NEW YORK CITY — Locally based investment firm A&E Real Estate has acquired a 20-story apartment building located at 1080 Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood for $42.5 million. The 96-unit building was originally constructed in 1931 to house the staff of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. The seller, SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG), acquired 1080 Amsterdam in 2014 in a partnership with Stonehenge NYC and repositioned the asset. Amenities now include a fitness center, resident lounge, bike storage space and 24-hour lobby attendance.
MONTVALE, N.J. — JLL has negotiated a 60,000-square-foot healthcare lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Montvale. The tenant, Valley Health System, will move into North Market, an 86,000-square-foot building in the preconstruction phase of development. Frank Recine of JLL represented the landlord, The S. Hekemian Group, in the lease negotiations. Robert Rudin and Peter Hamburger of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant. North Market will also include 26,000 square feet of retail space.
WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — RIPCO Real Estate has brokered the $5.6 million sale of a 10,125-square-foot retail building located in the Long Island community of West Hempstead. The property is leased to CVS through 2032. A partnership between two locally based limited liability companies sold the asset to private investor Kenny Mauer. Stephen Preuss, Kevin Louie, Gene Spiegelman, Kevin Schmitz and Andreas Efthymiou of RIPCO brokered the deal.
DENVER — Stockbridge has acquired an eight-building industrial portfolio in Denver. The name of the seller and acquisition price were not released. Totaling more than 1.3 million square feet of infill industrial space, the portfolio includes: Table Mountain Commerce Center, 16163 W. 45th Drive West 53rd Place, 445 W. 53rd Place Leyden I, 4735-4795 Leyden St. Leyden II, 4725 Leyden St. Denver Business Center 5, 11175 E. 55th Ave. Denver Business Center, 11605 E. 55th Ave. Moline Distribution Center, 4865 Moline St. Moncrieff Distribution Center, 14303 E. Moncrieff Place Built between 1971 and 2009, the buildings offer clear heights ranging from 22 feet to 32 feet. At the time of sale, the portfolio was fully leased to 25 tenants in variety of industries, including electrical supplies; warehouse and distribution; manufacturing; construction and building materials; technology; and consumer goods. Jim Bolt, Tyler Carner, Jeremy Ballenger and Jessica Ostermick of CBRE’s Denver office represented the seller in the deal.
SAN DIEGO — JLL Income Property Trust has purchased South San Diego Distribution Center, a three-building industrial portfolio in San Diego. Affiliates of Murphy Development Co. sold the asset for $158.5 million. Totaling 665,000 square feet, the three properties were 96 percent leased to eight tenants at the time of sale. The investment was acquired through the assumption of an in-place, $72.5 million first mortgage at a 3.18 percent fixed interest rate. The financing features interest-only payments for another four years with maturity in 2031. The acquisition also includes the issuance of $75 million in operating partnership units to the sellers. The balance of the purchase was funded with cash.
NEW YORK CITY — HLTH, which organizes conferences and events for the healthcare industry, has signed a 19,000-square-foot office lease expansion and renewal at 10 Grand Central in Midtown Manhattan. The firm is growing its footprint from 7,000 to 19,000 square feet on the sixth and seventh floors. Marx Realty owns the 35-story building and completed a $48 million redesign and capital improvement program in 2019. JLL represented the landlord in the lease negotiations.
CALIFORNIA AND WASHINGTON — A joint venture between owner-operator Merrill Gardens and publicly traded REIT National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) has acquired six independent living communities located on the Pacific Coast. The communities were formerly managed by Holiday Retirement, and more recently, Atria Senior Living. The price and seller were not disclosed. The communities will be rebranded as part of the Truewood by Merrill brand. The properties include: Truewood by Merrill, Fig Garden; Fresno, Calif.; 103 units Truewood by Merrill, Modesto; Modesto, Calif.; 120 units Truewood by Merrill, Pinole; Pinole, Calif.; 98 units Truewood by Merrill, Roseville; Roseville, Calif.; 117 units Truewood by Merrill, West Covina; West Covina, Calif.; 110 units Truewood by Merrill, Vancouver; Vancouver, Wash.; 103 units NHI was already the owner of the communities and leased them to third-party operators. The acquisition brings in Merrill Gardens as the new operator under a joint-venture structure rather than a lease.
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — Presidio Property Trust has completed the sale of World Plaza, a multi-tenant retail property in San Bernardino. A Los Angeles-based private investor acquired the asset for $10 million. Located at 1535 E. Highland Ave., World Plaza features 55,810 square feet of retail space. The property was remodeled in 2018 to accommodate a 36,000-square-foot Chuze Fitness and was 100 percent leased at the time of sale. Matt Burnett of Hanley Investment Group represented the seller, while Brian Heron of Modesto-based Commercial Retail Associates represented the buyer in the transaction.
DENVER, COLO. — NAI Shames Makovsky has brokered the sale of an industrial building located at 4101 and 4201 E. 48th Ave. in Denver. Jeremy Fein sold the asset to 48th and Colorado LLC and East 48th LP LLC for $8.7 million in an off-market transaction. The property consists of 95,300 square feet of industrial space. The buyer plans to hold the asset as a long-term investment with significant value-add improvements. Paul Cattin and Adam Hubschman of NAI Shames Makovsky represented the buyer in the deal.
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Utilizing Tax Credits to Create Affordable Housing in High-Opportunity Communities
The Section 42 Low-Income Housing Credit program has been America’s primary tool in the effort to construct affordable homes for low- and moderate- income households and ease renter cost burdens since 1986. This public-private partnership has created or preserved more than 3.1 million rental units, accounting for over 30 percent of the nation’s affordable housing stock. Congress is considering legislation that would materially expand and strengthen the tax credit program. In addition to several technical changes to tax credit accounting and rules governing the use of private-activity bond financing, the legislation would authorize increases in credit allocation in 2021 and 2022. The impact of these changes would be substantial, catalyzing construction of more than 100,000 additional units per year over a 10-year period, perhaps trimming the number of rent burdened low-income households by half. Building more affordable housing will represent a significant step toward reducing housing instability and economic inequality in America. But are quantitative gains alone enough? Constructing affordable housing in low-poverty, high-opportunity census tracts is challenging. The following discussion explores some ways in which developers, lenders and credit allocating agencies can increase the level of affordable housing construction in low-poverty, high-opportunity areas (LPHOA) and optimize the …