NEW YORK CITY — Financial services firm TimesSquare Capital Management has signed a 14,116-square-foot office lease at 75 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. The tenant is relocating from 7 Times Square to the 30th floor of the building. Silvio Petriello of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Bruce Mosler of Cushman & Wakefield and internal agents Alexandra Budd and Daniel Birney represented the landlord, RXR.
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Improved Land Surveys, Due Diligence Can Ensure Development Project Success
Due diligence — particularly land surveying — can be a slow, cumbersome process if a project lacks strong guidelines based on the owner or developer’s particular needs. It can be easy to overprepare for the wrong site or underprepare for the succession of steps needed for the right site. REBusiness spoke to two land surveying experts, Billy Logsdon, divisional director of surveying, and Tom Teabo, associate and regional survey manager. Both work for Bohler, a land development consulting and site design firm, and both have strong insights on how to incorporate each step in the due diligence process elegantly within a well-planned approach. Due diligence such as American Land Title Association (ALTA) surveys and gathering topographic information can be time-consuming and expensive steps — making it beneficial to fit their timing into the larger project in a way that reflects the client’s needs — from the purchase of land to development completion. Logsdon and Teabo highlight the importance of streamlining the survey process and getting owners and developers better results based on their desired outcomes, often starting with the information already available about the site early in the process. REBusiness: What is slowing down survey due diligence, in your experience, and do …
NEW YORK CITY — RXR has inked a 700,000-square-foot office lease extension and expansion with global law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP at 450 Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The tenant has re-committed to the 40-story building, which was originally constructed in 1991, for the next 25 years and is taking an additional 30,000 square feet of space. The firm’s footprint now spans 23 floors. In conjunction with the deal, the locally based landlord also announced a $300 million renovation. Designed by Gensler, the project will include the full modernization of lobbies and the addition of numerous amenities. Renovations will also upgrade other common areas and the anchor tenant spaces. Lewis Miller, Andrew Sussman and Munish Viralam of CBRE represented Davis Polk & Wardwell in the lease negotiations. William Elder and Andrew Ackerman represented RXR on an internal basis.
BUCKS COUNTY, PA. — JLL has arranged a $114 million construction loan for Lower Bucks Logistics Hub, an 814,567-square-foot speculative industrial project in Bucks County. The address of the site was not disclosed, but the development’s two buildings will be located at I-295, with one building on either side of Route 213 in Middletown Township, New Jersey. The buildings will have rear-load and cross-deck configurations, clear heights of 40 feet, six total drive-in doors and over 800 car and trailer parking spaces. Mike Pagniucci led the JLL team that originated the financing through Mesa West Capital on behalf of the borrower, Foxfield LLC. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS. — Thomas Park Investments has purchased Reliant Healthcare Southborough, a 125,000-square-foot healthcare property located in Worcester County in the central part of the Bay State. Reliant Medical Group, which recently signed a 97,000-square-foot extension, as well as UMass Memorial and Walgreens, anchor the outpatient facility. Brannan Knott and Mindy Berman of JLL represented Thomas Park Investments, which acquired the asset in a joint venture with an undisclosed partner, in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
ALLENDALE, N.J. — Marquis Health Consulting Services has begun renovations at Allendale Senior Living, an assisted living and healthcare facility in Northern New Jersey. The unit count was not disclosed, but the property spans 146,000 square feet and sits on a 12-acre site. Renovations include a refresh of corridors, expansion of some apartments and the introduction of new amenities, including lounges, a private dining room and a salon. Marquis will also upgrade the movie theater and landscaping, and has already completed the redesign of the lobby and main dining room.
NORWOOD, N.J. — Orthofeet Inc., a provider of inserts and other custom footwear products, has signed a 71,870-square-foot industrial lease renewal in the Northern New Jersey community of Norwood. Orthofeet has been a tenant at the building at 335 Chestnut St., which spans 111,300 square feet and was constructed in 1969, since 2019. Stephen Jennings represented the landlord, Alfred Sanzari Enterprises, in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Daniel Whitehead of Resource Realty represented Orthofeet.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has arranged a $233 million construction loan for the ground-up development of a 569-unit multifamily project in Brooklyn. The site is located at 54 Crown St. in the borough’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Christopher Peck, Geoff Goldstein, Nicco Lupo and Rob Hinckley of JLL arranged the floating-rate loan through Goldman Sachs Asset Management. According to Crain’s New York Business, the borrower was San Francisco-based Carmel Partners. Information on floor plans, amenities and a construction timeline was not disclosed.
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A partnership between two New Jersey-based developers, Accurate and DeVimy Equities, has completed Morris Marketplace, a retail redevelopment project in Northern New Jersey. The project brings 140,000 square feet of shopping, dining and entertainment space to the former corporate campus of Palmolive-Colgate in Morris Township. Morris Marketplace also features pocket parks, splash pads, public seating areas and al fresco dining spaces. Approximately 30 tenants have committed to the project, with more than half now open and operating.
PHILADELPHIA — Locally based investment firm Alliance HP has sold The Philadelphia Infill Industrial Portfolio, a collection of three industrial properties totaling 122,373 square feet in Philadelphia. The sales price was $24.7 million. The portfolio was fully leased at the time of sale and features clear heights between 17 and 22 feet, 14 loading doors, five drive-in doors and 163 parking spaces. The buildings are all located within a 2.5-mile radius of Philadelphia International Airport. John Plower, Ryan Cottone, Larry Maister and Kyle Lockard of JLL represented Alliance HP in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.