WESTBROOK AND BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — Arbor Realty Trust has funded two loans, totaling $34.5 million, in Connecticut. The firm provided a $32.6 million for a retail property located in Westbrook. Funded under Arbor’s balance sheet bridge load program, the three-year interest-only, floating-rate loan features two one-year extension periods, allows the borrower to acquire the property and provides tenant improvement capital to execute a new 10-year lease to H&M. The name of the borrower was not released. Additionally, Arbor provided a $1.9 million acquisition loan for a 32-unit multifamily property in Bridgeport to an undisclosed borrower. Funded under the Freddie Mac small business loan product line, the 20-year loan features a fixed rate and a 30-year amortization schedule.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — G.S. Wilcox & Co. has arranged a $19 million loan for 1776 On the Green, an office building located at 67 Park Place in Morristown. The 10-story building features 145,358 square feet of rentable Class A office space and 1,136 square feet of storage space. At the time of financing, the property was 79 percent leased. The loan, which was provided by Mutual of Omaha, features a 10-year term. Gretchen Wilcox, Al Raymond and Wesley Wilcox of G.S. Wilcox secured the loan for the undisclosed borrower.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — San Antonio-based Mason Joseph Co. Inc. has arranged $12.1 million in construction and permanent financing for The Lodge at the Guadelupe, a 124-unit apartment community that will be located at 1355 Ranch Parkway in New Braunfels. Lev Investments and T.R. Inscore LLC will develop the project and Crane Contracting Group Ltd. will serve as general contractor. HUD provided the 40-year, non-recourse loan.
LYNN HAVEN, FLA. — CBRE Capital Markets has secured $36.7 million in financing for Arbor Trace, a 336-unit apartment community located in Lynn Haven, a town in the Florida Panhandle near the Gulf of Mexico. The loan involved a refinance of the community’s existing 168 units and a construction take-out loan for the newly built Phase II, which spans 168 units. Glenn Housman of CBRE’s debt and structured finance team in Orlando arranged the 10-year, floating-rate, Fannie Mae loan with two years of interest-only payments.
NEW YORK CITY — Mission Capital Advisors has arranged $41.6 million in financing for the construction of Kingswood Plaza II, an office and retail development located at 1715 E. 13th St. in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. Jason Cohen, Ari Hirt, Steven Buchwald, Justin Hunt and David Behmoaras of Mission Capital arranged the loan with a foreign bank for the borrower, a joint venture between Infinity Real Estate and The Nightingale Group. The 106,000-square-foot development, which is 56 percent pre-leased to Target and Marshalls, will offer three floors of professional/medical office space in addition to its retail component.
NEW YORK CITY — Boston Properties’ consolidated joint venture entity, in which it has 60 percent interest and which owns 767 Fifth Avenue in New York City, has completed the refinancing of approximately $1.6 billion in indebtedness that had been secured by direct and indirect interests in 767 Fifth Avenue. The new mortgage financing has a principal amount of $2.3 billion, has a fixed interest rate and matures in 2027. The loan requires interest-only payments during the 10-year term, with the entire principal amount due at maturity.
CHADDS FORD, PA. — Talonvest Capital has arranged $24.1 million in construction financing for Metro Self Storage. The borrower plans to develop one self-storage facility in Chadds Ford and two in Naperville and Addison, Illinois. In total, the new developments will feature more than 236,000 rentable square feet. A Midwestern-based bank financed the Pennsylvania development, while an East Coast-based bank funded the two suburban Chicago properties. Kim Leslie, Tom Sherlock and Jim Davies of Talonvest negotiated and structured the loans for the borrower.
PHILADELPHIA — Colliers International has arranged a $4.1 million in refinancing for a mixed-use property located at 2231 Bryn Mawr Ave. in Philadelphia. The building features 12 apartments and 13,000 square feet of commercial space. The loan features a five-year fixed rate with a five-year reset. Kris Wood, John Banas, Chad Levitt, Tim Hoyt, Martin Duval and Jordan Canino of Colliers International secured the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — New York Life Real Estate Investors has originated a $30.2 million mortgage loan for Fox Hill Apartments, a 288-unit, Class A apartment complex located at 8800 U.S. Highway 290 in Austin. Brian Eisendrath and Annie Rice of CBRE arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of The Praedium Group, a New-York based investment firm.
VANCOUVER, WASH. — Gramor Development Inc., a privately held firm based in Oregon, has secured a round of construction financing for Phase I of its $1.5 billion mixed-use project along the Columbia River in Vancouver. Known as The Waterfront Vancouver, the project will span 20 city blocks and 32 acres and feature residential, office, retail and restaurant space, as well as a Hotel Indigo. U.S. Bank provided a $42.5 million construction loan to Gramor Development for Block 6 Office and Block 6 Residential — a seven-story office building and a six-story, 63-unit apartment building. The street level of both assets will house the Shops at Waterfront Way, which will include retail and restaurants. Committed tenants include M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust at Block 6 Office and Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty and MidiCi The Neapolitan Pizza Co. at Block 6 Residential. The project team for Block 6 includes architect Ankrom Moison and general contractor Robertson & Olson. “Gramor is a driving force in revitalizing Vancouver’s waterfront and the local community,” says Ann Young, senior vice president, and Oregon market manager of U.S. Bank. “U.S. Bank is excited to be part of the project and to help bring this vibrant and unique development …