REGO PARK, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $13 million sale of a 9,000-square-foot retail building located along Queens Boulevard in Rego Park. The building houses four tenants: Chic’s Place, Paris Baguette, Dunkin’ Donuts, Rouge Nail. Michael Kook of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
NORWALK, CONN. — Shaner Hotels, a Pennsylvania-based hospitality owner-operator, has opened a 102-room Residence Inn by Marriott hotel in the coastal Connecticut city of Norwalk. The eight-story property features apartment-inspired suites that include full kitchens and individual workspaces. Amenities include grocery delivery service, a fitness center and a business center, as well as a bar and restaurant. Rich Co. developed the hotel in a joint venture with SoNo Development Partners. Shaner will operate the property.
NEWTON, MASS. AND DALLAS — Hospitality Properties Trust (NASDAQ: HPT) has purchased a portfolio of net-leased retail assets from Spirit MTA REIT (NYSE: SMTA) for $2.4 billion. The portfolio consists of 774 service-oriented retail properties in 43 states that are occupied by tenants including AMC Theatres, Academy Sports + Outdoors and CarMax. The portfolio was 98 percent occupied as of March 31 and has a weighted average remaining lease term of 8.6 years. The portfolio includes all of SMTA’s owned properties held in its “Master Trust 2014” segment and excludes approximately 100 assets leased to Shopko Stores Inc., a Wisconsin-based general merchandiser that filed for bankruptcy in January. The portfolio also includes three Pilot Travel Centers that are currently owned by Spirit Realty Capital Inc., a Dallas-based net-lease REIT that owns single-tenant retail assets subject to long-term leases. Spirit Realty externally manages SMTA after spinning off the REIT from its holdings last summer. “Ultimately, we concluded that a sale to Hospitality Properties Trust represented the best possible outcome for our shareholders,” said Richard Stockton, lead independent trustee of SMTA, in a statement. “We will continue our work to close the transaction in the coming months and realize cash value for …
NEW YORK CITY — PGIM Real Estate Finance has provided a $200 million loan for the refinancing of 315 Hudson Street in Manhattan. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan will be used to restructure existing debt and to fund the remaining costs of a capital improvements program that will upgrade the lobby, elevators, signage and other mechanical systems. The borrower was Jack Resnick & Sons. Standing 10 stories tall and spanning 484,000 square feet, 315 Hudson is located in the Hudson Square area of Lower Manhattan. PGIM Real Estate Finance, the commercial mortgage business of PGIM, is an international full-service, commercial and multifamily mortgage finance business.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL’s Capital Markets team has arranged a $75 million CMBS loan for the refinancing of 450-460 Park Avenue South, a 183,019-square-foot office building in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan. Aaron Appel, Kellogg Gaines, Jackson Sastri and Matt Fagella of JLL placed the debt through Wells Fargo on behalf of the borrower, Moinian Group, which has owned the property for more than three decades. Coworking giant WeWork recently inked a deal to occupy space at the building, which was originally built in 1912 and was 95 percent leased at the time of the loan closing.
NORTH WALTHAM, MASS. — U.S. Storage Centers has acquired a 445-unit self-storage facility, located at 115 Bacon St. in the Boston suburb of North Waltham, from Planet Self Storage. The 34,116-square-foot property was originally built as a manufacturing plant in 1900 and converted to self-storage use in 1983. With this acquisition, U.S. Storage Centers now owns and operates four self-storage facilities in the Boston area.
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — The STRO Companies, a locally based investment firm, has purchased a 35,000-square-foot, stand-alone industrial facility fully leased to FedEx in Ridgewood, located in Union County. The building is positioned near I-78 and I-95, as well as the Garden State Parkway and State Route 28. John Zieran, Zach Bermudez and Lubna Syed of Signature Bank provided acquisition financing for the deal. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — The Davenport Company, a Boston-based developer, has broken ground on a new retail building for CVS Pharmacy in Springfield, located in the western part of the state. The property is being constructed on Main Street at a site that was damaged by a tornado in 2011. Davenport acquired the parcel in 2016 and redeveloped it to include medical office and residential space. Davenport is also redeveloping a former factory in Springfield into a market-rate multifamily community, and will begin construction of that project this month.
BOSTON — Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (NYSE: PEB), has sold the 112-room Onyx hotel located at 155 Portland St. near downtown Boston for $58.3 million. The buyer was not disclosed, but the sales price represents a capitalization rate of 5.9 percent. Pebblebrook will use proceeds from the sale for general business purposes, including paying off existing debt. The Onyx Hotel offers guests amenities such as a 24-hour fitness center, bike rental services, spa products and services that are delivered directly to guestrooms.
LANCASTER, PA. — HFF has negotiated the sale of Chelsea Square, a 96,455-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Lancaster, located roughly midway between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Regional grocer Weis serves as the anchor tenant alongside Talbots, Jos. A. Bank, M&T, Domino’s Pizza and Great Clips. Built on 10.6 acres, the property is located along the Manheim Pike, a retail corridor with a daily traffic count of approximately 46,000 vehicles. Chris Munley and Carl Fiebig of HFF represented the seller, Boston-based Beacon Communities, in the transaction. The buyer was Pennsylvania-based Goodman Properties. The sales price was not disclosed.