COHOES AND SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — New York City-based brokerage firm Adirondack Capital Partners has arranged the $142.5 million sale of a portfolio of three multifamily properties totaling 415 units in Upstate New York. The first property in the portfolio is a 222-unit community located at 100 Waters View Circle in Cohoes, located outside of Albany. The other two properties, the 48-unit Pavilion Grand Executive Apartments and the 145-unit Hamlet at Saratoga Springs, are located north of the state capital in Saratoga Springs. Locally based investment firm Prime Cos. sold the portfolio to Aker, an investment firm based in Beacon, New York.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Indianapolis-based Duke Realty (NYSE: DRE) has acquired a 469,600-square-foot warehouse in the Northern New Jersey community of Piscataway. Constructed on 65 acres in 2019, the property serves as a storage and distribution center for Kiss Nail Products Inc. Building features include a clear height of 40 feet, 100 dock doors and 130-foot truck court depths. Thomas Kirczow of NAI DiLeo-Bram represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Square Mile Capital Management LLC has provided a $55 million loan for the refinancing of 517 West 29th Street, a 60-unit apartment building located at the confluence of Manhattan’s Chelsea and Hudson Yards neighborhoods. Completed last October, the 10-story building was 80 percent occupied at the time of the loan closing and offers amenities such as a fitness center, outdoor grilling space and a rooftop terrace. Christopher Peck, Peter Rotchford, Phil Cadorette and Ricky Song of JLL arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Churchill Real Estate.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated the $54 million sale of a multifamily development site located at 555 Broadway in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Brendan Maddigan, Stephen Palmese, Ethan Stanton, Michael Mazzara and Winfield Clifford of JLL represented the seller, The Collective, a co-living operator based in the United Kingdom, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, a joint venture between The Loketch Group, The Joyland Group and Meral Property Group that plans to develop a 250,000-square-foot community with retail space. In addition, a portion of the units will be reserved as affordable housing. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
EASTON, PA. — J.G. Petrucci Co. Inc. has purchased a 107,310-square-foot industrial building located at 3 Danforth Drive in the Lehigh Valley city of Easton. The building sits on 10.6 acres and includes 34 loading dock positions and just under an acre of outdoor storage space. J.G. Petrucci is currently renovating the building, which will be available for leasing in July. Kevin Hagenberg of SSH Real Estate brokered the deal. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
NEWARK, N.J. — Los Angeles-based Parkview Financial has provided a $90 million construction loan for Phase I of The Halo, a 43-story high-rise apartment building in Newark. Phase I will consist of 297 units with a mix that comprises 156 studios, 84 one-bedroom units and 57 two-bedroom units. Amenities will include a pool, sauna, fitness center, multiple lounge rooms, a game room, conference rooms with private office suites, shared workspaces and a rooftop deck. The borrower, New Jersey-based Acier Holdings, has secured approval to develop up to 949 units across three towers on the site. Two New York City-based firms, INOA Architecture and general contractor Hudson Meridian HM, are respectively designing and constructing the project. Construction of the initial phase is set to begin immediately, with completion slated for January 2024.
MILFORD, MASS. — An affiliate of Boston-based DSF Group has acquired Rolling Green Apartments, a 304-unit multifamily community located about 40 miles southwest of Boston in Milford, for $87 million. Built in 1970, the 29-building community offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units. About 30 percent (88) of the residences are townhomes that average 1,060 square feet. Simon Butler, Biria St. John and John McLaughlin of CBRE represented the seller, an affiliate of metro Boston-based Philmor Real Estate Investments, in the transaction.
CUMBERLAND, R.I. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 479,000-square-foot industrial property in Cumberland, located north of Providence near the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border. The site previously housed the headquarters of locally based discount retailer Ann & Hope, which ceased operations in 2020. Harrison Klein, Laurie Ann Drinkwater and Seth Richard of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an undisclosed private investor, in the transaction. Klein also procured the buyer, a developer that similarly requested anonymity. John Horowitz of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Greystone has arranged a $47 million bridge loan for the refinancing of 28 Cottage, a 166-unit multifamily property located in the Journal Square neighborhood of Jersey City. According to Apartments.com, the property features studio and one-bedroom units and amenities such as a fitness center, clubhouse and rooftop terrace. Cerberus Capital Management provided the loan, which retires the original construction debt issued by Centennial in 2019, on behalf of the borrower, New York-based Namdar Group. Drew Fletcher, Matthew Hirsch and Bryan Grover led the debt placement for Greystone.
SPOTSWOOD, N.J. — NAI Fennelly has negotiated the $40.2 million sale of a vacant manufacturing facility that sits on 58 acres in the Central New Jersey community of Spotswood. Jerry Fennelly and Patrick Dintrone of NAI Fennelly represented the undisclosed seller, which operated the facility from 1941 to 2020, in the transaction. The buyer was an unnamed institutional investor.