JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Brown Brother Harriman, a private bank, has signed an 11-year lease for 114,798 square feet at Mack-Cali Realty Corp.’s Harborside Plaza 5 in Jersey City. The company will be transferring more than 500 employees to the new location, a 977,225-square-foot office tower on the waterfront. Scott Gamber, Robert Stillman and Peter Gamber of CBRE represented the tenant, while Chris DeLorenzo and Tom Savoca of Mack-Cali, along with Mark Ravesloot, Peter Turchin, Gerry Miovski, Suzanne Macnow and Arkady Smolyansky of CBRE, represented the landlord in the transaction.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Colliers International has arranged and closed joint venture equity and construction financing for the development of State Street Lofts in New Haven. Working on behalf of the developer, Post Road Residential Inc., Colliers secured $43 million in construction financing from PNC Bank, as well as joint venture equity capital from an affiliate of The Carlyle Group. Slated for completion in 2016, State Street Lofts will include 235 apartments, 275 parking spaces in an attached garage, 10,000 square feet of amenity space and 4,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. On-site amenities include a fitness center with yoga studio, resident lounge spaces with high-speed Wi-Fi, a library, a resort-style pool with enclosed courtyard, a 7,000-square-foot roof deck, a dog wash station and a bike maintenance room with storage for 240 bikes. Jeff Black and Kevin Phelan led the Colliers team that represented Post Road Residential Inc.
SMITHTOWN, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a Walgreens property located at 10 W. Main St. in Smithtown. Situated on the North Shore of Long Island, the property sold for $10.4 million, or $714 per square foot. Constructed in 2006, the 14,560-square-foot building sits on two acres. Simon Jonna and Raymond Jonna of Marcus & Millichap’s Detroit office represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. J.D. Parker of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office is the broker of record for the deal. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.
NEW YORK CITY — Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates has arranged a 50,000-square-foot lease at Liberty View Plaza in Brooklyn for Koppers Specialty Chocolate Co. The company is relocating from a 30,000-square-foot space in Greenwich Village to the space at 850 Third Ave. in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. As part of the deal, Empire State Development, New York State’s economic development agency, will provide Koppers with up to $556,000 in performance-based Excelsior Jobs Program Tax Credits, as the company agreed to create at least 27 new full-time jobs over the next five years and keep the position through at least 2025. Neil Dolgin and Jeffrey Unger of Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates, along with Howard Kesseler and Jordan Gosin of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, represented the landlord, Salmar Properties, in the transaction.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a multifamily property located at 34-27 37th St. in Long Island City. A private investor acquired the eight-unit apartment building for $2.4 million. Matthew Fotis, Zachary Golub and Lazarus Apostolidis of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — ARM Real Estate has brokered the sale of a 5,150-square-foot residential building located at 17-01 Stanhope St. in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens. The three-story, six-unit apartment building sold for $1.6 million in an off-market transaction. Anand Melwani and Harrison Zavala of ARM represented both the seller, a long-term owner, and the buyer, Stanhope Purchaser LLC, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Savanna, a New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm, has completed the disposition of 100 Wall Street to Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, acting on behalf of a Cornerstone-managed fund. The 29-story, 520,000-square-foot office building is 97 percent occupied by tenants, including Lester Schwab Katz and Dwyer, Loeb Holding Corp., Crenshaw Associates and Pcubed. Savanna acquired the property in 2011 and completed $25 million in capital improvements during its ownership period, including a successful prebuild program and future resiliency improvements following Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Douglas Harmon, Adam Spies, Joshua King and Adam Doneger of Eastdil Secured represented Savanna, while Carl Schwartz, Laurie Grasso, Susan Saslow, Larissa Kravanja, Ian Group and Barbara Lau of Hunton & Williams served as legal counsel in the transaction. The sales price was not released.
WINOOSKI, VT. — Nedde Real Estate, Redstone and Youkel Architecture + Development have completed the development of Riverrun Luxury Apartments in Winooski, with a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for Thursday, August 13. Located at 110 Winooski Falls Way, the property consists of 56 units in a mix of one- and two-bedroom layouts. The apartments feature nine-foot ceilings; river, city and nature preserve views; energy-efficient, triple-glazed windows; designer kitchens; washer/dryers; and air conditioning. On-site amenities include a fitness center, lobby with seating lounge, covered parking and heat/hot water included in the rent.
HAMDEN, CONN. — Fantini & Gorga has arranged $12.9 million in first mortgage permanent financing for two medical office buildings in Hamden, a city in southeast Connecticut. Totaling 65,216 square feet, the properties are fully leased and occupied by regional and local medical practices. Casimir Groblewski of Fantini & Gorga arranged the refinancing with a major securitization lender for the borrower, a New England-based real estate developer and investor.
NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has inked a 10-year lease with Adidas to occupy retail space at its 115 Spring St. property in Manhattan. The two-level, 5,218-square-foot space will be the new home of Adidas’s Originals boutique. SL Green acquired the retail property in 2014. Jeremy Ezra of RKF represented the tenant, while Ariel Schuster and Ross Berkowitz, also of RKF, represented the landlord in the transaction.