NEW YORK CITY — CapStack Partners has arranged a $19 million loan to refinance The Ravel Hotel in Long Island City. Located at 8-08 Queens Plaza, the 113-room hotel also includes 17,000 square feet of event space, a redesigned rooftop restaurant, pool club and outdoor beer garden. CapStack’s investment banking group worked on behalf of the undisclosed borrower to secure the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through an undisclosed lender. Loan proceeds were used to refinance construction costs
YONKERS, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $2.7 million sale of a 9,500-square-foot retail property in Yonkers. Located at 896 McLean Ave., the property is currently net leased to Dollar Tree. Alan Cafiero, Ben Sgambati and Matt Leszyk of Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was a personal trust.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a $13.4 million bridge loan for two adjacent development sites in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. Located at 89-25 and 89-26 162nd St., the sites total approximately 237,000 square feet. Preston Flammang, Jessica Ke and Anthony D’Amelio of Cushman and Wakefield represented the borrower, Great Atlantic Construction, in the transaction. The lender was Lightstone Capital Markets. Terms of the financing were not disclosed.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) has signed a 30,000-square-foot lease at 545 Long Wharf Drive in New Haven. CCM, an organization of municipal leaders, will relocate its corporate offices from 900 Chapel St. to 545 Long Wharf Drive. O,R&L Commercial represented CCM in the transaction. The landlord, 545 Long Wharf Holdings, was represented by David Hansen of CBRE New England.
MALVERN, PA. — Newmark Knight Frank has brokered the $15.5 million sale of Malvern Executive Center, a 91,190-square-foot office campus in Malvern. Located at 100 Deerfield Lane, the property was 73 percent occupied at the time of sale. The private campus includes abundant parking and a state-of-the-art fiber optic cabling system. Mike Margolis, Dave Dolan, Dave Garonzik and Jim Dugan of NKF represented the seller, PNL Cos., in the transaction. The buyer was undisclosed.
EAST HANOVER, N.J. — HFF has negotiated the sale of Eagle Rock Executive Office IV, a 178,000-square-foot office building in East Hanover. The sales price was undisclosed. Located at 120 Eagle Rock Ave., the property is situated within a three-building office park. The three-story property is currently 79 percent leased to a tenant roster that includes Prudential Insurance Company of America, Kessler Foundation and GFK. Kevin O’Hearn, Jose Cruz, Stephen Simonelli and Michael Oliver of HFF represented the seller, Boxer Property, in the transaction. The buyer was Northeast Capital Group.
NEW YORK CITY — Rideshare company Lyft, inc. has signed a 100,638-square-foot lease at Hudson Commons, a 28-story office tower in Manhattan. The building is located at 441 Ninth Ave. Cove Property Group, in partnership with the Baupost Group, purchased the property in December 2016 from Emblem Health. CBRE represented Cove Property Group in the transaction. Lyft was represented by Steven Rotter and Justin Haber of JLL. Peloton Inc. also signed a 312,200-square-foot lease at Hudson Commons in November 2018.
ELIZABETH, N.J. — Valley National Bank has provided a $6.8 million acquisition loan for a 22,000-square-foot apartment building in Elizabeth. Located at 737-745 N. Broad St., the property was built in 2017 and consists of a mix of one- and two-bedroom units. Nate Lowy of Juniper Capital Group represented both the undisclosed borrower and Valley National Bank in the transaction. Terms of the financing included a five-year loan at a 4.25 percent interest rate.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Axiom Capital Corp. has arranged a $1.6 million loan to refinance a 65-unit multifamily property in New Haven. The 12-building complex was constructed in 1982 and renovated in 2001. Amenities include washer/dryer hookups, separate entrances, private basements, fenced yards and a playground. Axiom Capital secured a five-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the undisclosed borrower. The lender was also undisclosed.
DALLAS — Colony Industrial has sold a light industrial portfolio spanning 2.3 million square feet across four states for $136 million. Nuveen Real Estate, a subsidiary of TIAA, purchased the properties. The sale includes 18 buildings in Atlanta, five in Dallas, five in Houston and six buildings spread across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. CBRE National Partners represented Dallas-based Colony Industrial in the sale. Colony Industrial is the industrial platform of Colony Capital Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), a real estate investment firm with $44 billion of assets under management. “We’ve owned and operated these assets for some time and the portfolio value had achieved Colony Industrial’s targets,” says Lew Friedland, managing director at Colony Capital and head of Colony Industrial. “We reevaluate the portfolio as opportunities arise, and this sale to Nuveen enables us to rebalance our property mix to align with our long-term strategic plans.” Nuveen is an investment manager that maintains its international headquarters in New York. — Kristin Hiller