LITTLETON, MASS. — Marriott has broken ground on Courtyard by Marriott at The Point, a $100 million, 540,000-square-foot mixed-use retail destination in Littleton. The four-story hotel will feature 115 rooms with flexible workspaces, casual meeting space, a business center, a 24/7 market, free WiFi, GoBoard Touchscreens, a breakfast area, gym, pool, outdoor courtyard seating and a first-floor restaurant. The hotel joins O’neil Cinemas, The Paper Store and numerous restaurants at The Point. The Courtyard by Marriott is slated to open in Spring 2016. Boston-based Sam Park & Co. is developing The Point, a mixed-used retail center in Boston’s MetroWest area.
RIDGEFIELD AND NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — Cronheim Mortgage has arranged two loans totaling $13.5 million for two warehouse and distribution facilities in New Jersey. In the first transaction, Cronheim secured $10 million in financing for a 325,340-square-foot warehouse in Ridgefield. The 10-year loan features four years of interest-only payments and a 32-year amortization schedule. The property features 20-foot clear height ceilings, 24,000 square feet of office space, truck loading space and vehicle parking. Additionally, Cronheim arranged a $3.5 million loan for a 235,000-square-foot industrial facility in North Bergen. The 10-year loan features a 30-year amortization schedule. Leased by a wine and spirits company, the facility features 20-foot ceiling heights, ample truck and car parking, and 6,500 square feet of office space. Dev Morris and Andrew Stewart of Cronheim Mortgage arranged the financing in both deals.
CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. — Progress Capital Advisors | The Funding Source arranged an $11 million construction-to-permanent loan for a Hurricane Sandy-damaged 52,000-square-foot mixed-use building in Coney Island. The loan was used to renovate the building, which now includes a 9,400-square-foot Dollar Tree, a 15,000-square-foot Blink Fitness and space for the Human Resources Administration – City of New York. The original renovation loan was a LIBOR floating-rate loan, which recently converted to a permanent loan at 4.25 percent for 10 years with a 25-year amortization schedule. Kathy Anderson of Progress Capital Advisors | The Funding Source arranged the loan for the owner, Steve Samuels.
FAIRLESS HILLS, PA. — Cohen Real Estate has brokered the sale of Fairless Hills Shopping Center, a grocery-anchored community shopping located in Fairless Hills. Fairless Hills Shopping LP acquired the property for $22 million from Fairless Hills S.C. Associates. Situated on 34.5 acres on S. Oxford Valley Road, the center contains 292,067 square feet, of which 145,605 square feet is currently occupied by a variety of tenants, including Giant Supermarket, Dollar Tree, Rent-A-Center, Wells Fargo and McDonald’s. Vera Thomas of Cohen Realty Estate represented both parties in the transaction.
LITTLETON, MASS. — MA Littleton Land LLC, a joint venture between an affiliate of Braintree, Mass.-based Condyne Investment Fund II and New York City-based Square Mile Capital Management, has broken ground for a 450,000-square-foot build-to-suit fulfillment center for Potpourri Group. The building is slated to be fully operational in the first half of 2016. Potpourri, a multi-channel direct-to-consumer retailer, will relocate and expand its fulfillment center to the new facility at 3 Distribution Center, in Littleton. The facility will feature a 150-person call center, warehouse space, 400 automobile parking spaces, 18 shipping and receiving docks, 14 trailer staging bays, an emergency generator and racked mezzanine pick levels. Greg Zais and Neil Ross of Jones Lang LaSalle Boston represented Potpourri both on its national site search and documentation, while Deborah Tamulis of Thomson Partners Boston represented Littleton Land LLC in the deal.
PERKASIE AND SELLERSVILLE, PA. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured a total of $37.5 million in Freddie Mac financing for two townhome communities in Pennsylvania. The two properties are the 233-unit Heritage Orchard Hill in Perkasie and the 108-unit Heritage Greene in Sellersville. The properties currently have a joint leasing office located at Heritage Orchard Hill. Chris Black and Caleb Marten of KeyBank’s commercial mortgage group a closed 10-year, non-recourse fixed-rate first mortgage for both properties. The loans were closed simultaneously.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — CBRE/New England has brokered the sale of Shops at the Pond, a retail property located in Marlborough. RK Center acquired the property for $21.1 million from Kimco Realty Corp. The 104,125-square-foot center is fully occupied by a variety of tenants, including DSW, Best Buy, EMS, Olive Garden and Pure Hockey. Chris Angelone, Bill Moylan and Nat Heald of CBRE/NE represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Thor Retail Advisors has arranged a lease for 15,800 square feet at 279 McKibbin St. in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. California-based Blue Bottle Coffee will use the space to operate a coffee roasting warehouse and Tartine baking facility for its New York area operations, as well as a café and bakery. The facility features 20-foot ceilings and more than 150 feet of frontage. Matthew Seigel of Thor Retail Advisors brokered the transaction. Terms of the lease were not released.
NEW YORK CITY — BRP Companies and its development partners have opened Macedonia Plaza, an affordable housing complex located at 37-08 Union St. in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. The 14-story, 161,760-square-foot property features 143 affordable rental apartments, with 27 studios, 58 one-bedroom apartments, 55 two-bedroom units, two three-bedroom apartments and one super unit. The property also features 9,000 square feet of retail space, which will be occupied by Tree of Life NY grocery store. The project team includes African Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), New York City Housing Development Corp. (HDC), Capital One and Hudson Housing Capital. The total development cost of the project was $49.8 million. HDC provided an initial $26.4 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance construction, $9.6 million of which is a permanent source of funding, as well as $9.3 million in corporate reserves through its Low-Income Affordable Marketplace Program. HPD provided $6.3 million in city capital funding and $1.9 million in federal HOME funding. Hudson Housing Capital provided $18.5 million in tax credit equity leveraged from qualifying Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and BRP Companies provided $4.2 million in funding for the project.
NEW YORK CITY — Abro Management has acquired Hudson East, a multifamily rental building located at 223-237 East Sixth St. in New York City’s East Village. The 92,000-square-foot property sold for $60 million. Originally built in 1997, the six-story property features 86 rental units, with rents ranging from $4,950 to $6,300 per month. Aaron Jungreis and Devin Cohen of Rosewood Realty Group represented the buyer in the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.