PHILADELPHIA — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a two-building mixed-use property located at 4343-4345 Main St. in Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $2 million, or $231,666 per unit. The asset features eight studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments and one retail unit, which is leased to Chabaa Thai and Binto. Phil Sharrow and Jonathan Massaro of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller and secured the buyer. Additionally, Sharrow and Massaro worked with Matthew Rosenberg of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. to arrange a 10-year acquisition loan for the buyer.
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PLAINFIELD, CONN. — Tomasso Group has completed the disposition of Medical Arts Center at The Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute, located at 201 N. Mountain Road in Plainfield. A publicly traded REIT acquired the property for $30.2 million. At the time of sale, the 72,022-square-foot property was 95 percent leased to Hartford Healthcare, Orthopedic Associates of Hartford and a variety of Hartford Healthcare-employed physicians. Ben Appel, Phil Mahler, Evan Kovac and Doug Rodio of HFF represented the seller in the transaction. Tunxis Management Co., an affiliate of Tomasso Group, will continue to manage the property.
ROCKY HILL, CONN. — CBRE/New England has brokered the sale of a portion of Greenfield Village, a condominium property located in Rocky Hill. An affiliate of The Simon Konover Co. acquired 151 units of the 231-unit condominium community from an undisclosed seller for $13.6 million. The acquired portion features 79 one-bedroom and 72 two-bedroom townhouses with an average size of 778 square feet. Built in 1965, Greenfield Village comprises 56 two-story garden-style buildings offering a total of 231 condominiums. Simon Butler, Biria St. John, Jeff Dunne and Gene Pride of CBRE/NE represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
Colliers Completes $9M Sale and Financing of Office/Flex Portfolio in Waltham, Massachusetts
by Amy Works
WALTHAM, MASS. — Colliers International Boston has arranged the $9 million sale of a two-building office and flex portfolio on behalf of Schernecker Property Services. Boston-based btcRE acquired the portfolio, which includes a 40,000-square-foot office and warehouse building at 179 Bear Hill Road and an 18,000-square-foot flex building at 283 Second Ave. in Waltham. MSPCA, a local non-profit that protects animals, fully occupies the property on Second Avenue. Doug Jacoby, Scott Dragos, Tony Hayes, Tim Mulhall and Dan Hines of Colliers represented the seller in the transaction. Additionally, Tom Welsh, Adam Coppola and John Poole, also of Colliers, arranged $9 million in acquisition and bridge financing for a Massachusetts-based loan fund on behalf of the buyer.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., AND PORTLAND, MAINE — Horvath & Tremblay has arranged two retail property sales totaling $4 million in Providence and Portland. In the first deal, an undisclosed investor purchased a 10,920-square-foot retail property located in Providence for $2.5 million. Family Dollar occupies the property under a new 10-year double-net lease with six five-year extension options. Bob Horvath, Todd Tremblay and Brian Ahrens of Horvath & Tremblay represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. In the second deal, an undisclosed buyer acquired the ground lease to a freestanding restaurant property located on Riverside Street in Portland for $1.5 million. Burger King fully occupies the 2,622-square-foot building and has more than 12 years remaining on its original 20-year ground lease. Horvath, Tremblay and Ahrens represented the buyer in the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
NEW YORK CITY — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital has expanded its affordable housing lending group in New York City. The company has hired three team members to exclusively focus on Federal Housing Administration lending in the New York region. Hadley Bressman and John Mannix have joined the company as senior vice presidents and loan originators, and Nicole Bressman has joined as an analyst. Hadley Bressman and Nicole Bressman most recently served at the Hadley Group, while Mannix previously served at Merchant Equity Group. Bellwether Enterprise is a national, full-service commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company and a subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment Inc.
TORONTO AND GREENWICH, CONN. — Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: MST.UN), a Toronto-based multifamily REIT, has entered into an agreement with an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group whereby Starwood will acquire all of Milestone’s subsidiaries and assets. The transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of this year, is valued at $2.85 billion (USD). Milestone’s board of trustees has unanimously approved the acquisition and recommends that its shareholders vote in favor of the transaction. Milestone’s shareholders will receive $16.15 per share in cash upon closing, and the REIT expects to continue paying its monthly distributions in the normal course through closing. Milestone REIT’s portfolio consists of 78 garden-style apartment properties comprising 24,061 apartment units that are located in 16 major metropolitan markets throughout the Southeast and Southwest. Nearly half of the REIT’s holdings are in Texas. The transaction’s average price per apartment unit of approximately $120,000 compares favorably to Milestone’s current book value of approximately $109,500 per apartment unit. Starwood’s acquisition of Milestone’s portfolio of multifamily properties and operating platform of more than 1,200 employees will allow the firm to grow its multifamily footprint, especially in the Sunbelt region, where Starwood owns more than 67,000 …
HOLBROOK, N.Y. — Clarion Partners has completed the sale of Broadway Knolls, a garden-style apartment building located at 2200 Dolphin Lane in Holbrook. A private buyer acquired the property for $81.9 million, or $290,000 per unit. Built in 2006, the 22-building property features 284 units in one- and two-bedroom layouts, a fitness center, outdoor swimming pool, grilling area, fire pit, basketball and tennis courts, playground, dog park, community room, business center and walking trail. Jose Cruz, Kevin O’Hearn, Michael Oliver, Stephen Simonelli and Marc Duval of HFF, in collaboration with Select Real Equity Advisors, represented the seller in the deal.
New York Life Real Estate Investors Originates $146.6M Loan for Office Building in Jersey City
by Amy Works
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — New York Life Real Estate Investors, on behalf of Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund Inc., has originated a $146.6 million loan for an office building located at 3 Second St. in Jersey City. The floating-rate loan has an initial term of three years with two one-year extensions.
MONACA, PA. — PREIT has sold Beavery Valley Mall, located at 570 Beaver Valley Mall Blvd. in Monaca, for $24.2 million. Boscov’s, J.C. Penney and Dick’s Sporting Goods anchor the approximately 1.1 million-square-foot property. The name of the buyer was not released.