HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. — Silver Arch Capital Partners, a New Jersey-based private lender, has provided $5.6 million in financing for a 16-unit apartment building in Huntington Station, located on Long Island. The building, the address of which was not disclosed, also includes two ground-floor retail spaces. The borrower is an entity doing business as BGNYAVE LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Baker McKenzie has signed an office lease renewal and expansion in Midtown Manhattan. The law firm now occupies 121,833 square feet across more than seven floors at 10 Bryant, a 30-story building located at 452 Fifth Ave. Paul Glickman, Ben Bass and Kate Roush of JLL represented the landlord, Property & Building Corp. Ltd., in the lease negotiations. David Goldstein and John Mambrino of Savills represented the tenant.
If you’ve been watching the Charlotte multifamily market for the past 24 months, you’ve probably felt a little whiplash. We delivered a historic wave of new supply, somewhere north of 32,500 units across 2024 and 2025 combined, and a lot of the headlines focused on the same thing: concessions, occupancy pressure and softening rents. Fair. That was the reality on the ground for most operators. But if you look closely at what’s happening right now, a different story is starting to take shape, and it’s one we think may not be getting enough attention. The trend our team is watching most closely heading deeper into 2026: absorption is holding up remarkably well against an elevated supply picture. In fact, we’re starting to see positive rent growth re-emerge on select deals, particularly in well-located submarkets where the construction pipeline has tapered. While this isn’t a market-wide victory lap yet, the green shoots are real, and they’re showing up exactly where you’d expect them to. The data is telling us that Charlotte multifamily rents rose modestly in the first quarter of 2026 as construction starts slowed, with completion totals in 2026 expected to trail levels recorded in 2025 by 26 percent. That’s …
GRIMES COUNTY, TEXAS — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) will build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Grimes County, located northwest of Houston. The first phase of the project represents a capital investment of $16.8 billion and is expected to create about 3,000 new jobs within the local economy. The office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made the announcement late last week, noting that the state had provided SpaceX with a $30 million Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant in association with the project, which will be known as Terafab. The facility is planned to span more than 100 million square feet under a single roof, which would make it the largest structure in the world. A construction timeline was not announced. Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, SpaceX already houses its global headquarters and Starbase launch facilities in South Texas’ Cameron County. The company also operates a semiconductor research-and-development (R&D) and advanced packaging facility in Bastrop, about 30 miles southeast of Austin, for its Starlink satellite platform. “The first-of-its-kind Terafab facility will accelerate chip production in Texas at an unprecedented scale, create thousands of good-paying jobs in Grimes County and expand economic opportunity for generations of Texans across southeast Texas and …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Tampa-based brokerage firm Franklin Street has negotiated the sale of The Reserve on Willow Lake, a 138-unit multifamily property in southwest Fort Worth. Built in 1996, the property offers two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as townhomes. Amenities include a pool, fitness center and a business center. Tyler Bynum and Jack Williams of Franklin Street represented the seller, California-based investment firm The Paskin Group, in the transaction. The buyer was Dallas-based private equity firm Willowood Group.
SAN ANTONIO — General contractor Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP) has completed the renovation of Chisholm Hall, located on the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) campus. The number of beds was not disclosed, but 267 rooms were impacted. The 120,860-square-foot residence hall features two fully furnished layout options, including double- and triple-occupancy rooms. Designed by Chesney Morales Architects, the renovation featured modernized building systems, upgraded resident bathroom vanity areas, newly installed acoustical ceilings and lighting and new mechanical unit ventilators and hallway ductwork.
DESOTO, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has arranged an $8.2 million loan for the refinancing of Grizzly Self Storage, located in DeSoto, a southern suburb of Dallas. The number of units was not disclosed, but Grizzly Self Storage spans 132,265 net rentable square feet and offers both personal and commercial storage spaces. Doug Brooks of MMCC arranged the 10-year loan on behalf of the undisclosed borrower. The direct lender was also not disclosed.
MIDLAND, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 12,000-square-foot industrial building in the West Texas city of Midland. The single-tenant building was constructed on 6.6 acres in 2019 and was fully leased at the time of sale to water transfer equipment and services provider Coastal Production Systems. Davis Cagle, Chase Beasley and Adam Abushagur of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The undisclosed buyer acquired the building via a 1031 exchange.
PITTSBURGH — JLL has arranged the recapitalization of Tower Two-Sixty, a mixed-use property in downtown Pittsburgh. Completed in 2016, Tower Two-Sixty consists of 130,000 square feet of office space, 14,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, a 197-key Hilton-branded hotel and a 321-space structured parking garage. Valued at $69 million, the recapitalization entailed a ground-lease bifurcation sale of the land and financing of the leasehold improvements. Working on behalf of the owner, local developer Piatt Cos., JLL’s Nick Unkovic and Mark Popovich procured the buyer for the land component, Woodbranch Investments Corp. The duo also worked to secure the leasehold financing through Dollar Bank.
NEW YORRK CITY — Local owner-operator Tredway has purchased Restore Housing, a 138-unit affordable housing property in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, for $41.5 million with plans to implement renovations. Units at the property are reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income. Capital improvements, which will serve to preserve the property’s affordability status, will cover units’ kitchens, bathrooms, appliances and flooring, as well as the building’s common spaces. Merchants Capital provided financing for both the purchase and renovations.