NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the $5 million sale of a 38-unit apartment building in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The 35,000-square-foot building at 575 Herkimer St. was originally constructed in 1965. Ben Khakshoor of Rosewood Realty represented the buyer, Gilman Management, in the transaction. Aaron Jungreis, also with Rosewood, represented the seller, a private family.
By Brent Glodowski, director, capital markets group, Avison Young Conditions are looking up for retail real estate investment in New York City. In one sense, “up” is the only way to go for a sector that has been bumping along the bottom of a trough. But with inflation tempering investors’ recent fascination with multifamily and industrial properties, retail also offers opportunities to acquire price-corrected assets when those other property types hover near cyclical peaks. Retail’s Head Start New York’s retail real estate market was already suffering from changing consumer tendencies when COVID-19 arrived and thrust many retailers and their landlords into a full-blown crisis. Even when government-ordered shutdowns eased, remote work policies drained office buildings of the customer bases that had supported swaths of restaurants, shops and entertainment businesses. Home-bound workers became a redistributed daytime population, shifting demand for meal delivery and other retail to new areas. Hundreds of small businesses went under, leaving vacant storefronts in their wake. Some retailers altered business plans to serve shifting customer bases that had developed new, pandemic-influenced consumption practices. Landlords with vacancies to fill turned to traditional strategies, such as relocating tenants from out-of-the-way spaces to fill their most visible storefronts. Property owners …
BOSTON — JLL has arranged a $585 million construction loan for Allston LabWorks, a 580,905-square-foot life sciences, retail and multifamily project in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. The borrower and developer is a joint venture between Boston-based King Street Properties, Brookfield and Mugar Enterprises. Allston LabWorks will feature 534,000 square feet of lab space, 20,000 square feet of retail space and 35 multifamily units, about 25 percent of which will be reserved as affordable housing. The development will also house a 5,000-square-foot outdoor event area and a 668-space parking garage. The site, which spans 4.3 acres at 305 Western Ave., is situated adjacent to Harvard University’s 350-acre Allston campus, which is home to the newly opened John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. The area is also near the campuses of Boston University and Boston College, with multiple MBTA Green Line stops nearby. Greg LaBine and Amy Lousararian of JLL arranged the four-year, floating-rate loan through an undisclosed institutional debt fund. Construction of the project is underway, but a timeline for completion was not disclosed. “The fact that we were able to move quickly on this loan in today’s market conditions speaks to the level of interest and …
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Affiliates of Harbor Group International have purchased the Long Beach Coastal Collection, a portfolio of apartment communities in Long Beach, for $180 million. Built in 2019 and 2020, the portfolio features 348 apartments in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts. Amenities at the properties include rooftop decks with panoramic views, 24-hour fitness centers, resident lounges, heated pools and spas, coworking spaces, and gaming and entertainment rooms. Geoff Boler of Eastdil Secured facilitated the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, in a joint venture with MG Properties, have acquired The Platform Urban Apartments in San Jose for an undisclosed price. The transit-oriented property features 551 apartments and 35,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Completed in 2019, the community is situated in the Berryessa submarket of San Jose. Eastdil Secured represented the undisclosed sellers. TPG Real Estate Finance Trust, an affiliate of TPG, provided an acquisition loan for the buyers. Eastdil Secured arranged the loan.
FREMONT, CALIF. — Diversified Healthcare Trust (Nasdaq: DHC) has acquired a life sciences building, located at 47071 Bayside Parkway in Fremont, for $82 million. The name of the seller was not released. The recently renovated facility features 89,000 rentable square feet of lab and corporate headquarters space. The property is 100 percent leased to Alamar Bioscience through January 2034. With this acquisition, DHC now owns four life sciences assets totaling approximately 327,000 square feet in the Bay Area, in addition to its joint venture investment in two properties located in the same market.
PHOENIX — LPC Desert West, the Southwest division of Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co., has completed the disposition of Twenty Seven Camelback, a Class A office building located in Phoenix’s Camelback Corridor. Rosebud Properties acquired the asset for $34 million. Located at 2777 E. Camelback Road, Twenty Seven Camelback features 109,291 square feet of office space. After acquiring the property in 2017, LPC implemented a renovation program, including an upgraded lobby, new conference facility, outdoor lounge area, and improved signage, landscape and hardscapes. Other amenities at the property include touchless entries, 13-foot ceilings, modern open layouts with exposed concrete aesthetics, flexible 36,000-square-foot floor plates and a two-level subterranean parking garage with direct elevator access to tenant spaces. At the time of sale, Twenty Seven Camelback was 87 percent occupied. Current tenants include UMB Bank, Abrazo Medical Group and Lavidge. LPC will continue to manage and lease the building for the new owners. Barry Gabel and Chris Marchildon of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
SAN FRANCISCO — BRIDGE Housing has received a $19.4 million refinancing for Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments, a 125-unit affordable seniors housing community in San Francisco. CPC Mortgage Co. provided the Freddie Mac Targeted Affordable Housing loan. Built in 1988, the property is age restricted to seniors age 62 and over. While there is a current requirement that 63 units be restricted to residents with incomes at or below 80 percent of area median income (AMI), BRIDGE has restricted 84 of the units and plans to increase this number going forward. Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments is adjacent to an architecturally distinguished school building, which was renovated by the City of South San Francisco as a senior center for the residents of both the development and the larger community. The complex includes a historic reconstruction of the city’s original one-room schoolhouse as a project office and community room. BRIDGE was a member of the original enterprise that constructed Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments in 1988, and recently purchased the property from the remaining partners.
AMARILLO, TEXAS — Dallas-based Mycon General Contractors is underway on construction of a 781-unit self-storage facility for U-Haul in Amarillo that will also offer truck and trailer rental services. The four-acre site at 5316 Canyon Drive already houses several U-Haul facilities, and the new three-story building will add 83,000 square feet of net rentable, climate-controlled space and 11,267 square feet of box storage space to the existing complex. Full completion is slated for December. In addition to the construction of the new building, the existing paving, landscaping and onsite ingress/egress points will also be renovated.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Locally based investment and development firm Stratus Properties (NASDAQ: STRS) has received a $56.8 million construction loan for The Saint George, a 316-unit multifamily project that will be located near the University of Texas at Austin. Comerica Bank provided the four-year loan, and an undisclosed equity partner is funding the majority of the remaining development costs. Ten percent of the units at The Saint George will be reserved as affordable housing. Amenities will include a pool, fitness center, rooftop deck and communal workspaces. Stratus expects to begin construction in the coming days and for the project to be substantially complete by mid-2024