NEW YORK CITY — Target Corp. has signed a 15-year lease with Muss Development for 20,795 square feet of space at 7000 Austin Street, a mixed-use property located in the Forest Hills section of Queens. The new flexible-format store — the first in the city — is slated to open in mid-2016. The two-story Target will feature an assortment of goods tailored to city dwellers, including fresh groceries, a pharmacy, health and beauty necessities, tech accessories, electronics and home goods designed for single-family homes and condos. Target will take the space currently occupied by Barnes & Noble, which declined to exercise an extension option. Additional tenants at the fully leased property include Starbucks Coffee, Men’s Wearhouse, Eddie Bauer, TITLE Boxing Club and T.G.I. Friday’s. Jeffrey Howard and Doug Weinstein of Ripco Real Estate represented Target, while Muss Development had in-house representation for the transaction.
LOWELL, MASS. — Fantini & Gorga has arranged $2.7 million in permanent financing for Embassy House Apartments in Lowell. The three-building property features 36 one- and two-bedroom market-rate apartments. Originally built in the early 1960s, the property underwent an extensive exterior/interior and building systems upgrade in 2003. Derek Coulombe, Tim O’Donnell and Jason Cunnane of Fantini & Gorga arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
GREAT NECK, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged a $1.5 million first mortgage loan for an apartment building located at 15 Beach Road in Great Neck. Built in 1950, the three-story building includes 54 apartments, on-site outdoor parking spots, 27 garages, gardens and a courtyard. The seven-year loan, which was placed with a savings bank, features a fixed interest rate of 3.5 percent and a 30-year amortization schedule. Jeremiah Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes secured the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
WYNCOTE, PA. — Philadelphia Rock Gym (PRG) has inked a multi-year lease for a 10,000-square-foot warehouse facility, located at 827 Glenside Ave., Suite 200 in Wyncote. The facility will be PRG’s fourth rock climbing location in the greater Philadelphia area. PRG is an indoor rock climbing gym known for its state-of-the-art climbing walls, full-service fitness centers and private party wall rentals. Swope Lees Commercial represented the tenant in the transaction with the landlord, Midgard Properties LP.
NEW YORK CITY — lululemon athletica inc. has leased 6,400 square feet of retail space at 50 Bond St. in New York City’s NoHo district. The athletic apparel company will occupy the space that Eva Scrivo Salon is vacating. The two-level retail unit features 13-foot ceilings on the ground floor and more than 30 feet of frontage on Bond Street. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel and built in 1896, the property also features six full-floor residential condominiums. The landlord, Thor Equities, recently acquired the retail unit. Terms of the lease were not released. Eva Scrivo Salon is relocating to 5,500 square feet at 193 Fifth Ave. in the Flatiron district.
IRVINGTON, MONTCLAIR AND EAST ORANGE, N.J. — Gebroe-Hammer Associates has arranged the sales of four multifamily properties, totaling 176 units, across Essex County, N.J. The Livingston-based firm represented the sellers, private investors, in each transaction. In the first transaction, David Oropeza of Gebroe-Hammer arranged the $5.6 million sale of a two-property multifamily package in Irvington. Located at 336 and 505-515 Stuyvesant Ave., the six-building portfolio features 120 units, on-premise parking, garages, on-site laundry and balconies. Oropeza represented the seller and secured the buyer in the deal. Also in Irvington, David Jarvis of Gebroe-Hammer brokered the sale of a three-story walk-up at 649 Chancellor Ave. The property features 14 renovated studio apartments and two ground-floor retail units. Terms of the sale, including buyer, seller and price, were not released. In the third transaction, a two-building portfolio, located at 97 and 101 Pine St. in Montclair, sold for $4 million. The 28-unit portfolio features a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans with modern kitchen and baths, as well as hardwood flooring. Ken Uranowitz and Nicholas Nicolaou of Gebroe-Hammer handled the transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not disclosed. In the final transaction, Oropeza and Jarvis negotiated the …
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a mixed-use building located at 1260 Broadway in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Situated between Green and Lexington avenues, the 7,000-square-foot property sold for $2.2 million, or $314 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The four-story walk-up building consists of three two-bedroom apartments, three one-bedroom apartments and one retail unit. Renovated in 2000, the property is fully free market with preferential rents. A preferential rent is a rent that an owner agrees to charge that is lower than the legal regulated rent that the owner could lawfully collect. Michael Amirkhanian of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged a $2 million first mortgage loan for a multifamily property located at 33 Williams St. in Mount Vernon’s Fleetwood section. Built in 1932, the seven-story property, which is situated on 1.1 acres, features 116 apartments, 26 on-site outdoor parking spots, 60 garage spots, gardens and a courtyard. The self-liquidating loan was placed with a savings bank at a 15-year fixed interest rate of 3.6 percent. Jeremiah Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
SOMERSET, N.J. — Binswanger has arranged the long-term lease of 82,181 square feet of distribution space in Somerset for Iberia Foods of New York. The company plans to use the facility at 95 Clyde Road to support the more than 10,000 supermarkets, club stores, wholesalers and distributors on the East Coast that the company serves. Constructed in 1980, the property features 24-foot clear ceiling heights, a wet sprinkler system, T-8 lighting, eight dock-high doors, one drive-in door and parking for 100 vehicles. Andy Grabis and Jim Panczykowski of Binswanger represented the tenant in the transaction. The landlord is Cabot II-NJ M01 LLC.
HAMILTON, N.J. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of a property located at 1670 White Horse-Mercerville Road in Hamilton to Babe Ruth League Inc., a non-profit educational, baseball organization. The stand-alone property features 8,500 square feet of office space, including a showroom of Babe Ruth memorabilia, and a 1,500-square-foot warehouse. The national organization plans to relocate its headquarters to the property from its former location at 1770 Brunswick Pike in Lawrence, N.J. Vinny Di Meglio and Thomas Romano of Colliers represented Babe Ruth League in the $712,000 transaction. The seller was Hamilton Park Associates LP.