CRANBURY, N.J. — Duke Realty has signed RAB Lighting to a 264,085-square-foot industrial lease in Cranbury. RAB Lighting will relocate and expand its distribution center operations in the Northeast at the newly developed building, which was acquired by Duke Realty in October. RAB Lighting is a manufacturer of indoor and outdoor LED lighting and controls. The facility, located at 10 Broadway Road, features a 36-foot clear height, 42 dock doors and two drive-in doors. The property also includes a 130-foot trailer court and parking for 89 automobiles and 11 trailers. Chuck Fern of Cushman & Wakefield represented both parties in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Lightstone, a national real estate investor and developer, has acquired the 183-room Hilton Garden Inn in Long Island City, Queens for $60 million. The hotel is located at 29-21 41st Ave. Lightstone plans to continue operation of the hotel, which was constructed in 2015, as a Hilton Garden Inn for the immediate future. The developer opened the 612-room Moxy Times Square hotel in fall 2017 and plans to open the 37-story, 349-room Moxy Chelsea hotel this fall. The acquisition of the Hilton Garden Inn is a joint venture between Lightstone’s REIT II and REIT III.
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital has provided a $72 million first-mortgage loan for the nearly completed condominium development in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The financing retires the previous debt of the borrower, Highline Development Group. The property is being developed by Highline and Tamarkin Co. Currently in the final stages of interior construction, 550 West 29th St. will include 19 residential units and 5,022 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is adjacent to the High Line between 10th and 11th avenues. Amenities will include a 24-hour doorman, fitness center, sauna and storage units for each residence. Select units will have private terraces. Prices range from $4.6 million to $13.5 million. The project is expected to be completed in mid-2018.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 10,001-square-foot retail property in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. The property, which is located at 74-12 to 74-24 37th Ave., sold for $16 million or $1,600 per square foot. The buyer was the estate of Fazlur Khan. Dana Newton, Donovan Mackey and Scott Plasky of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Chui King Yee in the transaction. Nineteen offers were received on the property, according to Newton. The property was fully occupied with long-term tenants at the time of the sale.
BOSTON — Cornerstone Realty Capital has arranged an $8.5 million loan for the refinancing of a mid-rise office building in Boston near transit hub South Station. The borrower, a long-time owner of the property was not disclosed. The lender was a local savings bank. Cornerstone delivered a non-recourse, fixed-rate loan with a two-year interest-only period followed by a 30-year amortization. The brick building was built in 1899 and fully renovated in 2013. It contains approximately 36,500 of rentable square feet with offices ranging in size from 1,000 square feet to 4,700 square feet. Tenants include a number of technology companies and an art design firm.
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — Muroff Daigle Hospitality Group has negotiated the sale of The Landmark Motor Inn, located in Glens Falls, for $3.6 million. Glens Falls is approximately 14 miles north of Saratoga Springs. The seller was John Naja of Landmark Motor Lodge Corp., who had owned the property for more than 43 years. The buyer was Nadeem Lodging Corp. Glens Falls National Bank and the U.S. Small Business Administration provided financing for the project. The Landmark Motor Inn contains 77 updated guestrooms as well as two pools and a fitness center. Muroff Daigle and Vanguard–Fine LLC brokered the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY— SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE:SLG) and joint venture partner Ivanhoé Cambridge have agreed to sell their office condominium space at 1745 Broadway in Manhattan for $633 million. The 930,000-square-foot tower includes retail spaces, offices and residential condominiums. SL Green and Ivanhoé will sell their portion of the property, totaling 674,000 square feet and spanning floors two through 26, to an institutional client of Invesco Real Estate. In deals separate from Ivanhoé Cambridge, SL Green also agreed to sell two suburban office properties in New York —115-117 Stevens Ave. in Valhalla and Reckson Executive Park in Rye Brook — to two different buyers for a combined price of $67 million. The transactions are expected to generate combined net proceeds to SL Green of approximately $190 million, which will be used toward the company’s $1.5 billion stock repurchase program. To date, SL Green has repurchased a total of 12.3 million shares. “We continue to make strategic divestments of non-core assets to both support the stock repurchase program and strengthen our portfolio,” says Isaac Zion, co-chief investment officer of SL Green. 1745 Broadway occupies the entire block front between 55th and 56th streets and is located three blocks from Central Park and …
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Monmouth Shores Corporate Park, an eight-building office/flex complex totaling 400,000 square feet in Wall Township. Andy Merin, David Bernhaut, Gary Gabriel, Brian Whitmer and Frank DiTommaso of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Mack-Cali Realty Corp. The buyer was Monmouth 2 LLC, an affiliate of BHN Associates. Monmouth Shores Corporate Park is one of the largest business parks in the region, according to Cushman & Wakefield, and it was 88 percent leased to 24 tenants at the time of sale. The park is comprised of five single-story flex buildings and three office buildings.
RED BANK, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $6.3 million sale of the Kislin Building, a 23,000-square-foot mixed-use property in Red Bank, four miles south of Middletown. Michael Lombardi and Charles Loccisano of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer, also a private investor. Located at 8 East Front St., the Kislin Building is the former home of a sporting goods store, which closed in 2005 after a century of continuous operation. The property was renovated in 2007 and the upper two floors were converted into eight, two-bedroom apartments and two, one-bedroom apartments. The ground floor features 7,500 square feet of retail space. The purchase also included a 6,000-square-foot parking lot across the street.
MANSFIELD, MASS. — The Seyon Group has acquired a 350,000-square-foot warehouse in Mansfield for $38.5 million. Located at 560 West St., the Class A facility, which was built in 2009, is a cross-dock warehouse. Cross-dock warehouses are rare in the Greater Boston market, where high land costs have resulted in limited new warehouse construction. There are only 12 such facilities in Boston, according to the Seyon Group. This marks the 15th acquisition for the Seyon Group, which was launched in January 2017.