HARRISBURG, PA. — Hotel owner-operator MCR has acquired the 107-room TownePlace Suites Harrisburg Hersey in Harrisburg. The price was undisclosed. The property is 10 miles from the 121-acre Hersheypark theme park in Hershey. Located at 450 Friendship Road, the hotel features free daily buffet-style breakfast, 24-hour fitness center, on-site laundry service and an indoor pool as well as a whirlpool.
BOOTHWYN, PA. — CBRE has negotiated the $8.9 million sale of a two-property flex portfolio in Boothwyn. The portfolio consists of a two-story office building and a single-story industrial facility totaling 50,028 square feet, as well as an adjacent 3.2-acre land parcel. Steve Marzullo and Adam Silverman of CBRE represented the seller, affiliates of RedGo Development. The buyer was an affiliate of SSH Real Estate. Both properties are fully occupied by Pentec Health Inc. The two-story office building was built in 2008 and contains 17,668 square feet of office space. The single-story industrial facility was built in 2006 and contains 32,360 square feet of office, pharmacy, lab and warehouse space.
PHOENIXVILLE, PA. — CBRE has brokered the $8.1 million sale of Phoenixville Medical Office Building I, a 62,175-square-foot medical office building in Phoenixville. Located at 824 N. Main St., the three-story property was built in 1991 and is currently 90 percent leased. The tenant roster includes Phoenixville Hospital, Clinical Care Associates and Tri-County Urologic. Phoenixville is approximately 27 miles northeast of Philadelphia. Peter Stevens of CBRE represented the seller, Phoenixville Medical Building Associates, in the transaction. The property was sold subject to a ground lease.
PITTSBURGH — Lionstone Investments and Walnut Capital have acquired the Pittsburgh Athletic Association clubhouse, a five-story vacant building in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. The property was built in 1911 and had served as the clubhouse for the Pittsburgh Athletic Association since then. The building features Renaissance Venetian palazzo architecture, a bowling alley, basketball and squash courts and a third-floor swimming pool. The structure was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978. HFF brokered the sale of the building on behalf of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The buyers plan to refurbish the exterior of the building and convert the interior into 90,000 square feet of office space. Work on the property is expected to take 18 to 24 months.
UPPER DUBLIN, PA. — BET Investments Inc. (Bruce E. Toll Co.) has broken ground on The Promenade at Upper Dublin, a master-planned, mixed-use project in the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Dublin. Development costs are estimated at $200 million. The project’s residential component will include 402 units and 114 active adult homes. Amenities will include a resort-style pool, gourmet kitchens with quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances and a fitness center. A planned retail component will feature 128,000 square feet of retail space, anchored by a specialty grocer and outdoor lifestyle store as well as shops and restaurants. A 2.7-acre park, more than three miles of walking trails and an outdoor events stage are also planned. The developer is implementing sustainable design features like green roofs, bike sharing and electric car charging stations. “The Promenade at Upper Dublin will be the an exciting destination, with high-end, state-of-the-art apartments that will include resort-like amenities combined with a lively and interesting combination of restaurants and shops providing a great meeting place for the surrounding communities,” says Michael Markman, president of BET Investments. “This ‘live, work, play’ community, combining commercial and residential uses, will be the first of its kind in Eastern Montgomery County.” Upper …
PITTSBURGH — Maverick Commercial Mortgage has secured $47 million in refinancing for a six-building office portfolio in Pittsburgh. Located within the Parkway West Corridor submarket, the property features 585,000 rentable square feet. Maverick Commercial secured a 10-year, fixed-rate loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through a national lender for the borrower, a joint venture between JDI Realty and Market Street Real Estate Partners. The borrowers acquired the property in 2014. Since acquisition the borrowers have added a new food hall and tenant fitness center, and have performed extensive renovations to corridors, bathrooms and building lobbies. The property is currently 87 percent occupied.
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) has inked leases with three new tenants at Plymouth Meeting Mall in Philadelphia. Burlington, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Edge Fitness will open locations at the mall in spring 2019, backfilling the space formerly occupied by Macy’s. PREIT is also negotiating leases with an arts and crafts purveyor and a craft brewery. Current tenants at Plymouth Meeting Mall include LEGOLAND Discovery Center, Dave & Buster’s, Bath & Body Works, CycleBar, H&M, Whole Foods Market and AMC Theatre.
PHILADELPHIA — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of Fairview Care Center of Bethlehem Pike, a 176-bed skilled nursing facility in the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia. The deal is a follow-up transaction to the recently announced “Lightning Portfolio,” where eight skilled nursing facilities in the Philadelphia metro traded hands. The seller sought to divest of the non-core assets, which featured a concentration of high-barrier-to-entry locations in the Philadelphia area. The buyer was a regional owner-operator looking for a growth opportunity. The price was not disclosed. Blueprint’s Ben Firestone, Christopher Hyldahl, Michael Segal and Gideon Orion handled the transaction.
SLIPPERY ROCK AND CANONSBURG, PA. — Neema Hospitality has acquired the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Slippery Rock and the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Canonsburg. The sales price was undisclosed. The 75-room Fairfield Inn & Suites is located north of Pittsburgh nearby Slippery Rock University. Amenities include complimentary hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, in-room microwaves and an indoor pool. The 90-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites is located south of Pittsburgh in Canonsburg. The hotel’s rooms offer microwaves, refrigerators, 42-inch flat-screen TVs and free breakfast and Wi-Fi. The hotel also features a heated indoor pool and more than 1,600 square feet of meeting space.
CAMP HILL PA. AND BOISE, IDAHO — Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) announced Wednesday it has called off its previously announced merger with Boise-based grocery chain Alberstons Cos. The $24 billion deal, first announced in February, would have allowed Albertsons to go public. Under the terms of the transaction, Rite Aid shareholders would have held a 29 percent stake in the combined company. The integrated company would have operated about 4,900 locations, 4,350 pharmacy counters and 320 clinics across 38 states and Washington, D.C. “While we believe in the merits of the combination with Albertsons, we have heard the views expressed by our stockholders and are committed to moving forward and executing our strategic plan as a standalone company,” said John Standley, chairman and CEO of Rite Aid, in a prepared statement. The merger has faced pushback from a number of stockholders and investors in the months leading up to a shareholder vote over the deal, which was originally scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 9, but has since been called off. In June, Highfields Capital Management, an investment management firm that holds approximately 47 million Rite Aid shares, said it would vote against the merger, claiming it did not offer compelling value …