NEW YORK CITY — Creative working environment Spaces will open its third location in New York City on May 29 at 230 Park Ave. Spaces 230 Park Avenue will provide a 54,000 square-foot creative co-working environment for businesses and will feature a 4,000-square-foot business club as well as private rooms and dedicated desk space. The location joins Spaces 1740 Broadway and Spaces Long Island City as the third Spaces location in New York City. Additional Spaces locations are planned for Hudson Yards, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Spaces workspace model lets startups, small business owners and more established entities focus on growing their companies without the distraction of office logistics.
ROWLEY, MASS. — Waltham-based general contracting and construction firm Vantage Builders Inc. has completed the build-out of North Shore Physicians Group’s Rowley office. Rowley is approximately 30 miles north of Boston. The 12,800-square-foot office, which is located at 414 Haverhill St., is North Shore Physicians Group’s 22nd location on the North Shore. The office offers primary and specialty care, as well as X-ray, mammography and bone density testing, for patients in Rowley and the surrounding communities of Ipswich, Boxford and Georgetown.
HARRISBURG, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.2 million sale of Paxton Street Commons, a 10,664-square-foot retail strip in Harrisburg. The five-tenant center located at 3462 Paxton St. was 100 percent occupied at the time of sale. Tenants include Starbucks, FedEx, Hertz, Cycle Gear and Qdoba. Craig Dunkle of Marcus & Millichap represented the New York-based buyer in the transaction. The seller was undisclosed. Matthew Rosenberg of Marcus & Millichap also arranged $3.5 million in financing for the buyer through an undisclosed lender.
NEW YORK CITY — The Feil Organization has leased a 1,541-square-foot space to Blue Bottle Coffee on the ground floor of 257 Park Ave. South, a 226,000-square-foot mixed-use building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The café, which sells coffee beans less than 48 hours out of the roaster, will have 23 feet of frontage on Park Avenue South. Blue Bottle Coffee joins retail tenants such as Bravo Pizza and FedEx Office Print & Ship Center. Office tenants at the building include the Environmental Defense Fund, OpenSlate and Independence Care System. Drew Weiss, Mark Frankel and Jeff Roseman of Newmark Knight Frank arranged the 10-year lease on behalf of Blue Bottle Coffee, and Randall Briskin of Feil represented the company internally. Blue Bottle Coffee is expected to move into the space in July.
ALLENTOWN, PA. — HFF has arranged the $55.2 million sale of MacArthur Commons, a 371,886-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail center located at 2631 MacArthur Road in Lehigh Valley. HFF represented the seller, an affiliate of Abrams Realty & Development, in the transaction. HFF also arranged $50.4 million in acquisition financing for the undisclosed buyer. The buyer was able to obtain long-term lease extensions with the anchor tenants. Current tenants at the 47-acre center include GIANT Food Stores, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Big Lots and T.J.Maxx.
NEW YORK CITY — PCCP LLC has provided a $45.9 million senior loan to Forkosh Development Group for the development of a 20-story residential condominium at 157-161 E. 28th St. in Manhattan. Forkosh acquired three vacant apartment buildings at the site in January for $17 million in an all-cash transaction. The privately owned real estate development firm will build a boutique condo development on the site of the former apartment buildings. Once completed, the project will offer units with open layouts, floor-to-ceiling windows and hardwood floors.
LINDENWOLD, N.J. — Gebroe-Hammer Associates has negotiated the sale of Woodland Village Apartments in Lindenwold for $32.1 million. The property, which is located at 401 E. Gibbsboro Road is a 546-unit, two-story, garden-style apartment complex. Gebroe-Hammer represented the seller, Odin Properties, in the transaction. The buyer was undisclosed. Odin purchased the property for $15.8 million in 2014 and fully renovated the 30-building, 28.4-acre complex.
NEW YORK CITY — Cignature Realty Associates LLC has arranged the sale of 3594 Broadway, a 15,072-square-foot apartment building in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The six-story building features 25 units and was built in 1910. Peter Vanderpool of Cignature Realty represented both the seller, Sugar Hill Capital Partners, and the buyer, City Skyline Realty, a local private investment company.
SHELTON, CONN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.3 million sale of Shelton Town Center, a 19,450-square-foot retail center in Shelton. Derrick Dougherty and Mark Krantz of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. The undisclosed buyer purchased the property in all cash. Shelton Town Center is located at 350 Bridgeport Ave. and was originally built by the seller in 2006. Tenants at the retail center include a nail salon, pizza shop, liquor store and car rental company.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — WinnCos. and Omni Development Corp. have broken ground on a $42 million redevelopment of Prospect Heights Apartments, an affordable housing property in Pawtucket. Built in 1942, Prospect Heights qualified for Federal Historic Tax Credits after being placed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 2016. The project will rehabilitate 292 units spread across 35 buildings and add 20 new units of housing on the 21-acre site. A joint venture between WinnDevelopment and Omni Development acquired the ground lease for the property from the Pawtucket Housing Authority in June 2017. Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. provided tax-exempt bond financing for the construction and permanent loans, the Low Income Housing Tax Credits and separate bridge financing for the project.