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CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group Inc. has brokered the $1.98 million sale of 2843 N. Milwaukee Ave., a 10-unit mixed-use building located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. The property includes six apartments consisting of two one-bed units and four two-bed units, two street retail spaces and two flex spaces in the rear. The property is situated near the Logan Square CTA stop, which services the Blue Line to Chicago’s Loop and O’Hare International Airport. Jim Darrow and Jordan Gottlieb of Essex Realty Group were the brokers in the transaction.

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LOWELL, MASS. — Farallon Capital Management and Anchor Line Partners have closed on $150 million in refinancing for Cross Point, a 1.29 million-square-foot office building located in Lowell. The financing was provided by Starwood Property Trust. A portion of the proceeds were used to refinance the debt put in place at the time of acquisition, while a majority of the balance of the proceeds will be used to fund leasing costs, primarily those associated with the recently announced 435,000-square-foot Kronos lease. The building recently underwent a $10 million renovation to upgrade and enhance the facility.

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DALLAS — The Dallas office of HFF has arranged post-acquisition financing for a portfolio of 154 convenience and gas station sites totaling 97.8 acres in the Northeast. The loan was provided by a consortium of lenders led by Capital One and BMO Harris. Andy Scott and Michael George of HFF’s Dallas office arranged the five-year, floating rate acquisition financing with 18 months of interest-only payments for the borrower, a subsidiary of a private real estate investment fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital-Real Estate. The portfolio comprises 88 sites in New York, 45 sites in Massachusetts, 11 sites in Connecticut, seven sites in New Hampshire, two Rhode Island sites and one site in Pennsylvania. All properties are subject to an absolute net lease for 20 years with a subsidiary of Petroleum Marketing Group. The amount of the loan was not released.

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NORWALK, CONN. — Waltham, Mass.-based EPOCH Senior Living, in partnership with National Development, has broken ground on Bridges by EPOCH, a memory care assisted living community located at 123 Richards Ave. in Norwalk. Slated to open in fall 2017, the community will feature 64 memory-care suites and is designed for individuals living with all stages of memory impairment.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — NorthMarq Capital has secured $14.4 million in refinancing for Morgan Loft Apartments, a 36-unit multifamily property located at the intersection of Steuben and Morgan streets in Jersey City. The loan features a 10-year term on a 30-year amortization schedule. Robert Ranieri and Greg Nalbandian of NorthMarq arranged the financing for the borrower, Morgan Steuben Associates, through Freddie Mac.

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NEW YORK CITY — Midwood Investment & Development has launched leasing for The Williams, a 13-story rental residential property located at 282 S. Fifth St. in Brooklyn’s South Williamsburg neighborhood. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the property features 82 units in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts, an attended lobby, a lounge with billiards and conference room, a fitness center and yoga room, children’s playroom, laundry facilities, bicycle and stroller storage, and an indoor pet spa. The property also offers a garden terrace with café lounge seating, walkways, grassy areas and a dog run, and a second rooftop terrace with barbecue areas, fire pit, lounge area and an outdoor shower. Additionally, the property features storage lockers, vegetable garden plots and on-site parking for an additional fee. The development is Midwood’s first ground-up residential development in Brooklyn.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The JBG Cos. has sold a Class A, eight-story office building located at 1025 Thomas Jefferson St. in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown district for $141.8 million. HFF represented JBG Cos. and procured the buyer, Alduwaliya Asset Management, a private investment vehicle based in the United Kingdom that represents a high net-worth family in Qatar. The 317,248-square-foot building is situated directly across from Georgetown Waterfront Park and Washington Harbour. The building was 96 percent leased at the time of sale to 22 tenants including Palantir Technologies, the American Institutes of Research, Carlton Fields, Education Development Center and Combined Properties. Built in 1984, 1025 Thomas Jefferson features two multi-level courtyards with fountains, a brick façade, fitness center, deli, Metrorail shuttle and 268 below-grade parking spaces. Jim Meisel, Dek Potts, Andrew Weir, Stephen Conley and Matt Nicholson led HFF’s investment sales team in the transaction.

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LAKE MARY, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $130 million sale of Primera Towers, a five-building, 771,826-square-foot office campus in Lake Mary, a suburb of Orlando. Miami-based Parmenter Realty Partners purchased the portfolio from an ownership group including Miami-based Banyan Street Capital, Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management and Munich-based Balandis AG. Mike Davis, Michael Lerner and Rick Brugge of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller. The transaction is Orlando’s largest suburban office sale since the disposition of Heathrow International Business Center in 2002.

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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLA. AND DURHAM, N.C. — Walker & Dunlop has closed two loans totaling $111 million to finance Cortland Partners’ acquisitions of two apartment communities in the Southeast. The properties include Camden Renaissance in Altamonte Springs and Arboretum at Southpoint in Durham. The financing comprised two Freddie Mac moderate rehab loans, which Cortland Partners will use to fund the acquisition and renovations. The loans include an initial three-year interest-only period with a floating interest rate, followed by a seven-year, floating-rate loan term with two years of interest-only payments. Stephen Farnsworth of Walker & Dunlop’s New Orleans office arranged the financing.

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WOODSTOCK, GA. — The Praedium Group LLC has purchased Crest at Laurelwood, a 272-unit apartment community located in the northwest Atlanta suburb of Woodstock. Praedium Group bought the asset for nearly $43.2 million. Built in 2015, Crest at Laurelwood’s units feature nine- or 10-foot ceilings, cherry wood cabinetry, tiled backsplashes and private balconies. Community amenities include a cyber café, billiards room, two-story fitness center and yoga studio, resort-style swimming pool, outdoor fireplace with a TV, dog park and electric car charging stations.

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