NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — JLL has arranged a $105 million loan for the refinancing of 360 Huguenot, a 28-story apartment building located in the downtown area of New Rochelle, a northern suburb of New York City. Built in 2019, the property comprises 252 market-rate apartments, 28 affordable housing units that are reserved for renters earning 80 percent or less of the area median income and 13,538 square feet of retail space. Amenities include a fitness center with a yoga studio, a private indoor/outdoor resident lounge and a valet parking garage. Mike Tepedino, Michael Gigliotti, Kelly Gaines, Jillian Mariutti, Phil Cadorette and Joy Dracos of JLL arranged the loan through Miami-based Rialto Capital Management on behalf of the borrower, New York-based RXR Realty.
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NEW YORK CITY — Los Angeles-based Parkview Financial has provided a $70 million loan for the construction and refinancing of a 61,513-square-foot office building in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village area. Approximately 8,000 square feet of that total will be reserved as ground-floor and below-grade retail space. The borrower, Real Estate Equities Corp., acquired the 99-year leasehold interest on the land in 2017 and demolished the existing structures on the site. However, construction delays required the project’s capital stack to be restructured and the original loans underlying the leasehold to be recapitalized. Parkview’s loan includes the refinancing of the existing land loan as well as construction financing. Development has now begun with project completion slated for June 2024.
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Inquirer has signed a 36,744-square-foot office lease at 100 Independence Mall West. The building was originally constructed in 1963 and was acquired by Keystone Development + Investment in 2013. Following the lease with the 193-year-old newspaper, which expects to take occupancy in the first quarter of 2023, the building is 97 percent leased. Other tenants include The Macquarie Group, U.S. General Services Association and Nelson Worldwide.
BOHEMIA, N.Y. — Hardware and equipment retailer Harbor Freight Tools will open a 20,000-square-foot store at Sayville Plaza, located on Long Island in Bohemia. Robert Delavale of Breslin Realty represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant was not disclosed. Other tenants at Sayville Plaza include Bed Bath & Beyond, Old Navy, Panera Bread, Jennifer Furniture, The Vitamin Shoppe, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Sprint, Floor & Décor, At Home and Aldi.
BEDFORD, MASS. — Newmark has brokered the $132 million sale of One Patriots Park, a 143,553-square-foot life sciences complex in Bedford, a northwestern suburb of Boston. The seller, Jumbo Capital Inc., redeveloped the property in 2019 to support life sciences users. At the time of sale, four such tenants — Homology Medicines Inc., N2 Biomedical, Frontera Therapeutics and Obsidian Therapeutic — occupied the entirety of the facility. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen and Samantha Hallowell of Newmark represented Jumbo Capital and procured the buyer, Barings, in the transaction.
WARREN, N.J. — PTC Therapeutics has signed a 360,000-square-foot life sciences lease at Warren Corporate Center in Northern New Jersey. Originally built as the headquarters campus for Lucent Technologies, the 176-acre Warren Corporate Center comprises five buildings totaling 820,000 square feet, and construction on the new facility for PTC Therapeutics will begin this month. Jeff Zell and Louis Kluger of JM Zell Partners represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Robert Donnelly Sr., Robert Donnelly Jr., Paul Giannone, Todd Elfand and Kevin Carton of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, a joint venture between Rubenstein Partners and Vision Real Estate Partners.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based firm Extell Development has entered into a ground lease with The Feil Organization to develop a multifamily project at 356 Fulton St. in downtown Brooklyn. The Feil Organization previously secured approvals for the development of a 43-story tower that will also house 100,000 square feet of commercial space. In addition, Feil completed the demolition of the three-story Capital One bank branch that was situated on the site. Bob Knakal, Stephen Palmese, Brendan Maddigan, Ethan Stanton, Jonathan Hageman, Michael Mazzara and Winfield Clifford of JLL arranged the ground lease on behalf of The Feil Organization.
STAMFORD, CONN. — Oklahoma-based brokerage firm Stan Johnson Co. has negotiated the $46.7 million sale of a 69,773-square-foot retail property in the southern coastal Connecticut city of Stamford that is fully leased to regional grocer Stop & Shop. The property was built on 7.1 acres in 2006. Jason Maier of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller, a New York-based private investor, in the transaction. An undisclosed institutional investment group based in Pennsylvania acquired the asset via a 1031 exchange.
WESTPORT, CONN. — CBRE has arranged a $15.2 million loan for the refinancing of Playhouse Square Shopping Center, a 40,000-square-foot retail property located in the southern coastal Connecticut city of Westport. Built in 1972, Playhouse Square was 97 percent leased at the time of the loan closing. Mark Fisher and Alex Furnary of CBRE arranged the loan through Union Savings Bank on behalf of the borrower, The HB Nitkin Group, which acquired the asset in 1998.
BOSTON — Arden Logistics Parks, the industrial investment arm of Philadelphia-based Arden Group, has purchased a portfolio of eight industrial properties totaling roughly 1.3 million square feet that are located throughout southeast Massachusetts. The sales price was $160 million. Specifically, the properties, which were built between 1968 and 2016, are located in Mansfield, Fall River, New Bedford, Seekonk, Attleboro and Norton. Scott Dragos, Chris Skeffington, Doug Jacoby, Anthony Hayes, Tim Mulhall, Roy Sandeman and Dan Hines of CBRE represented the seller, Westbrook Partners, in the transaction. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 97 percent leased to 23 tenants, including Nestle, T-Mobile, Displays2Go and Whirlpool.