KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — A new Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH retail store will open on April 6 in metro Philadelphia. The 42,000-square-foot store will be located at the Overlook at King of Prussia. The store will include more than 800 brands offering luxury designer fashion.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — New Brunswick Development Corp. (Devco) has begun site preparation on the Ferren Mall Parking Deck for The Hub @ New Brunswick Station in New Brunswick. Devco expects site construction of the 1.7 million-square-foot mixed-use redevelopment project to begin in April. JLL is Devco’s marketing agent for The Hub, which will be located on four acres in downtown New Brunswick directly across from the New Brunswick train station. When completed, The Hub @ New Brunswick Station will encompass multiple buildings with a flexible design to meet office or lab requirements including technology, office or research use. The development is slated to include high-rise residential units and retail at street level.
NORTH HILLS, NEW YORK — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $14.7 million sale of a two-story medical office building located at 3111 New Hyde Park Road in North Hills. Cushman & Wakefield’s Ben Efraimov, Jonathan Hageman and Patrick Yannotta handled the transaction. The property traded at a 6 percent cap rate. The building spans 24,600 square feet and is 100 percent occupied by three medical tenants. Integrated Medical Professionals occupies the front of the building and leases 13,800 square feet. Northern OBGYN and Aesthetic Dermatology are located in the rear of the property and occupy a combined 10,800 square feet. The property features 115 parking spaces and sits on 1.8 acres between Hollow Lane and Dakota Drive.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — CBRE’s Global Port Logistics Group has brokered three lease transactions at two separate industrial properties in Secaucus. In the first transaction, CBRE represented VER, a provider of audio, video, lighting, rigging and media services, in a 223,000-square-foot lease at 50 Meadowlands Parkway. The space is part of Harmon Cove Industrial Park. VER will operate in an office and showroom featuring 30-foot ceilings and ESFR sprinklers. The CBRE team that facilitated the transaction included William Waxman, Mike Shellow, Mindy Lissner, Kevin Dudley, Steven Beyda, Robert Pine, David Gheriani and Kyle Saviano. In the second and third transactions, the same CBRE team represented landlord Bhasin Properties in lease transactions with David Donahue and Jay Joshua Inc. David Donahue, a menswear retailer, signed a 27,440-square-foot lease, while Jay Joshua Inc., an import business, signed on for 9,195 square feet at 1 County Road. JLL represented David Donahue, while Jay Joshua Inc. negotiated with CBRE directly.
TROY, N.Y. — KeyBank has provided a total of $18.2 million in financing for the Martin Luther King Revitalization Apartments in Troy. The Troy Housing Authority partnered with Beacon Communities Development to renovate and preserve 104 units of affordable housing through HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration Program. The property was built in 1971. Key’s Community Development Lending & Investing group (CDLI) provided a $6.2 million construction loan and will also invest up to $12 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) direct equity to finance the first phase, which includes the preservation of 46 units for residents earning between 30 and 80 percent of the area median income. Joe Eicheldinger and Victoria O’Brien of Key’s CDLI team helped arrange the financing, made possible by an allocation of LIHTC from New York State Homes and Community Renewal. Additionally, the project required the approval and support of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
STAMFORD, CONN. — RHYS has negotiated the $10.3 million sale of two office/retail buildings located at 111 and 123 High Ridge Road in Stamford. Combined, the three-story buildings offer 40,000 square feet of office and retail space. The 100 percent leased portfolio sits on just over an acre, with more than 150 parking spaces on site. Christian Bangert of RHYS represented the buyer, A & E High Ridge, in the transaction. Karen Dome and Robert Haile of Coldwell Banker Commercial represented the seller, High Ridge Plaza LLC.
E-commerce and the growth of the digital age have become important factors in the tightening industrial real estate market. With single-digit vacancy rates becoming the norm in nearly all of the Greater Boston submarkets, existing product cannot supply the space necessary to meet current market demand. Consumers’ shopping attitudes have changed, and retailers are having to adjust their strategies to meet their needs. In 2016, the Greater Boston industrial market recorded vacancies averaging 6.8 percent, the lowest in more than 15 years. The thriving e-commerce industry has been a large factor in the spike in demand. Last year, major e-commerce tenants like Amazon, FedEx and Wayfair expanded their presence in the Boston market with new leases on distribution centers, pushing 2016 absorption to almost 6 million square feet, an all-time record. Retailers are now looking to expand their coverage with multiple warehousing locations, pushing for facilities proximate to their specified consumer base. Instead of having one regional warehouse/distribution center, retail giants have zeroed in on infill submarkets surrounding cities to locate multiple warehouses close to the population center. Just last year, Amazon leased a 96,600-square-foot warehouse in Everett, minutes from Downtown Boston, which would become a base for grocery and …
EAST ORANGE & ORANGE, N.J. — Gebroe-Hammer Associates’ David Oropeza has arranged the $29.2 million sale of two apartment properties in East Orange and Orange. Oropeza represented the sellers and identified the buyers of each property. The first transaction was the $15.7 million sale of 151 units in East Orange. Oropeza also arranged the sale of 157 total units in Orange for $13.5 million.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — Matt Halprin of New England Retail Properties has brokered a 24,000-square-foot lease to Liquors 44 at 1755 Boston Road in Springfield. Liquors 44 is locally owned and operated.
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — CBRE’s capital markets debt and structured finance team has secured a $41 million acquisition loan for a 155,000-square-foot medical office building located at 1865 Marlton Pike E. in Cherry Hill. The property, which is leased on a long-term basis to University of Pennsylvania Health System, serves as a primary care center and clinical offices for medical practices including cardiology and radiology. CBRE’s Nick Harris, Steve Roth and Steven Doherty procured financing for the borrower.