NEW YORK CITY — Boddewyn Gaynor Architects has designed a 60,000-square-foot facility for Amida Care Inc. in midtown Manhattan. Located at 14 Penn Plaza, the facility, which includes a data center, features a reception area, interview rooms, a 30-person boardroom, an executive office suite, offices, workstations, lunchroom, and copy and mail facilities, as well as meeting rooms with movable walls. Vanguard Construction & Development served as general contractor for the newly completed project.
FAIRFIELD, CONN. — Colliers has brokered the sale of a hotel/retail property located at 417 Post Road in Fairfield for an undisclosed price. The property consists of an 80-room hotel, The Fairfield Inn, and a 6,800-square-foot retail space, which is triple-net leased to The Circle Diner. The new owner, a group of local investors, plans to reposition the property. Louis Zuckerman, Michael Siegel and Enzennio Mallozzi of Colliers represented the seller, Fairfield Motor Inn Associates LLC, and procured the buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged $27 million in financing for The Hawthorne, a multifamily property in the Valley Stream submarket of Long Island in New York City. HFF secured the floating-rate loan for the borrower, Zeus Capital Managers, through Prime Finance. Located at 125 South Cottage St., the 90-unit residential community features 33 one- and 57 two-bedroom units averaging 1,115 square feet. Community amenities include a 15,000-square-foot courtyard with a fire pit and outdoor cooking and entertaining areas, a lounge with billiards, a fitness center and garage parking. Christopher Peck, Rob Hinckley, Andrew Scandalios and Christopher Rodriguez of HFF arranged the financing.
MATAWAN, N.J. — Hudson Equities Management Corp. has acquired an office property located at 90 Matawan Road in Matawan. Vision Real Estate Partners sold the property, known as Parkway 120, for an undisclosed price. The five-story building features underground parking, a dual-sided atrium lobby, an onsite café and sundries shop and card-access security. Prior to the sale, Vision Real Estate Partners’ brought the 210,000-square-foot property to full occupancy. At the time of the sale, Vision Real Estate Partners negotiated an expansion for long-term tenant iCIMS, which now occupies 83,900 square feet. The buyer and management team plans to renovate the two-story lobby at Parkway 120. The renovations will include updated finishes, new lighting and carpeting and the addition of a seating area. Vision Management will continue to manage the property under the new ownership.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has brokered two sales in Queens totaling $4.8 million. In the first transaction, the firm negotiated the sale of a development site with approved plans, located at 14-23 Broadway in Astoria, for $1.95 million. The 25-foot by 136-foot vacant lot is zoned for 13,620 buildable square feet of mixed-use or residential development. Daniel Wechsler, Michael Tortorici, Howard Raber, Marko Agbaba and Victor Sozio of Ariel Properties represented the seller and procured the buyer, both real estate investment groups, in the transaction. In the second deal, a retail site at 175-42 Hillside Ave in Jamaica sold for $2.85 million. The 100-foot by 100-foot lot includes a 2,054-square-foot building that is leased to KFC Corp. on a triple-net lease basis. Additionally, the site offers a total of 40,000 buildable square feet for future development. Tortorici, Wechsler, Agbaba and Sozio represented the seller, a real estate investment firm, and procured the buyer, a private investor, in the transaction.
PHILADELPHIA — NAI Mertz has arranged the sale of an industrial facility, located at 2729 E. Butler St. in Philadelphia. Crown Poultry purchased the 11,800-square-foot facility from KTKS LLC for an undisclosed price. The property is outfitted for food manufacturing and distribution, complete with refrigerated cooler and freezer spaces. The property features 12- to 24-foot clear ceiling heights, a small office area, three tailgate truck doors with dock levelers and one drive-in door. The buyer plans to use the facility for food manufacturing and distribution. Jeffery Licht and Adam Lashner of NAI Mertz represented the seller in the transaction.
QUINCY, MASS. — Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) has signed a long-term lease for office space at Heritage Landing in Quincy. MTA will utilize the top two floors, totaling 46,000 square feet, as its new headquarters. The space is being designed to meet the needs of MTA. Project partners include Spagnolo Gisness & Associates Inc. and WB Engineers Consultants. MTA is slated to take occupancy of the space in November. Sean Lynch of JLL represented the tenant in the deal. Peter Brown of Campanelli along with Mike Frisoli, Matthew Morgan, Dave Martel and Molly Davis of Cushman & Wakefield represented the owner, Campanelli, in the transaction. Additional terms of the transaction were not released.
NEW YORK CITY — Quinlan Development Group and Building & Land Technology (BLT) have purchased 37-53 Flatbush Avenue, also know as 76-92 Rockwell Place, in Brooklyn for $90 million. The buyers plan to convert the property, which is currently a 355-unit self-storage facility, into Class A creative office space. The property is located on top of the Atlantic Terminal, which offers NYC Subway and Long Island Railroad service. Andrew Sasson of Eastern Consolidated procured the seller, while Ben Tapper, also of Eastern Consolidated, represented the buyers in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged $42 million in acquisition financing for a mixed-use property located at 1035 Third Ave. in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. HFF secured the six-year, floating-rate loan from Helaba Bank for Acadia Realty Trust. The funding was used for the acquisition and to reposition the property. The approximately 53,000-square-foot property features retail, office and parking space. Mike Tepedino, Jennifer Keller and Andrew Lane of HFF represented the borrower in the loan transaction.
BOSTON — Berkshire Income Realty has acquired Gatehouse 75, an apartment community located in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. Metric Corp. sold the 99-unit Class A apartment community for an undisclosed price. Completed in 2014, Gatehouse 75 features a clubroom, fitness center and roof deck, as well as underground parking. Additionally, the property is located near Boston’s North End, Financial District, Government Center, Cambridge and Somerville neighborhoods.
