BERGENFIELD, N.J. — NAI James Hanson has negotiated the sale of a 5,245-square-foot office building in Bergenfield, a northern suburb of New York City. The buyer, Maywood Physical Therapy & Rehab Center, will utilize a portion of the building as its third medical office location and will continue to lease the remaining space to the four current tenants. NAI James Hanson’s Dominic Fittizzi represented the seller, S&S Realty Holding Co. LLC, in the transaction.
PHILADELPHIA — CBRE has brokered the sale of a 283,500-square-foot industrial facility in Philadelphia. The buyer, a partnership between Wharton Industrial Partners and Walton Street Capital, plans to invest $10 million in an extensive repositioning of the site, which will be rebranded SoPhi Logistics Center. Improvements will include installation of a new roof and lights, as well as leveling the interior floors, expanding and upgrading the loading docks and repaving and repainting the entire site. Construction is expected to be complete in early 2020. CBRE’s Patrick Green and Michael Mullen represented the seller, an individual investor based in Switzerland who purchased the property in 2006. The sales price was undisclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated a 27,811-square-foot office lease for Marquee Brands LLC at 330 West 34th. Street in New York City. Designed by Schulze & Weaver, the 682,000-square-foot building was completed in 1926. Mitchell Konsker, Alexander Chudnoff, Benjamin Bass and Harrison Potter of JLL represented Marquee in the transaction. Josh Glick and Jared Silverman represented the landlord, Vornado Realty Trust, in-house.
SPRING LAKE, N.J., and NEW YORK CITY — M&T Realty Capital Corp. has provided two loans totaling $56.2 million for seniors housing communities in Spring Lake, New Jersey, and New York City. In the first transaction, Paula Quigley, Aaron Anglad and Matthew Pipitone of M&T provided a $16.1 million Fannie Mae Seniors Housing loan to refinance a 106-unit seniors housing property in Spring Lake. The 15-year loan was structured with a 4.66 percent fixed interest rate loan and four years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. In the second transaction, M&T provided a $40.5 million FHA-insured loan to refinance a 300-bed skilled nursing facility in Staten Island. The fully amortizing loan features a 35-year term, 3.9 percent fixed rate and 60 percent loan-to-value ratio. Quigley and Pipitone, along with Jennifer Kooney of M&T, secured the debt.
SUMMIT, N.J. — A joint venture of Saxum Real Estate and The Becker Organization has purchased a 42,000-square-foot office building in Summit, a western suburb of New York City. The property was built in 2001 and was fully leased to three tenants at the time of sale. Cushman & Wakefield’s Gary Gabriel, Frank DiTommaso, David Bernhaut, Andy Merin and Brian Whitmer represented the seller, The Silverman Group, in the transaction. The Cushman & Wakefield team also procured the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — The Feil Organization has leased 9,389 square feet of retail space to three restaurants at 7 Penn Plaza, a 357,000-square-foot building in Manhattan. Sticky’s Finger Joint, Sweetgreen and Naya Express will join Starbucks and The Juice Shop on the ground floor of the building, with all three restaurants expecting to open within the next few months. Randall Briskin represented The Feil Organization internally in all three transactions. Jacqueline Klinger of The Shopping Center Group represented Sweetgreen, and Adam Langer of SRS Real Estate Partners represented Sticky’s Finger Joint and Naya Express.
Owners of properties with environmental contamination already carry the financial burden of removal or remediation costs, whether they cure the problem themselves or sell to a buyer who is sure to deduct anticipated remediation expenses from the sale price. Fortunately, New York law allows those property owners to reduce their property tax burden to reflect their asset’s compromised value. Tax Types Most local governments in the United States impose a property tax on real estate as a primary source of revenue, levied and calculated by either ad valorem or specific means. Latin for “according to value,” ad valorem taxes are imposed proportionately based upon thecurrent market value of the property. Thus, the higher the market value, the higher the real estate tax. Specific taxes, on the other hand, are fixed sums without regard to underlying real estate value. School, county and town governments nearly always compute real property taxes using the ad valorem method, whereas lighting, garbage or sewer districts typically apply specific taxes. Because school and county/town taxes account for the overwhelming majority of a property tax bill, property owners frequently use assessment litigation concerning the market value of the subject property to reduce assessments and, as a result, …
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA. — Novaya Foxfield Industrial (NFI) has purchased 20 acres in Elizabethtown, located about 75 miles north of Baltimore. NFI is currently developing two industrial warehouses totaling 200,000 square feet on the site. The buildings will feature concrete panel construction and 32-foot clear heights. The property will be located within the 3.5 million-square-foot Conewago Industrial Park, which houses several large warehouse and industrial tenants. NFI expects to complete construction by the end of 2019.
ROXBURY, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a $72.5 million construction loan for the redevelopment of The Shops at Ledgewood Commons, a retail center in Roxbury, located about 40 miles west of New York City. Santander Bank provided the loan, exact terms of which were undisclosed. The borrower, Advance Realty Advisors, plans to reposition the former enclosed mall into an open-air retail center. John Alascio, Sridhar Vankayala, T.J. Sullivan and Zachary Kraft of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the loan.
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Woodmont Industrial Partners has acquired 100 Precision Drive, a 130,565-square-foot industrial property on Long Island. Built in 2002, the single-story property features 25-foot clear heights and 325 parking spaces and is located less than a half mile from I-495. Woodmont Industrial will upgrade the building with a new sprinkler system, new roof, LED lighting and dock doors.
