NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the $102 million sale of a multifamily development site in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. The buyer, a partnership between locally based investment group Tavros Capital and developer Charney Cos., plans to develop a 660-unit community that will also house 60,000 square feet of commercial space. A quarter of the units will be designated as affordable housing under the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program. Ofer Cohen, Dan Marks and Daniel Lebor of TerraCRG marketed the site on behalf of the seller, Property Markets Group.
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between LIHC Investment Group, Camber Property Group and Settlement Housing Fund has purchased Lexington Court, nine-building, 229-unit affordable housing complex in East Harlem, for $85 million. The new ownership will invest about $10 million in capital improvement to the portfolio, including upgrades to plumbing and mechanical systems, as well as common area improvements. To finance the acquisition, the partnership secured a $73.1 million FHA loan from the New York City Housing Development Corp to complement its $11.5 million equity investment.
LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. — Tryko Partners has acquired two seniors housing communities in Little Egg Harbor, located near the Jersey Shore. Seacrest Village is a 171-bed, three-story skilled nursing facility that was developed in 1985. The Terraces, built in 2013, is a two-story, Class A assisted living and memory care community. The assets were family owned and operated for more than three decades.
BELCHERTOWN, MASS. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of a 56,832-square-foot retail property occupied by grocer Stop & Shop in the Central Massachusetts community of Belchertown. The property sold for $14.6 million, or roughly $258 per square foot. The buyer and seller were not disclosed. Jim Koury and Marty Cohan of IPA brokered the deal.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Newmark has arranged the $815 million sale of Charles Park, a two-building office complex and parking garage in Cambridge. The Davis Cos. and Principal Real Estate Investors sold the asset to an affiliate of Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. (NYSE: ARE). Charles Park spans 408,259 square feet and consists of two Class A office buildings, One Rogers Street and One Charles Park. The property also includes a 656-space, seven-level parking garage. Alexandria plans to redevelop the two buildings into life sciences space, but further details of that project were not provided. Situated near Charles Park is the nearly 1 million-square-foot CambridgeSide complex, which is undergoing a residential and retail development. Charles Park is also located near two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway stations, the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the new Cambridge Crossing mixed-use development and Massachusetts General Hospital. “Charles Park is well positioned along Kendall Square’s rapidly expanding First Street corridor with immediately recognizable architecture highlighted by its distinctive horseshoe-shaped façade,” says Edward Maher, vice chairman with Newmark. “The asset is further surrounded by an unmatched laboratory and technology mecca in the life sciences epicenter of the world.” Maher, along with Robert Griffin, …
By Wes Drown, Broker Associate, REMAX Commercial The Las Vegas Valley continues to see growth in the demand, velocity, rates and a decline in incentives as Vegas bounces back. This is led by the return of our entertainment industries, which are almost to pre-COVID levels, in addition to the massive demand for housing and commercial construction. All you have to do is take a drive around the 215-Beltway to see that activity is everywhere. The news-grabbing projects that are seemingly announced weekly are once again turning heads. They’re attracting young college graduates and stimulating the needs for goods and services, almost to a pre-COVID level. Office construction is underway in earnest, with expansion in Summerlin, the SW “Curve” and West Henderson. High- and mid-rise office with parking structures are being leased up in the Westside areas, with predominantly single-story popping up in Henderson. Rates for suburban office products are pushing over $2.10 per square foot, per month, including operating costs. The spread between asking price and closed deals is shrinking significantly. Incentives are back to “normal” with landlords offering new carpet and paint, or maybe a partial month early occupancy rather than the free rent or step-up rents we’ve seen in the past. …
By Taylor Williams Office owners in Texas remain acutely aware of how the pandemic has changed the game and are not shying away from promoting health and wellness within their buildings. According to data from security firm Kastle Systems, which tracks keycard, fob and app access to some 2,600 office buildings across 138 cities and 47 states, office space in America’s largest markets continues to be underutilized. Across the 10 markets that Kastle Systems tracks, including Austin, Houston and Dallas, the average office occupancy rate in early December was 40.6 percent. Yet the three Texas markets all registered occupancy rates considerably above the national average — 59.3 percent, 54.9 percent and 52.3 percent, respectively — for Austin, Houston and Dallas. A more temperate climate in Texas could bear some responsibility for these above-average performances, given that access to functional outdoor spaces has undeniably become a key tenant demand during the pandemic. Along those lines, tenants have understood for some time now that successfully bringing their employees back to their offices is somewhat contingent on making sure those workers feel safe on the job. The onus, therefore, has fallen on office owners to ensure that their buildings have protocols through which …
WEST MELBOURNE, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of The Haven at West Melbourne, a three-story, garden-style multifamily community located in West Melbourne. JT Capital purchased the Space Coast property for $84.7 million. Ken Delvillar and Jay Ballard of JLL represented the seller, Irvine, Calif.-based Passco Cos., in the transaction. Melissa Marcolini Quinn, Lee Weaver, Rob Rothaug and Emily Moallem of JLL represented the borrower in arranging an undisclosed amount of debt and equity financing for the acquisition. The Haven at West Melbourne includes 13 buildings total, and offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans with an average unit size of 1,164 square feet. Unit features include full-sized washers and dryers, walk-in closets, window coverings, nine-foot ceilings, hardwood-style vinyl flooring, granite countertops and private balconies or sunrooms. Community amenities include a pool and sundeck, outdoor gourmet kitchen, fitness center, business center, children’s play park, billiards room, sand volleyball court, dog park and a car care center. Located at 4550 Explorer Drive, the property is situated close to employers including L3Harris, Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Patrick Air Force Base, Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin. The property is also situated 5.3 miles from downtown Melbourne, 3.4 miles from the Florida …
MESA, ARIZ. — Wharton Industrial and Madison Ventures Plus have received $224.1 million in acquisition and construction financing for The HUB @ 202, a master-planned, 1.5-million-square-foot industrial park in Mesa. John Alascio, Dave Karson, Chris Moyer, Will Strong, Kirk Kuller, TJ Sullivan, Chuck Kohaut and Zachary Smolev of Cushman & Wakefield Capital Markets arranged the financing. Situated on 101 acres, The HUB @ 202 will feature 11 Class A buildings with 28-foot to 36-foot clear heights, ample truck and car parking, grade- and dock-high loading doors and functional divisibility with a variety of bay sizes. Construction is slated to begin in second-quarter 2022.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Monarch Investment and Management Group has completed the disposition of Yardz on Kolb, an apartment complex located in Tucson. Greenwater Real Estate Management acquired the asset for $65.5 million, or $159,756 per unit. Constructed between 1972 and 1974 on 17-plus acres, Yardz on Kolb features 410 garden-style apartments. Hamid Panahi and Steve Gebing of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.