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.
NEW YORK CITY — New Jersey-based intermediary Cronheim Mortgage has arranged a $40 million loan for the refinancing of the 158-room Chelsean New York Hotel. The hotel is located at 160 W. 25th St. in Lower Manhattan and includes an onsite bar and restaurant known as The Rose. Beau Williams and Drew Gilligan of Cronheim arranged the debt through an undisclosed lender. The borrower, The Lam Group, will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements.
PEABODY, MASS. — A partnership between two local development and investment firms, Oliver Street Capital and Bain Capital Real Estate, has completed an 82,790-square-foot warehouse in Peabody, a northern suburb of Boston. The project is a build-to-suit for Christianbook, and the site is contiguous to the literary retailer’s existing headquarters. Locally based design-build firm Dacon Corp. handled the architectural and general contracting aspects of the partnership in conjunction with Fraser Project Management.
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $5.8 million sale of a 29,411-square-foot retail strip center in Middletown, located along the Jersey Shore. Painting retailer Benjamin Moore anchors the center, which sits on 1.9 acres and is home to a total of 10 tenants. Alan Cafiero, Brent Hyldahl and Seth Goldberg of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
LAKE GROVE, N.Y. — Fashion retailer Nordstrom Inc. will open a new 25,000-square-foot in Lake Grove, a hamlet located on Long Island, under its Nordstrom Rack brand. Scheduled to open in fall 2025, the store will be situated within the 150,000-square-foot Smith Haven Plaza. Other tenants at the shopping center include Trader Joe’s, Old Navy, Athleta and Ulta Beauty. A partnership between Breslin Realty Development Corp. and Colin Development LLC owns Smith Haven Plaza.
FAIRLESS HILLS, PA. — Colliers and KBC Advisors have negotiated a 517,641-square-foot industrial lease in Fairless Hills, located just outside of Trenton in Eastern Pennsylvania. The space is located within Keystone Trade Center, a 15 million-square-foot campus that is a redevelopment of a former steel mill. Michael Golarz and Tom Golarz of Colliers, in conjunction with Mark Chubb, Mike Zerbe and Summer Coulter of KBC Advisors, represented the landlord, Missouri-based NorthPoint Development, in the lease negotiations. Michael Lee and Drew Maffey with Lee & Associates represented the tenant, global third-party logistics provider Cirro.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a 439,059-square-foot office building in the Northern New Jersey community of Morristown. The building at 340 Mount Kemble Ave., which recently underwent a $50 million capital improvement program, was 94.5 percent leased at the time of sale. David Bernhaut, Gary Gabriel, Andy Merin, Frank DiTommaso and Bill Baunach of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, a partnership between Onyx Equities and Los Angeles-based PCCP, in the transaction. Brad Domenico, also with Cushman & Wakefield, arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing through Societe Generale on behalf of the buyer, First Mile Capital, an affiliate of Crown Acquisitions.