Pennsylvania

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WEST CHESTER, PA. — CBRE has brokered the sale of West Chester Office Plaza, a five-building office portfolio located at 790 E. Market St. in West Chester. High Associates sold the complex to Maguire Hayden Real Estate Co. for $12.5 million. Situated on 8.3 acres, the 116,621-square-foot complex is currently 90 percent occupied by 48 tenants, including American Precision Industries, ESCFederal, Women’s Health Care Group of PA and BackOffice Thinking and Kinetic Prosthetics. Stephen Marzullo and Adam Silverman of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction.

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NORRISTOWN, PA. — Westrum Development Co. has completed Luxor Building II, the final phase of the revitalization and transformation of 770 Sandy Street into Luxor Lifestyle Apartments in Norristown. Located at the renamed 800 Luxor Lane address, Luxor Building II features 38 apartment units and complements the 157-unit main building at the Luxor complex. Amenities at the community include an open-air courtyard with bocce, grilling and fire pits, an infinity pool, a bar, a fitness center and panoramic views of Norristown and Philadelphia’s skyline. For more than a decade before Westrum Development Co. acquired the property, 770 Sandy Street was embroiled in construction, legal and financial turmoil that cost Norristown taxpayers up to $4 million for repairs and legal expenses.

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PENNSYLVANIA — Capital Funding Group, a Baltimore-based lender, has provided a $23 million HUD loan for a 324-bed skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania. The name and location of the facility were not disclosed. Capital Funding is the sole lender, and also provided the initial bridge acquisition loan in 2014. The new loan converts the existing debt into HUD financing.

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KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — CBRE has arranged the sale and acquisition financing of a 14-building office complex located within Renaissance Park in King of Prussia. Radnor, Pa.-based MLP Ventures acquired the portfolio from Liberty Property Trust for $76.9 million. The 641,325-square-foot portfolio consists of 14 single-story office and flex properties. At the time of sale, the buildings were 87 percent occupied. Major tenants include Marsh & McLennan Cos., IKEA, BB&T, RELX Group and MedRisk. Robert Fahey, Jerry Kranzel, Erin Hannan and Jack Corcoran of CBRE Capital Markets represented the seller, and Nick Harris and Steven Doherty of CBRE Debt & Structured Finance procured the financing for the buyer.

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KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — Liberty Property Trust has completed the disposition of an office building located at 2301 Renaissance Blvd. in King of Prussia, a suburb of Philadelphia. M&H Properties acquired the property for $47 million. Situated on 15.5 acres within the 200-acre Renaissance Park corporate campus, the property is the home to Vertex Inc.’s corporate headquarters and features 957 parking spaces, a conference center, first-floor locker rooms with showers, multiple break-out hubs per floor and a café. Brett Segal and Doug Rodio of HFF represented the seller in the transaction.

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CHADDS FORD, PA. — Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets has raised equity and arranged $20.5 million in financing for the construction of The Residence at Chadds Ford, an 84-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford. The borrower is LCB Senior Living, which is building the community. It will be the company’s 15th seniors housing property, and its first in the Philadelphia metro. The community is located along the Delaware border, 11 miles north of Wilmington. The community will consist of a three-story building on a 2.3-acre site. It will offer 64 independent living and assisted living apartments, as well as 20 memory care beds. The project is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2019. Webster Bank is providing $20.5 million of non-recourse construction financing at 65 percent loan-to-cost for the joint venture between LCB and its institutional partner. The Cushman & Wakefield team involved in the transaction included Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Jim Dooley and Caryn Donahue.

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PITTSBURGH — KeyBank Commercial Development Lending & Investment has provided $16.6 million in total financing for Allegheny Dwellings Phase I, a new affordable housing project in Pittsburgh’s Fineview neighborhood. The first of three phases, Allegheny Dwellings Phase I involves replacing existing public housing with 65 new mixed-income units. TREK Development Group, in partnership with the Housing Authority of City of Pittsburgh, is developing the project. The first phase will feature 47 affordable and 18 market-rate townhome, walk-up and apartment-style units. Kyle Kolesar of KeyBank arranged the financing. City Real Estate Advisors, Allies and Ross Management, Housing Authority City of Pittsburgh and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh contributed 4 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, tax-exempt bonds and other gap financing.

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PHILADELPHIA — Boynton Beach, Fla.-based Trez Forman Capital Group has arranged a $6.7 million loan for the development of a mixed-use project located in Philadelphia. The borrower, Gagandeep Lakhama of 1413 Germantown LLC, plans to develop a six-story, 50-unit apartment building with 5,500 square feet of ground-floor commercial space on a 14,625-square-foot site at 1413 Germantown Ave. Ryan Howard of Trez Forman originated the loan. This is the first time Trez Forman has done business in the state of Pennsylvania.

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WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., AND QUINCY, MASS. — Sunstone Hotel Investors has completed the sale of Philadelphia Marriott West in West Conshohocken and Boston Marriott Quincy in Quincy for $139 million, or approximately $184,600 per key. Located at 111 Crawford Ave., the Philadelphia Marriott West features 289 rooms, and Boston Marriott Quincy, at 1000 Marriott Drive in Quincy, features 464 units. The name of the buyer was not released. The disposition of the two hotels furthers the company’s strategy of concentrating its portfolio in long-term relevant real estate.

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1140-Valley-Forge-Road-Phoenixville-PA

PHOENIXVILLE, PA. — HFF has arranged the sale of a single-tenant office building located at 1140 Valley Forge Road in Phoenixville, a suburb of Philadelphia. A Philadelphia-based family office sold the building for $6.6 million. Constructed as a build-to-suit in 1994 for Environmental Standards Inc., the property features 30,588 square feet of office space, including a 10,000-square-foot expansion that was added in 2013. Brett Segal and Doug Rodio of HFF represented the seller in the deal.

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