature column-free floor plates as well as 10-foot windows. The tower is the first ground-up office development in downtown Brooklyn in decades, according to JLL. Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Aaron Niedermayer, David Sitt and Eliott Zetioune of JLL arranged the four-year, floating-rate loan through Québec-based Otéra Capital Inc. for borrower JEMB Realty. The planned 462,656-square-foot tower is already 27 percent leased to two tenants: architectural firm NYC School Construction Authority and FXCollaborative, the executive architect of One Willoughby Square. JEMB will seek LEED Silver certification for the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2021. “The lending community was impressed by the experienced sponsorship of this project as well as its quality design, location and preleasing,” says Kurland. “Clearly, One Willoughby is destined to become Brooklyn’s most distinctive and sought-after office address.” — David Cohen
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has secured a $20.7 million acquisition loan for the High Line Portfolio, a four-building, mixed-use portfolio in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Jonathan Schwartz, Aaron Appel, Brian Buglione and Patrick Cotter of JLL arranged the financing for Morgenstern Capital through an undisclosed lender. Terms of the loan were not disclosed. The portfolio includes three contiguous mixed-use buildings at 505 W. 22nd St., 203 and 205 10th Ave. as well as one retail building at 207 10th Ave. All totaled, the properties include 26 residential and four retail units.