MONROEVILLE, PA. — Ten Capital Management has sold its limited partnership interest in Miracle Mile Retail Center in Monroeville, located 13 miles east of Pittsburgh. M&J Wilkow in a joint venture with ALTO Real Estate Funds acquired the interest in the 299,894-square-foot regional power center. At the time of sale, the property was 98 percent occupied by a variety of tenants, including LA Fitness, Marshalls, PNC Bank, DSW, Old Navy and OfficeMax. The general partner in the interest partnership is an affiliate of Pearson Partners.
CAPE MAY, N.J. — The Diocesan Housing Services Corp. of the Diocese of Camden Inc. (DHSC), MDG Design + Construction, and Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG) have announced the refinancing of a renovation project at Victorian Towers, an affordable seniors housing community in Cape May, located at the southern tip of coastal New Jersey. The project will result in more than $8 million in capital improvements to the community, and will preserve the affordability of the property for at least 20 additional years. Originally constructed in 1973 to house low-income seniors, Victorian Towers is a six-story development containing 205 studio and one-bedroom apartments as well as 82 parking spaces located near shopping, medical and public transit services. Renovations will include improvements to the units, a redesigned lobby with a seating area and an overhaul of more than 2,000 square feet of community facilities. Exterior work includes the installation of windows and a new Victorian-styled facade. Efficiency upgrades include new air conditioning units and water conservation measures such as the installation of low-flow toilets, shower heads and faucet aerators. DHSC has managed Victorian Towers for decades. As development partners, MDG and HVPG will bring substantial financing and development resources to the …
TAMFORD, CONN. — LCB Senior Living has broken ground on The Residence at Summer Street, a 104-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Stamford, approximately 25 miles northeast of New York City. LCB will both own and operate the community, which is scheduled to open in summer 2018. Headquartered in Massachusetts, LCB Senior Living owns and/or operates communities throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
NEW YORK CITY — Cignature Realty Associates has facilitated the sale of a six-story multifamily building located at 221 Wadsworth Ave. in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. An undisclosed buyer acquired the building for $13.2 million. Built in 1928, the 41,736-square-foot building features 54 apartments. Peter Vanderpool and Lazer Sternhell of Cignature Realty represented the undisclosed seller and buyer in the transaction.
SACO, MAINE — Cardente Real Estate has arranged the sale of an office building located at 42 Industrial Park Road in Saco. Ohio Mutual Insurance Co. sold the property to 42 IPR LLC for $2.1 million. The building features 13,874 square feet of Class A office space. Greg Perry of Cardente Real Estate represented the seller, while Andrew Ingalls of Malone Commercial Brokers represented the buyer in the deal.
ALLENTOWN, PA. — Markward Group has brokered the sale of an industrial building located at 1400 N. Irving St. in Allentown. Evergreen Cos., a full-service landscaping and horticultural service company, acquired the property for $1.2 million. The buyer plans to use the 11,114-square-foot property as a storage and dispatch facility. Amy Hawley of Markward Group represented the undisclosed seller and buyer in the transaction.
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of an industrial property located at 330 N. Main St. in Port Chester. A limited liability company sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $1.8 million. The 10,800-square-foot property features 2,000 square feet of retail store front space along North Main Street. John Sala of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Mizuho Americas has signed a lease with the Rockefeller Group to occupy 270,000 square feet of office space at 1271 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. The long-term lease, which follows the June announcement of Mizuho’s lease of 141,000 square feet in the building, brings the company’s total commitment for 1271 Avenue of Americas to 411,000 square feet. The new lease nearly triples the size of the company’s future U.S. headquarters in the building. Mizuho, a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, will begin to take possession of its space in 2019. The company plans to relocate employees from multiple locations to the 2.1 million-square-foot tower. Mitchell Steir, Matthew Barlow, Steve Berliner and David Goldstein of Savills Studley represented Mizuho, while Mary Ann Tighe, Howard Fiddle, John Maher, Sarah Pontius, Evan Haskell and Dave Caperna of CBRE, in coordination with Ed Guiltinan, Jennifer Stein, Yoshinori Nakamura, Yoko Yamada and Eden Jeon of Rockefeller Group’s in-house leasing team, represented Rockefeller Group in the lease transaction.
The commercial real estate market in the Greater Boston area continued its torrid pace in the first half of 2017. All sections of the commercial real estate market inside Route 128 are white hot, especially after the announcement that General Electric will move its corporate headquarters to the Seaport District. Recent data indicates that Boston has one of the hottest economies in the United States and ranks as one of the top economies in the world. The 2017 Investment Intensity Index ranks Boston as the fourth market in the U.S. and 14th in the world for commercial real estate investment. In the industrial sector, which includes warehouse/distribution and flex/R&D product, vacancies are at the lowest point seen in decades. At the end of the first quarter the vacancy rate decreased to 5.7 percent. Net absorption totaled 2.24 million square feet for the quarter. The fact that the urban industrial market is continually shrinking as aging industrial properties are redeveloped into “higher and better uses” has caused a tremendous displacement of companies from inside Route 128 to areas outside the coveted Route 95 corridor. A dearth of available institutional-quality industrial product exists in today’s market with just over 13 percent of …
NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY — HFF has arranged 16 financings totaling $663 million secured by 15 retail properties and one industrial property totaling 4.6 million square feet in New York and New Jersey. Scott Aiese, Jon Mikula and Mike Tepedino of HFF secured the 16 separate loans with two CMBS lenders, three life company lenders and one bank for the borrower, Urban Edge Properties. The loans include 14 fixed- and two floating-rate facilities with terms ranging from seven to 13 years. Loan proceeds will be used to pay off existing CMBS debt and create additional proceeds, while staggering and lengthening the duration of the borrower’s maturity schedule. The portfolio comprises 98.1-percent-leased retail centers anchored by grocery stores, including ShopRite, Stop & Shop and Aldi; The Home Depot; Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse; Costco; BJ’s Wholesale Club and Walmart; and one multi-tenant warehouse property in East Hanover, N.J. The 16 properties are in dense submarkets with affluent demographics, including 15 located in New Jersey and one in New York.