NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $60 million in CMBS financing for the refinance of an office property located at 286 Madison Ave. in Midtown Manhattan. The borrower is APF Properties. Provided by Jeffries LoanCore, the 10-year loan features a fixed interest rate and full-term interest only-payments. The 23-story building features 131,358 square feet of office space. Tal Bar-Or, Raj Khatiwala and Kyle Kite of Meridian’s New York City headquarters negotiated the transaction.
MADISON, N.J. — Allergan plc, a global pharmaceutical giant, has leased the entire 431,495-square-foot property at 5 Giralda Farms in Madison for a 13-year term. The company will consolidate three of its existing New Jersey office facilities in Parsippany, Bridgewater and Jersey City, bringing 1,800 employees together at the state-of-the-art headquarters facility. Owned by Lincoln Equities Partnership, 5 Giralda Farms is a modern corporate headquarters facility located on 50 acres at the Giralda Farms office campus in Madison. The facility features a main building, an on-site daycare facility, carriage house, six large conference facilities, a 345-seat dining room and a 15,000-square-foot fitness center with full basketball court. Daniel Loughlin and Jodie Mathews of JLL represented Allergan, while David Simson of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the landlord in the deal.
BURLINGTON, MASS. — Nordblom Co. has completed the disposition of a hotel development site with the 3rd Ave development, an urban, retail-walking street lined with restaurants, cafes, retail boutiques connected with pedestrian walkways and public green space in Burlington, a suburb of Boston. The site will be home to Massachusetts’ first Archer Hotel, a new collection of boutique hotels with locations in New York City, Napa, Calif., and Austin, Texas. The new hotel will feature 147 rooms. Denny Meikleham and Alan Suzuki of HFF represented the seller in the transaction.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — J.G. Petrucci Co. has completed the sale of an industrial facility located at 15 Stults Road in South Brunswick. Jean Design Inc. acquired the build-to-suit facility for undisclosed price. Situated on 5 acres, the 63,506-square-foot building features six loading docks, a drive-in door, a T-5 lighting system and an ESFR sprinkler system. J.G. Petrucci Co. completed the development and design/build of the facility. Joel Lubin of JLL represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
WARREN, R.I. — KeyPoint Partners has negotiated a lease with Maxx Fitness Clubzz at Ocean State Plaza in Warren. Maxx Fitness Clubzz will occupy 23,042 square feet of space on the Vernon Street side of the 126,200-square-foot shopping center on Metacom Avenue. Other tenants at the center include Ocean State Job Lot, Family Dollar, Fantastic Sams, Elsie’s Bakery and East Bay Printing & Copying. Don Mace of KeyPoint represented the undisclosed landlord in the deal.
CORTE MADERA, CALIF. — New York Life Real Estate Investors has provided a $225 million, 12-year mortgage loan for The Village at Corte Madera, a 460,000-square-foot regional mall located in Corte Madera, just a few miles south of San Rafael. The Macerich Co. and Institutional Mall Investors own the open-air mall, which is home to tenants including Anthropologie, Banana Republic, Free People, J. Crew, Macy’s, lululemon athletica, Nordstrom, Madewell and Restoration Hardware.
OGDEN, UTAH — Time Equities Inc. has acquired Newgate Mall, a 718,035-square-foot regional mall located in Ogden, for $69.5 million. Tenants at the 98 percent occupied mall include Dillard’s, Burlington Coat Factory, Sears, Cinemark, Bath & Body Works, Famous Footwear, Kay Jewelers, Express, Gymboree, Buckle, Victoria’s Secret and Journeys. Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors will oversee leasing efforts for incoming tenants, while The Woodmont Co. will be in charge of management, marketing and specialty leasing. Thomas Dobrowski of NGKF Capital Markets represented the seller, General Growth Properties, in the transaction.
AURORA, COLO. — Majestic Realty Co. has announced plans to build the largest single-phase speculative industrial development in Colorado’s history, according to the firm. The three buildings will contain a total of 834,580 square feet of spec industrial warehouse and distribution space that will be situated within the Majestic Commercenter. The developers plan to break ground on the new buildings this fall for completion by summer 2017. At that time, Majestic Commercenter will feature 4.2 million square feet throughout 17 buildings. Amazon recently pre-leased a 452,400-square-foot building at the center.
LAS VEGAS — Strategic Storage Trust II (SST II) has purchased a 745-unit self storage facility in Las Vegas for an undisclosed sum. The facility is located at 590 E. Silverado Ranch Blvd. The property was built in 2002. The four-building facility sits on 3.4 acres. It offers climate-controlled units and drive-up units. The facility is 85 percent occupied. SSTII is sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management LLC.
CENTENNIAL, COLO. — The Opus Group has begun construction on the Glenn, a 306-unit apartment complex in Centennial. The community will be the first project to break ground at the Jones District, a 42-acre master-planned development. The Glenn will be situated west of Interstate 25. The Jones District will eventually contain 1.8 million square feet of mixed-use space, including residential, hotel, office and retail projects, making it Centennial’s largest commercial development. A ceremonial groundbreaking for The Glenn was held Aug. 17. The project is scheduled for completion in December 2017.