SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — The Springfield Board of Education has issued a $32.9 million tax- exempt bond that will finance upgrades at various schools in the Northern New Jersey community. Upgrades will include HVAC system modernizations; plumbing and sewer system enhancements; improvements to video-monitoring systems; installation of new exterior doors with protective glazings; energy-efficient window replacements; and interior renovations to select education spaces. New Jersey-based DIGroup Architecture is designing the projects, all of which are expected to be complete by 2026.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $12.2 million sale of a 93-unit apartment building in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood. The name and address of the property were not disclosed. Seth Glasser, Michael Fusco, Binyamin Katz and Joe Koicim of Marcus & Millichap brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were both family-run companies that requested anonymity.
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Locally based developer Blue Communities has broken ground on Royal Blue, a 54-unit multifamily project in the Long Island community of Mineola. The building will rise six stories and span 101,000 square feet. Units will come in one- and two-bedroom floor plans, with rents starting at $3,500 per month for a one-bedroom apartment. Completion is slated for 2024.
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Crunch Fitness will open a 32,000-square-foot gym at General Green Shopping Center in the Northern New Jersey community of Springfield. Crunch Fitness will backfill a space previously occupied by NY Sports Club. Marc Palestina and Chuck Lanyard of The Goldstein Group represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Stephen Picurro of Pierson Commercial Real Estate represented the tenant. Other users at the center include Gold Valley Supermarket, GNC and Springfield Bagels.
Pavlov Media is accelerating the expansion of its fiber network and fiber-to-the-home initiatives with a key investment from the world’s largest infrastructure investor, Macquarie Asset Management. The funding will help Pavlov Media augment its coverage of student and multifamily housing, developing and broadening resident access to high-speed Internet across a variety of property types. “We are ramping up our growth plans with a combination of building municipal fiber networks in college towns and extending service to underserved areas adjacent to our core markets,” says Glenn Meyer, board member and president of Pavlov Media. “It’s basically more of what we have already been doing but on a larger scale.” Pavlov Media is already the nation’s largest private provider of fiber-based Internet and video services to off-campus student housing, connecting properties in more than 150 U.S. markets and Canada to its national backbone via its own last-mile, municipal fiber networks and third-party circuits. The Champaign, Illinois-based company serves approximately 1,000 multifamily and student buildings encompassing more than 285,000 beds, and in recent years has begun extending fiber to customers in areas adjacent to its core student-housing markets. Now the broadband service provider is poised to quicken the pace of its growth with …
NEW YORK CITY — Developer Lendlease has broken ground on 1 Java Street, an 834-unit waterfront multifamily project in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. Designed by architecture firm Marvel, the development will comprise five interconnected buildings across a full city block. In addition, 1 Java Street will house 13,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and 30 percent of the units will be reserved as affordable housing. A syndicate of lenders led by Bank of America provided $360 million in construction financing for the project, which Lendlease is developing in partnership with Australian pension fund Aware Super. Completion is slated for late 2025.
SIDNEY, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has negotiated the sale of Hidden Hollows, a 50-unit apartment complex in Sidney, a village in upstate New York’s Delaware County. The garden-style complex consists of five two-story buildings on a 5.1-acre site. The unit mix comprises 32 three-bedroom apartments and 18 four-bedroom residences, and the property also includes 50 covered parking spaces. Ed Graf and Ted Sannella of Houlihan-Parnes brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
NEWTON AND KINGSTON, N.H. — Regional brokerage firm Northeast Private Client Group (NEPCG) has arranged the $3.8 million sale of a portfolio of six multifamily buildings totaling 24 units in the southern New Hampshire communities of Newton and Kingston. Drew Kirkland, Francis Saenz and Jim Casey of NEPCG represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction. The names of the properties were also not disclosed.
ISELIN, N.J. — Global pharmaceutical company Helsinn has opened a 25,000-square-foot office at 200 S. Wood Ave. in Iselin, about 30 miles south of Manhattan. The development and management arm of New York City-based SJP Properties, which owns the 200,000-square-foot building, executed a custom build-out of the space as part of Helsinn’s relocation from 170 S. Wood Ave. SJP Properties acquired the building in 2020 and implemented a capital improvement program.
NEW YORK CITY — The New York City School Construction Authority has signed a 15,330-square-foot office lease at 1070 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn. The academic design-build firm has committed to leasing the entire ground floor for 15 years. Geoff Bailey and Scott Rothstein of RIPCO Real Estate represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Bert Baradian of Cornerstone Group represented School Construction Authority.