MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Scarsdale, New York-based Goldschmidt & Associates has brokered the sale of the former Chase Bank building, a 10,000-square-foot office property in Mamaroneck, a northern suburb of New York City. The sales price was approximately $2 million. Pam Bren Goldschmidt and Adam Bren of Goldschmidt & Associates represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was an undisclosed religious institution.
NEW YORK CITY — CBRE has negotiated a 241,657-square-foot office lease restructuring for global household products provider Colgate-Palmolive Co. at 300 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Colgate-Palmolive serves as the anchor tenant at the Class A office tower, which is owned by local investment firm Tishman Speyer. The company will consolidate its current footprint to six floors at the 26-story building. Mary Ann Tighe, Mike Geoghegan, Ken Meyerson and Ariel Ball of CBRE represented Colgate-Palmolive in the lease negotiations. Tishman Speyer was represented internally.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. has arranged a $16 million loan for the refinancing of a 282-bed student housing property located at 17 Locust Ave. in New Rochelle, a northern suburb of New York City. The newly built, 94-unit property serves nearby Monroe College. Steven Rock of Marcus & Millichap arranged the loan that was originated at a 65 percent loan-to-value. The loan features a fixed interest rate of 4.98 percent as well as 18 months of interest-only payments. The borrower was not disclosed.
LOWELL, MASS. — Boston-based mortgage banking firm Fantini & Gorga has placed a $14 million construction loan for a redevelopment project involving a former corduroy mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, about 30 miles north of Boston. The project will convert the 80,000-square-foot facility, known as Waterhead Mill, into a 71-unit residential building that will offer studio and one-bedroom units. The new property will also feature amenities such as a fitness center, a movie theater, coworking office space, resident lounge and a package receiving area. The borrower was not disclosed. Construction is underway and expected to last about 15 months.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based investment firm RFR Realty has signed office leases with three new tenants at 17 State Street, a 42-story tower in Manhattan’s Financial District. The new leases total approximately 53,000 square feet. Global investment firm Alphadyne Asset Management LP signed a 43,872-square-foot lease extension; finance firm Arles Management inked a 4,318-square-foot lease and real estate investment firm RC BME Holdco LLC signed a 5,042-square-foot new lease. Mitchell Konsker, John Wheeler and Clayton Kline of JLL, along with A.J. Camhi and Ryan Silverman of RFR Realty, represented the building ownership in each of the lease negotiations. JLL represented the tenants in the first two deals, and CBRE represented the tenant in the third transaction.
TORRINGTON, CONN. — Dallas-based SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $2.6 million sale of a single-tenant retail property that is net leased to AFC Urgent Care in Torrington, Connecticut, located west of Hartford. The tenant’s lease term is 15 years. Britt Raymond and Kyle Fant of SRS represented the Connecticut-based seller, which completed construction of the property earlier this year. Terri Frohnmayer of First Commercial Oregon represented the Oregon-based buyer, which acquired the asset via a 1031 exchange.
CLIFTON, N.J. — Prism Capital Partners, a locally based owner-operator of commercial properties, will develop two office buildings in Clifton, New Jersey, a northern suburb of Newark. The project will add approximately 400,000 square feet of Class A space to ON3, the company’s 116-acre campus in Clifton that also extends into nearby Nutley Township. Prism has retained Chicago-based Goettsch Partners to design the buildings, construction timelines for which have not yet been released. Prism expects that corporate tenants and users will employ more than 5,500 people at ON3 by 2021.
BELLEVILLE, N.J. — JLL has arranged a $31.5 million loan for the refinancing of Storage Rentals of America, a self-storage facility located in Belleville, located due north of Newark. The facility, which was approximately 85 percent occupied at the time of sale, comprises 2,064 units totaling approximately 400,000 gross square feet. The property also houses 83,464 square feet of light industrial space. Griffin Guthneck and Wes Wallace of JLL arranged the nonrecourse loan, which includes a seven-year term and a fixed interest rate, through an undisclosed life insurance company. The borrower is Florida-based SROA Capital.
NEWARK, N.J. — Levin Johnston, a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $30 million sale of FlatRate Storage, a 1,777-unit self-storage facility in Newark. The property is situated on 6.2 acres and consists of three buildings offering a total of 101,161 net rentable square feet. The property recently underwent a $3 million capital improvement program that upgraded the roofs, fire alarms, signage, sprinklers, security systems and HVAC systems. Adam Levin of Levin Johnston represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. Levin also procured the buyer, SmartStop, which owns 129 self-storage facilities across the country.
BURLINGTON, MASS. — The Gutierrez Co., a development and management firm that is active in the Boston area, will convert Burlington BioCenter, located about 15 miles northwest of Boston, into a 109,500-square-foot lab facility. The repositioning project is expected to be complete by 2019. The new facility will offer four stories of lab space, interconnecting stairways, abundant parking and an open design aesthetic. JLL is handling leasing and marketing of the new space.