NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of two multifamily buildings located at 234 E. 95th St. and 446 E. 88th St. in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. A local investor acquired the properties, which total 40 apartment units. The property located at 234 E. 95th St. features 20 one-bedroom units and sold for nearly $670 per square foot. The 8,200-square-foot building also features additional 7,508 square feet of air rights. The 9,000-square-foot property, located at 446 E. 88th St., features 20 one-bedroom, rent-stabilized units and 1,988 square feet of additional air rights. The property sold for $760 per square foot. Guthrie Garvin, Thomas Gammino and Michael Gembecki of Cushman & Wakefield. The buyer, a local investor, was self-represented in the transaction.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. — Nedde Real Estate has brokered the lease of 5,808 square feet office at 1891 Williston Road in South Burlington. The tenant, Ideas Well Done, will move into the space in early December. Fernando Cresta and Doug Nedde of Nedde Real Estate co-own the property. Meg McGovern of Donahue & Associates represented the tenant in the lease.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has arranged refinancing loans for six multifamily properties in Manhattan in two separate transactions totaling $32.4 million. Jonathan Aghravi and Charles Han of Eastern Consolidated handled the loan placements with Amalgamated Bank. The first loan was a seven-year, $20 million refinancing for five mixed-use buildings, featuring 44 residential units and eight commercial units, located at 420, 422, 424, 426 and 428 Amsterdam. The second loan was a seven-year, $12.4 million refinancing for a newly renovated 28-unit multifamily property located at 44-46 E. End Ave.
NEW YORK CITY — Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates (KDA) has arranged the sales of sites at a sub-divided industrial complex located in Staten Island’s Mariners Harbor district to two Brooklyn-based buyers for a total of $13 million. Gary Mayzlin of KDA represented the seller, 135 Lake Avenue Realty LLC, and buyers in transactions. World Wide Plumbing acquired the property at 125 Lake Avenue, which features seven industrial acres and 100,000 square feet of warehouse buildings; and, Royal Seafood Baza Inc. purchased the property at 175 Lake Avenue, which consists of a 50,000-square-foot industrial warehouse with 40,000 square feet of parking.
LINDEN, N.J. — HFF has arranged $7 million in acquisition financing for a warehouse and distribution building located at 1501-1525 W. Blancke St. in Linden. The borrower, Penwood Real Estate Investment Management, will use proceeds of the loan to purchase the building and fund immediate and future capital expenditures, tenant improvements and leasing commissions. Vantage Specialty Chemicals and HelloFresh occupy the 115,913-square-foot facility. Michael Klein of HFF arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan with First Bank New Jersey for the borrower.
CARLSTADT, N.J. — Terreno Realty Corp. has acquired an industrial property, located at 248 Paterson Plank Road in Carlstadt, for $5 million. Situated on 5.2 acres, the 31,000-square-foot property features 64 dock-high and two grade-level loading positions, parking for 25 cars and trailer storage. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to two tenants. The name of the seller was not released.
BRICK, N.J. — Marquis Health Services, the healthcare affiliate of Tryko Partners LLC, has completed a $2.8 million renovation and repositioning of Willow Springs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Brick. Located at 1049 Burnt Tavern Road, the property features 148 skilled nursing beds, an expanded rehabilitation therapy gym, a putting green, gourmet coffee lounge and updated common areas and patient rooms.
The Capital Region continues to experience low vacancy rates across the industrial sector. The region’s growth over the last decade has primarily been driven by multibillion-dollar investments by GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor foundry, and State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (known as SUNY Poly). With limited new construction and virtually no spec-built facilities, the rates on existing spaces have finally experienced some rental appreciation after remaining relatively flat over the decade from 2005 to 2015. For the most part, the region has seen existing tenants shifting to new locations within the marketplace as opposed to companies entering to the marketplace for the first time. Generally, new entrants to the market that have some technology component to their business are locating at the SUNY Poly campus or related facilities. One of the most notable recent transactions was the $57 million sale of The Beltrone Portfolio to The Rosenblum Companies. The portfolio totaled 23 buildings made up of a mix of office and industrial properties. The industrial assets included 10 buildings that would be classified as Class A and B product. Historically the entire portfolio maintained a low vacancy status and at the time of sale it was approximately 5 percent vacant. …
PHILADELPHIA — TD Bank has invested a total of $20.6 million to convert the long-vacant Spring Garden School in Philadelphia into a 49-unit affordable community for seniors and homeless veterans. The investment includes $11.6 million in tax credit equity and a $9 million construction loan. When completed, the conversion will offer 37 units for low-income seniors and 12 units for homeless veterans. Spring Garden School was built in 1927 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The property has been vacant for nearly 40 years. The project will include restoring the interior and exteriors of the building, while intentionally preserving some of the graffiti. HELP USA, a national homeless service provider and low-income housing developer, is developing the project.
NEW YORK CITY — Bestreich Realty Group has brokered the sale of a 38-unit five-building assemblage of multifamily properties located at 255-265 Linden St. in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. Linden Street Group acquired the properties from Excelsior Equities for $9.5 million. The assemblage comprises four contiguous eight-unit properties and one six-unit property. The buyer plans to hold the property and maximize value. Derek Bestreich, Luke Sproviero, Steve Reynolds of Bestreich represented the buyer and seller in the deal.