FARMINGTON, CONN. — M&T Realty Capital has provided a $7.1 million FHA-insured loan for the refinancing of a 73-unit assisted living facility in Farmington, a suburb of Hartford. Paula Quigley and Steve Muth of M&T Realty Capital originated the loan through HUD’s 232 program, which provides mortgage insurance for residential care properties such as assisted living facilities and nursing homes. The borrower was not disclosed.
LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — Healthcare brokerage firm Jacobson Properties and Pyramid Brokerage Co. of Binghamton have arranged the sale of West Taft Road Medical Center, a 42,374-square-foot medical office building in Liverpool, a suburb of Syracuse. An entity doing business as West Taft Road Associates LLC sold the asset to an international private equity firm specializing in healthcare real estate for an undisclosed price. Lisa Menin of Jacobson Properties and Leo Jones of Pyramid Brokerage Co. represented the seller in the transaction.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Developer DivcoWest has broken ground on a 375,000-square-foot life sciences building at 441 Morgan St. within Cambridge Crossing, a 43-acre mixed-use development located at the junction of Cambridge, Boston and Somerville. Designed by Ennead Architects and Jacobs Consultants, the building will consist of 10 floors of lab space plus two penthouse floors and five outdoor terraces. DivcoWest expects to complete construction of the shell of the building in early 2023 and to subsequently begin interior build-outs of tenant spaces.
PHILADELPHIA — CBRE has negotiated the sale of a 140,913-square-foot life sciences building located at 3701 Market St. in Philadelphia. Built in 2000, the property was leased to Penn Medicine and Drexel University at the time of sale. Robert Fahey, Jerry Kranzel, Bruer Kershner, Erin Hannan and Jack Corcoran of CBRE represented the seller, University City Science Center, in the transaction. Steven Doherty and Nick Harris of CBRE arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, San Francisco-based GI Partners, which purchased the eight-story building for an undisclosed price.
BURLINGAME, CALIF. — Angelo Gordon & Co. has completed the disposition of a medical office building located at 1720 El Camino Real in Burlingame. Morgan Stanley acquired the asset for $64.4 million. The 106,018-square-foot building is immediately adjacent to the 241-bed, acute-care Sutter Health Mills-Peninsula Medical Center. The medical office building is anchored by Sutter Health, Stanford Health Care and DaVita. The property features recently renovated common areas and extensive medical buildouts, including a 10,300-square-foot endoscopy center in the Sutter Health space. The property also includes a five-story, 396-stall parking garage that provides direct access into the building from each floor. Steven Golubchik, Seth McKinnon, Ben Appel and Darren Hollak of Newmark’s Northern California Capital Markets team represented the seller in the deal.
MALDEN, MASS. — A partnership between regional developer Quaker Lane Capital and Turnbridge Equities will develop a 160,000-square-foot building that can support traditional office or life sciences users in Malden, a northern suburb of Boston. Global architecture firm Gensler is designing the nine-story facility, which will be located within an Opportunity Zone. Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 2022 and to be complete some time in 2023.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A public-private partnership led by the New Brunswick Development Corp. has begun construction on a $750 million cancer treatment facility in the northern-central part of the Garden State. RWJBarnabas Health and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey will operate the facility, which will provide inpatient and outpatient cancer services, including ancillary services, as well as state-of-the-art laboratories for research. Construction of the 12-story building is slated for completion in 2024.
FAIRFIELD AND SHELTON, CONN. — Nashville-based Montecito Medical has acquired two medical office buildings totaling approximately 113,000 square feet in Fairfield and Shelton, both of which are located in Connecticut’s Fairfield County. The Fairfield property was built in 2018 and totals 46,593 square feet, while the Shelton building spans 54,745 square feet. Orthopaedic Specialty Group is the primary tenant at both properties.
HOPEWELL, N.J. — Newmark has arranged a $76 million acquisition loan for Princeton West Innovation Campus, a 1.1 million-square-foot life sciences property in Hopewell, about 55 miles southwest of New York City. The property, which formerly served as the global R&D headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb, is located less than 10 miles from its namesake university’s main campus. Amenities include a full-service cafeteria, an 8,000-square-foot fitness center, a 28,000-square-foot child development center and multiple conference areas. The borrower was a partnership between H.I.G. Realty Partners and Lincoln Equities Group. Dustin Stolly and Jordan Roeschlaub of Newmark placed the debt through Denver-based ArrowMark Partners. The new ownership will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements and speculative leasing costs.
TAMARAC, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $4.4 million sale of Towne Plaza, a 28,600-square-foot medical office property located at 7443-7495 N University Drive in Tamarac. Quinn Sousa and Ryan Shaw of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, John Loeffler Trustee of Lillian Loeffler Trust, in the transaction. The buyer, a private doctor doing business in the sale as Evergreen 3 LLC, plans to occupy 10,000 square feet of the property and lease out the remaining space. Built in 1988, Towne Plaza has frontage on North University Drive and is accessible from the Florida Turnpike and Sawgrass Expressway. The multi-tenant medical office property is located next to the University Hospital and Medical Center. The property was 43 percent leased at the time of sale.