NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Keystone Equities and Normandy Real Estate Partners has acquired an industrial building located at 25-11 49th Ave. in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. Howard Weinstein and Scott Weinstein, owners of Candid Litho printing, sold the property for $39.1 million. The 109,200-square-foot property is zoned M1-4, which allows for a range of community facility, commercial and light manufacturing uses. The buyer plans to convert the property and utilize the air rights to expand the building to 11 stories spanning 238,000 square feet of creative office space. Jonathan Eshaghian and Jakub Now of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
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NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of an apartment building located at 210 E. 95th St. in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. An undisclosed buyer acquired the 9,892-square-foot building for $12.1 million. Hall Oster, Tom Gammino, Teddy Galligan, Brett Weisblum and Tim O’Brien of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. The property features two two-bedroom units, 12 three-bedroom units and one four-bedroom apartment. The free-market apartments feature in-unit washers and dryers and a gas-fired boiler.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has arranged the sales of two retail properties totaling $10.5 million. In the first transaction, an owner-user purchased a 6,624-square-foot mixed-used building with ground-floor retail space, located at 27 E. 20th St. in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, for $7.2 million. The buyer plans to open a restaurant in the ground-floor retail space. Adelaide Polsinelli and Mitchell Goldstick of Eastern Consolidated represented the buyer, while Jonathan Schwartz, also of Eastern Consolidated, represented the seller, Silvershore Properties, in the transaction. In the second deal, Polsinelli represented the seller, 68 Thomas Street Associates LLC, in the sale of a 3,732-square-foot retail condominium at 68 Thomas St. in Manhattan’s Tribeca. Studio 68 LLC purchased the property for $3.2 million. Prime Manhattan Realty represented the buyer in the transaction.
LITTLE FERRY, N.J. — Liberty Street Realty has completed the disposition of a vacant warehouse, located at 200 Liberty St. in Little Ferry. Stamford, Conn.-based Hartford Realty Corp. acquired the property for an undisclosed price. The buyer plans to redevelop the site and construct a 15,655-square-foot CVS/pharmacy at the location. Gary Sauerborn of NAI James E. Hanson represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Zar Group has received $210 million in financing to refinance an office property located at 1450 Broadway in Times Square. Tal Bar-Or and Richard Sutton of Meridian Capital Group secured the five-year balance sheet loan, which features full-term interest-only payments. The 42-story property features 415,000 square feet of office and retail space.
NEW YORK CITY — Natixis has provided an $86.2 million floating-rate construction loan to YYY 62nd Street LLC, a joint venture between Joy Construction and Madd Equities. The borrowers will use the loan to pay off existing debt and provide capital to complete a 110,727-square-foot, Class A office building at 330 E. 62nd St. in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The seven-story, build-to-suit office property is 100 percent pre-leased to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for an initial term of 30 years. Memorial Sloan Kettering plans to use the building for administrative offices. Kathy Anderson and Brad Domenico of Progress Capital arranged the financing.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a two-building industrial asset located at 400 and 500 Apgar Drive in Franklin Township. Greek Development purchased the properties from High Street Realty for $15 million. At the time of sale, the two buildings, which total 170,500 square feet, were 91 percent occupied by 11 tenants. Gary Gabriel, Andrew Merin, David Bernhaut, Brian Whitmer, Kyle Schmidt and Andrew MacDonald of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — EagleBridge Capital has arranged $12.6 million in financing for 95 Lofts, a 59-unit apartment building located at 95 Chestnut St. in downtown Providence. Brian Sheehan and Ted Sidel of EagleBridge secured the loan, provided by a Massachusetts financial institution, for the undisclosed borrower. The property is a six-story, 58,500-square-foot residential building featuring 33 one-bedroom units, 17 two-bedroom units and nine studio units, as well as 2,500 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.
NEW YORK CITY — Stellar Management has purchased a residential building located at 3505 Broadway in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights. The estate of Harriet Okun sold the property for an undisclosed price. Built in 1907, the six-story property features 42 apartment units and five occupied retail storefronts. Stellar has a capital improvement program planned for the property, including an extensive lobby and hallway renovation. Peter Vanderpool and Lazer Sternhell of Signature Realty brokered the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) plans to build a new 2.5 million-square-foot skyscraper that will replace its existing 50-story office building at 270 Park Ave. in Midtown Manhattan. The company plans to consolidate its global headquarters from various locations at the new tower, which some media outlets are reporting would rise 70 stories. “We are recommitting ourselves to New York City while also ensuring that we operate in a highly efficient and world-class environment for the 21st century,” says Jaime Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. The new headquarters building would house about 15,000 employees, replacing the existing facility that was designed in the late 1950s for about 3,500 employees. JPMorgan Chase plans to pursue LEED certification for the new facility, which would come on line in 2024 at the earliest. Most employees currently located at 270 Park Ave. would be relocated nearby during the development period. Dimon and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio jointly announced JPMorgan Chase’s new headquarters, which would be the first major project under New York City’s Midtown East Rezoning plan that was passed last year by the New York City Council. “This is our plan for East Midtown in …