LIVINGSTON, N.J. — A new five-story parking garage is nearing completion at Eisenhower Corporate Campus and Conference Center in Livingston. The new structure will provide 600 additional parking spaces for tenants and guests at the 380,000-square-foot, Class A office complex. Eastman Cos. and its joint venture partner Long Wharf Real Estate Partners owns and manages Eisenhower Corporate Campus. The new parking structure will offer LED lighting and enhanced security features, according to Michael Schofel, co-managing partner at Eastman Cos.
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BOSTON — Growing freight shipping and delivery services firm Skema Courier Inc., has leased 13,947 square feet of warehouse and office space at 370 McClellan Highway in East Boston. Richard McKinnon, director of brokerage services for The Grossman Cos. Inc., represented the owner, 370 McClellan Highway LLC, in the transaction. Steve Nohrden, vice president of Burgess Properties, represented the tenant. Skema relocated from its long-time Chelsea facility to take up residence at one of the closest air freight facilities to Boston’s Logan International Airport.
NEW YORK CITY — Besen & Associates has arranged the $23.8 million sale of The Albert Goodman Plaza Apartments, an affordable housing complex in the Morrisania section of The Bronx. The sales price equates to $94,450 price per unit, $81 per square foot and a 6.5 percent capitalization rate. Preservation Development Partners purchased the multifamily property. The complex includes four elevator apartment buildings that include 250 apartments and two commercial units. Constructed in 1982, the apartment community spans 292,925 square feet. The buildings are operated under a Project Based Section 8 HUD contract, which requires the apartments to remain affordable for another 20 years. Amit Doshi, Lynda Blumberg and Shallini Mehra of Besen & Associates brokered the deal. The properties are located at 970 Boston Road and 665 E. 163rd St.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has arranged the $18.5 million sale of a five-story, 25,000-square-foot mixed-use building located at 131 Duane St. in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. Ben Tapper, senior director, and Marion Jones, director at Eastern Consolidated, represented the seller, Duane Street Realty, in the transaction. The property includes eight residential units on floors two through five, as well as a ground floor and lower level retail space occupied by the City Hall Restaurant. The buyer was Duane 131 LLC. The attorney for the seller was Myron Cohen of Dornbush, Schaeffer, Strongin & Venaglia LLP. The buyer’s attorney was Francisco Augspach of Augspach Law PLLC.
EAST HARTFORD, CONN. — New Boston Fund has sold 71 George Street, a 53,000-square-foot industrial and office facility located in East Hartford to Nixon Uniform Services.The building includes 8,000 square feet of office space and 45,000 square feet of 28-foot clear warehouse space. The building also features five loading docks, two drive-in doors and 51 parking spaces. Mark Duclos, president of Sentry Commercial, represented New Boston in the transaction. Christopher Metcalfe, first vice president at CBRE, represented the buyer.
EDISON, N.J. — Sitar Co. has arranged the sale of a 332,000-square-foot industrial building in Edison to 45 Brunswick Ave LLC for an undisclosed price. NJIND Brunswick, Avenue LLC previously owned the property, which is located at 45 Brunswick Ave. Built in 1974, the building features 25-foot ceilings and 34 loading positions and is situated on 14.8 acres. Tom Monte and Bill Sitar Jr. brokered the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Silvershore Properties has purchased 331 Hicks St., a 7,888-square-foot mixed-use building in Brooklyn Heights for $3 million. Built in 1910, the building includes two stores and four apartments and is located across the street from Long Island College Hospital. The seller was a long-term owner. No brokers were involved in the deal.
The Boston industrial real estate market is definitely looking up. There has been strong positive absorption of square footage over the last three years, especially in Boston where large industrial facilities are increasingly converted to housing units, and the absorption trend is now spreading further out from the city and expanding across business categories. In Massachusetts, growth is particularly apparent in three key sectors: medical, food and auto parts. Here is a breakdown of how it’s playing out: 1. Medical. The medical field has seen extensive growth over the last couple years, particularly with medical device manufacturing, and that is good news for the industrial market. Owens & Minor, a Fortune 500 company, is the leading distributor of medical and surgical supplies to the acute care market. It added to its presence in the state at 20 Freedom Way in Franklin with a 100,000-square-foot expansion. This is on top of its existing space at 135 Constitution Drive, which totals 227,000 square feet. Another example includes PSS World Medical, an American distributor of medical products, equipment, billing services and pharmaceutical-related products, which is expanding and consolidating two locations into 50,000 square feet at Walpole Park South, in a spec building that …
BURLINGTON, MASS. — KeyPoint Partners LLC has completed the sale of eight properties totaling 440,000 square feet located throughout the New England region for more than $30 million. The properties include shopping centers, mixed-use and single-tenant buildings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut. The sold properties include Shaw’s Plaza, a 121,660-square-foot shopping center in Providence, R.I.; Colony Mill Marketplace, a 112,000-square-foot mixed-use property in Keene, N.H.; The Center at Keene, a 100,000-square-foot mixed-use property also in Keene; and a 6,889-square-foot Advance Auto Parts in Groton, Conn. The properties in Massachusetts include Norfolk Commons, a new development anchored by a 14,409-square-foot freestanding Walgreens in Norfolk; Lakeview Shopping Center, a 36,250-square-foot neighborhood shopping center in Dracut; a 5,610-square-foot building fully leased to Sleepy’s and Supercuts in Salem; and 8 Brookside Road, a 40,000-square-foot industrial facility in Westford.
NEW YORK CITY — UC Funding LLC has arranged a $6.4 million construction bridge loan for a five-story, 15,763-square-foot luxury condominium development in Brooklyn. Upon completion, the five-story building will include 10 condo units. The property will feature one 537-square-foot studio condo, four one-bedroom condos that average 921 square feet, two two-bedroom condos that average 1,254 square feet, two three-bedroom condos that average 1,372 square feet and one 2,230-square-foot, four-bedroom condo. Condos will feature stainless steel appliances, granite countertops in the kitchens, marble tile flooring in the bathrooms and hardwood flooring. Community amenities will include a roof terrace, bike room, package room and virtual doorman.