NASHUA, N.H. — Burlington, Mass.-based Linear Retail Properties has acquired a free-standing building located at 235 Daniel Webster Highway in Nashua. The 29,554-square-foot property, which is occupied by Barnes & Noble Bookstore, sold for $12 million. The property is connected to three other Linear Retail centers: Daniel Webster Plaza, Daniel Webster Shops and Daniel Webster Crossing. The name of the seller was not released.
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Kendal Corp. has opened the first phase of the repositioning and expansion of Kendal at Ithaca, a full-service seniors housing community located on a 105-acre campus in Ithaca. The opening marks the completion of a $30 million expansion, which began in 2012. Master planned by Perkins Eastman, the new property features an inviting entrance and reception area, expanded fitness center, new casual dining bistro, 24 new high-end apartments for independent living and a new skilled nursing center, which replaced the original care center. The second phase redevelopment will transform former nursing rooms into an enlarged health clinic for the community. The single-story skilled nursing center was designed on the neighborhood model, which divides the center into three distinct neighborhoods, each with its own kitchen and pantry, dining and living rooms and 16 private resident rooms with sensitively designed outdoor space. The master plan also includes interior and exterior renovations to the main dining room and common areas, as well as passive and active outdoor courtyards and an expansion of the community’s preexisting walking paths.
LONDONDERRY, N.H. — Calpine Corp. (NYSE: CPN) has purchased the Granite Ridge Energy Center power plant for $500 million. The natural gas-fired, combined-cycle plant is located at 21 N. Wentworth Ave. in the Southeast New Hampshire town of Londonderry, near the Massachusetts border. The seller was Granite Ridge Holdings. The power plant features two combustion turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and one steam turbine. It began operating in 2003. Granite Ridge has a nameplate generating capacity of 745 megawatts, resulting in a purchase price of approximately $671 per kilowatt. “The addition of Granite Ridge strategically enhances our footprint in New England,” says Thad Hill, Calpine’s president and CEO. “Now with approximately 2,000 megawatts of modern gas-fired capability in the region, Calpine is well positioned to provide clean, flexible and reliable energy and capacity to the market.” Calpine financed the transaction with proceeds from a $550 million first lien term loan, secured in December 2015. Calpine Corporation is America’s largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources. Champion Energy, the company’s wholesale power operations and retail business, serves customers in 20 states and Canada. Calpine’s stock closed at $15.31 on Friday, Feb. 5, down from $22.16 one year …
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Slate Property Group and GreenOak Real Estate has acquired RiverTower at Sutton Place, located at 420 E. 54th St. in New York City’s Sutton Place neighborhood. Equity Residential sold the property for $390 million. The 38-story residential building features 311 rental units in one-, two- or three-plus bedroom layouts, a bicycle room, 28,000-square-foot landscaped plaza, an on-site 182-car parking garage and a fitness center. The joint venture plans to reposition RiverTower at Sutton as the premier, full service rental property in Sutton Place through a comprehensive building renovation and unit upgrades. Darcy Stacom and William Shanahan of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Newmark Holdings has completed the disposition of a medical office building located at One Long Wharf Drive. Healthcare Trust of America purchased the seven-story property for $73 million. As part of the acquisition, the buyer will also take ownership of a three-acre ground leased lot, located under an adjacent hotel, located at Three Long Wharf Drive. The 286,713-square-foot property was 99 percent occupied at the time of sale. Current tenants include Yale-New Haven Hospital and APT Foundation. David Noonan of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Capital Markets and Richard Lee of OR&L Commercial represented the seller in the transaction.
PARSIPPANY AND GARFIELD, N.J. — Madison Realty Capital (MRC) has provided two first mortgage loans totaling $71.1 million for commercial properties in Northern New Jersey. In the first transaction, Madison Realty provided $45 million in acquisition financing for a 404,515-square-foot office property located at 2 Gateway Drive in Parsippany. The undisclosed borrower plans to re-tenant a portion of the property, modernize the property’s common areas and enhance the building’s amenity package. MRC funded $33 million at closing to facilitate the borrower’s acquisition and reserved a future funding component of $12 million for good-news leasing. In the second transaction, MRC provided a $26.1 million loan for the recapitalization of a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial property located at 141 Lanza Ave. in Garfield. Situated on 33 acres, the industrial property includes a warehouse and self-storage space. The undisclosed borrower plans to continue leasing and asset management efforts to fully stabilize the property.
BOSTON — Related Beal has broken ground for Parcel 1B, a mixed-use, transit-oriented development across the street from Lovejoy Wharf in Boston. Designed by CBT Architects, the project will include a 14-story residential building totaling 484,000 square feet with street-level retail and on-site parking, and a 220-room Courtyard Marriott hotel with 2,500 square feet of meeting space, which will be operated by Turnberry Associates. The residential building will feature 239 affordable units that will be restricted to individuals, couples and families with qualified incomes ranging from 30 percent area median income (AMI) to up to 165 percent AMI. The project is slated for delivery in 2018.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of an apartment building located at 440 W. 47th St. in Manhattan’s Midtown West neighborhood. The asset sold for $23.5 million, or $760 per square foot. The five-story building consists of one commercial unit and 46 residential units. The unit mix includes two studios, four one-bedroom units, 39 two-bedroom units and one three-bedroom unit. Sixteen of the units are rent stabilized and 30 are free-market units. Bob Knakal, Jonathan Hageman and Chris Brodhead of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.
FLANDERS, N.J. — AIG Global Real Estate Corp. (AIG) has sold a 1,224-unit multifamily property in Flanders, approximately 45 miles west of Jersey City, for $183.3 million. The undisclosed buyer acquired the asset, Oakwood Village, clear of existing debt. Oakwood Village, located at 77 Oakwood Village along Route 206, is situated on 167 acres. The property is comprised of 107 two- and three-story buildings. The buildings feature one- and two-bedroom units that average 823 square feet. Amenities at Oakwood Village include a swimming pool, tennis court, multiple playgrounds, two dog parks and garage parking. The property is 95 percent leased. “There is significant upside in Oakwood, and the buyer will be capitalizing on that,” says Jose Cruz, senior managing director for HFF. “The proximity to the highway and easy access to retail shops and restaurants make this asset very valuable.” Jose Cruz, Andrew Scandalios, Kevin O’Hearn, Michael Oliver, Steve Simonelli and Mark Thomson make up the investment sales team for HFF that represented the seller in the transaction. This transaction follows the sale of a 12-property multifamily portfolio that HFF brokered on behalf of AIG in December. The disposition of the 13 properties totals $348.8 million.
NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of a 58-unit multifamily building located at 15-25 Crown St. in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Sterling Equities acquired the 51,000-square-foot multifamily building from BCB Property Management for $20.7 million, or $357,000 per unit. The six-story building features one four-bedroom unit, nine three-bedroom units, 19 two-bedroom units, 27 one-bedroom units and two studio apartments. Adam Hess, San Shalumov, Eddie Setton and Kirill Galperin of TerraCRG were the sole brokers in the transaction.
