NEW YORK CITY — Berkadia has hired Gordon Reynolds and Brian Myers, both with the title of senior managing director, and Vice President Conner Adkins. The three new hires will establish the Berkadia Strategic Capital Group, an international advisory team that will serve clients across multiple asset classes. The group will focus on asset-level equity financing and recapitalizations, portfolio-level equity financing and recapitalizations, and programmatic joint ventures. Reynolds, Myers and Conner will collaborate with Jeffries, a New York-based investment banking and capital markets firm, and Knight Frank, a property consultancy …
BOCA RATON, FLA. — Eastham Capital has hired Anthony Librot as chief financial officer. In the new role, Librot will be responsible for accounting, compliance and risk management for the private equity multifamily investment firm. With more than 30 years of accounting and financial experience, Librot spent the past seven years as the chief operating and financial officer at AAM 15 Management LLC, a Massachusetts real estate investment company, where he oversaw day-to-day operating and financial activities for a real estate portfolio of $500 million.
DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. — Co-developers Conor Commercial Real Estate and LCI Development Partners, along with investment partner Bailard, will develop 138 units at 750 Curtiss St. in Downers Grove, 30 miles west of Chicago. The development team also includes SGW Architecture & Design and McShane Construction Co. Completion is slated for spring 2027. The six-story residence will be comprised of studios and one-, two- and three-bedroom units as well as five two-bedroom, direct-entry townhomes. Amenities will include a coffee bar, pool, firepits, a dog park, a fitness center, coworking space …
WESTFIELD, IND. — BW Development will break ground later this year on The Grand on Main, a $105 million mixed-use development formerly dubbed Jersey 32. The builder is Chicago-based construction firm Skender, and the architect is Studio M Architecture and Planning. Completion is slated for 2027. The project, located in Westfield 20 miles north of Indianapolis, will include 216 multifamily units, 51,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and 15,000 square feet of office space. The plan to build a mixed-use site at the intersection of State Road 32 and Poplar …
LOS ANGELES — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $25.3 million sale of a seven-property, 275-unit portfolio in Los Angeles. The seller, a private unnamed group, has been assembling and managing the portfolio for the past 25 years. The portfolio is comprised of a mix of 1920s-era brick apartment buildings and an infill land site, concentrated in the Koreatown and Westlake neighborhoods. “The portfolio was experiencing challenges, including tenant delinquencies, aging building systems, deferred maintenance and litigation,” said Neema Ahadian in a prepared statement. Ahadian is senior managing director of …
ST. FRANCIS, WIS. — M&R Development and Campbell Capital Group LLC have begun construction of a 278-unit luxury apartment community situated on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan in St. Francis, five miles south of downtown Milwaukee. The Bluffs on Lake will offer units ranging from studios to three-bedroom designs. M&R and Campbell Capital also teamed up to develop 42 Hundred on the Lake, a 236-unit project just south of The Bluffs on Lake that opened in 2021. Located on a 21-acre site at 3700 S. Lake Drive, The Bluffs on …
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Jamboree Housing Corp. has completed and opened Salida del Sol in San Juan Capistrano. According to Jamboree, a nonprofit, California-based affordable housing developer, the project is the first in the nation to combine affordable housing with a city hall. Located on a 2-acre portion of San Juan Capistrano’s existing city hall site, the 50-unit Salida del Sol is designed around a large open courtyard with a 45,593-square-foot residential building. Forty 557-square-foot units are designated for formerly unhoused individuals and veterans earning up to 30 percent of …
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Douglas Emmett (NYSE:DEI), a Santa Monica-based REIT with an office and multifamily portfolio, has secured approximately $1 billion in Fannie Mae loans to refinance nine properties, totaling 3,099 units across California and Hawaii. Walker & Dunlop arranged the financing. Through the transaction, debt on The Landmark Residences, formerly known as Barrington Plaza, in Los Angeles has been repaid.
SHORELINE, WASH. — The Simon Anderson multifamily team at Kidder Mathews has arranged a disposition and acquisition in the Seattle area. The buyer and seller was identified as John Stephanus, who is the president of Seattle-based Epic Asset Management. The four assets sold were Swiss Gables Apartments in Kent, Washington, 18 miles south of Seattle and Charbern Apartments, Stockbridge Apartments and Carolina Court Apartments, all of which are located around the Seattle metro. This portfolio totaled 215 units. The proceeds were used to acquire The Poshmark in Shoreline, 11 miles …
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — JLL Capital Markets and BlueGate Partners have arranged a $340 million refinancing loan on behalf of Ironstate Development Co. and Panepinto Properties. Truist Financial Corp. funded the loans. The joint venture owners will use the financing for 50 & 70 Columbus, two high-rise towers constructed in 2007 and 2015 respectively. The properties are atop the Grove Street PATH station with direct access to Manhattan. JLL’s Debt Advisory team, representing the borrower, was led by Thomas Didio, Thomas E. Didio Jr., Gerard Quinn and Michael Mataras.