WEST WAREHAM, MASS. — Commercial architectural millwork and cabinetry firm Master Millwork will open a new, 67,000-square-foot headquarters facility in West Wareham, located in the southern part of the state. The company will relocate form a 25,000-square-foot space in the same market. Master Millwork intends to hire 30 additional employees to work at the new facility, which is under construction and expected to be complete in January. Rockland Trust provided the company with a $6 million loan to fund construction of the new facility and acquire key pieces of equipment.
NEW YORK CITY — Oxford Property Group and Spire Group will develop a 62-unit multifamily project at 2893-95 Valentine Ave. in the Riverdale neighborhood of The Bronx. The 12-story, 50,000-square-foot building will offer outdoor parking, a laundry room, community room and a landscaped outdoor garden area. Construction is expected to be complete in January 2024.
MANALAPAN, N.J. — Locally based brokerage firm Sheldon Gross Realty has arranged the $4.9 million sale of a 66,500-square-foot industrial property in Manalapan, about 50 miles south of New York City. The two-building complex sits on a five-acre site and was close to 100 percent leased at the time of sale. Matthew Leonelli of Sheldon Gross Realty brokered the deal. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Brookaire Co., a supplier of HVAC parts and systems, has signed a 50,358-square-foot industrial lease at 46 Whelan Road in the Northern New Jersey community of East Rutherford. San Francisco-based Terreno Realty Corp. owns the building, which was constructed in 2006 and features a clear height of 30 feet. Kevin Dudley and Nick Klacik of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations.
PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County Airport Authority has broken ground on the Terminal Modernization Program, a $1.4 billion expansion project that will add a new 700,000-square-foot terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport. The new terminal will be designed to improve the passenger experience by consolidating ticketing, security checkpoints and baggage claim. In addition, the project will add a multimodal complex that includes a new 3,300-space parking garage, rental car facilities and entrance roadways. The design team behind the project includes Gensler, HDR and Luis Vidal + Architects. The new terminal is expected to generate approximately $2.5 billion in economic activity and create more than 14,000 total direct and indirect jobs. The new terminal is scheduled to open in 2025.
EAST HANOVER, N.J. — San Francisco-based Terreno Realty Corp. (NYSE: TRNO) has sold an industrial property in East Hanover, located about 25 miles west of New York City, for $32.7 million. The property consists of three buildings totaling approximately 167,000 square feet that are situated on an 11.7-acre site. Terreno Realty purchased the property, which was 88 percent leased to 32 tenants at the time of sale, in September 2013. The buyer was not disclosed.
FARMINGTON, CONN. — Kriss Capital, a New York-based bridge lender, has provided a $32 million construction loan for a project that will convert a vacant hotel in the Hartford suburb of Farmington into a multifamily complex. The redevelopment of the 381-room Hartford Marriott Farmington Hotel will add 225 market-rate apartments to the local supply. Units will feature studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and amenities will include multiple pools, a fitness center, coworking space and outdoor dining areas. Kriss Capital provided the two-year, floating-rate loan to the borrower and developer, an affiliate of New Jersey-based CSRE Group. The project will be completed in phases, with leasing for the first phase beginning in 2022. The entire project is slated for completion in 2023.
WESTFIELD, N.J. — Walker & Dunlop has brokered the $29.7 million sale of a 70-unit multifamily property located at 333 Central Ave in Westfield, about 15 miles southwest of Manhattan. Built in 2017, the property offers amenities such as a fitness center with yoga and Pilates studios, community room, rooftop terrace, dog park and package concierge system. Thomas Walsh and Joseph Garibaldi of Walker & Dunlop represented the seller, a partnership between two New Jersey-based firms, Claremont Development and The Hampshire Cos., in the transaction. The buyer was Rockwood Capital LLC.
MERIDEN, CONN. — Yale New Haven Health, a regional provider with a total of 2,409 beds across its facilities, has purchased a building previously occupied by Macy’s at Connecticut’s Meriden Mall. Yale New Haven Health plans to repurpose the property into a retail health clinic. According to the Hartford Business Journal, Macy’s closed its store within the 179,285-square-foot building in May 2020. An investment group that includes Mason Asset Management and Namdar Realty Group owns Meriden Mall.
By Richard Gorodesky, SIOR, senior managing director, Colliers International; and Adam Gorodesky, associate, Colliers International Commercial real estate is historically a cyclical business. There is a fairly predictable pattern of oversupply, recession, recovery and finally expansion before starting all over again. While the cycle isn’t always this cleanly defined, it generally follows this pattern, and has done so for decades. While this formula can be very useful for understanding the cycles and what occurs during them, it lacks one key ingredient: timing. There’s no way to accurately predict when one stage is ending or how long each phase will last. On a basic level, like in all markets, the commercial real estate market cycle responds to the balance, imbalance and rebalancing of supply and demand. The factors that influence the market and determine the length of each cycle are and will continue to be moving targets. Demand Overview While e-commerce represents about 18 percent of retail sales today, and it is widely believed in commercial real estate circles that that number could grow to 30 percent by 2025. Amazon, online retailers and other e-commerce companies have not only fueled demand for last-mile distribution facilities, which are necessary to reach as …