BROOMALL, PA. — Broomall Fire Co. has selected Bernardon as architect for a new fire station in Broomall. Situated on the former Marple School site, the 25,000-square-foot building will accommodate the current station’s apparatus, improve functionality and optimize response time. Primary funding for the project comes from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through a $3.25 million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant. The new firehouse is slated for completion in early spring 2019.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Colliers International has negotiated the sale of 15 Corporate Place South, an office building in Piscataway. 15 Corporate Place LLC acquired the building from Corporate Place Partners for $9.1 million. Built in 1983 and renovated in 2013, the four-story building features 138,266 rentable square feet in 40,000-square-foot floorplates. At the time of sale, the property was 98 percent occupied by 75 tenants. Jacklene Chesler, Matthew Brown and Jack Callahan of Colliers arranged the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has brokered the sale of a mixed-use building located at 87 Luquer St. in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. An undisclosed buyer acquired the three-story, 6,875-square-foot building for $2.9 million. The property features a certificate of occupancy that allows for semi-industrial on the ground floor, office space on the second floor and residential space on the top floor. The building can also be completely rehabilitated for residential use. Dan Marks and Mike Hernandez of TerraCRG facilitated the sale. The name of the seller was not released.
BOUND BROOK, N.J. — The Carlton Group has arranged $46 million in high-leverage first mortgage financing for Queen’s Gate Apartments, a recently built 144-unit apartment complex in Bound Brook. The stretch senior loan allowed the undisclosed borrower to pay off its construction financing and cash out of the project before the property reaches stabilization. Steven Weiss and Jeff Kosow of The Carlton Group negotiated the three-year loan for the borrower.
MEDIA, FAIRLESS HILLS AND LANGHORNE, PA. — CBRE has brokered the sales of four office buildings in Media, Fairless Hills and Langhorne for a combined sale price of $6.9 million. Stephen Marzullo and Adam Silverman of CBRE represented the seller, Penguin Real Estate Investors, in each transaction. In the first transaction, 53 Baltimore Pike LLC purchased a three-story, 35,902-square-foot office building located at 53 W. Baltimore Pike in Media. Constructed in 2002, the property is currently 53 percent leased to two tenants, Connect America and Apacheta Corp. In the remaining transactions, Olymbec acquired a 51,384-square-foot office building, located at 430-450 Lincoln Highway in Fairless Hills, and two office buildings at 2050 and 2080 Cabot Blvd. West in Langhorne. The Fairless Hills property is anchored by the Social Security Administration. At the time of sale, the property was 52 percent leased. The two buildings in Langhorne, which total 69,417 square feet, are currently 61 percent occupied. Dentaurum Inc., Sperry Van Ness, TPG Telemanagement, Clear Employer Service and Stief Gross Sagoskin Cassetti occupy the buildings. This three-building acquisition by Olymbec marks the Canada-based firm’s entry into the Greater Philadelphia office market.
DOYLESTOWN, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Oak Gardens, an apartment building located at 355 North St. in Doylestown. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $3.8 million. Clarke Talone, Ridge MacLaren and Andrew Townsend of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer in the deal. Constructed in 1950, the three-story building features 30 one- and two-bedroom apartment units.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — Brooklyn-based Spray Market has acquired an industrial facility located at 330 Pine St. in Bridgeport. As the building’s tenant, Spray Market exercised its option to purchase the 14,500-square-foot property for $1 million. The company specializes in applying and installing spray polyurethane foam. Bruce Wettenstein of Vidal/Wettenstein represented the undisclosed seller, while Bob Miller of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices represented the tenant-buyer in the deal.
HADDON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Kimco Realty Corp. has signed a lease with Target at its Westmont Plaza in Haddon Township. The 48,000-square-foot, small-format Target is scheduled to open this month. The signing of Target is the first step in a Kimco’s repositioning program for the 173,000-square-foot open-air shopping center. As Target’s third small-format store in New Jersey, the store will provide residents with a quick-trip shopping experience featuring the brand’s curated assortment of apparel and accessories, grocery and grab-and-go items, beauty products, electronics, toys and more. The store will also feature a CVS/pharmacy and Target’s Order Pickup service.
SHIREMANSTOWN, PA. — An affiliate of Endurance Real Estate Group partnered with CenterSquare Investment Management to acquire a 712,000-square-foot former manufacturing, distribution and office facility located at 485 St. Johns Church Road in Shiremanstown. Endurance plans to demolish approximately 500,000 square feet of manufacturing, office and low-bay warehouse sections of the property to redevelop the asset into 456,810 square feet of Class A bulk warehouse and distribution space. The redeveloped project will include the renovation and expansion of the existing East Warehouse section to total 246,135 square feet with 28-foot clear heights, renovated office space and supplemental loading dock positions, and a slab-up reconstruction of a 210,675-square-foot West Warehouse section, with 32-foot clear heights and 38 loading docks. The East Warehouse is slated for delivery in April 2018 and the West Warehouse is scheduled for completion in July 2018. The property was owned and occupied by the Quaker Oats Co. through the early 2000s.
HOLBROOK, N.Y. — Capital One has provided a $61 million fixed-rate loan to refinance Fairfield Broadway Knolls at Holbrook, an apartment complex located in the Eastern Long Island town of Holbrook. Fairfield Properties used the proceeds of the loan to retire a bridge loan that was used to purchase the property. The 10-year loan has 23 months of interest-only payments followed by amortization on a 30-year schedule. Built in 2006, the 284-unit property features a clubhouse with resident lounge, cyber café with business center, swimming pool, tennis and basketball courts and a fitness center. Robert Akalski of Capital One originated the loan for the borrower.
