NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital (MRC) has provided $270 million in construction financing for the development of a 1 million-square-foot mixed-use project at the former Rheingold Brewery site in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The developer, Brooklyn-based All Year Management, previously received a bridge loan for site acquisition and pre-development on the project from MRC. Construction is currently underway. The Rheingold Brewery opened in 1883, and was the eighth largest brewery in the nation in 1965, according to reports by the New York Daily News. The brewery closed in 1976, and was torn down in 1981. The site has been largely vacant since then, with the exception of 300 rental and privately owned apartments that were built on the southwest corner of the site in 2003. The two-building redevelopment is located at 123 Melrose St. and 54 Noll St., and will feature 911 residential units, 20,650 square feet of retail space and 533 parking spaces. Residential space will occupy floors one through nine in both buildings, offering studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units. Community amenities will include multiple fitness rooms including a boxing center, yoga studio, cycling room and exercise room; libraries; spas with saunas, steam and massage rooms; locker rooms; …
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Ceruzzi Holdings, SMI USA Receive $200M in Financing for Manhattan Mixed-Use Development
by Amy Works
NEW YORK CITY — Ceruzzi Holdings and SMI USA have received $200 million in pre-development financing for 520 Fifth Avenue, a to-be-built, mixed-use property in Manhattan. Christopher Peck and David Nackoul of HFF arranged the floating-rate loan through Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies for the joint venture borrowers. Proceeds of the loan will be used to repay existing debt, conclude design and move forward with pre-development work. Situated at the corner of 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue, the development will comprise approximately 425,000 square feet, including luxury condominiums, a five-star hotel and more than 33,000 square feet of Fifth Avenue retail space.
BETHEL TOWNSHIP, PA. — Dermody Properties has broken ground for the development of LogistiCenter at Midway, a distribution building located at 270 Midway Road in Bethel Township. The park will feature 1.1 million square feet of warehouse, distribution and e-commerce business space. Situated on 136 acres, the building will feature 36-foot clear ceiling heights, 60-foot loading bays, 207 car stalls (expandable to 309), 368 trailer stalls (expandable to 438), 212 dock doors, four drive-in doors and a 185-foot truck court. Ware Malcomb is serving as building architect and Blue Rock Construction is the general contractor for the project, which is slated for completion in spring 2018. Joseph McDermott, Vincent Ranalli and Jake Terkanian of CBRE are marketing the property for lease.
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Three Tower Bridge, a single-tenant office building located at 2 Ash St. in Conshohocken, a suburb of Philadelphia. Gladstone Commercial Corp. acquired the property for $15.4 million. Jacobs Engineering Group occupies the 60,016-square-foot building. Robert Fahey, Jerry Kranzel and Erin Hannan of CBRE represented the seller, an affiliate of Oliver Tyrone Pulver Corp., in the transaction.
WAYNE, N.J. — Peykar Family Properties is developing a speculative industrial facility at 150 Totowa Road in Wayne. The project includes the demolition of a long-vacant office building and the construction of a 418,500-square-foot industrial facility and more than 40,000 square feet of mezzanine office space, totaling a 459,822-square-foot facility on the 32-acre site. The warehouse space will feature 40-foot clear ceiling heights, 42 tailgates, two drive-in doors and parking for 70 trailers and 224 cars. The facility is designed with office space on each end of the building to allow for multiple users. Completion is scheduled for the first half of 2018. Stan Danzig and Stephen Elman of Cushman & Wakefield are marketing the facility for the developer, which also owns Nourison Industries, a large carpet manufacturing company.
BURLINGTON, N.J. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of an industrial building located at 105 Connecticut Drive in Burlington. Crossroads Industrial acquired the building for $2.5 million, or $63.50 per square foot. The 40,500-square-foot building features 18,000 square feet of office space, 20-foot clear heights in the warehouse, four tailgate doors and one van-height door. The buyer plans to use the site as a warehouse for NYB Distributors. Financing for the acquisition was provided by Morgan Stanley Bank. Marc Isdaner of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller, while NAI Mertz represented the buyer in the deal.
MIDDLETOWN, PA. — A joint venture between Woodmont Industrial Partners and AEW Capital Management, on behalf of its closed-end opportunistic real estate fund AEW Partners VI, has completed the disposition of Capital Logistics Center in Middletown for undisclosed price. The partnership completed an extensive capital improvement program at the six-building, 1.55 million-square-foot industrial park. The joint venture constructed new industrial facilities to replace the antiquated structures that previously occupied 200 and 300 Capital Lane. The name of the buyer was not released.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rockefeller Group has acquired a 228-acre industrial site located at 171 River Road in Piscataway. Lincoln Equities Group and Real Capital Solutions sold the former brownfield site for $57 million. The remediated site is fully entitled to build 2.4 million square feet of space for industrial distribution and light manufacturing space. The buyer will break ground on two new buildings later this summer with an anticipated overall project cost between $225 million and $250 million. David Bernhaut of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers in the transaction.
BOSTON — HFF has arranged $80 million in acquisition financing for Suffolk Downs, a 161.2-acre, transit-oriented development site located in East Boston and Revere, Mass. HYM Investment Group is the borrower and buyer in the transaction. John Fowler, Anthony Cutone, Jennifer Keller and Andrew Gray of HFF secured the short-term, floating-rate loan with Bank of the Ozarks and advised the buyer in the deal. Adjacent to Route 1A, the site comprises 108.8 acres in Boston and 52.4 acres in Revere. The property is also served by two Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Blue Line stations: Suffolk Downs and Beachmont. The site is currently the location of the Suffolk Downs horse racing facility, which will have its last racing season in summer 2018.
NEW YORK CITY — Propco Holdings, with UA Builders Group serving as general contractor, has broken ground for a residential building located at 915 Dawson St. in the Bronx. The eight-story, 23,301-square-foot building will feature 29 apartments, parking spaces, a fitness center, a recreation area and indoor bicycle storage.