ELMONT, N.Y. — The Feil Organization has refinanced Home Depot Shopping Center, a 269,490-square-foot property located at 600 Hempstead Turnpike in the Long Island community of Elmont. Feil has owned the property since 1992. At the time of the loan closing, the center was fully leased, with Marshalls and Target serving as the other anchor tenants. Estreich & Co. arranged the $23.5 million loan for the refinancing through Principal Asset Management on behalf of Feil.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Newmark has brokered the sale of a 242,477-square-foot life sciences building located at 640 Memorial Drive across the Charles River from Boston in Cambridge. The building was originally constructed in 1913 as an automobile manufacturing plant. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen, James Tribble, Samantha Hallowell and William Sleeper of Newmark represented the seller, an affiliate of Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc., in the transaction. The team, along with Steven Golubchik of Newmark, also procured the buyer, a partnership between Bain Capital Real Estate and Phase 3 Real Estate Partners.
HAMILTON, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a 48-acre industrial development site in the Central New Jersey community of Hamilton that is approved for the construction of up to 420,000 square feet of space. The site at 861 Sloan Ave. offers proximity to both interstates 95 and 295. Robert Rudin, Gary Gabriel, Kyle Schmidt, David Bernhaut and Seth Zuidema of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, an entity doing business as Manchester 270 Development Inc., in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, a partnership between Lincoln Equities Group and PGIM.
NEW YORK CITY — Mulligan Security has signed a 15,788-square-foot office lease renewal and expansion at 7 Penn Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. The private security and fire safety contracting firm now occupies 24,788 square feet across the entire second floor. The renewal term is 12 years. David Hollander and David Katz of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Andrew Wiener, David Turino and Henry Korzec represented the landlord, The Feil Organization, on an internal basis.
WOBURN, MASS. — Boston Sports & Shoulder Center will open a 6,100-square-foot clinic in Woburn, located on the northern outskirts of the state capital. The clinic, which is slated to open this spring, will be the provider’s fifth in Massachusetts. Mary Burnieika and John Boyle of Cushman & Wakefield, in conjunction with internal agents Steve Cusano and John Halsey, represented the landlord, Cummings Properties, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was not disclosed.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Bank of America has signed a 550,000-square-foot office lease at Newport Tower in Jersey City. Newport Tower is a 36-story, 1.1 million-square-foot waterfront building that recently underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation and connects via skybridge to the 1 million-square-foot Newport Centre Mall. Building amenities include eight onsite dining options, a fitness center, game room, tenant lounge, coworking spaces and meeting rooms. Robert Rudin, David DeMatteis, Mina Shehata, Dirk Hrobsky, Karl Helgessen, Jan Randall Dausend and Christina Magill of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, BentallGreenOak, in the lease negotiations. Bob Alexander, Ryan Alexander and Taylor Callaghan of CBRE represented Bank of America.
DUNELLEN, N.J. — Locally based developer Prism Capital Partners has received $53.9 million in financing for The Nell, a 252-unit multifamily property in the Central New Jersey community of Dunellen. Designed by Spiezle Architectural Group, the transit-oriented, newly built property offers one- and two-bedroom units and includes 3,700 square feet of retail space. The amenity package comprises a pool, fitness center, resident lounge, community kitchen, meeting rooms, an outdoor bar with TVs and grilling and dining areas. Rodney Sherman and Greg Halvorson of KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged the seven-year loan, which provides fixed-rate takeout financing, through New York Life Real Estate Investors on behalf of Prism Capital Partners.
MERRIMACK, N.H. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the $16.6 million sale of Merrimack Village Center, an 82,292-square-foot shopping center located near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. Built on 10 acres in 2006, the center was 99 percent leased at the time of sale, with grocer Shaw’s serving as the anchor tenant. Other users include Dental Designs of New England, KT Cleaners, Supercuts and Subway. Jim Koury led the IPA team that represented the buyer and seller, both of which were limited liability companies, in the transaction.
HAMILTON, N.J. — Fennelly Associates has signed a 19,008-square-foot office lease at a 47,464-square-foot building located at 200 Horizon Drive in the Central New Jersey community of Hamilton. The tenant, Micro-Air, a designer and manufacturer of air conditioning control systems for boats and RVs, is relocating from a 7,850-square-foot space in nearby Allentown. Jerry Fennelly of Fennelly Associates represented the landlord, Cammeby’s Management, in the lease negotiations. Micro-Air was self-represented.
PHILADELPHIA — Dave’s Hot Chicken will open three restaurants at properties owned by Federal Realty Investment Trust in the Philadelphia metro area. Scheduled to open this month, the first store will span 2,995 square feet at Northeast Shopping Center in Philadelphia. Dave’s will also open restaurants at Ellisburg Shopping Center in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Willow Grove Shopping Center in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, in the spring and fall of this year. Those stores will span 3,086 and 2,825 square feet, respectively.