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NEW YORK CITY — Benchmark Real Estate Group has sold a residential and retail building located at 885 10th Ave. in Manhattan’s Midtown West neighborhood. A private family acquired the 37,000-square-foot property for $47.5 million. The six-story building features 36 newly upgraded apartment units, a roof deck, laundry facilities, bike/general storage and a smartphone-based intercom system. Additionally, the building features two ground-floor retail spaces that are fully leased and 20,000 square feet of buildable air rights. Eric Anton, Jeff Julien and Steven Rutman of HFF represented the seller in the deal.

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NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has brokered the sale of a nine-building multifamily portfolio in Brooklyn. Chestnut Holdings acquired the 203-unit portfolio from San Francisco-based Carmel Partners for $40 million. Spread across Brooklyn’s Crown Heights and East New York neighborhoods, the properties are located at 883 Franklin Ave., 1742-1746 Union St., 1746 President St. and 1402-1406 Sterling Place. All of the 203 apartments are rent stabilized. Aaron Jungreis of Rosewood Realty Group represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction.

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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — Redwood Realty Advisors has brokered the sale of two apartment buildings located on South Second Avenue in Mount Vernon. An undisclosed buyer acquired the properties for $7.5 million, with a 6.9 percent cap rate. The assets are a 34-unit apartment building and a mixed-use building with 35 apartment units and seven commercial spaces. Michael Scrima and Thomas Gorman of Redwood Realty Advisors brokered the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.

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BOSTON — Frazer Capital has completed the disposition of a retail condominium located at 165 Newbury St. in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. 165 Newbury Street Owner LLC acquired the property for $6.2 million, or $5,952 per square foot. Leased to Starbucks Coffee on a long-term basis, the property features 1,050 square feet of retail space and a 350-square-foot patio. Robert Griffin, Geoffrey Millerd and Paul Penman of NGKF Capital Markets represented the seller in the transaction.

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PISCATAWAY AND WAYNE, N.J. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $218.2 million in acquisition financing for the purchase of Pleasant View Gardens and Wayne Village, two multifamily properties located in Piscataway and Wayne. Cammeby’s International LTD acquired the properties, which total 1,414 units. The 10-year Fannie Mae loans, provided by Capital One Multifamily Finance, feature 3.89 percent fixed rates and seven years of interest-only payments. Abe Hirsch, Zev Karpel of Meridian Capital arranged the financing for the borrower. Located at 258 1/2 Carlton Ave. in Piscataway, Pleasant View Gardens offers 1,142 apartments, a swimming pool, fitness center, business center and clubhouse. Located at 1353 Valley Road in Wayne, the 275-unit Wayne Village features a swimming pool, fitness center and dog park.

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JONESTOWN, PA. — Ridgeline Property Group has broken ground on Crossroads Logistics Center, a speculative industrial building located on MSC Drive in Jonestown. Expandable to 450,000 square feet, the 398,250-square-foot building will feature 36-foot clear heights, 85 dock doors in a cross-docked configuration, four drive-in doors, 55-foot by 56-foot column spacing, ESFR sprinkler systems, 206 auto parking spaces and 116 trailer storage stalls. Completion is slated for December. CBRE has been retained to market the property for lease.

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CAMBRIDGE, REVERE AND CONCORD, MASS. — KW Development has completed the sales of three hotels in the Boston metro area for a combined $71.5 million. The company sold the 121-key Best Western Plus Hotel Tria, located at 220 Alewife Brook Parkway in Cambridge, to an undisclosed buyer in February; the 180-room Four Points by Sheraton Boston Logan Airport, located at 407 Squire Road in Revere, sold in March; and the 105-key Best Western at Historic Concord, located at 740 Elm St. in Concord, sold in April. The properties were sold to three different undisclosed buyers. Additional details of the sales were not released. Denny Meikelham and Alan Suzuki of HFF represented KW in all three sales.

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KINGSTON, N.Y. — Unison Realty Partners has completed the disposition of King’s Mall, a retail-anchored shopping center located in Kingston. An affiliate of Paragon Realty Group acquired the 186,000-square-foot property for $19.6 million. Tenants at the property include Marshalls, HomeGoods, DSW, Ulta Beauty and Mother Earth’s Storehouse. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank brokered the transaction.

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MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — CBRE/New England’s Debt & Structured Finance team secured $9.1 million in acquisition financing for Calare Properties Inc. The company used loan proceeds to purchase two industrial/flex properties located at 261 Cedar Hill St. and 753 Forest St. within Cedar Hills Business Park in Marlborough. 261 Cedar Street is a 59,404-square-foot industrial/flex building that is fully occupied by four long-term tenants with staggered lease expiration dates. 753 Forest Street is a 75,000-square-foot property fully leased to five tenants. HarborOne Bank provided the financing. Kyle Juszczyszyn, Chris Coutts and Lenny Pierce of CBRE/NE arranged the financing for the borrower.

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BOSTON — The Boston Redevelopment Authority Board has given approval for Edens to construct a 700,000-square-foot mixed-use development in the South Bay submarket of Boston. The 10-acre, $200 million development will sit adjacent to Edens’ South Bay Center in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. This approval was the last hurdle to starting the project, and Edens plans to break ground in June. The proposal calls for 113,000 square feet of restaurants and shops, a 12-screen luxury AMC Theatre with IMAX, a flagship Wahlburger’s, a 130-room hotel and two parking garages. Edens will also partner with Mill Creek Residential to develop 475 multifamily units at the project. The multifamily component will contain a mix of studio to three-bedroom apartments. The mixed-use project will be built on a site that currently contains a vacant industrial property and concrete plant. During construction, Edens also plans to upgrade the 427,289-square-foot South Bay Center, which is home to tenants such as OfficeMax, Marshalls, Old Navy, Target, The Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond and TJ Maxx. Columbia, S.C.-based Edens develops, owns and operates community shopping centers in primary U.S. markets. Its institutional-quality portfolio contains more than 130 retail centers. Mill Creek Residential Trust LLC is a national …

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