NEW YORK CITY — Massumi + Consoli has signed a 57,988-square-foot office lease in the Bryant Park area of Midtown Manhattan. The law firm has committed to three full floors at 1133 Avenue of the Americas, a 45-story, 1.1 million-square-foot building. Jim Schoolfield and Andrew Coe of JLL represented Massumi + Consoli in the lease negotiations.Tom Bow, Rocco Romeo and Nora Caliban represented the landlord, The Durst Organization, on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — CBRE has negotiated the $28 million sale of the 245,419-square-foot retail space within the former New York Times building at 229 W. 43rd St. and 216-226 W. 44th St. in Midtown Manhattan. Kushner bought the space in 2015 for $296 million. The space spans the first four floors and two lower levels and was 34.5 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as entertainment concept Lucky Strike and restaurants Tacos No. 1 and Ra Sushi. Jay Miller and A.J. Felberbaum of BayBridge Real Estate Capital represented the buyer, a Delaware-based entity doing business as Forum at Time Square LLC, in the transaction. Jack Stillwagon and Doug Middleton of CBRE represented the seller, a trust working on behalf of CMBS bondholders that took title of the property last year via a foreclosure proceeding against Kushner.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.6 million sale of an apartment building located at 719 Willow Ave. in Hoboken. The building consists of nine apartments and one ground-floor commercial space that is newly renovated and is leased to a laundromat operator. Jonathan Zamora of Marcus & Millichap brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Tempus AI Inc., a healthcare technology firm, has signed a 39,565-square-foot office lease at 11 Madison Avenue, a 30-story building in Midtown Manhattan. The lease term is 10 years, and the space spans part of the building’s 17th floor. Peter Michailidis of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Brian Waterman, Scott Klau, Eric Harris and Brent Ozarowski of Newmark represented the landlord, SL Green.
FARMINGTON, CONN. — Colliers has negotiated the sale of a 30,829-square-foot industrial building in Farmington, located just west of Hartford. The sales price was $1.9 million. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 145 Hyde Road was constructed on 6.5 acres in 1966 and features a clear height of 16 feet and two dock-high loading doors. Christian Dietz of Colliers brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
FORT LEE, N.J. — Locally based firm Weiss Realty has sold a multifamily development site in the Northern New Jersey community of Fort Lee for approximately $1.8 million. The 13,700-square-foot site at 2130 Center Ave. is approved for the development of 24 new units. Bruce Elia of Keller Williams represented both Weiss Realty and the buyer, local developer Scott Heagney, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Douglaston Development is nearing completion of a $320 million multifamily project at 1057 Atlantic Ave. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The 17-story building will have 456 units, 138 units of which will be reserved as affordable housing, as well as 31,000 square feet of retail space. Units will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Amenities will include a fitness center, lounge, golf simulator, game room, screening room, children’s playroom and a landscaped rooftop deck, as well as 31,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Construction topped out last February. Leasing will begin in the coming weeks.
BUCKS COUNTY, PA. — Affinius Capital has provided a $132.4 million loan for the refinancing of an 815,000-square-foot industrial property located northeast of Philadelphia in Bucks County. Known as Lower Bucks Logistics Hub, the newly constructed facility comprises two buildings — a 361,000-square-foot rear-load structure and a 453,000-square-foot cross-dock structure — with clear heights of 40 feet. Chad Orcutt and Michael Pagniucci of JLL arranged the loan through Affinius Capital on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between an affiliate of Boston-based Foxfield, and an undisclosed, New York-based real estate private equity firm.
CHELMSFORD, MASS. — Newmark has brokered the $11.5 million sale of 1 Executive Drive, a 112,440-square-foot life sciences building located northwest of Boston in Chelmsford. The building was 87 percent leased at the time of sale, with AMETEK affiliate Spectro Scientific and semiconductor manufacturer Qorvo serving as the anchor tenants. Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen, James Tribble, Samantha Hallowell and William Sleeper of Newmark represented the seller, Boston-based Foxfield, in the transaction and procured the buyer, Rhino Capital Advisors. David Douvadjian Sr., Timothy O’Donnell, David Douvadjian Jr., Bobby Alvarado and Conor Reenstierna, also with Newmark, arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between William Macklowe Co. and GreenBarn Investment Group has begun leasing Paseo on Fifth, an 131-unit multifamily project located in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. Designed by SLCE Architects with interiors by Durukan Design, the property offers studio, one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a fitness center, children’s playroom, social suite and a rooftop lounge. Rents start at approximately $3,100 per month for a studio apartment.