BROCKTON, MASS. — CBRE has brokered the sale of two industrial properties located at 1150 and 1120 W. Chestnut St. in Brockton, about 25 miles south of Boston, for $7.7 million and $1.4 million, respectively. The first property is a 100-square-foot warehouse that was 89 percent leased to two tenants at the time of sale. The second property is a 1.7-acre lot that was fully leased for truck and vehicle parking at the time of sale. Scott Dragos, Doug Jacoby and Chris Skeffington led a CBRE team that represented the seller, a partnership between CIP 1120 Realty LLC and MA Industrial Brockton LLC. The team also procured the buyer, Northbridge Partners.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — California-based investment firm KBS has sold Park Avenue at Morris County, a trophy office park in Florham Park for $311 million. The deal marks the highest price for a multi-tenant office building in suburban New Jersey since 2008, according to CBRE, which brokered the deal. The buyer was a New York City-based private investor. Situated on 135 acres, Park Avenue at Morris County consists of six Class A office buildings totaling just under 1.2 million square feet. The campus, located in Northern New Jersey approximately 20 miles west of Manhattan, was developed in phases between 1989 and 1999. The property also features a 7,000 square-foot private daycare and preschool facility. During its ownership period, KBS introduced new amenities such as a fitness center with personal training spaces, basketball courts, volleyball courts and a soccer field, as well we service-based amenities like a car wash and a dry cleaner. KBS also upgraded the buildings’ roofs, HVAC systems, elevators and conference centers while adding transportation amenities such as electric car charging stations and shuttle service to nearby public transit lines. The property was 89 percent occupied at the time of sale. “Though we purchased this property during the economic …
Across the Hudson River, retailers and residents in Northern New Jersey benefit from lower rents and lower sales prices relative to Manhattan. In addition, mass transit lines that cross the river enable mixed-use destinations that offer dining and entertainment experiences, including the new American Dream project, to function as day-trip destinations for residents and tourists. “Northern New Jersey is still a strong tenant’s market,” says John Azarian, co-founder and CEO of New Jersey-based brokerage firm The Azarian Group. “Tenants are commanding and receiving substantial build-out and tenant improvement accommodations, with the strongest retail tenants being in the service, fitness and dining industries.” The retail vacancy rate in Northern New Jersey in the third quarter stood at 4.2 percent, unchanged from a year ago. During the same period, the asking rent rose 2.1 percent to $26.47 per square foot, according to Marcus & Millichap. The firm projects that 3.1 million square feet of new retail space will be delivered in Northern New Jersey by the end of 2019. Most of that new product will be housed at the American Dream entertainment and retail development in East Rutherford. In late October, Triple Five Group opened the first phase of its approximately $5 …
Gregg Gerken, head of U.S. Commercial Real Estate at TD Bank, appreciates what millennials have done for the nation’s multifamily market. Factors contributing to multifamily’s success in recent years include millennials’ desire to live close to where they work and play, their tendency to delay marriage and kids and their social preferences that often involve roommates or the sharing economy. However, millennials are growing up — and many are aging out of the rental market. For many, those delayed life milestones are upon them. Other generations are waiting in the wings, but will they be enough to sustain the current level of multifamily supply and demand? Gerken tackles all of this and more in the Q&A below. Finance Insight (FI): Multifamily has been a strong performer for a while now. Do you expect this to continue in 2020 and beyond, particularly as millennials start to enter their traditional marrying and childbearing years? Gerken: For 2020, multifamily will continue to be a strong performer. When you look at the long-term demographic trends, however, this activity will trail off a bit as the millennial generation starts to age out of the key renter cohort, which is between the ages of 25 and …
NEW YORK CITY — Financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald has renewed its 151,890 square-foot office headquarters lease at 110 East 59th Street in the Plaza District of Midtown Manhattan. The company signed at 16-year lease to occupy seven full floors at the 37-story building. Jared Horowitz, Neil Goldmacher and Jason Perla of Newmark Knight Frank represented Cantor Fitzgerald in the lease negotiations. Michael Jones of Cole Schotz P.C. advised Cantor Fitzgerald in the renewals of the lease agreements. Brett Greenberg and Fran Delgorio represented the building owner and developer, Jack Resnick & Sons, in-house.
PHILADELPHIA — Private equity investment firm Tryko Partners has acquired Glendale Uptown Home, a 240-bed skilled nursing facility in the Lexington Park neighborhood of Philadelphia. The center, which has been renamed Roosevelt Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, is located at 7800 Bustleton Ave. and is situated close to the Nazareth Hospital. Tryko plans to invest in a new therapy gym for the facility and to update patient rooms and mechanical systems. The sales price and seller were undisclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated a 25,261-square-foot office lease for advertising company CaféMedia in Manhattan. The company signed a 10-year lease to occupy the entire 27th floor of the 1.1 million-square-foot building, which is located at 1411 Broadway and completed in 1970. CaféMedia previously occupied space at 417 Fifth Avenue. Alexander Chudnoff, Dan Turkewitz and Kip Orban of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Paul Amrich, Neil King and Emily Jones of CBRE represented the landlord, Ivanhoé Cambridge.
NEW YORK CITY — Voya Investment Management LLC has provided a $17.4 million loan for the acquisition and renovation of 79 Clifton Place, a 40-unit multifamily building in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The 52,375-square-foot building was converted to a multifamily use in 2000 after previously housing a knitting factory and now features one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units. The borrower, The FREO Group, plans to implement a $1.75 million capital improvements plan to boost occupancy. Max Herzog, Marko Kazanjian and Matt Fagella of JLL secured the loan.
NORTHBOROUGH, MASS. — CBRE has brokered the $9.5M sale of 5 Beeman Road, a 55,515-square-foot industrial building in Northborough, located approximately 35 miles west of Boston. Completed in 2003 and expanded in 2011, the warehouse features 56-foot clear heights, and proximity to State Route 20, Interstate 495 and State Route 9. Scott Dragos, Doug Jacoby and Chris Skeffington led a CBRE team that represented the seller, Ferris Development Group, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, Northbridge Partners.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has secured an $87 million construction loan for the ground-up development of Terminal Logistics Center, a 300,000-square-foot industrial project in Queens. CIT Group Inc. provided the loan to the borrower, a partnership of Triangle Equities Development Co., Township Capital Inc. and L&B Realty Advisors LLP, which will develop the Class A warehouse and storage facility adjacent to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Total cost for the project is approximately $129 million. Geoff Goldstein and Rob Hinckley led a JLL team that secured the loan.