Mixed-Use

NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a $75 million refinancing for The Lane at Boerum Place, a 133,387-square-foot residential and retail building in Brooklyn. Located at 415 Red Hook Lane, Rumble Boxing anchors the 108-unit project’s retail component. The residential component of the newly constructed, 21-story property is fully leased. Amenities include central air, a bike room and co-working lounge, as well as washers and dryers in all units. Gideon Gil, Alexander Hernandez, Noble Carpenter III and Zachary Kraft secured financing on behalf of the borrower, Quinlan Development Group & Lonicera Partners. TD Bank provided the financing.

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CHICAGO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of the third and fourth floors of the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) building in Chicago’s River North neighborhood for $6 million. The property, located at 360 N. State St., is a four-story, mixed-use condo building totaling approximately 54,000 square feet. Until the sale, the MBC utilized the upper three floors, but will now consolidate operations on the second floor. STK Chicago, a restaurant, occupies the ground floor. Kyle Stengle and Stephen Lieberman of Marcus & Millichap marketed the floors on behalf of the museum. Fern Hill Co., a privately held real estate development and investment firm in Chicago, was the buyer.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Locally based developers PN Hoffman and Madison Marquette have broken ground on Phase II of The Wharf, a $2.5 billion, mixed-use project fronting the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. At full build-out, Phase II will feature 625,000 square feet of Class A office space, 255 apartments, 96 condominium units, 131 hotel rooms and a 109,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Phase II will also include a 1.5-acre park, two underground parking garages with more than 1,000 spaces, and additional dockage totaling 223 slips at The Wharf Marina. Phase I of The Wharf, which spans a mile and is the largest private development in the city, opened in October 2017. Phase I included three hotels, two multifamily and condominium buildings, and 210,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space. The design team behind Phase II includes more than a dozen architects. Cianbro is the general contractor for construction of the marina component, and Balfour Beatty is handling construction of the office buildings and below-grade parking garages. Other project partners include ER Bacon Development, City Partners, Paramount Development and Triden Development. Madison Marquette, which is owned by international investment firm Capital Guidance and merged with PMRG last …

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HOUSTON — A partnership between Houston-based DC Partners and China-based Tianqing Real Estate Development is underway on The Allen, a $454 million mixed-use project located near downtown Houston. According to the project website, The Allen will include five towers offering 300,000 square feet of office space, 165 hotel rooms, 99 for-sale condominiums and an unspecified amount of retail space. HOK is designing the project, Phase I construction of which began during the fourth quarter of 2018.

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Urban Spaces has broken ground on Kendall East, a four-story, 136-unit, mixed-use development in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge. The project is located at 99-119 1st St., 18 Hurley St. and 29 Charles St. Designed by architectural firm Perkins Eastman, the development will also include 15,000 square feet of retail as well as 23 parking spaces. Construction is slated for completion in 2020.  

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JOLIET, ILL. — Cullinan Properties Ltd. has broken ground on Rock Run Crossings, a 265-acre mixed-use project in Joliet. Cullinan is underway on clearing the site and plans to begin construction late this spring. A groundbreaking ceremony took place on Friday, March 22. Cullinan has also revealed the first anchor tenant at Rock Run Crossings. The 16-screen Regal Cinemas movie theater will span 70,000 square feet. The developer plans to announce more tenants later this year.

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COSTA MESA, CALIF. — Ready Capital has closed a $20.1 million loan for the acquisition, renovation and stabilization of Back Bay Center, a mixed-use retail and office property located in the Eastside submarket of Costa Mesa. The asset features 52,000 square feet of Class B retail and office space. Ready Capital National Bridge Originations Team closed the non-recourse, fixed-rate loan that features an 84-month term, 48 months of interest-only payments and flexible pre-payment options.

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SEATTLE — Norris, Beggs & Simpson Financial Services (NBS Financial) has arranged $5 million in financing for Wallingford Center in Seattle. The borrower is Wallingford Center LLP. Mike Wood and Colin Ceithaml of NBS Financial secured the non-recourse, fixed-rate loan. Riversource LLC, a life company correspondent of NBS Financial, provided the capital. Originally constructed as a school, the 28,377-square-foot mixed-use asset features retail space on the first two floors and 24 apartments above. The use of the financing was not disclosed.

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NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $2.4 million sale of a 4,750-square foot mixed-use property in Brooklyn. Located at 358 Knickerbocker Ave., the property was built in 1931. Shaun Riney and Thomas Shihadeh of Marcus & Millichap’s Brooklyn office represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was also a private investor.

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MIAMI AND BOCA RATON, FLA. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged $45.2 million in financing for two parcels in South Florida. Eric McGlynn and Kevin O’Grady of Walker & Dunlop arranged the refinancing loans in two separate transactions, which effectively lower the interest rates on each property’s existing land loan. The first loan was on behalf of Property Markets Group (PMG) for $33 million for a parcel in Miami located at 300 Biscayne Blvd. that will house Waldorf Astoria & Residences Miami. PMG, Greybrook Realty Partners and S2 Development are co-developing the 98-story building that will feature 140 hotel rooms and approximately 400 for-sale condominiums. BridgeInvest provided the non-recourse, interest-only loan that gives the developers the option to exit with limited prepayment penalties. The second loan, which was for 130 acres in Boca Raton, totaled $12.2 million. The land is the former site of Mizner Trail Golf Club, a public golf course. The owner of the land, Compson Associates, is planning to develop a 255-unit residential development consisting of townhomes and single-family homes. New Gables Capital provided the non-recourse loan that gives the borrower 12 additional months to complete predevelopment activities.

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