LANGHORNE, PA. — Florida-based investment firm ESJ Capital Partners has purchased a portfolio of nine medical office buildings totaling 152,310 square feet in Langhorne, located northeast of Philadelphia, for $16 million. The portfolio was roughly 70 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Quest Diagnostics, DaVita, LabCorp and the American Red Cross. The new ownership plans to invest in capital improvements across the portfolio, including upgrading HVAC systems, adding new roofing, updating wayfinding signage and modernizing vacant spaces. Michael Margolis, David Dolan and Angelo Brutico of Newmark represented the seller, SkyREM, in the transaction.
PHILADELPHIA — FS Investments has signed a 117,000-square-foot office headquarters lease in the Schuylkill Yards mixed-use development in Philadelphia. The locally based alternative asset manager will relocate and expand from an 80,000-square-foot space at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it has been a tenant since 2015, to the mixed-use building at 3025 JFK Blvd. Tactix Real Estate Advisors represented FS Investments in the negotiations for the 16-year lease. The landlord, locally based REIT Brandywine Realty Trust, was self-represented.
NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.8 million sale of a 30,855-square-foot industrial flex building located outside of Boston in North Andover. Completed in 1997, the building at 45 Beechwood Drive features 11,500 square feet of office space and 19,355 square feet of warehouse space, as well as two loading docks, one drive-in bay and a clear height of 14 feet. Mattias Edenkrans, Harrison Klein and Luigi Lessa of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were private entities that requested anonymity, in the transaction..
They may not be ready to do cartwheels and pop champagne, but when it comes to business expectations for 2025, commercial real estate professionals in the Northeast have a decidedly brighter outlook than in recent years. The last two years have been defined by barriers to economic growth on numerous levels. Pick your post-COVID geopolitical or macroeconomic poison — stubborn inflation, crushing interest rate hikes, multiple wars, restarting of global supply chains — all culminating with an incredibly heated U.S. presidential election. Is it any wonder that “survive till ’25” became the rallying cry of the commercial real estate industry? And while 2025 has arrived, the election has been decided and the Federal Reserve has strung together a series of small, yet meaningful cuts to short-term interest rates, the hangover from the aforementioned disruptors has not fully evaporated. Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office brings a fresh slate of questions about how certain policies — namely tariffs and mass deportations, will impact business at both the national and local levels. And the expectation-smashing December jobs report proved sufficient to immediately pause the Fed’s would-be pattern of rate cuts. And it’s only been one month. As such, cautious optimism is …
CAMDEN, N.J. — Cooper University Health Care has broken ground on a 335,000-square-foot facility in Camden, located outside of Philadelphia in Southern New Jersey. The 10-story patient tower will feature 125 private rooms, additional operating rooms and research/education areas. In addition, the building will connect to several of the healthcare provider’s existing facilities, including the MD Anderson Cancer Center, via a new pedestrian bridge. HKS Architects and Array Architects designed the facility, and the engineering team includes O’Donnell & Naccarato, Langan, BR+A Consulting Engineers and Highland Associates. Completion of the project, which is part of a larger $3 billion expansion to the provider’s Camden footprint, is slated for 2028.
HAMILTON, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $8.3 million sale of Quakerbridge Shoppes, a 42,912-square-foot shopping center located in the Central New Jersey community of Hamilton. The center sits on 5.1 acres and is home to 18 tenants, including Northfield Bank and Villa Maria’s Restaurant. Alan Cafiero and Brent Hyldahl of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has arranged a $3.4 million loan for the refinancing of a 16-unit apartment building in Cambridge, located across the Charles River from Boston. According to Zillow.com, the building at 891 Massachusetts Ave. offers one- and two-bedroom units. Robert Damigella of MMCC arranged the nonrecourse loan, which carries a fixed interest rate of 7.12 percent and a 65 percent loan-to-value ratio, through a local credit union. The sponsor was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (NYCBS) has signed a 35,469-square-foot office lease in Upper Manhattan. The oncology practice will occupy three full floors at Radio Tower, a mixed-use building in the Washington Heights neighborhood. Marty Cottingham, Michael Gottlieb, Patrick Steffens, Joel Wechsler and Alexis Odgers of Avison Young represented the landlord, Youngwoo & Associates, in the lease negotiations. Arthur Mirante II of Savills and Ari Malul of Schuckman Realty represented NYCBS.
NEW YORK CITY — SharkNinja will open a 14,296-square-foot office in Midtown Manhattan. The Massachusetts-based product design and technology company plans to occupy an entire floor at 41 Madison Avenue, a 42-story, 560,000-square-foot building. Steven Jacobson of Hopkinson Associates represented SharkNinja in the negotiations for the 10-year lease. Robert Steinman represented the landlord, Rudin, on an internal basis.
BRAINTREE, MASS. — Developer WinnCos. has broken ground on The Eastwalk, an affordable housing project in the southern Boston suburb of Braintree that is valued at $47 million. Of the development’s 56 total units, 30 will be reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income (AMI). Another 20 residences will be earmarked for renters earning 120 percent or less of AMI, and the remaining six units will be rented at market rates. Residences will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and amenities will include a community room with a kitchen, onsite resident workspace, fitness room and a patio lounge with grills. The Eastwalk is expected to be available for occupancy in summer 2026. WinnCos. is developing the project in partnership with Arch Communities, with Webster Bank financing construction. The capital stack also includes both state- and federal-issued Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, and the investors of those securities are U.S. Bank and Boston Financial, respectively.