Business Specialties

Mack-Cali Unveils $50M NJ Capital Improvement Initiative

The REIT plans to renovate building exteriors, install state-of-the-art amenities and modernize common areas throughout its portfolio of properties in Parsippany, Short Hills, Metro Park and Red Bank, N.J.

Hilton Opens 185th Home2 Suites Hotel

Home2 Suites by Hilton Lafayette offers convenient access to Purdue University, as well as Purdue University Airport. The hotel features the brand’s specific amenities.

Harbor, Goldman Sachs Close Denver Off-Market Transaction

The deal represents the ninth value-add office acquisition for Harbor in the last two years and is the firm’s first building in the Denver market.

Law Firm Relocates to Pittsburgh CBD

The law firm first announced plans to move its headquarters back in November 2016. At that time, the site of its new offices—Union Trust Building—was 75 percent leased.

Hunter Hotels Brokers Sale of AR Hotels

The company facilitated the sale of the 78-key TownePlace Suites by Marriott and the 130-key Candlewood Suites Rogers in Bentonville. Investra Capital Inc. purchased the two assets.

Aloft and Element Hotels Receive $140M Financing

HFF arranged the financing of the 330- and 180-key hotels on behalf of the borrower, through Starwood Property Trust. The hotels opened for business in 2016.

BlackRock Sells LA Office

Eastdil Secured represented the seller of Pacific Corporate Towers, a three-tower office building in El Segundo, Calif., which an institutional investor purchased.

Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies

New $70M Facility Breaks Ground in the South Texas Medical Center

The building, slated for completion in late 2019, will total 108,000 square feet and comprise open research labs, laboratory support, administrative and research faculty offices and a large vivarium.

CBRE Arranges Sale of Caribbean Resorts

DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners sold the assets to Wind Creek Hospitality, the principal gaming and hospitality enterprise of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Alabama’s only federally recognized tribal entity.

Joseph Schocken, founder & president of Broadmark Capital

The Story of a Local Lender With Double-Digit Yields

Broadmark Capital’s president discussed the lending market, its challenges and how the company managed to maintain average annualized returns of 11 percent or more since its inception in 2010.