PHILADELPHIA — On behalf of a family office investor, JOSS Realty Partners has purchased a mixed-use building in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia for $6.3 million. Rittenhouse Realty Advisors brokered the sale and Leopard Point LLC was the seller. The 14,500-square-foot property, located on 18-20 W. Girard Ave., includes 15 new apartment units above a street-level commercial space occupied by Sherwin Williams. The fully leased building offers one- and two- bedroom apartments as well as a rooftop deck. In recent years, Fishtown has seen an influx of upscale art, entertainment and dining establishments, as well as a rise in housing prices.
ANDOVER, MASS. — NKF Capital Markets has brokered the sale of 150 Minuteman Road in Andover, Mass., to Bentall Kennedy on behalf of one of its clients. The 112,148-square-foot Class A office building is fully leased to Smith & Nephew, a global medical technology company. The asset is one of seven buildings comprising Minuteman Park, a master-planned suburban campus totaling 1 million square feet of Class A office space. The park is 26 miles north of Boston, directly off Interstate 93.
BOSTON — Nauset Construction has started construction on a mixed-use project at Ten Essex St. in Cambridge, Mass., that will transform a surface parking lot into a transit-oriented five-story development with 46 apartments and 3,000 square feet of retail space. The project is being built by Nauset for owner 3MJ Realty. Designed by Golden Architects of Quincy, Perkins Eastman and Mark Boyes-Watson Architects, the project is located directly on the Central Square Red Line. Amenities will include a rooftop patio and second-floor deck, bike storage, a green roof terrace and balconies in several of the units. Café Nero and H Mart, an Asian-inspired supermarket, will anchor the ground floor. Nauset previously converted the Holmes building in Central Square from offices to apartments in 2013. The project is slated for completion in January 2019.
NEW YORK CITY — Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (NYSE: BX) has acquired the Canyon Industrial Portfolio, a 22 million-square-foot portfolio of industrial assets, for approximately $1.8 billion. The portfolio consists of 146 last-mile, infill warehouses and distribution buildings with major concentrations in Chicago; Dallas; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; the Inland Empire region of southern California; and south and central Florida. The portfolio was 90 percent occupied at the time of sale by tenants including Amazon, FedEx, DHL, Coca-Cola, Fiat Chrysler and the U.S. Government. The seller in the transaction was undisclosed. With the closing of this acquisition, New York City-based Blackstone’s portfolio totals $7 billion in gross asset value across 272 assets, primarily concentrated in 33 million square feet of industrial assets and 17,200 multifamily apartments. The company seeks to invest in stabilized, income-generating U.S. commercial real estate across property types including multifamily, industrial, retail and hotel. Blackstone stock closed on Monday, March 12, at $34.43 per share, up from $27.95 one year ago. — Katie Sloan
FREEPORT, MAINE — AAM 15 Management LLC has purchased Hilton Garden Inn Freeport Downtown for an undisclosed price. HFF arranged the sale. The 99-room hotel, located at 5 Park St., is the only hotel in its competitive set within walking distance of downtown Freeport, according to HFF. Completed in 2005, the hotel offers 7,500 square feet of meeting space, a restaurant, fitness center, indoor pool and car charging stations. Freeport is 18 miles north of Portland, Maine. Denny Meikleham, Alan Suzuki and Matthew Enright of HFF marketed the property on behalf of the private seller and procured the buyer. AAM 15 will manage the hotel.
NEW YORK CITY — Developer Lightstone has topped out construction for its 37-story Moxy Chelsea hotel located at 105 W. 28th St. in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The project is the second of four Moxy hotels that Lightstone is developing in New York City in partnership with Marriott. Lightstone broke ground on Moxy Chelsea in the summer of 2016, and the hotel is slated to open this fall. Designed in collaboration by Yabu Pushelberg and the Rockwell Group, the 349-room hotel will feature meeting studios, co-working space and a glass-enclosed rooftop bar with a retractable roof that features views of the Empire State Building and New York City skyline.
GROTON, WALLINGFORD AND NEW LONDON, CONN. — Chozick Realty Inc. has brokered the sale of a five-property multifamily portfolio consisting of 455 units in Groton, Wallingford and New London for $48.2 million. Chozick Realty represented the seller, The Tree Group, in the transaction and procured the undisclosed buyer. Four complexes in the portfolio totaling 275 units are located in New London and Groton, in southeastern Connecticut midway between Boston and New York. The fifth property, totaling 180 units, is located in Wallingford, 14 miles north of New Haven. All five properties in the portfolio have full amenity packages including swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness centers, community rooms, walking trails and picnic areas.
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — HFF has arranged $14.5 million in preferred equity for the development of Skye 750, a 248-unit, midrise apartment community located 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia in King of Prussia. HFF worked on behalf of the developer, LeCesse Development Corp., to arrange the equity from Parse Capital. Slated for completion in 2020, Skye 750 will feature a resort-style clubhouse with fitness center, a cyber café, juice bar, private movie theater, game room, sauna, fire pit and resident lounges throughout, as well as an outdoor courtyard with an infinity swimming pool. The 5.2-acre site is situated just off Route 422 in the center of the King of Prussia Business Park.
BOGOTA, N.J. — The Goldstein Group has completed the sale of a redevelopment site located at 250 and 300 West Fort Lee Road in Bogota, New Jersey. The site will become a multifamily mixed-use development. Lew Finkelstein and CJ Huter of the Goldstein Group represented both the seller, BR Colony Holdings, and the buyer, River Club Development, in the transaction. The site is slated for 421 residential apartments across five buildings, along with 8,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Amenities planned for the site include a pool, clubhouse, dog park and walkway promenade along the Hackensack River. Once completed, the development could increase Bogota’s population of 8,200 people by around 10 percent, according to Goldstein. Bogota is 12 miles northwest of Manhattan and 14 miles north of Jersey City.
AVENEL, N.J. – Sitex Group has completed the disposition of a two-building industrial asset located at 191 and 215 Blair Road in Avenel. Barings Real Estate, on behalf of an institutional investor, acquired the assets for a combined total of $65 million. Located off Exit 12 of the New Jersey Turnpike/Interstate 95, the properties consist of a fully-renovated 175,182-square-foot building and a newly constructed 198,854-square-foot building. Gary Gabriel, Andrew Merin, David Bernhaut, Brian Whitmer, Kyle Schmidt and Andrew MacDonald of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller and procured the buyer.