ALLENTOWN, PA. — Chobani has entered into an agreement to acquire the former manufacturing facility of Keurig Dr. Pepper in the Lehigh Valley city of Allentown, including the lease, equipment and operations, for $125 million. Keurig Dr. Pepper first opened the 1.5 million-square-foot facility in 2021, and the announcement coincides with Keurig Dr. Pepper agreeing to sell its full equity stake in Chobani back to the company for $800 million. Both of those transactions are expected to close in the third quarter. Chobani’s acquisition of the facility comes as part of a larger capital investment in the Lehigh Valley that is valued at 1.2 billion and expected to add about 900 new jobs to the local economy. The provider of dairy products plans to add up to 10 new production lines and says that the new facility will give the company “the capacity to scale new products while continuing to develop new formats and food-and-beverage platforms.”
LIVINGSTON, N.J. — A partnership between regional owner-operator Sterling Properties and New Jersey-based Danbro Properties has completed Canterly Place, a 300-unit apartment complex in the Northern New Jersey community of Livingston. Canterly Place offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units, 20 percent (60) of which are designated as affordable housing. Amenities include a pool, coworking spaces, a coffee house, clubroom, private dining room, library, fitness center, game lounge, golf simulator, outdoor grilling and dining stations, a courtyard, playground and a dog park. Lessard Design served as the project architect, with Mary Cook Associates handling interior design. Rents start at $2,765 per month for a one-bedroom apartment.
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — Locally based developer The Connell Co. has begun leasing RT500, a 179-unit apartment building located within The Park, a 185-acre mixed-use development in the Northern New Jersey community of Berkeley Heights. Minno & Wasko Architects and Planners, in collaboration with David M. Sullivan Inc., designed the 11-story building, which is one of two buildings at The Park under Connell’s Round Table (RT) Residences brand. Units come in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and amenities include an outdoor pool, entertainment lounge, game room, fitness center and coworking space. Construction topped out last summer. Rents start at roughly $2,600 per month for a studio apartment.
NEW YORK CITY — Veeva has signed a 62,223-square-foot office lease at The PENN District, a two-building, 4.4 million-square-foot development in Midtown Manhattan. The provider of cloud software, AI, data and consulting services for the life sciences industry will occupy the entire 11th floor of PENN 2 on a 12-year lease. Jim Wenk and Kirill Azovtsev of Savills represented Veeva in the lease negotiations. The landlord, Vornado Realty Trust, was self-represented.
WINDSOR, CONN. — Metro Boston-based developer Condyne Capital Partners has received approval for an office-to-residential conversion project in Windsor, located north of Hartford. Designed by Maugel Destefano Architects, the project will transform the 99,480-square-foot building at 500 Day Hill Road, which formerly housed the operations of commercial printing and packaging company Konica Minolta, into a 300-unit apartment community. The new apartment community will offer studio, one- and two-bedroom units. Amenities will include a pool, fitness center, pickleball court, multi-purpose court, dog park and outdoor grilling and dining areas. Construction is scheduled to begin this fall.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has provided a $69.5 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of 100 Jane, a 148-unit apartment building in Manhattan’s West Village. Constructed in 1996, the nine-story building comprises 117 market-rate units, 30 affordable housing units and one superintendent unit. The property was fully occupied at the time of the loan closing. According to Apartments.com, 100 Jane exclusively offers studio floor plans. Amenities include a fitness center, sundeck and onsite laundry facilities. Geoff Goldstein, Steven Klein and Michael Shmuely of JLL originated the 10-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, Rockrose Development.
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between two locally based owner-operators, Olmstead Properties and Vertex, has purchased 19 West 44th Street, a 302,000-square-foot office building in Midtown Manhattan. The 18-story building was 79 percent leased at the time of sale and recently received capital improvements to building systems, common areas and prebuilt suites. Tenants include Yipit, HARMAN International, Robert Derector, Corporate Service Corp., EOS Products and Bitwise. Will Silverman of Eastdil Secured Savills represented the seller, Savanna, in the transaction. Derby Lane Capital provided acquisition financing for the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Ameriprise Financial Inc. has signed a 37,704-square-foot office lease renewal in Lower Manhattan. The financial advisory firm will keep its space on the 78th floor of One World Trade Center, where it has been a tenant since 2016, for another decade. Josh Kurlioff, Drew Braver, Heather Thomas and Nicole Estevez of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. David Falk, Peter Shimkin, Hal Stein, Nathan Kropp and Paige Raisides of Newmark, along with internal agents Eric Engelhardt, Karen Rose and Sayo Kamara, represented the landlord, The Durst Organization, which developed the property in partnership with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.
WORCESTER, MASS. — JLL has arranged a $39 million bridge loan for the refinancing of The Arbella at Bramble Hill, a 123-unit active adult complex in the central Massachusetts city of Worcester. The newly built, 17.3-acre complex offers 57 one-bedroom and 66 two-bedroom apartments with an average size of 1,049 square feet that are housed across three buildings, as well as an 8,500-square-foot clubhouse. Amenities include a fitness center, wellness spa and salon, indoor pool, bistro, great room, multimedia theater, golf simulator and outdoor grilling and dining stations. Residents also have access to onsite pickleball and bocce courts, a community garden and a dog park. Henry Schaffer and Madeline Joyce of JLL arranged the loan through Eastern Bank on behalf of the owner, The United Group of Cos.
NEW YORK CITY — Regional brokerage firm Atlantic Capital Partners (ACP) has negotiated the $31 million sale of 893 Broadway, a 25,442-square-foot office and retail building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The five-story building was fully leased at the time of sale. Mattress retailer Saatva occupies the lower-level and ground-floor retail spaces, and Chief, a private network for female executives, occupies the office space on floors two through five. Justin Smith, Chris Peterson, Sam Koonce and Danielle Turpin of ACP represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
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