NEW YORK CITY — Financial technology firm MoneyLion Inc. (NYSE: ML) has subleased Twitter’s 35,384-square-foot former office space in Manhattan’s Chelsea area. The space encompasses the entire fourth floor of the 281,000-square-foot building at 245-249 W. 17th St., which was originally constructed in 1909 and renovated in 2014. William Iacovelli, Sacha Zarba, Lauren Crowley Corrinet, Elliot Bok and Connor DeSimone of CBRE represented X Corp. in the sublease negotiations. Eric Ladden of Cornerstone Realty and Jason Birk and Steve Marvin of Olmstead Properties represented MoneyLion. Columbia Property Trust owns the building.
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. — Law firm Bertone Piccini has signed an 11,850-square-foot office lease renewal in the Northern New Jersey community of Hasbrouck Heights. The firm has been a tenant at the 200,000-square-foot Heights Plaza complex, located at the junction of I-80 and U.S. Route 17, since 2013. Rob Norton of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Stephen Jennings represented the landlord, Alfred Sanzari Enterprises, on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital, a locally based real estate private equity firm, has provided $133 million in financing for a 51-story, 379-room hotel in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards district. According to New York YIMBY, Aloft will be the hotel operator. The borrower, an affiliate of Marx Development Group, will use the proceeds to complete construction and stabilize the property, which is located directly across from the Javits Center at 450 Eleventh Ave. The hotel will offer 61 double queens, 267 kings, 41 king corner suites, four luxury suites and six luxury duplex suites. Amenities will include a multi-level, 7,224 square-foot restaurant with outdoor terrace space, as well as a spa, fitness center, business center, lounge, bar, ballroom and banquet and conference spaces. DSM Design Group served as the project architect, and Atria Builders is the general contractor. A full completion date was not disclosed.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A partnership between The Olnick Organization and Fisher Development Associates is underway on the redevelopment of Headquarters Plaza, a 1 million-square-foot mixed-use complex in the Northern New Jersey community of Morristown. Headquarters Plaza consists of 650,000 square feet of office space, 100,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, a 265-room Hyatt Regency hotel, a 40,000-square-foot health club and a 10-screen AMC movie theater. Full renovations of the hotel and 50,000-square-foot public outdoor space have already been completed. Ownership has now unveiled plans for the redesign of the main office concourse and signed leases with three new restaurant tenants. Gensler is the project architect.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — JLL has brokered the sale of a 216,000-square-foot warehouse in South Brunswick, located just outside of Trenton. Built in 1991, the cross-dock facility at 152 Ridge Road features a clear height of 30 feet and 33 loading docks and was fully leased at the time of sale to an undisclosed, third-party logistics company. The unnamed owner sold the asset to Atlanta-based Invesco Real Estate for an undisclosed price. Jordan Avanzato, Marc Duval, Nicholas Stefans, Jason Lundy, Jose Cruz and Conor Walsh of JLL brokered the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 27,667-square-foot office lease at 3 Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. The tenant, Atlanta-based law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, will relocate from the W.R. Grace Building to the 28th floor of the 30-story building, which originally opened in 2001 and recently underwent a capital improvement program. Ron Lo Russo, John Cefaly, John Santora, Paige Engeldrum, Lou D’Avanzo, Mike Burgio and Dan Organ of Cushman & Wakefield, along with internal agent Tom Keating, represented the landlord, Rudin, in the lease negotiations. Mark Weiss and Sam Hollis Jr., also with Cushman & Wakefield, represented the tenant, which joins the likes of Touro University, Remy Cointreau and accounting firm Anchin, Block & Anchin
BURLINGTON, MASS. — Geotechnical engineering services firm McPhail Associates has signed a 12,739-square-foot lease at an industrial flex property in Burlington, a northwestern suburb of Boston. According to LoopNet Inc., the property at 42-44 Third Ave. was originally constructed in 1966 and totals 25,521 square feet. ABG Commercial Realty represented the landlord, Nordblom Management Co., in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $103 million CMBS loan for the refinancing of Casa Cipriani, a 47-room luxury hotel, private members club and event space located along the Lower Manhattan waterfront. The property was originally constructed in 1909 as the Battery Maritime Building to serve ferries traveling to Brooklyn. The sponsor, a partnership between Cipriani, Midtown Equities and Centaur Properties, completed the redevelopment in 2021. Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz, Adam Schwartz and Sean Bastian of Walker & Dunlop arranged the debt through Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Argentic.
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between locally based developer The Moinian Group and Bushburg has begun leasing a 320-unit multifamily redevelopment project in the Cypress Hills area of Brooklyn. The development team converted the former Empire State Dairy site at 2840 Atlantic Ave. into a 14-story multifamily building with market-rate and affordable housing units, as well as 21,000 square feet of commercial space and an onsite charter school. Units come in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom formats, and amenities include a rooftop terrace, fitness center, coworking space, tenant lounge and children’s play area. Valley Bank and Cross Valley Bank provided $105 million in construction financing for the project. Information on starting rents was not disclosed.
WATCHUNG, N.J. — Urban Edge Properties has purchased Heritage Square, an 87,318-square-foot shopping center located in the Northern New Jersey community of Watchung. The center was built in 2019 and is home to tenants such as HomeSense, Sierra Trading Post, CityMD, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Ulta Beauty, Miller’s Ale House and David’s Bridal. The tenant roster has a weighted average remaining lease term of about eight years and no rollover until 2029. Jose Cruz, J.B. Bruno, Kevin O’Hearn and Austin Pierce of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction and procured Urban Edge as the buyer.