Northeast

PLAINSBORO, N.J. — Trammell Crow Co. has been selected to develop a new medical office building on the campus of the $442 million University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, a new hospital located in Plainsboro. Medical Arts Pavilion will be a five-story, 146,971-square-foot building that will directly connect to the new hospital, which is also currently under construction. Princeton HealthCare System, which will occupy the new hospital, will be the primary tenant for the new office building as well. The healthcare provider will house an ambulatory surgery center, diagnostic radiology services, a sleep center and other medical services in the building. The remainder of the space will be leased as physician's offices. Groundbreaking for the project will take place in October, with completion expected in May 2012. The project's owner is Partners Health Trust, a joint venture between Trammell Crow and a public pension fund advised by Kennedy Associates.

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SOMERSET, N.J. — Private equity fund manager NextBridge Group has acquired a 164,000-square-foot office property in Somerset. The four-story building is located on 10.1 acres at 220 Davidson Ave. Constructed in 1984, the property features a cafeteria, fitness centers and 648 parking spaces. Tenants include McKesson Information Solutions,, American Arbitration Association, Kyocera, Prudential, National Resources Conservation Services and SVM E-Business Solutions. The Cushman & Wakefield team of Andrew Merin, David Bernhaut, Gary Gabriel and Thomas Walsh represented the seller, an institutional lender, and procured NextBridge.

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PEAPACK, N.J. — CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) has brokered the sale of a leasehold interest in an office park in Peapack for $23 million. The property, which is located on 70 acres at 100 Route 206 North, consists of 10 connected buildings totaling approximately 518,000 square feet of space. It was built in 1982 as a campus for Beneficial Management but was most recently occupied by Pfizer, which also holds the fee interest in the property. The seller for the leasehold interest was Hamilton Associates LP, and the buyer was Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC, an entity controlled by Pfizer. Jeffrey Dunne, Kevin Walsh and Christopher Leonard of CBRE's New York Institutional Group teamed up with Bill Moylan of CBRE's Boston office to represent the seller.

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PRINCETON, N.J. — The New Jersey and Dallas offices of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler have joined to arranged the refinancing of a Princeton office building. The property is located at 1100 Campus Road. It rises five stories and contains 166,991 square feet of Class A space. Constructed in 2006, the building is fully leased to Novo Nordisk through May 2023. The financing, which was arranged by HFF's Jon Mikula and Brian Carlton, carries a 5-year term and a fixed interest rate. The borrower is Denver-based REIT Dividend Capital Total Realty Trust, and the lender is a life insurance company. HFF also brokered the $51 million sale of the property to Dividend in November 2009.

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NEW YORK CITY — A five-story apartment building located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village has sold in an all-cash transaction for $6.8 million. The building is located at 19 Greenwich Ave. It contains 12 apartments, nine of which are free-market and three of which are rent-stabilized. The building contains the restaurant SweetiePie on the ground level. James Nelson of Massey Knakal Realty Services represented the undisclosed seller. Rosa Murphy of Halstead Property represented the buyer, a private investor from Korea. The property traded at a 6.6 percent cap rate.

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WOODBRIDGE, CONN. — A private investor affiliated with Aliquant Corp. has acquired a 50,000-square-foot office building in Woodbridge for $5.07 million. Woodbridge Corporate Park is a three-story building that was constructed in 1988. It was 65 percent occupied at the time of closing. Aliquant Corp. plans to move its headquarters into 15,000 square feet of the building. Steven Inglese of New Have Group represented the buyer in the deal. Inglese also helped the buyer procure acquisition financing through NewAlliance Bank. The seller is an entity controlled by Boston-based Paradigm Properties. The seller's representative was Bob Motley of Cushman & Wakefield.

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ACTON, MASS. — KBS Realty Advisors has sold an Acton office park to a joint venture between National Development, Winrock Partners and Charles River Realty. Nagog Park comprises nine two- and three-story buildings situated within a 120-acre, master-planned corporate park. The nine buildings total 385,556 square feet and were constructed between 1983 and 1997. Tenants at Nagog Park include Liberty Mutual, BAE Systems, Verizon/MCI, Tatara Systems, Mintera Corp. and Azuki Systems. The Cushman & Wakefield Capital Markets Group of Robert Griffin, Jr.; Edward Maher, Jr.; David Pergola; Christopher Griffin and Brian Doherty represented the seller and procured the buyer. The acquisition price was not released.

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SHIPPENSBURG, PA. — Marcus & Milllichap has completed the sale of a Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse in Shippensburg for $17.55 million. The 171,069-square-foot store is located on 30 acres at 250 S. Conestoga Drive. It was built in 2008, at which time Lowe's signed a 22-year, triple-net lease for the property. The undisclosed buyer assumed a 22-year, self-amortizing loan at 7.2 percent with 20 percent down. Chris Rea, a vice president of investments with Marcus & Millichap, and Brian Munn of the firm's Atlanta office represented the seller. Jason Cropper of Marcus & Millichap's Little Rock, Ark., office represented the buyer. Spencer Yablon of Marcus & Millichap's Philadelphia office provided local representation.

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