NEW YORK CITY — TF Cornerstone has completed the development of 33 Bond, a 25-story apartment development located in Brooklyn. Designed by Handel Architects, 33 Bond features 714 rental units in studio, one- and two-bedroom open-concept layouts, a 24-hour attended lobby, package attendant, club lounge with billiards table, screening room, designated event space, bicycle store, parking garage and an on-site pet grooming space. Residences feature white oak floors, state-of-the-art kitchens with stainless steel appliances, and floor-to-ceiling windows. Additionally, the property features HomeWork, a full-scale collaborative workspace, and 60,000 square feet of retail space occupied by Chelsea Piers, a fitness, health and lifestyle center, and Devocion, a Colombian coffee roaster.
NEW YORK CITY — Lourdes Realty Group has purchased a 100-unit apartment building located at 70 Dahill Road in the Kensington section of Brooklyn. Sentinel Real Estate Corp. sold the property for $33 million. Built in 1934, the 102,000-square-foot building features six studios, 61 one-bedroom, 26 two-bedroom and seven three-bedroom units. Aaron Jungreis of Rosewood Realty Group represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
MARGATE, N.J. — Sims Mortgage Funding, a subsidiary of HJ Sims, has arranged a $6.4 million HUD loan for Margate Terrace, an affordable seniors housing community in Margate, a beach community near Atlantic City. The financing will provide cash for improvements and reserves. Margate Terrace Corp., which owns the property, can now preserve the Section 8 designation on the property. Community Realty Management is the operator. Margate Terrace Apartments was developed in the early 1990s under the HUD Section 202 Direct Loan Program. Its primary source of income is a Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Contract, which has a remaining term of approximately 16 years. The Section 8 subsidy is sufficient to fund operations and debt service obligations, but the project had growing capital needs that could not be financed from operations and current reserve balances. The project benefited from a PILOT (Pilot in Lieu of Taxes) and ground lease agreements from the City of Margate. The existing agreements did not meet HUD’s current loan program requirements and needed to be amended to recapitalize the project. Approximately $1.4 million in loan proceeds are escrowed for capital repairs, $350,000 was deposited into a replacement reserve fund and a 15 percent …
YONKERS, N.Y. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a multifamily development site located at 1065 and 1073 Warburton Ave. in Yonkers. RMS Warburton LLC acquired the 0.63-acre site for $4 million. Al Mirin, Kate Schwartz and Matthew Torrance of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller in the sale. The property at 1073 Warburton Ave. has been permitted for the intended construction of a nine-story, 79-unit rental apartment building to be built above an enclosed structured parking. The purchase of 1065 Warburton Avenue added approximately 0.18 acres to the overall property creating a combined site that is estimated to accommodate more than 100 units.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Morgan, in conjunction with institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, has broken ground on Pearl Flagler Village, a 350-unit apartment community located at 400 N.E. 3rd Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Situated along the Wave Streetcar line within Flagler Village, a mixed-use development, the project will include a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. The seven-story property will also feature a business center, fitness center, yoga studio, gas grill stations, dog park and a heated saltwater pool. The first units of the development are slated to open in the second half of 2018.
BARTLETT, TENN. — Atlanta-based Branch Properties LLC has acquired Bartlett Towne Center, a 192,624-square-foot, Kroger-anchored shopping center located at 6045 Stage Road in Bartlett, roughly 13 miles east of Memphis. Jim Hamilton and Richard Reid of HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Houston-based Weingarten Realty Investors. The sales price was not disclosed. At the time of sale, Bartlett Towne Center was 94 percent leased to tenants including Petco, Dollar Tree, Shoe Carnival, Rent-A-Center, Sally Beauty, FedEx and Mattress Firm, among others.
ATLANTA — Joel & Granot Real Estate/CORFAC International (JGRE) has sold a 108,000-square-foot office building located at 550 Pharr Road in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. The property is situated at the northwest corner of Pharr and Piedmont roads. Alan Joel and Dan Granot of JGRE represented 550 Buckhead LLC, an entity made up of JGRE, its Dallas-based mezzanine partner Rainer and other investors, internally in the sale to Charlotte-based Stone Street Capital. JGRE and Rainer originally acquired the office building when it was vacant in 2013.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — NAI Avant has arranged the $11.3 million sale of 4221 Faber Place Drive, a 48,000-square-foot, Class A pharmaceutical manufacturing and testing facility located within the Faber Place Executive Park in North Charleston. Dexter Rumsey of NAI Avant represented the buyer, JEMA I LLC, in the transaction. CBRE’s Charlie Carmody represented the seller, The Medical University of South Carolina. At the time of sale, the building was leased long-term to a pharmaceutical testing company.
PLANO AND CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Dallas-based development firm Billingsley Co. has received $110 million in refinancing for a seven-building, 801,153-square-foot portfolio of office properties located within the 50-acre International Business Park in Plano and Carrollton. Built between 1997 and 2001, the buildings are 87 percent leased. Trey Morsbach and Jim Curtin of HFF arranged the three-year, floating-rate loan through Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp.
SAN ANTONIO — Dallas-based private equity firm Velocis has acquired Legacy Oaks, a 224,262-square-foot, Class A medical office adjacent to the 900-acre South Texas Medical Center in San Antonio. The seven-building complex, which recently underwent capital improvements, was 75 percent leased at the time of sale to healthcare providers such as Baptist Health System and MEDNAX.