HUDSON, N.Y. — Bayview PACE has provided $7 million in C-PACE financing for an adaptive reuse project in Hudson, about 35 miles south of Albany. Pocketbook Hudson is a conversion of the historic Pocketbook knitting mill factory dating to the 1890s into a 70,000-square-foot mixed-use property. Now under construction, the $42 million project will include a 40-room hotel, wellness center, lounge, restaurant, bar and café, as well as spaces devoted to artwork, affordable retail and nonprofit offices. Bayview’s long-term C-PACE financing for Pocketbook’s energy and resiliency components was facilitated with Energy Improvement Corp., the New York State nonprofit that administers C-PACE.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — IAVI has signed a 29,782-square-foot life sciences lease in Jersey City. The nonprofit scientific research organization will relocate its vaccine design and development operations from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to the 350,000-square-foot building at 95 Greene St., which was originally built as a manufacturing facility for Colgate Palmolive. John Isaacs, Joseph DeRosa and Conor Dolan led the CBRE team that represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. RegenLab USA did the same relocation earlier this year.
NEWPORT, R.I. — KSL Capital Partners has received a $72 million loan for the refinancing of Hotel Viking, a 208-room hospitality property located in the coastal Rhode Island city of Newport. The hotel offers an indoor pool, fitness center and more than 14,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting and event space. A joint venture between Smith Hill Capital and Bain Capital provided the debt.
WEYMOUTH, MASS. — CBRE has arranged the $23 million sale of Riverway Plaza, a 250,000-square-foot shopping center in Weymouth, a southern suburb of Boston. Lowe’s Home Improvement anchors the center, which sits on 23 acres. Other tenants include Michael’s, Dollar Tree and Staples. Nat Heald and Jordana Roet of CBRE represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Skyline Developers has topped out a 97-unit multifamily project at 18 W. 55th St. in Midtown Manhattan. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the building rises 25 stories and spans 152,000 square feet, including 10,000 square feet of amenities and 5,265 square feet of retail space. Construction began in mid-2023, and delivery is slated for 2025. Goldman Sachs financed construction of the project.
VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y. — Maryland-based investment firm Realterm has acquired an industrial outdoor storage facility in Valley Cottage, located just across the New York-New Jersey border. The 37,560-square-foot facility was built on a 5.4-acre site in 2009 and consists of a seven-bay, drive-thru maintenance facility, a concrete storage yard and office spaces. Realterm plans to implement a value-add program. The seller was not disclosed.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Abra Health has signed a 24,908-square-foot retail sublease in Secaucus. The operator of pediatric primary care and dental clinics is backfilling a space previously occupied by The Vitamin Shoppe and will utilize the space to centralize its billing operations and establish a call center. Jeff Kolodkin and Andrew Kirshenbaum of Newmark represented Abra Health in the lease transaction.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — CBRE has arranged the $221.5 million sale of Lenox and Quinn Apartments, two adjacent buildings totaling 408 units in Jersey City’s Paulus Hook neighborhood. Built in 2017, Lenox consists of 255 units and includes a 257-space automated parking garage. Quinn was constructed in 2018 and totals 153 units. According to Apartments.com, both properties offer studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Both properties also house various Class A amenities. Jeffrey Dunne, Stuart MacKenzie, Eric Apfel, Travis Langer and Daniel Blumenkrantz of CBRE represented the seller, institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, Hines Interests.
FORT LEE, N.J. — Regional developer UNLMTD Real Estate has begun leasing FIAT House, a 300-unit multifamily project in the Northern New Jersey community of Fort Lee. The site is located at the foot of the George Washington Bridge. Units come in studio, one- and two-bedroom formats, and the property houses more than 30,000 square feet of amenity and social gathering spaces. The developer is constructing the project in partnership with Italian automaker FIAT, and residents will have access to a car-sharing program of FIAT electric vehicles. Rents start at $2,400 per month for a studio apartment.
NEW YORK CITY — Sagard Real Estate, the Denver-based firm formerly known as EverWest Real Estate Investors, has broken ground on 1 Nassau Place, a 332,000-square-foot warehouse on Staten Island. The site is located less than a mile from State Route 440, and the design calls for two points of ingress/egress. The building will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 60 dock doors, 175 car parking spaces, rooftop solar panels and an ESFR sprinkler system. Delivery is slated for late 2025.