NEW YORK CITY — Law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP has signed a 121,000-square-foot office lease at 1301 Avenue of the Americas, a 45-story, 1.8 million-square-foot building in Midtown Manhattan. The lease term is 16.5 years, and approximately 30,000 square feet is short-term space. Frank Doyle, David Kleiner and Andrew Coe of JLL represented the landlord, New York City-based Paramount Group, in the lease negotiations. Mark Weiss of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.
WILMINGTON, DEL. — NAI Emory Hill has negotiated an 18,790-square-foot retail lease in Wilmington. Lexus of Wilmington has leased the building at 3401 N. Market St., which features six lifts, 18-foot ceilings and three drive-in doors, to house its new automotive repair facility. Rich Dudek of NAI Emory Hill represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations.
NEW YORK CITY — LMXD, an affiliate of New York City-based L&M Development Partners, and residential developer Ray have begun leasing a 21-story multifamily and civic project in Harlem. Designed by Frida Escobedo Architects and Handel Architects, the National Black Theatre & Ray Harlem houses 222 mixed-income apartments, commercial space along 125th Street and a multi-purpose room that is open to the community. Units come in studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Residential amenities include a communal kitchen and outdoor grilling stations, a coworking lounge, fitness center and yoga studio, library curated by Phaidon Press, living room lounge and two outdoor terraces. In addition, the site features a 27,000-square-foot home for the National Black Theatre. This space houses offices, classrooms, a 250-seat performance venue, a 99-seat flexible studio theater and a set-building shop to support workforce development in theatrical trades. Construction topped out in fall 2023.
MILFORD, DEL. — Berkadia has brokered the $23.2 million sale of The Reserve at Sawmill, a 149-unit multifamily property in Milford, about 20 miles south of Dover. The sales price equates to a cap rate of roughly 5.7 percent. The property was delivered in phases between 1984 and 2008 and offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as five townhomes. Nat Gambuzza, Trevor Fiebel, Zac Pierce, Matthew Stefanski and Maura Spellman of Berkadia represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was also not disclosed. The property was fully occupied at the time of sale.
SWEDESBORO, N.J. — Regional investment firm DH Property Holdings has acquired a 55,000-square-foot vacant industrial building in Swedesboro, located in Southern New Jersey. The building sits on a 14.7-acre site at 509 Heron Drive and features a clear height of 22 feet, five loading docks, four drive-in doors, 130-foot truck court depths, 60 car parking spots and three acres of fenced storage space. Jonathan Klear of NAI Mertz, along with Ian Richman & Marc Isdaner of Colliers, brokered the off-market deal. The seller was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Moda Operandi has signed a 30,000-square-foot industrial lease in Queens. The online fashion retailer is taking space on the third floor of the 157,000-square-foot, newly renovated building at 58-30 Grand Ave. in the Maspeth neighborhood, which is known locally as the Pearl Building. Rico Murtha, Helen Paul, Joe Hentze Jr. and Sonny Singh of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, The Davis Cos., in the lease negotiations. Owen Hane of JLL represented the tenant.
COMMACK, N.Y. — Kids Empire will open a 21,000-square-foot indoor playground in the Long Island community of Commack. The facility will be located within a portion of a former grocery space at the 222,000-square-foot Mayfair Shopping and will be the brand’s first location on Long Island. Center E.J. Moawad of Levin Management Corp. represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. Melissa Naeder of Cushman & Wakefield represented Kids Empire.
PITTSBURGH AND NEW YORK CITY — DICK’S Sporting Goods Inc. (NYSE: DKS) has entered into a definitive merger agreement with footwear and apparel retailer Foot Locker Inc. (NYSE: FL). Under the agreement, sporting goods retailer DICK’S will acquire Foot Locker for an equity value of roughly $2.4 billion and an enterprise value of $2.5 billion. Foot Locker operates approximately 2,400 retail stores across 20 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Foot Locker’s portfolio of brands also includes Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, WSS and atmos. DICK’S plans to operate Foot Locker as a standalone business unit and maintain the various Foot Locker brands. This acquisition will mark the first international expansion for the Pittsburgh-based sporting goods retailer. Upon completion of the merger, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of the two companies, Foot Locker shareholders will choose to receive either $24 in cash or 0.1168 shares of DICK’S common stock for each share of Foot Locker common stock. The $24 value represents a premium of roughly 66 percent to Foot Locker’s 60-trading day volume weighted average price. “We have long admired the cultural significance and brand equity that Foot Locker and its …
HOPEWELL, N.J. — Locally based developer KRE Group has begun leasing The Hopewell Chapter, a 270-unit multifamily project in Central New Jersey. The property consists of six four-story buildings that house one- and two-bedroom units, 54 of which are reserved as affordable housing. Specific income restrictions were not disclosed. Amenities include a 6,500-square-foot clubhouse, resort-style pool, outdoor dining areas, a playground, dog park and walking trails. Monthly rents start in the mid-$2000s for a one-bedroom apartment.
HOPKINTON, MASS. — JLL has arranged the refinancing of a 198,336-square-foot manufacturing facility in the western Massachusetts suburb of Hopkinton. The loan amount was not disclosed. The two-building facility sits on 19 acres at 68-78 Elm St. and was fully leased at the time of the loan closing to life sciences and diagnostics company Revvity. Andrew Gray, Ryan Parker and Brooke Howard of JLL arranged the loan through an undisclosed commercial bank on behalf of the borrower, locally based investment firm NorthBridge Partners.