NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a 10.5-acre waterfront development site located at 1110 Oak Point Ave. in the Hunt’s Point neighborhood of the Bronx. The asset sold for $24 million. The L-shaped irregular lot offers 874,685 square feet of buildable square footage and 1,000 feet of frontage along the East River. The site currently features a 68,787-square-foot building, which was vacant at the time of sale. The site is within a M3-1 zoning district, which allows for heavy industrial uses. James Nelson, Nick Burns and Ben Fox of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while Tom Cisco of Feinberg Bros Agency represented the buyer in the all-cash transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.
BOSTON — Chevron Partners has acquired the Sears Crescent building, located at 38-68 Cornhill in Boston. Copley Investments sold the historic property for $23.8 million. Located in Boston’s Government Center neighborhood, the 50,300-square-foot office building is 100 percent leased to 14 tenants and offers street-level retail space. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen and Justin Smith of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the seller in the transaction.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — GE (NYSE:GE) has opened the 125,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Works (AMW) plant in Greenville. AMW is GE Power’s first advanced manufacturing facility. The facility will serve as an incubator for the development of advanced manufacturing processes and rapid prototyping of new parts for GE’s energy businesses. These include power, renewable energy, oil and gas, and energy connections. GE has invested $73 million in the facility to date and will invest another $327 million across the GE Power Greenville campus over the next several years. The new facility created approximately 80 engineering and manufacturing jobs, according to GE. The company broke ground on the facility in mid-2014. “This facility will ignite the digital industrial revolution for our company and the industry,” says Steve Bolze, GE Power’s president and CEO. “We’re building a skilled workforce and culture that’s devoted to delivering breakthrough innovations that deliver better, faster outcomes for our customers and unlock new productivity and growth.” GE entered the Greenville market more than 40 years ago with a 340,000-square-foot property. That site has now grown close to 1.7 million square feet of factories, offices and laboratories focused on manufacturing advanced products for worldwide distribution. GE has more than 3,200 …
NEW YORK CITY — Mission Capital Advisors has arranged $35.9 million in financing for the renovation and conversion of 396 Broadway, a 10-story commercial property in Lower Manhattan. The borrower, Bridgeton Hotels, is converting the office property into the Walker Hotel Tribeca, a 171-key boutique hotel. The hotel will include nine floors of guestrooms and suites and ground-floor and rooftop space dedicated to food and beverage vendors. Bridgeton, an owner, developer and manager of commercial and residential real estate, acquired the property in an all-cash transaction in 2014.
NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the sale of two contiguous multifamily properties located at 916-920 and 926 Southern Blvd. in the Longwood section of the Bronx. A1 Equities acquired the assets from 922 Southern LLC for $16.1 million. Built in 1911, the buildings total 100,704 square feet with 66 apartments and nine vacant commercial units. One of the buildings, which was delivered vacant, is slated to undergo a gut renovation; while the other building, with 15 tenants, is scheduled for a partial renovation. Aaron Jungreis of Rosewood Realty Group represented the buyer, while Jungreis and Jonathan Brody, also of Rosewood, represented the seller in transaction.
REVERE, MASS. — Linchris Hotel Corp. has completed the sale of the Hampton Inn Boston-Logan Airport, located at 230 Lee Burbank Highway in Revere. The 227-room property was sold for an undisclosed sum. Built in 2001, the seven-story hotel features 672 square feet of function space, an indoor swimming pool, fitness room, business center, complimentary shuttle service and breakfast, an airline crew lounge and dining options at the Two Doors Down Bar & Restaurant. Denny Meikleham and Alan Suzuki of HFF represented the seller in the transaction. The name of the buyer was not released.
NEWTON, MASS. — Integrated Builders, on behalf of Two Wells Avenue LLC, has broken ground on an expansion at an office building located at Two Wells Ave. in Newton. The new three-story addition will require extensive demolition on the north and west portions of the existing facility and will increase the building’s total size from 69,000 square feet to 127,000 square feet. The updated facility will feature a modern design with a glass exterior, an expanded parking lot, new utilities and an underground storm water infiltration system. Additionally, a 3,162-square-foot common corridor will connect the new and existing buildings. Spagnolo Gisness & Associates is providing architectural services for the project, which is slated for completion in December.
NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Investment Sales has arranged the sale of a mixed-use property located at 600 E. 178th St. in the Bronx. The six-story, elevator-serviced building sold for $8.8 million, equivalent to a 5.5 percent cap rate. Located in the Tremont neighborhood, the 47,200-square-foot property features 45 residential units and six retail units. Mark Steinmetz of Meridian Investment Sales represented the buyer and seller in the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $128 million in acquisition financing for the purchase of Devonshire Hills, a multifamily property located in Hauppauge. Bainbridge Cos. and China Orient Asset Management, through its U.S. affiliated entity, acquired the 43-building, 656-unit multifamily property located at 1717 Devonshire Road. The garden-style apartment community includes a swimming pool, tennis court, fitness court and shared outdoor space. The five-year loan, provided by a regional balance sheet lender, features a 3.13 percent fixed rate, two years of interest-only payments and a 75 percent loan-to-cost ratio. Jacob Katz, Abe Hirsch and Zev Karpel of Meridian Capital Group arranged the financing for the borrower.
HOBOKEN, N.J. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $81.9 million in refinancing for four affordable housing properties in Hoboken. Gary Cohen of NorthMarq secured the 10-year refinancing, which features a 30-year amortization schedule. The financing was arranged for the undisclosed borrower through NorthMarq’s seller-servicer relationship with Freddie Mac. Managed by Applied Housing Management, the properties feature a total of 448 units.