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100-River-Park-Dr-Raritan-NJ

RARITAN, N.J. — Castle Lanterra Properties has acquired River Park, a multifamily property located at 100 River Park Drive in Raritan, for $56 million. Constructed in 2007, the property features 224 multifamily units. Cushman & Wakefield’s Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group represented the seller, a global insurance group, and procured the buyer in the transaction. This transaction is Castle Lanterra’s second New Jersey acquisition in the past five months, following the purchase of Harbor Pointe, a 544-unit property acquired for $147.5 million in October 2015.

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25-Tucker-Drive-Leominster-MA

LEOMINSTER, MASS. — Calare Properties has completed the disposition of an industrial property located at 25 Tucker Drive in Leominster. An undisclosed buyer acquired the 588,000-square-foot building for $31.5 million. Situated on 24 acres, the manufacturing, distribution and office property is fully occupied by Affordable Interior Systems. Calare Properties, in partnership with Fir Tree Partners, originally acquired the property in 2012.

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201-207-South-St-Boston-MA

BOSTON — ClearRock Properties and Juster Properties have partnered to acquire an office building located at 201-207 South St. in downtown Boston’s Leather District. Meritage Properties sold the six-story property for $27.5 million. Built in 1909, the 73,689-square-foot property was recently revitalized with a full façade restoration; renovation of the entry, lobby, elevator cabs and common areas; and the conversion of a 4,000-square-foot storage area into quality office space. Current tenants include Credo Mobile, Publishers Clearing House, BlueConic and Evidox. Under the new ownership, JLL will continue as leasing agent and Lincoln Property Co. will continue as property manager. Jessica Hughes of JLL represented the seller in the transaction.

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NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a multifamily property located at 331 E. 89th St. in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. ACNY Developers Inc. acquired the property from E-Wei Tao for $7.3 million, or $862 per square foot. The five-story, 8,500-square-foot building features 11 residential units divided into eight free-market and two rent-stabilized units and one rent-controlled unit. The property also features approximately 1,567 square feet of remaining development rights. Thomas Gammino and Brett Weisblum of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Lennar Urban has won approval for its updated development plans for Candlestick Point, a massive mixed-use development planned for the site of Candlestick Park, former home of the San Francisco 49ers football team. San Francisco’s Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure and the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved the amended plans for the first phase of the development. Phase I is expected to cost between $2 billion and $3 billion, according to the San Francisco Business Times. The first phase of Candlestick Point includes: 16 city blocks anchored by an outdoor urban outlet retail district. 2,214 housing units, including the transformation and redevelopment of the 256-unit Alice Griffith public housing complex into a mixed-income housing development. The multifamily complex will be completely reconstructed without dislocating current residents. More than 1 million square feet of commercial space including a hotel, offices, a regional outlet shopping center and neighborhood retail, which will feature locally owned shops, a grocery store, restaurants and entertainment. A film and arts center. Sites for community services, including a new community garden for residents of Alice Griffith. Nine acres of parks and open space. Payments to the state for improvements, operations and maintenance at …

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ATLANTA — When it comes to successfully operating a full-service hotel there is no silver bullet for achieving success, but there are some smart steps owners and operators should take, say industry experts who spoke at the 28th annual Hunter Hotel Conference. The three-day event at the Marriott Marquis drew 1,300 attendees, up 8 percent from a year ago, according to conference organizers. In a panel titled “The Evolution of Full-Service Hotels,” professionals from Horwath HTL, GF Management, Davidson Hotels and Resorts, Legacy Ventures and Hyatt Hotel Corp. emphasized time and again that full-service hotels are in no way dying. They are simply evolving, and owners and operators must also evolve if they have hopes of being successful. “It’s still a street corner business,” said Thom Geshay, senior vice president of business development for Davidson Hotels and Resorts. “You have to look at the market you’re in, you have to define and profile your customer and give them what they need.” 1. Get Creative in Controlling Costs — Full-service hotels have a slew of amenities, and each amenity presents a new place to create revenues. “Our job is to find something that is broken or not maximized in some way …

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We can expect to see a combination of new and familiar trends in the Milwaukee apartment sector in 2016 that will continue to attract investors to the local apartment market. What makes the start of 2016 different from 2015 is progress toward the normalization of monetary policy. In December, the Federal Reserve Board decided to raise the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point, the first such increase in nearly a decade. The Federal Reserve Board’s widening may have an impact on the short-term rates, but the long-term interest rates that impact real estate values the most are influenced by the yields on the long-term U.S. Treasury bonds. We expect the long-term interest rates to stay low for the foreseeable future. When there is high demand for the Treasury bonds, the price of the bonds increase and the yields decrease, keeping long-term lending rates low. The two factors responsible for driving rates down in early 2016 are the high levels of volatility in stock markets around the globe and the drastic drop in oil prices. The volatility in the stock markets drives global capital to flow into the safe haven of bonds, and specifically the U.S. Treasury bonds, as …

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SAN DIEGO — Talmadge Gateway LP has acquired a 35,183-square-foot retail center in the San Diego submarket of Talmadge for $2.5 million. Wakeland Housing and Development Corp. will redevelop the site to incorporate a mix of retail and affordable residential units for disabled seniors. Alessio Leasing Corp. sold the property, which includes three parcels. Ricardo Lopez and Keith Courtney of San Diego-based brokerage firm ACI Apartments represented both the buyer and the seller in the transaction. The property was acquired with a mix of public and private financing, including a loan from the San Diego Housing Commission and Wells Fargo bank. Renee Marshal of Chicago Title Co. handled escrow. Chris Ghio of Chicago Title handled the title insurance.

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PHOENIX — Robert C. Penney has acquired Parkwood Professional Plaza, a 73,514-square-foot medical office plaza in Phoenix, for $3.2 million. The plaza is located at the intersection of 19th Avenue and Missouri Avenue. The property was 40 percent occupied at the time of sale. The new owner plans to implement a capital improvement program before flipping the asset. Nick Miner of ORION Investment Real Estate represented the seller, Parkwood Commercial Properties LLC.

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