BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — Locally based brokerage firm Choyce Peterson has negotiated the sale of a 30,000-square-foot office building in Bridgeport, located in the southern coastal part of the state. An entity doing business as Courtland Street Partners LLC sold the freestanding building to an affiliate of Adam J. Lewis Academy for an undisclosed price. Scott Peterson and Charlene O’Connell of Choyce Peterson brokered the deal. The new ownership plans to convert the building into an expansionary facility for its main school.
NEW YORK CITY — Urbanspace has opened a 10,000-square-foot food hall in Manhattan. Urbanspace Union Square is located on the ground floor of Zero Irving, a new mixed-use building by RAL Development. Vendors include Summer Salt, Twenty One Grains, Kid Brother Pizza, Pita Yeero, Plant Junkie, Goat Café, Bao by Kaya, Bobwhite Counter, Playa Bowls, Wafels & Dinges, Top Hops, Casa Toscana and GoFish. The venue marks the fifth New York City food hall by Urbanspace.
By Taylor Williams The New York City retail market is currently functioning like an episode of The Price Is Right. Developers, investors, brokers and operators are all trying to attach fair values to rents and sales prices for spaces of all sizes and submarkets. But after a tumultuous period marked by a global pandemic and record inflation, followed by a string of severe interest rate hikes, accurately assigning those numbers is easier said than done — at least in some submarkets. According to data from JLL, at the end of the third quarter, the average rent throughout New York City was $290 per square foot, down 5.3 percent year over year. That figure represents an improvement from the second quarter of 2022, when rents posted a 12 percent decline on a year-over-year basis. In addition, JLL’s data shows that 58 new leases were signed in the third quarter. While that figure marks a decline of 13 percent from the second quarter, it also constitutes an increase of 7.4 percent on a year-over-year basis. These numbers suggest that after retail leasing and sales completely stagnated in 2020 due to an unprecedented public health crisis, the market corrected sharply in 2021 and …
MIAMI — The Chetrit Group, a privately held New York City-based developer, plans to develop The River District, a 4 million-square-foot mixed-use destination in Miami. The project will span more than six acres along the Miami River waterfront. Total development costs will exceed $1 billion, according to Bloomberg. The Chetrit Group previously secured a $310 million loan from Madison Realty Group to fund the project’s first two phases of construction. Occupying the delta between I-95, Southwest Second Avenue and Jose Marti Park, The River District will feature four ground-up skyscrapers — a condominium tower, office tower and two high-rise apartment buildings — as well as a pair of two-story waterfront retail buildings, a marina and new streetscapes. Overall the project will comprise 1,600 residences, an undisclosed amount of Class A office space, 30,000 square feet of retail space, a boat marina that can accommodate 60-foot vessels, 2,000 covered parking spots and restaurants and nightlife venues. “The River District is going to create a riverwalk experience for the first time in the city, and we expect to completely transform how people in the area live, work and play,” says Michael Chetrit, principal of Chetrit Group. The first building to come to …
For a little more than a year now, Americans have gone on a collective road trip, making up for time stolen during the lockdowns. In turn, that has fueled a rebound in the hotel industry, which was decimated in 2020 and much of 2021. Revenue per available room (RevPAR), a key measure of hotel profitability, is expected to end 2022 at an average of $93, up nearly 8 percent versus 2019, according to a hotel forecast update in late November by STR, a hospitality research organization based in Hendersonville, Kentucky. Meanwhile, the projected average occupancy of 62.7 percent will mark an increase of 5.1 percentage points over 2021, and the estimated average daily rate (ADR) of $148 will best last year’s number by $23, STR reports. Select service lodging properties in particular are helping to lead the recovery, says Steven J. Martens, chairman of NAI Martens, a Wichita-based commercial real estate brokerage that is one of five brands under the Martens Companies umbrella. “The majority of the midscale and upper midscale assets are very dependent upon leisure travel, and they are seeing a rebound throughout the country,” he adds. “Most good operators with strong hotel brands have seen very healthy …
DALLAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of 6500 South, a 536-unit apartment community in southwest Dallas. According to Apartments.com, the property was built in 1985, houses one- and two-bedroom units and offers amenities such as a pool, fitness center, business center, clubhouse and a playground. Al Silva and Ford Braly of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Intercapital Group, in the transaction and procured an undisclosed, locally based investment group as the buyer. The new ownership plans to implement a capital improvement program.
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — A partnership between Orlando-based developer ZOM Living and New York City-based investment management firm CP Capital will develop Azola Avery Centre, a 359-unit multifamily project in metro Austin. The site is located within the 1,200-acre Avery Centre master-planned development in the northern suburb of Round Rock. Units will come in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and amenities will include a pool, outdoor kitchen, fitness center, dog park, coworking lounge and a game room. Construction is scheduled to begin in January and to be complete in 2025.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Lincoln Property Co. has acquired Star Commerce Center IIIB, a 177,510-square-foot warehouse in Frisco. The newly built, rear-load facility sits on 10.5 acres and was fully leased at the time of sale. Building features include 32-foot clear heights, 210-foot truck court depths, 210 parking spaces and roughly 50,000 square feet of office space. Dustin Volz, Stephen Bailey, Dom Espinosa, Zach Riebe and Matthew Barge of JLL represented the seller, Blue Star Land, in the transaction.
MINNEAPOLIS — LS Black Development recently broke ground on the $71 million Canvas Apartments affordable housing development in Northeast Minneapolis. The property’s 160 units will all be reserved for residents earning between 30 to 80 percent of the area median income (AMI). The project will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as 23,000 square feet of production space, which encompasses both commercial and industrial uses. Completion is slated for spring 2024. The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority is providing 11 project-based Section 8 vouchers for the project. Canvas Apartments is LS Black’s first development project since adding a housing division. The St. Paul, Minn.-based company was formed in April 2020 to build, acquire and own affordable and workforce housing properties. It is a subsidiary of LS Black Constructors, a Minnesota-based construction and development services provider.
ST. LOUIS — MMG Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Gateway at City Park, a 769-unit apartment complex in St. Louis that was formerly known as Cityview. Located in the city’s downtown west neighborhood, the property was built in 1960 and renovated in 2013. Amenities include a CityHive coworking space, covered parking garage, media room, rooftop terrace and two fitness centers. Daniel Wiele and Tom Maloney of MMG represented the seller, Mills Properties, which completed more than $28 million in upgrades. Blue Magma Residential was the buyer.