PHILADELPHIA — Mack-Cali and its Roseland subsidiary have formed a joint venture with Parkway Corp. to develop a multifamily property at 709 Chestnut Square in Philadelphia. Located in Center City, preliminary plans for the 32-story development include 300 luxury residential units and 11,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenity space, as well as an on-site 125-car parking garage. Currently in the planning and permitting stages, the development is slated to commence construction by the end of 2015.
Northeast
NEW YORK CITY — CPEX has arranged the sale of a retail property located at 2038-2050 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn. The 15,000-square-foot property sold for $4.5 million, or $300 per square foot. The four-unit property was 76 percent occupied at the time of sale. Current tenants are Telco Stores and Sports Physical Therapy of NY. Andre Sigourney and Harrison Balisky of CPEX’s retail sales team represented the seller and buyer in the transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services, has signed a 10-year lease for 67,000 square feet at 50 Hampshire in Cambridge. The company will occupy the entire sixth and seventh floors of the building and use the space to expand its Cambridge office, which serves as its U.S. headquarters. BioMed Realty owns the property, which will be 50 percent leased once Akamai takes occupancy. Terms of the transaction were not released.
RYE, N.Y. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $30 million in financing for the acquisition of The Highlands at Rye, a multifamily property located in Rye. The seven-year loan, provided by a regional balance sheet lender, features a fixed rate, two years of interest-only payments, a 30-year amortization schedule and a five-year extension option. The borrower is the Kessner family. Located at 131-151 Purchase St., the two-building property features 108 residential units and 7,600 square feet of commercial space. Tal Bar-Or of Meridian Capital arranged the financing.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Hamden, Conn.-based Highville Charter School has acquired an office building located at 1 Science Park in New Haven. AT&T sold the 108,000-square-foot property for $5.8 million. Highville plans to convert the property’s open layout into classrooms to meet its expanding needs. Alan Fischer of Fischer Real Estate Inc. represented the buyer, while Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
HOPKINTON, MASS. — R.W. Holmes has negotiated the sale of a multi-tenanted flex building, located at 227-233 South St. in Hopkinton. 227-229 South Street LLC purchased the 43,000-square-foot property for $5.35 million from Mar S. Maple Realty Trust. Precision Digital Corp. will renovate and occupy 21,000 square feet of the property. Craig Johnston of R.W. Holmes procured and represented the buyer, while John Eysenbach, also of R.W. Holmes, represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of an apartment building, located at 355 Stockholm St. in Brooklyn. The six-unit property sold for $1.6 million. Shaun Riney, Dan Greenblatt and Thomas Shihadeh of Marcus & Millichap’s Brooklyn office represented the seller, a private investor, while Said Boukhalfa, also of Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer, a fund manager, in the transaction.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Securitas Security Services USA has signed a new 15-year lease for 81,282 square feet of space at 9 Campus Drive within Mack-Cali Business Center in Parsippany. The company’s new location, which will serve as its North American headquarters and Eastern Operations Center, will house a data center and 24/7 call center and approximately 225 employees. With this lease, the four-story, 156,495-square-foot office building is now 89.2 percent leased. Joseph Messina, formerly of Savills Studley, along with Daniel Foley and Christopher Marx of Savills Studley, represented the tenant, while Diane Chayes and Brian Decillis provided in-house representation for Mack-Cali Realty Corp.
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided $93.75 million in Fannie Mae loans to finance a portfolio of four assisted-living communities in Long Island. The borrower was NorthStar Healthcare Income Inc., which acquired the 570-unit portfolio in September of 2014. The portfolio includes The Arbors at Bohemia, The Arbors at Islandia, The Arbors at Hauppauge and The Arbors at Westbury, located in Jericho, N.Y. The properties are 100 percent leased to Arcadia Management Inc. Monique Bimler of KeyBank arranged the financing.
Federal Capital Partners, Horizon Land Co. Buy 2,413-Site Manufactured Housing Portfolio
by Amy Works
VICTOR, N.Y. — Federal Capital Partners (FCP) and Horizon Land Co. has acquired an 11-community, 2,413-site manufactured housing portfolio in Western New York. The companies purchased the portfolio for $88 million from an undisclosed buyer. The portfolio includes Gypsum Mills, a 560-site community in Victor. M&T Bank provided senior debt financing for the acquisition. The acquisition brings FCP/Horizon’s total manufactured housing holdings to a 32 communities with approximately 5,600 sites.