EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. — Commercial finance and advisory firm Axiom Capital Corp. has arranged a $13.3 million permanent loan for the refinancing of a retail center in East Greenbush, roughly six miles southeast of Albany. The 301,894-square-foot property comprises six separate buildings and was leased to 16 tenants at the time of the loan closing. The names of the borrower, a development and management firm, and direct lender, a local bank, were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Rosewood Realty Group has negotiated the $6 million sale of an 18-unit apartment building in Harlem. The four-story building at 61-63 E. 125th St. was originally constructed in 1930. Aaron Jungreis, Ben Khakshoor and Alex Fuchs of Rosewood Realty represented the buyer, Sapphire Investments, and the seller, Madison Realty Capital, in the transaction. The deal traded at a cap rate of 5.5 percent.
NEW YORK CITY — Global alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital has signed a 137,660-square-foot office lease at 375 Park Avenue, a 38-story building in Manhattan. Known as The Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue’s crowning amenity is a $25 million wellness center known as The Playground that houses an array of fitness facilities. Mark Weiss of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Peter Riguardi, Paul Glickman, Cynthia Wasserberger and Ben Bass of JLL represented the landlord, RFR Realty.
TINTON FALLS, N.J. — New Jersey-based Denholtz Properties has refinanced two industrial facilities located in the Northern New Jersey community of Tinton Falls. The newly constructed properties at 150 and 151 Tornillo Way total 50,923 square feet and were 100 percent leased to five tenants at the time of the loan closing. Michael Klein, Jon Mikula and Michael Lachs of JLL arranged the fixed-rate financing, the amount of which was not disclosed, through Spencer Savings Bank on behalf of Denholtz Properties.
FRANKLIN SQUARE, N.Y. — Locally based grocer and caterer Holiday Farms Supermarket has opened a 20,000-square-foot store in the Long Island community of Franklin Square. Holiday Farms, which now operates six stores, occupies a space at Franklin Plaza that was previously leased to grocer King Kullen. Other tenants at the center include Rite Aid, Greek Xpress, Baskin-Robbins, Memory Nails and Olivetto Pizzeria. Cary Fabrikant of Breslin Realty represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Robert Delavale, also with Breslin Realty, represented the undisclosed landlord.
BOSTON — New York City-based investment and management firm Fortis Property Group has received a $1 billion loan for the refinancing of One Lincoln, a 1.1 million-square-foot office tower in Boston’s Financial District. Proceeds will be used to repay existing debt and provide more than $200 million in capital upgrades geared toward wellness and lifestyle amenities, as well as to fund future leasing costs. In addition, Fortis will renovate the common areas and reconfigure the floor plates to support a wider range of indoor and outdoor amenities. Concurrent with the financing, Fortis also signed HarbourVest Partners to a 250,000-square-foot lease. The company plans to occupy 11 floors of the building as the new anchor tenant. The Boston-based private equity firm will replace fellow financial services firm State Street Corp. in this role, becoming the building’s namesake tenant in the process. HarbourVest plans to take occupancy in 2025. “We are reimagining the post-COVID office environment, and One Lincoln signifies the beginning of a new era for workplaces in Boston,” says Jonathan Landau, CEO of Fortis Property Group. “The Fortis and HarbourVest teams both recognized the tremendous demand for luxury office space that is amenitized with unparalleled wellness and lifestyle-driven experiences in …
By Marc DeLuca, CEO and eastern regional president, KBS Refreshing office properties with updated amenities is a time-tested strategy for infusing buildings with new life and appealing to future and existing tenants. While an asset’s location is a fixed element and a region’s fundamentals tend to change slowly, amenities are more flexible and can usually be implemented quickly if necessary for immediate impact. A recent report by flexible workspace provider TCC Canada found that many companies and their team members increasingly recognize the benefits of gathering teams in a central workplace. But after more than two years of varying degrees of remote work, it makes sense for property owners to invest in amenities that actually meet the needs and wants of office users — which have recently shifted. So which amenities are the best ones to include in today’s office buildings? As an owner and operator of premier office assets for the last 30 years, KBS has witnessed amenity preferences come and go. We know how to spot a passing fad versus a trend with legs. Based on our expertise in this area, here are a few amenities we see attracting office tenants in the current and emerging environment. Scalable …
NEW YORK CITY — Kimmerle Group, a New Jersey-based design-build firm, has completed a 175,000-square-foot office and showroom renovation project at 11 Penn Plaza in Manhattan. The project is a build-to-suit for SPARC Group, a provider of apparel and accessories whose brands include Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer and Forever 21. Specialty areas include mock stores for national retail buildout models, showrooms to support the wholesale business and designer workshops.
WORCESTER, MASS. — CBRE has negotiated the $26.7 million sale of ReNew Tatnuck Square, a 120-unit apartment complex located in the Central Massachusetts city of Worcester. The five-building, garden-style property was built between 1969 and 1972 and offers a pool, fitness center and a leasing office. Simon Butler, Biria St. John and John McLaughlin of CBRE represented the seller, an affiliate of San Francisco-based FPA Multifamily, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, an affiliate of Massachusetts-based Arrowpoint Properties.
PHILADELPHIA — New York City-based Trevian Capital has provided a $17.1 million bridge loan for the acquisition of an undisclosed, 71-unit multifamily property located in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood. The newly constructed property includes ground-floor retail space and was 74 percent occupied at the time of the loan closing. The borrower was not disclosed.