WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., AND QUINCY, MASS. — Sunstone Hotel Investors has completed the sale of Philadelphia Marriott West in West Conshohocken and Boston Marriott Quincy in Quincy for $139 million, or approximately $184,600 per key. Located at 111 Crawford Ave., the Philadelphia Marriott West features 289 rooms, and Boston Marriott Quincy, at 1000 Marriott Drive in Quincy, features 464 units. The name of the buyer was not released. The disposition of the two hotels furthers the company’s strategy of concentrating its portfolio in long-term relevant real estate.
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NEW YORK CITY — Stonehill Taylor has designed HY36, a hotel in the Hudson Yards district, for owners LLR Holdings LLC and Intercontinental Hotel Group. Open in fall 2017, the hotel features 251 rooms; a business lounge; an outside patio with a full bar and retractable skylight roof; a full gym; two meeting rooms; and The Great American, a destination restaurant. The hotel features an industrial design that emulates the nearby transportation hubs, including Penn Station, Port Authority Bus Terminal, Lincoln Tunnel and Grand Central Station. The façade is composed of corrugated metal and glass panels arranged in a rhythmic vertical configuration. K & Co. designed the interior spaces, with Glen Cohen designing the guestrooms. Intercontinental Hotel Group operates the property.
NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the sale of three contiguous mixed-use buildings on Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights. A private investor, 2372-2376 Amsterdam Avenue NYC, acquired the properties from 2372-2376 Amsterdam Avenue LLC for $13.2 million. The buildings, located at 2372, 2374 and 2376 Amsterdam Ave., total 41,353 square feet. The properties consist of two five-story mixed-use walk-up buildings and one six-story mixed-use building with a total of 58 apartments and eight retail stores, including a barbershop and a grocery store. The properties were built between 1906 and 1908.
PHOENIXVILLE, PA. — HFF has arranged the sale of a single-tenant office building located at 1140 Valley Forge Road in Phoenixville, a suburb of Philadelphia. A Philadelphia-based family office sold the building for $6.6 million. Constructed as a build-to-suit in 1994 for Environmental Standards Inc., the property features 30,588 square feet of office space, including a 10,000-square-foot expansion that was added in 2013. Brett Segal and Doug Rodio of HFF represented the seller in the deal.
LISLE, ILL. — A venture between GFH Financial Group BSC, Lincoln Property Co. and Crestlight Capital has acquired Central Park of Lisle I and II in Lisle. The sales price was $129 million, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. The two-building office property totals 693,546 square feet. Completed in 1991, Central Park of Lisle I is a seven-story building featuring 381,634 square feet. Central Park of Lisle II, built in 2001, features eight stories of office space totaling 311,912 square feet. Combined, the properties are 86 percent leased to tenants such as Armour-Eckrich Meats LLC, CA Technologies, Millward Brown (Kantar), EMC Corp. and Kone. Amenities include an on-site athletic club, childcare, cafeteria, conference facility and executive parking. The transaction included the 7.5-acre development parcel to the east of the site fronting I-88. Bryan Rosenberg, Patrick Shields, Jaime Fink, Jeff Bramson and Mark Katz of HFF marketed the property on behalf of the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer. Eric Tupler and Trent Niederberger of HFF arranged financing for the borrower through Citigroup.
DETROIT — City Club Apartments has broken ground on a 288-unit apartment property in Detroit. Located at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Park Avenue facing Grand Circus Park, the site was once home to the 18-floor, 800-room Statler Hotel, which was built in 1915. In addition to apartments and penthouses, the property, known as City Club Apartments-CBD, will also feature 13,000 square feet of street-level space, including a pet store, restaurant and gourmet market. Amenities will include wellness and exercise rooms, valet parking and concierge services. The first residents are expected to begin moving into the community in November 2018 with project completion set for the second quarter of 2019. Wolverine Building Group is the general contractor, while BKV Group and Damon Farber are providing architectural services. Huntington Bank, Bank of Ann Arbor and Comerica Bank provided construction financing for the $70 million project.
CHICAGO — Crate & Barrel has signed a 117,000-square-foot lease for office and production space at The Fields in Chicago. Crate & Barrel plans to use the space for photo and video production. The Fields is a 22-acre, 1.5 million-square-foot redevelopment of the former Marshall Field’s campus located at 4000 West Diversey St., and is part of the Logan Square neighborhood. In 1965, Marshall Field and Co. acquired the six-story loft building, which was constructed in 1928. After going vacant in 2008, 4K Diversey Partners LLC, a partnership of Louis Silver, Aaron Paris and Paul Fishbein, acquired the complex. Developer Merit Partners began a mixed-use redevelopment at the site in January 2014. The project now comprises 300,000 square feet of office space; 123 residential rental lofts; 100,000 square feet of retail space, including the flagship Cermak Fresh Market; a 125,000-square-foot Cubesmart Self Storage business; and a 400,000-square-foot warehouse anchored by Studio 41. Cushman & Wakefield’s Barbara Schenberg and Teddy Walsh represented ownership in the lease transaction, while Steve Schneider and Andy Heymann, also of Cushman & Wakefield, represented Crate & Barrel.
FRIDLEY, MINN. — Resolution Medical has signed a 35,781-square-foot industrial lease at Northern Stacks in Fridley. The Fridley-based medical device engineering and manufacturing firm will occupy the space at the 133,200-square-foot Stacks III, which is now fully leased. Jack Tornquist of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Eric Batiza and John Simek of Colliers International represented ownership, a joint venture between Hyde Development and M.A. Mortenson Co. Upon completion, Northern Stacks will encompass a total of seven buildings. To date, five buildings have been constructed and four are fully leased.
TROTWOOD, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a retail building net leased to Walgreens in Trotwood, about 10 miles northwest of Dayton, for $3.8 million. The 14,866-square-foot property is located at 5271 Salem Ave. Walgreens has more than 11 years remaining on its lease. Dan Yozwiak of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Medi Vakili of Investment Property Group represented the buyer, a private trust.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Camden Property Trust (NYSE: CPT), a Houston-based multifamily REIT, has acquired Camden Pier District, a 358-unit apartment community in the Tampa suburb of St. Petersburg, for $127 million. The community is located at 330 3rd St., less than a mile from the waterfront and within close proximity to Tropicana Field and the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Patrick Dufour and Richard Donnellan of ARA Newmark arranged the transaction on behalf of the sellers, Miami-based American Land Ventures LLC and global equity partner Barings Real Estate — part of Barings LLC — on behalf of an institutional investor. American Land Ventures developed the property — originally known as AER Luxury Apartments — in 2016. “AER was an especially important assignment for us as we represented the land owner in the sale of the site to the developer, sourced the equity for the development of the project, monitored the asset closely through lease up and ultimately secured an institutional buyer in the sale of the asset.” says Dufour. The sales price, which equates to about $354,745 per unit, makes this transaction the largest apartment deal in the history of the Tampa Bay area on a per-unit basis, according …