WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — KeyBank has provided $68.2 million in financing for Glen Oaks Apartments, a 120-unit mixed-income housing project that will be situated on an 11.5-acre site in Wall Township, located near the Jersey Shore. Twenty-four of the units will be reserved for renters earning up to 47.5 percent of the area median income for the ensuing 30-year period, while the remainder will be rented at market rates. Amenities will include a community room, fitness center, laundry room, clubhouse and an outdoor pool. KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) secured a $30 million construction loan on behalf of the developer, The Richman Group Development Corp. of Greenwich, Connecticut. KeyBank’s Commercial Mortgage Group arranged a $38.2 million fixed-rate Freddie Mac loan comprising a tax-exempt and taxable forward permanent loan. The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency will issue the tax-exempt proceeds. Eric Steinberg and Tabare Borbon of KeyBank originated the financing. Completion of the project is slated for May 2022.
SOUDERTON, PA. — A partnership between J.G. Petrucci Co. and Boston-based Cabot Properties will develop a 148,960-square-foot speculative industrial project in Souderton, located north of Philadelphia in Montgomery County. The property will feature a clear height of 32 feet, 24 loading positions and 24 trailer storage positions. Completion is slated for this fall. Jon Mikula, John Plower and Mike Lachs of JLL arranged the partnership between the two developers.
EWING, N.J. — New Jersey-based Atlantic Realty Development Corp. has begun leasing the 164-unit Phase I of Ewing Town Center, an apartment community in Ewing, located outside of Trenton. The complex is part of a larger project known as Ewing Town Center that will be a conversion of a former General Motors plant into a development that will ultimately feature 1,182 units, 90,000 square feet of retail space and 14,000 square feet of office space. The first apartment complex, known as the Witherspoon, offers two-bedroom flats and townhomes.
ROSLYN, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $33 million sale of Horizon at Roslyn, a 50-unit, age-restricted apartment building in the New York City suburb of Roslyn. The sales price equates to $660,000 per unit. Michael Tuccillo, Anthony Cerrone and Nicholas Tuccillo of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Horizon at Roslyn LLC, in the transaction. The trio also procured the buyer, Fairfield Knolls LLC.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — The Birch Group, a New York-based investment firm, has acquired a portfolio of three office buildings totaling 411,737 square feet in the Northern New Jersey city of Morristown. The sales price was $77 million. The buildings are located at 60 Columbia Drive, 100 Southgate Pkwy. and 1200 Mount Kemble Ave. and were collectively 98 percent leased at the time of sale. Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Lincoln Equities Group, in the transaction.
BURLINGTON, N.J. — NAI Mertz has negotiated a 100,170-square-foot industrial lease at 320 Dulty’s Lane in Burlington, located northeast of Philadelphia. The property is situated on 13 acres, spans 280,290 square feet and features 36-foot clear heights. Scott Mertz of NAI Mertz represented the landlord, Denver-based Black Creek Group, in the lease negotiations. The tenant is EBP Supply Solutions, a wholesale distributor of products to the cleaning and foodservice industries.
SALEM AND WILMINGTON, MASS. — Eastern Union has provided $31 million in financing for a pair of skilled nursing facilities totaling 265 beds in Massachusetts. The first property is a 123-bed facility in Salem, and the second is a 142-bed clinic in Wilmington. The overall package was structured with limited recourse, a three-year term, an 85 percent loan-to-value ratio and a floating interest rate. Proceeds will be used to refinance existing debt and fund capital improvements. Nachum Soroka and Jacob Shonland of Eastern Union handled the transaction. The borrower was not disclosed.
MIDDLETOWN, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Oak Grove Apartments, a 30-unit multifamily complex in Middletown, a southern suburb of Harrisburg. All units are two-bedrooms. Craig Dunkle and Mher Vartanian of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer and seller in the transaction. Both parties requested anonymity.
WEST ISLIP, N.Y. — Piazzetta Italian Kitchen & Bar has signed a lease to open a 3,000-square-foot restaurant at a 19,757-square-foot retail center in the Long Island hamlet of West Islip. The center is under construction at 425 Union Blvd. and will house other tenants such as 7-Eleven and Brownstone Coffee. Christopher Mayor and Lawrence Densen of Island Associates Real Estate brokered the lease negotiations. The restaurant will be the chain’s fifth.
NEW YORK — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $393 million in construction financing for a project that will convert a 399,029-square-foot office building at ABC/Disney’s former headquarters building in Manhattan into a life sciences facility with purpose-built research and lab space. The borrower, a partnership controlled by New York City-based developer Taconic Partners and investment firm Nuveen Real Estate, purchased the building at 125 West End Ave. in 2019 for $230 million. With the vacating of the property by its primary tenant, which operated out of the building from 1985 until its lease expired in January of this year, the partnership is set to begin construction. The senior lender on the four-year, floating-rate financing package was a fund backed by Apollo Global Management, while Oaktree Capital Finance also provided mezzanine debt for the project. Evan Pariser and Geoff Goldstein of JLL placed the financing. The 125 West End Ave. building is located less than a quarter-mile from Lincoln Square and is close to the 1, 2 and 3 subway lines as well as West Side Highway. Additionally, the project is situated just 18 miles from the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The existing building’s specs allow …