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 …
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.
GREENWICH, CONN. — A Greenwich mixed-use development, which is an adaptive reuse of an 1880s-era mill site, has been sold for $97.5 million. CBRE’s Jeffrey Dunne, Eric Apfel, Stuart MacKenzie and Travis Langer represented the seller, The Mill Owners Co. LLC, which owned the asset for more than 40 years. The Mill is situated along the banks of the Byram River and was redeveloped in 2020 through 2021 by converting two office buildings — one dating back to 1881 and the other to 1981 — into apartments. Today, The Mill …
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged approximately $40 million in equity for Benchmark Real Estate Group, which will use the funds to buy and renovate a property on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Located about three blocks from Central Park at 250 W. 85th St., the building contains 121 units and 4,400 of fully leased retail space. The W&D Capital Markets team was led by Mo Beler, Jonathan Paine, Aaron Appel, Jonathan Schwartz and Jackson Irwin. An unnamed institutional investor provided the capital.
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Scalable Solutions for Multifamily’s Growing Package Problem
At too many multifamily communities today, managers spend much of their time receiving, safeguarding, retrieving and tripping over a rising tide of parcels awaiting pickup by residents. A range of cages, lockers and other systems promise to ease the package management burden, but most still require staff oversight and may not securely accommodate bulky items or seasonal surges in deliveries. “The sheer volume of packages residents are getting has increased, and that has driven a lot of frustration with package management,” says Shelly Peterson of Smart Package Room, which makes …
NEW YORK CITY — Alloy Development and The Vistria Group have closed on $535 million in construction financing for the development of One Third Avenue, a 583-unit mixed-income high-rise that comprises Phase II of the Alloy Block development in Brooklyn. The 62-story community will join buildings developed in the first phase of the project — 505 State Street, a mixed-use community, and 489 State Street, a public elementary school. Once complete, the Alloy Block will be home to a total of 1,000 residences, including approximately 200 affordable housing units. Vistria …
BALTIMORE — Dana Caudell has been appointed executive vice president and head of multifamily operations for Baltimore-based Continental Realty Corp. (CRC). In this role, Caudell will oversee operations of a portfolio comprising more than 10,000 apartment homes across 38 communities throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. CRC is an investment and property management company active in 14 states with a portfolio valued at approximately $4.2 billion. Caudell joins CRC from Pegasus Residential, where she served as chief strategy officer. Previously, she spent six years as president of The Bainbridge Cos., …
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Locally based Ironstate Holdings has secured a $162 million construction loan provided by PCCP for the development of Hoboken Urby, a 345-unit, transit-oriented development in Hoboken. Completion is slated for early 2028. The 16-story, 418,332-square-foot project will include 307 market-rate units, 38 affordable units and approximately 17,000 square feet of retail space, which will include a café. The site is less than a quarter of a mile from the Hoboken PATH train station. The unit mix will feature 29 studios, 220 one-bedrooms, 61 two-bedrooms and 35 three-bedrooms. …
BOSTON — Locally based Berkeley Investments has opened The Charley, a 103-unit development in Boston’s Allston neighborhood. The six-story property, built to LEED Gold standards, offers units as studios and one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Units feature quartz countertops, washers and dryers and Wi-Fi-enabled appliances and heating and cooling controls. Monthly asking rents range from $2,490 to $4,999. Amenities include garage parking with electric vehicle chargers, bike parking, a dog park, a pet wash and grooming area, a lounge, coworking spaces, a coffee bar, rooftop deck with fire pits, …
NEW YORK CITY — NewPoint Real Estate Capital has promoted Geraldine Borger Urgo to president of agency lending. Borger Urgo, who was a leader in NewPoint’s acquisition by Franklin BSP Realty Trust earlier this year, previously spent about 15 years at Freddie Mac and was most recently NewPoint’s head of originations for the past four years. Separately, Nick Gesue will depart his role as chief executive officer, effective Sept. 1. His position was transitioned as part of consolidating leadership following the acquisition. NewPoint leadership will remain under the existing executive …