Northeast

28 Austin Street Apartments, a mixed-use development in Newton, Mass.

NEWTON, MASS. — HFF has secured a $30.1 million construction loan for the 28 Austin Street Apartments, a mixed-use development in Newton. The property will consist of 68 one- and two-bedroom apartment homes, 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, a new public plaza and a 124-space municipal parking lot. Amenities will include a common roof terrace and garden as well as a private 90-car underground parking garage. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Dinosaur Capital Partners and Oaktree Development, to secure financing through Eastern Bank. The project is scheduled for completion in spring 2019.

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TETERBORO, N.J. — Goodman Group has acquired a 616,992-square-foot logistics center in Teterboro. The sales price was undisclosed. The property is fully leased to a major e-commerce provider and is located approximately seven miles from Manhattan. It is one of only two Class A logistics centers larger than 400,000 square feet in Northern New Jersey. The seller was undisclosed.

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HACKENSACK, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged $52 million in construction financing for a ground-up multifamily development in Hackensack. John Alascio and Sridhar Vankayala of Cushman & Wakefield represented the borrower, Waypoint Residential in securing financing through Citizens Bank. The four-story property will feature 235 residential units and will be located at 435 Main St. in downtown Hackensack. The project benefits from a 30-year tax abatement.  

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NEW YORK CITY — Sugar Hill Capital Partners has acquired a two-building multifamily community in Brooklyn for $5.6 million. Located at 932-938 Eastern Parkway, the 24,600-square-foot property consists of 24 units. The seller was real estate investor and film producer Joseph Scarpinito. Jacob Stavsky of Venture Capital Properties represented both the buyer and seller in the off-market transaction.

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NEW YORK CITY — Leviathan Capital has secured an $8 million refinancing for a 33,000-square-foot office building in the Bronx. The property is currently net leased to the NYC Department of Education. Leviathan secured a non-recourse loan for the undisclosed borrower with a fixed rate of 10 years at 4.9 percent. The loan provided the borrower with a $5 million cash-out.

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NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. — Erickson Living has unveiled plans for an expansion at Lantern Hill known as Bell Pavilion. Lantern Hill is a 26-acre continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in New Providence, approximately 30 miles west of New York City. Bell Pavilion will add 169 units of independent living to the property. In addition to the new units, Bell Pavilion will add a new restaurant, fitness center, two bocce courts, courtyard with fireplaces, and resident community gardens to the campus. A climate-controlled walkway will connect Bell Pavilion to Union Square, where multiple dining venues, an all-season pool and fitness center, medical center, library, theater and salon are located. Erickson has been rolling out a phased expansion at the property for several years, heavily focused on adding independent living units. Earlier this year the company completed Phase II of the expansion, which included Maple Glen and Oakwood Court, collectively adding 114 independent living units to the community. In 2016, Erickson opened Phase I of the expansion, which added 161 independent living units.

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FAIRVIEW, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.8 million sale of a mixed-use building in Fairview. The property consists of eight residential and five commercial spaces as well as a parking garage. Daniel Aviles and Andrew M. Zuckerman of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was a limited liability company in a 1031 exchange.

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PHILADELPHIA — Campus Apartments, a student housing developer and operator based in Philadelphia, has opened four student housing developments totaling 1,643 beds. Development costs for the projects, which are within walking distance to University of Tennessee, University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania, totaled over $220 million. “We’re excited to be providing students with high-quality housing in Knoxville, Ann Arbor, and our hometown, Philadelphia,” says Daniel Bernstein, president and chief investment officer of Campus Apartments. “We’ve been thrilled with the initial response to these four new developments, and we look forward to continuing to surpass our residents’ expectations.” The new properties include TENN, a 603-bed, mixed-use community located near the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; The Yard, a 590-bed, mixed-use community located near the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Six11, a 350-bed student housing community also located in Ann Arbor; and The Simon at Founders Row located near the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. TENN in Knoxville offers a mix of three-, four- and five-bedroom, fully furnished units. Shared amenities include a two-story clubhouse, fitness center, study lounge, putting green, resort-style swimming pool, fire pits and grill stations. The Yard in Ann Arbor offers studio, one-, two-, three-, four- …

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NORWALK, CONN. — Avison Young has arranged the sale of the Matrix Corporate Center in Norwalk. The sales price was not disclosed. Located at 535 Connecticut Ave., the five-story property is currently 74 percent leased to a tenant roster that includes Crius, UBM and Belvoir. Sean Cahill, Gary Lyons and Blake Thomas of Avison Young represented the seller, Matrix Norwalk LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was Hanover Norwalk Investors LLC.

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GILBERTSVILLE, PA. — HFF has brokered the $5.9 million sale of a single-tenant retail building in Gilbertsville. The building was completed in 2015 and is leased to convenience retail store chain Wawa. The 2.7-acre property is located at 1111 Grosser Road, approximately 42 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Marc Mandel and Steve Schrenk of HFF represented the buyer, a private investor, in the transaction. The seller was undisclosed.

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