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NEW YORK CITY — The Macerich Company has reached an agreement for a $130 million loan that will be used to refinance a portion of Queens Center in New York City. The loan is expected to close in early 2009, and it features a 7.5 percent fixed interest rate. It is co-terminus with a $214 million loan for expanded portions of the property that will mature in 2013. Upon closing of the new loan, an existing $89 million loan with a 7.11 percent effective interest rate will be paid off. The lenders are relationship life insurance companies and a pension fund.