NEW YORK CITY — Silver Arch Capital Partners has secured a $30.4 million loan for the purchase of the Out Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The borrower, real estate management company Merchants Hospitality, has entered a partnership with hotel and restaurant branding company Cachet Hospitality Group to rebrand the 105-room, three-story hotel as the Cachet Boutique New York. A New York-based investment firm was the lender. Playboy Enterprises has partnered with Cachet to construct a Playboy Club franchise location on the property’s ground floor. Expected to open later this year, Cachet Boutique New York will feature an open-air garden and an outdoor spa. A central feature of the hotel, the Great Lawn, will be a 2,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor wine bar and meeting space. The Eden restaurant will provide on-site dining space. The property is located on West 42nd Street between 10th and 11th avenues. The Carlton Group’s Howard Michaels and Steven Weiss represented the borrower in the transaction.
LANCASTER, PA. — Eastern Union Funding has arranged $14.2 million in acquisition financing for Hawthorne Gardens Associates’ purchase of Hawthorne Gardens in Lancaster. Eastern Union’s David Metzger and Nate Hyman worked with Greystone on behalf of the New Jersey-based private investor, securing a 12-year, fixed-rate loan with six years of interest-only payments. Located at 99 Dickens Drive, Hawthorne Gardens includes six, three-story apartment buildings. All apartments are two-bedroom, two-bathroom units. The 144-unit community was built in 2014 and is 97-percent occupied. Robert Holland of The Kislak Co. represented the seller in the transaction.
HORSHAM TOWNSHIP, PA. — Cronheim Mortgage has secured $12 million in financing for a 562,000-square-foot industrial park located in Horsham Township. The 10-year loan includes a 20-year amortization schedule for the borrower, Heffernan and Partners. The loan was placed with American United Life Insurance Co., which Cronheim represented as correspondent and servicing agent. The subject property is Babylon Business Campus, a 15-building property constructed between 1972 and 1987 on 55 acres. There are over 50 tenants in the industrial park, with leases ranging from 600 square feet to more than 100,000 square feet. Andrew Stewart, Dev Morris and Allison Villamagna of Cronheim originated and placed the loan.
BROOKLINE, MASS. — Fantini & Gorga has arranged $2.5 million in first mortgage financing for a 7,700-square-foot retail center located at 1427-1431 and 1441 Beacon St. in Brookline. A former Massachusetts resident who has relocated to California was the borrower. The retail property is 100 percent occupied and anchored by East Boston Savings Bank. Fantini & Gorga’s Derek Coulombe and Chris Miller arranged the refinancing on behalf of the borrower. The loan was placed with a Massachusetts-based financial institution.
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — CBRE has arranged a 4,405-square-foot lease for Orchestra Premaman at the King of Prussia Mall near Philadelphia. The store will be the first U.S. location for the French retailer. Orchestra Premaman, a children’s fashion and apparel store, operates more than 700 stores in 40 countries worldwide. The company opened its first location in 1995. CBRE’s John Krause and Matt Mandel assisted Orchestra in its overall market analysis, site selection process and negotiated on the company’s behalf. The store is scheduled to open May 15.
NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has secured the $39 million sale of a six-building multifamily portfolio in the Bronx. The portfolio includes 209 rent-stabilized apartments and spans 186,520 square feet in the Mount Hope, Fordham Heights and University Heights neighborhoods. The addresses are 2442 Morris Ave.; 2226, 2322 and 2333 Loring Place N.; and 1715-1717 & 1727-1729 Walton Ave. Rosewood’s Aaron Jungreis represented the seller, Emerald Equity Group. Marcus & Millichap’s Seth Glasser, Michael Fusco, Peter Von der Ahe and Joe Koicim represented the buyer, Pistilli Realty Group, an Astoria-based investment firm led by the Pistilli family. The buildings sold for $206 per square foot.
WOODMERE, N.Y. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of The Woodmere Club, a golf and country club in Woodmere, to a joint-venture real estate investment entity. Cushman & Wakefield’s metropolitan area capital markets group orchestrated the deal. Weiss Properties and 2020 Acquisitions purchased the 110-acre property, which is located at 99 Meadow Drive. The club features the original clubhouse built in 1908, 18 holes of golf, six tennis courts, a swimming pool, fitness center and several dining options.
NEW YORK CITY — Besen & Associates has negotiated the $11.4 million acquisition of a multifamily property located at 24-10 through 24-20 29th St. in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. The property includes three four-story buildings containing 27 units. There are eight two-bedroom apartments and 19 three-bedroom apartments. The buildings total 25,000 square feet on a 15,000-square-foot lot with 150 feet of street frontage. The property was built in 1935 and is located two blocks from subway lines N and Q. Greg Corbin and Aaron Kline of Besen & Associates represented the buyer in the transaction.
ORANGE, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.1 million sale of an 8,020-square-foot property net leased to Family Dollar in Orange. Ben Sgambati, Alan Cafiero and David Cafiero of Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a developer. The team also secured and represented the buyer, a private investor. The building is located at 605 Scotland Road at its intersection with Tremont Avenue.
ESSEX, CONN. — Penny Parker of Lyman Real Estate has arranged the $1.4 million sale of three contiguous parcels of land totaling 3.8 acres at 21-29 Plains Road in Essex. The buyer, Essex Holdings, plans to develop a 52-unit multifamily property known as Essex Station. Parker represented both the buyer and the sellers, Truehold Essex LLC, which sold one parcel, and Costa Family LLC, which sold the other two. Essex Station will include one- and two-bedroom units with porches, nine-foot ceilings, gas fireplaces, marble bath vanities, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.