NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between two locally based firms, Charney Cos. and Tavros, has begun leasing Douglass Port, a 260-unit apartment building in Brooklyn. The 15-story building is located at 251 Douglass St. within the partnership’s Gowanus Wharf development and includes 65 units that are earmarked as permanent affordable housing. Douglass Port offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a smart package room, fitness center, full-court basketball court, coworking and resident lounges, a family room, kid’s play area and a landscaped rooftop terrace. Rents start at $3,250 per month for a studio apartment.
NEW YORK CITY — Robinson + Cole has signed a 48,451-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The law firm has committed to the entire 16th and 17th floors at 100 Park Avenue for the next 15 years. Greg Taubin of Savills represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Harry Blair, Barry Zeller, Justin Royce and Pierce Hance of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, SL Green. The building is now fully leased.
CHICAGO — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $124.6 million refinancing for Arthur on Aberdeen, a newly stabilized luxury apartment tower in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Located at 210 N. Aberdeen St., the property rises 18 stories with 363 units. Delivered in 2024, the asset is 92 percent occupied. Amenities include a rooftop pool and spa, a fitness center spanning more than 2,000 square feet, a podcasting studio and coworking spaces. The community also includes roughly 10,000 square feet of fully leased ground-floor retail space. Danny Kaufman, Medina Spiodic, Rebecca Mitchell, Merrick Evans and Annie Thomas of JLL represented the borrower, LG Development Group LLC, in arranging the three-year, floating-rate loan through Pacific Life Insurance Co.
INDIANAPOLIS — Colliers has negotiated the sale of a six-building industrial portfolio totaling 954,072 square feet throughout the Northwest, Northeast and Southwest submarkets of metro Indianapolis. The assets are located in Indianapolis, Fishers and Plainfield. Alex Cantu, Alex Davenport, Jeff Devine, Steve Disse, Tyler Ziebel, Jason Speckman, Jimmy Cohoat and Andrea Hopper of Colliers represented the seller, EQT. Wisconsin-based MLG Capital was the buyer. The portfolio was 90 percent leased to 10 tenants at the time of sale with a weighted average lease term of 4.6 years. Suite sizes range from approximately 24,000 square feet to more than 260,000 square feet. Roughly 40 percent of the square footage is leased to investment-grade tenants. Four of the six assets are located within Park 100, one of the largest industrial parks in Indianapolis.
MUNDELEIN, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the nearly $14 million sale and financing of a LA Fitness-anchored, four-suite retail property in Mundelein. Austin Weisenbeck and Sean Sharko of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, an experienced real estate investor and developer in Chicagoland. The Sharko | Weisenbeck | Mendoza Group also procured the out-of-state buyer, which completed a 1031 exchange. Dean Giannakopoulos of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. arranged $9.8 million in acquisition financing through a regional lender. The 89,357-square-foot shopping center is situated on 7.5 acres at 1555 S. Lake St. Built in 2019, the property is home to Kids Empire, The Dog Stop and The Picklr Club. The asset is part of Townline Square Shopping Center.
Priority Capital Advisory Secures $11.5M Loan for Recapitalization of Wisconsin Multifamily Property
MADISON, WIS. — Priority Capital Advisory has secured an $11.5 million senior loan on behalf of REALM and OTR Real Estate for the recapitalization of Vivo Madison, a 153-unit multifamily property located at 517 Grand Canyon Drive in Madison. The joint venture acquired the property, which was a Radisson hotel at the time of acquisition, in April 2023 and converted the hotel into a multifamily asset. The main scope of work included adding kitchenettes in all units and building out common area amenities. The property received its multifamily Certificate of Occupancy in January 2026 and is currently 56 percent leased, with full occupancy anticipated by the end of this year. Vivo Madison features 147 studios and six one-bedroom units. Amenities include a clubhouse, indoor pool, fitness center, game room, coworking space, laundry facilities and outdoor lounge areas. The two-story asset is situated on 4.5 acres adjacent to University Research Park, a 1.8 million-square-foot life sciences and technology corporate campus. It is also a 10-minute drive from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is within walking distance of West Towne Mall.
JACKSON, MISS. — Newmark has arranged the sale of Highland Village, a 217,589-square-foot shopping center located at 4500 I-55 N in Jackson. Mississippi’s only Whole Foods Market anchors the 14.5-acre property, which was originally developed in 1960 and redeveloped in 2017 by the seller, WS Development. Charlotte-based Asana Partners purchased the shopping center for an undisclosed price. Conor Lalor of Newmark represented the seller in the transaction. Highland Village was approximately 90 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Free People, Kendra Scott, lululemon and Maison Weiss.
ARLINGTON, VA. — Berkadia has negotiated the sale of The Commodore, a 20-story high-rise apartment tower located at 2055 15th St. N in Arlington. GID purchased the community for an undisclosed price. Brian Crivella, Yalda Ghamarian, Bill Gribbin and Jack Canepa of Berkadia represented the seller, Charleston-based Greystar, in the transaction. Built in 2023 in Arlington’s Court House neighborhood, The Commodore features 423 luxury apartments and 18,461 square feet of ground-level retail space. Units come in studio, junior one-bedroom, one-bedroom, junior two-bedroom, two-bedroom, two-bedroom den and penthouse layouts. Amenities include a clubroom, demonstration kitchen, coworking spaces, fitness center and yoga studio, children’s art studio, pet spa, resort-style pool, rooftop terrace, landscaped courtyards and multiple indoor-outdoor gathering spaces.
GRENADA, MISS. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Riverbirch Plaza, a 99,097-square-foot shopping center located at 1201-1231 Sunset Drive in Grenada, which is roughly midway between Jackson, Miss., and Memphis via I-55. Built in 1976, the shopping center is situated on 9.5 acres and was fully leased at the time of sale to 11 tenants, including Harbor Freight, Dollar General and The UPS Store. Mickey Davis, Chris Leppanen and Davis Owen of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Action Properties, which has owned Riverbirch Plaza for the past 12 years. Davis, who is Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Mississippi, also procured the locally based buyer, Delta Farms LLC.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Multifamily developers and construction firms surveyed by the NMHC are optimistic about long-term multifamily construction conditions. According to results of the June 2026 NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Construction & Development Activity, 46 percent of respondents expect conditions to improve (or easier to build) over the next six to 12 months compared to 14 percent of survey takers who expect conditions to worsen. The rest of the respondents either chose conditions to remain the same (35 percent) or “don’t know” (5 percent). The optimism from the second-quarter survey could be in part due to the availability of financing. Fifty-one percent of survey takers expect equity to become more available (compared to 10 percent expecting equity to become less available) over the next six to 12 months, and 28 percent expecting debt financing to become more available (compared to 7 percent expecting debt financing to become less available). While the survey takers were overall hopeful, they are wary of rising construction costs. A majority of respondents (51 percent) expect material costs to rise in line with inflation over the next six to 12 months, while 27 percent expect material costs to increase faster than the rate of inflation. …