WATERBURY, CONN. — Katz Properties has acquired Mattatuck Commons, a shopping center in Waterbury, for $21.6 million. Situated on 17.72 acres along Route 69, the center features 147,241 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 78 percent occupied by a variety of national tenants, including ShopRite, Sleepy’s, Goodwill, GameStop and Taco Bell. The name of the seller was not released.
ALLENTOWN, PA. — City Office REIT has completed the sale of its office property located on Corporate Parkway in Allentown. The 178,330-square-foot building sold for $44.9 million, with an expected 6.6 percent net operating income yield. Proceeds from the sale were used to repay approximately $4 million of mortgage debt. Additionally, the seller plans to acquire assets as part of a like-kind 1031 exchange. With the sale of this non-strategic asset, the City Office REIT has been able to align its portfolio entirely within its target markets.
NEW YORK CITY — Ivanhoé Cambridge and its partner, Callahan Capital Properties, have acquired the remaining 49 percent interest in 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown New York City for an undisclosed price. Built in 1973, the 44-story tower features 2 million square feet of Class A office space. Additionally, the building has direct access to the Rockefeller Center Concourse amenities and subway.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Chelsea Pines Inn, located at 317 W. 14th St. in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood for $13.7 million. The five-story, 8,550-square-foot hotel features 23 rooms and an additional 8,625 buildable square feet of air rights. The hotel features movie-themed rooms, high-end luxury linens, bath amenities and WiFi. Brock Emmetsberger, Jonathan Hageman and Andy Posil of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers, Jay Lesiger and Tom Klebba, in the deal. The name of the buyer was not released.
NEW YORK CITY — Cape Advisors has launched sales at 30 Warren, a 12-story multifamily building in Tribeca. Designed by Post-Office Architectes, the 12-story development features 23 condominiums ranging from one- to three-bedroom homes, including three full-floor penthouses with direct elevator entry and library areas. Residences range from 1,000 square feet to more than 2,500 square feet, with prices ranging from $2 million to $8 million. On-site amenities include an attended lobby, fitness center, children’s playroom, bicycle storage and private storage. The project is slated for completion in the fall of 2017.
NEW YORK CITY — Besen & Associates has arranged the sale of two contiguous three-story residential buildings located at 316 and 318 E. 81st St. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. An undisclosed buyer acquired the assets for $9.2 million, or $750 per buildable square foot. With a total of 12,232 buildable square feet, the buyer plans to develop the properties in luxury residential housing. The asset at 316 E. 81st St. is a single-family property and the property at 318 E. 81st St. is a seven-unit multifamily building. Jess Cirolli-Quinones of Besen & Associates represented the buyer, while Rolfe Haas, also of Besen & Associates, represented the undisclosed seller.
NEW YORK CITY — Cogswell Lee Development, in partnership with architect/developer GLUCK+, has launched sales at 150 Rivington, a residential building located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The multifamily building features 45 one-, two- and three-bedroom condominiums ranging from 543 square feet to more than 1,600 square feet. One-bedroom units start at $995,000; two-bedroom condos at $1.6 million; three-bedrooms at $2.7 million; and three-bedroom penthouses at $3.8 million. Slated for completion in the first quarter of 2018, the property will feature a 24-hour attended lobby, superintendent and porter services, a package room, cold storage, bicycle storage, a fitness center, a 1,500-square-foot roof terrace and 12,000 square feet of retail space.
NEW YORK CITY — Kamber Management Co. has launched a $20 million capital investment plan for Tower 45, a 40-story Class A office building located at 120 W. 45th St. in Manhattan. Kohn Pederson Fox will redesign the entrance, façade, lobby and elevator cabs of the 458,446-square-foot property. Additionally, Milo Kleinberg Design Associates is creating new interior design concepts for common areas, including hallways, bathrooms and a new pre-built suite program. Current office tenants at the 26-year-old property include Procter & Gamble, TIBCO Software, Shrodinger, Lipsky Goodkind and Co., and Bobby Van’s Steakhouse.
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. — A group of like-minded real estate practitioners have formed Capital Markets Real Estate Network to serve investor clients nationwide in all the commercial real estate industry property sectors, including office, industrial, retail, multifamily and self-storage facilities. The new network will target investment sales, financing and 1031 exchanges nationwide, allowing members to win business in institutional and non-institutional commercial real estate sectors. In addition to new business generation, the network will serve members as an information exchange on market conditions, trends, property pricing, sharing best practices and more. The founding firms and members are Edward Ginn, Ken McEvoy and Bart Delfiner of Equity Retail Brokers; Chad Stine and Brad Rohrbaugh of Bennett Williams Commercial; Colin Flynn of The Flynn Company; Gerard O’Malley and Tim McGinley of Duquesne Commercial Funding; and Matthew May of May Realty Advisors. The network plans to identify and recruit broker members in dozens of primary, secondary and tertiary markets nationwide in the next few years.
NEW YORK CITY — NAI Long Island has announced its expansion with the formation of a new division, NAI Queens. The division will specialize in the sale of investment properties in the Queens market, as well as provide other real estate services to Queens clients. Brian Sarath has joined the new division as a senior director. Most recently, Sarath serviced as director of the capital markets group of Massey Knakal, subsequently Cushman & Wakefield, since 2000. To date, Sarath has sold more than 220 buildings and loans with an aggregate value of $620 million.
