AUSTIN, TEXAS — Franklin Street, a Tampa-based commercial real estate services firm, has launched a multifamily investment sales division for Texas markets. The business unit will operate as a seven-person team from the firm’s existing office in Austin, which opened about a year ago and now comprises more than 20 professionals who also offer services for land, office and industrial verticals. Patrick Strake, an Austin native and former Marcus & Millichap team member, will lead the new multifamily division.
NEW YORK CITY — Dwight Mortgage Trust, the affiliate REIT of New York City-based Dwight Capital, has provided a $148 million construction loan for Sutphin II, a 524-unit multifamily project that will be located in the Jamaica area of Queens. The 24-story building will consist of 366 market-rate units and 158 affordable units that will come in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom formats, as well as 7,750 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Amenities will include a gym and yoga studio, business center, game room, theater, resident lounge, children’s playroom, pet spa and a library. Steven Hersko of SHB Group arranged the loan on behalf of the developer, a partnership led by local investor Moshe Braver.
ORANGE, N.J. — Reynolds Asset Management has received a $30.5 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of The Mural, a 103-unit apartment complex located in the Northern New Jersey community of Orange. Completed last spring, The Mural offers studio, one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a fitness center, courtyard plaza, outdoor grilling and dining stations and an outdoor lounge. Thomas Didio Jr. and Max Custer of JLL originated the five-year loan on behalf of Reynolds. Miami-based Pensam Capital also provided a preferred equity investment as part of the asset’s recapitalization.
PRINCETON, N.J. — Blackrock has signed a 10-year, 176,000-square-foot office lease extension in Princeton. The global private equity firm will continue to occupy the entire third and fourth floors, as well as part of the fifth floor and a street-level space, at the 330,000-square-foot building at 1 University Square Drive. Tim Greiner, Tom Romano, Vinny DiMeglio, Mike Pietrowicz and Jonathan Ortiz of JLL represented the landlord, Argent Ventures, in the lease negotiations. Peter Riguardi, Matt Astrachan, Nicole Tiger, George Gemelos and Hannah Bernstein, also with JLL, represented Blackrock.
DENVER — Equity Commonwealth (NYSE: EQC) is under contract to sell 1225 Seventeenth Street, an office property in Denver, for a gross sales price of $132.5 million. The 709,402-square-foot property is Equity Commonwealth’s last remaining property. The net purchase price is expected to be approximately $124.4 million after credits primarily for contractual lease costs. The undisclosed buyer has completed due diligence, and the earnest money deposit is non-refundable. The sale is scheduled to close later this month. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and there is no assurance that the transaction will close.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Developer and operator ONELIFE Senior Living has acquired The Woodlake Senior Living, a 137-unit community located in Sacramento. Amenities at the property, which offers assisted living and memory care residences, include a movie theater, game room, fitness center, salon, library and arts and crafts room. The acquisition marks the fourth senior living community in California for ONELIFE, which merged with Ally Senior Living earlier this year. “The Woodlake Senior Living represents a strategic expansion of our California presence,” says Dan Williams, CEO of ONELIFE. According to the company, the state’s population of individuals age 65 and older is expected to reach 9 million by 2040. Denver-based ONELIFE was founded in 2009.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CALIF. — Lafayette, Colo.-based Alloy Real Estate Capital has purchased Tech Center VI, a midrise office building at 5575 Tech Center Drive in Colorado Springs. Tech Center VI, an entity managed by Ogilvie Properties, sold the asset for $17.2 million. At the time of sale, the three-story 104,702-square-foot property was 97 percent leased to 17 tenants, most in the aerospace and defense contractor industries. Aaron Johnson, Jon Hendrickson and Mitch Veremeychik of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
EAGLE, COLO. — JLL Capital Markets has provided a $7.5 million Freddie Mac loan for House Apartments, a multifamily property in Eagle. Tony Nargi led the JLL Capital Market’s Debt Advisory team to originate the 10-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, Brikwell. Situated on 4.8 acres at 85 Pond Road, the three-story property features 54 units totaling 27,838 rentable square feet. Community amenities include an on-site exercise facility, community kitchen, elevator and dedicated work-from-home spaces. The asset was built in 1998.
CHESTER, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of an 80-room hotel in Chester, located near the New York-New Jersey border. The Holiday Inn & Suites Chester-Monroe-Goshen, which sold for $10.5 million, offers amenities such as an indoor pool, fitness center and a business center. Jerry Swon of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were private investors that requested anonymity, in the transaction.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — IAVI has opened a 29,782-square-foot life sciences facility in Jersey City. The nonprofit scientific research organization relocated its vaccine design and development operations from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to the 350,000-square-foot building at 95 Greene St., which was originally built as a manufacturing facility for Colgate Palmolive. CBRE represented IAVI in its site selection and lease negotiations.