NEW YORK CITY — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $120 million floating-rate loan to refinance 130 West 42nd street, a Class A office tower with ground-floor retail in the Bryant Park neighborhood of Manhattan. The borrower was Tribeca Associates. Aaron Appel, Jonathan Schwartz, Brett Rosenberg and Adam Schwartz led the JLL team in handling the debt assignment. The 29-story office building, which was built in 1918, totals 250,000 square feet and is located within one block of 15 subway lines. Tribeca Associates spent $27 million to upgrade and renovate the property in 2015.
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MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has provided $27.2 million in financing for a three-building industrial portfolio in Central New Jersey. The borrower was undisclosed. The 410,000-square-foot portfolio consisted of two recently constructed warehouse distribution properties and one existing facility. The location of the properties was not disclosed. The 20-year, fixed-rate loan includes a 30-year amortization schedule. Gretchen S. Wilcox, Al Raymond and Wesley Wilcox of G.S. Wilcox arranged the financing.
NEW LONDON, CONN. — HFF has arranged the sale of Gull Harbor, an 80-unit, garden-style multifamily community at 83 Mansfield Road in New London. The sale pertains to 80 one-bedroom units of a 99-unit fractured condominium development. The remaining 19 units are individually owned. The units range in size from 600 to 625 square feet. Adam Dunn and Steven Rutman of HFF represented the seller, Gull Harbor New London LLC and New England Holdings II LLC, and procured the undisclosed buyer. The community features on-site laundry, private off-street parking and on-site management.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of 238-240 East 3rd Street in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood for $12 million. Michael F. DeCheser,Patrick Dugan, Mei Ling Wong, Andrew Berry and Bryan Hurley of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Third Street Theater LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was Craftwood Partners. The property currently consists of a commercial building that houses offices, a meeting area and a large theatrical studio. The ground floor is approximately 4,500 square feet with 850 square feet on the mezzanine level and 800 square feet in the basement.
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. — CBRE has negotiated the $1.5 million sale of 999 Willow Grove Street in Hackettstown. The two-story, 45,000-square-foot industrial building sits on 12 acres and features seven loading docks. At the time of sale, the property was 50 percent occupied by long-term tenants that have occupied the space for more than two decades on triple net leases. Charles Berger, Elli Klapper and Thomas Mallaney of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also undisclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City based investment firm Angelo Gordon has raised $843 million for its second European realty fund, AG Europe Realty Fund II. The fund will seek to identify off-market investment opportunities in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. More specifically, the focus will be on distressed debt and underperforming office, retail, hotel, industrial and residential assets. Angelo Gordon’s first fund, AG Europe Realty Fund LP, closed in 2014 with approximately $570 million in commitments. Since 2009, the firm has invested in approximately $2 billion of assets across 42 transactions in Europe.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Davis Marcus Partners, a joint venture between Marcus Partners and The Davis Companies, is developing a new 220,000-square-foot lab and office facility in Waltham for Alkermes, a global biopharmaceutical company. The new building, which is located at 900 Winter St., represents an expansion of Alkermes’ current facility at 852 Winter St. The new facility was designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects and will seek LEED certification. Amenities will include an eatery, coffee bar, fitness center, outdoor amphitheater and a rooftop terrace. As part of the build-to-suit arrangement, Alkermes will sign a 15-year lease at the property. Construction on the new facility began April 30.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — HFF has arranged $36.7 million in permanent financing for a newly constructed, two-building industrial facility at One County Road in Secaucus. Completed earlier this year, the 240,317-square-foot facility features a 32-foot clear height, 180-foot truck courts and 50-by-35 foot column spacing. One County Road is situated on 20 acres in the Meadowlands industrial market. The HFF team worked on behalf of the borrower, Bhasin Properties, to place the 15-year, fixed-rate loan with Allianz Real Estate of America. Loan proceeds will be used to take out an existing construction loan, which was also arranged by HFF.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of 77-79 Madison Street in Manhattan, a six-story, mixed-use building, for $12 million. Barbara Dansker and Zachary Ziskin of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was also a private investor. The building, which is located in the Two Bridges neighborhood, consists of 28 residential and four commercial units.
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — An affiliate of Endurance Real Estate Group and Thackeray Partners has signed Cambria Company to a 60,486-square-foot industrial lease at 780 Third Avenue in King of Prussia. Cambria, which specializes in the production of engineered quartz surfaces, will occupy the entire building. The location will be used as a showroom serving the Mid-Atlantic region. Doug Fulton and Peter Greenhalgh of Avison Young represented Cambria in the lease negotiations. Endurance was represented by Paul Touhey and Andrew Green of CBRE. The building is part of a 292,769-square-foot portfolio that was purchased by Endurance in 2017.