NEW YORK CITY — Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has signed a lease to occupy 48,500 square feet at 101 Park Avenue, a 49-story office asset owned by H.J. Kalikow & Co. LLC in Midtown Manhattan. The office lease is for a period of 11 years. Alliant will occupy two floors at the property. Situated at the corner of Park Avenue and 40th Street, the property offers proximity to Grand Central Station, the Chrysler Building and the New York Public Library. Amenities at 101 Park Avenue include a parking garage, bank, dining options and concierge services. John Cefaly and Nicholas Dysenchuk of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. Joseph Cabrera and David Glassman of Colliers International represented Alliant.
YORK, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $1.6 million sale of a 3,640-square-foot, net-leased retail property in York. Located at 2650 S. Queen St., the property is currently occupied by KFC. Alan Cafiero, Brent Hyldahl and Ben Sgambati of Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office represented the buyer, a limited liability company, in the transaction. The seller was undisclosed.
While other U.S. cities have demonstrated volatile economic markets, Boston has sustained a strong, healthy economy for more than 40 years. This economic health coupled with the city’s diversity of industries has had a lasting, positive impact and increased demand for commercial space in the greater Boston market. The snapshot of the Class A and B, lab and office market is strong but shows some signs of regression. Today, overall vacancy for lab and office including sublet space is 12.8 percent, according to research from Colliers International. When you break down the numbers by region, the current downtown Boston office market has 71 million square feet, with a 9.2 percent vacancy rate. Cambridge has 23.6 million square feet of space and 3.8 percent vacancy and the suburbs total 123.5 million square feet with 16.6 percent vacancy. The entire Boston area absorption for lab and office space is 5.2 million square feet. While those stats are favorable compared to the last two years, (2017 with 1.8 million square feet and 2016 with 1 million square feet), they are dwarfed by 2015 which had absorption of 5.8 million square feet. It is also the first time that Class B rents have topped …
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has brokered the $52.2 million sale of a 79,900-square-foot commercial property in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. Located at 42-50 Jay St., the property is currently operated by Phoenix House as an inpatient rehabilitation facility. The property consists of two interconnected buildings. Bob Knakal, Stephen Palmese and Michael Mazzara of JLL represented the seller, Phoenix House, in the transaction. The buyer was Alloy Development.
KEARNY, N.J. — Terreno Realty Corp. has acquired a 16-acre industrial property in Kearny. The sales price was $25 million. Located at 81 North Hackensack Ave., the property is fully leased to one tenant. The property was acquired as partial repayment of a $55 million senior secured loan that Terreno Realty made in 2018 to an unnamed borrower. The acquisition reduces the seller’s outstanding loan balance to approximately $30 million.
HARTFORD, CONN. — Colliers International has negotiated the $2 million sale of a 9,000-square-foot medical office building in Hartford. Located at 147 Westbrook Road, the property is anchored by Middlesex Hospital Primary Care. Phil Gagnon of Colliers represented the buyer, a private investor, in the transaction. The seller was undisclosed.
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.1 million sale of a 28,400-square-foot, mixed-use property in Toms River. Located at 26 Main St., the property is currently occupied by 26 tenants. Alan Cafiero and Ben Sgambati in Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office represented the seller, a partnership, in the transaction. The buyer was a personal trust.
NEW YORK CITY — Columbia Property Trust has secured a 13,400-square-foot office lease for Drive Shack in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Drive Shack, an owner and operator of golf-related leisure and entertainment businesses, will occupy the entire third floor of 218 W. 18th St. as its new corporate headquarters. Columbia Property Trust acquired the building in 2017. The property is now fully leased to a mix of technology and creative firms, including beverage and lifestyle company Red Bull. Built in 1912, the property is a former warehouse that was converted to an office building.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Mack-Cali Realty Corp. (NYSE: CLI) has entered into two agreements to sell its 56-building office/flex portfolio to RMC Acquisition Entity LLC, an affiliate of the Robert Martin Company LLC, for $487.5 million. The properties are situated in Elmsford, Hawthorne, Yonkers and Tarrytown, N.Y.; and Stamford, Conn. The sale of the portfolio is expected to close early in the second quarter of this year. Mack-Cali has been gradually selling off pieces of its flex/warehouse business. In 2015, the Jersey City-based company announced plans to sell up to $800 million worth of real estate it owns to become an owner, manager and developer of office and multifamily properties in select waterfront and transit-oriented markets throughout the Northeast. Proceeds from the latest sale will go toward paying down debt from Mack-Cali’s $263.5 million purchase of Soho Lofts, a 377-unit apartment community in Jersey City, situated about one mile from the Hudson River. “The sale of our office/flex portfolio substantially completes our strategic repositioning,” says Michael DeMarco, CEO of Mack-Cali. “Mack Cali’s evolution to a waterfront-centric office and residential landlord is complete.” As part of its disposition strategy, the company in January sold Elmsford Distribution Center, a six-building, 386,000-square-foot industrial park in …
BOSTON AND LYNN, MASS. — CBRE has arranged a $62 million loan to refinance a 19-building apartment portfolio in Boston and Lynn. The assets consist of workforce housing with a combination of both market-rate and affordable apartments. John Kelly of CBRE secured financing on behalf of the owner, Helge Capital. The lender was undisclosed.