{"id":1004216268,"date":"2018-04-03T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004216268"},"modified":"2022-12-07T23:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:06:52","slug":"60m-in-financing-earmarked-for-manhattan-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/60m-in-financing-earmarked-for-manhattan-office-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian Capital Group Scores $60M for Manhattan Office Refi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Keith Loria<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004216412\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/04\/729-Seventh-Avenue-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004216412\" data-attachment-id=\"1004216412\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/60m-in-financing-earmarked-for-manhattan-office-building\/729-seventh-avenue-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/04\/729-Seventh-Avenue-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,512\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"729 Seventh Avenue\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;729 Seventh Ave., NYC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;729 Seventh Ave., NYC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/04\/729-Seventh-Avenue-1.jpg?w=640\" class=\"wp-image-1004216412 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/04\/729-Seventh-Avenue-1.jpg\" alt=\"729 Seventh Ave., NYC\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/04\/729-Seventh-Avenue-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/04\/729-Seventh-Avenue-1.jpg?resize=300,240 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004216412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">729 Seventh Ave., NYC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meridian Capital Group has arranged $60 million in financing on behalf of 729 Acquisition LLC, an entity owned by Himmel + Meringoff Properties, to refinance the office component of a mixed-use office building located at 729 Seventh Ave., in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>A local commercial bank provided the seven-year balance sheet loan, which features a competitive fixed-rate of 4.25 percent and an interest-only component during the initial years of the term. Allan Lieberman and Rael Gervis, managing directors of Meridian, worked out the details of the loan on behalf of the ownership group.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-story building, 729 Seventh Ave., offers a total of 164,500 square feet of office space. The building also consists of 4,730 square feet of retail located underground, 700 square feet of retail on the mezzanine and a separately parceled privately owned retail condominium.<\/p>\n<p>The building\u2019s lobby and entrance recently underwent a renovation, with a new design by Dan Shannon of MdeAS Architects. The new entryway provides light and air and features contemporary lobby materials, including Carrara Marble, steel, and glass. \u201cWith the lobby renovation completed and new leases signed, Meridian negotiated a refinancing which included income from the spectacular signage unique to the property\u2019s strategic location in the Times Square market,\u201d Lieberman said in a prepared release.<\/p>\n<h2>An Entertaining History<\/h2>\n<p>The mixed-use building was originally built in 1915, and underwent cosmetic renovation in 1997, 2006 and 2016. It was once known as the United Artists building, when it housed the company\u2019s New York offices including a penthouse office constructed for Mary Pickford and her future husband, Douglas Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>The property has long attracted those in the entertainment industry. To that end, the building has a current tenant roster that includes Columbia University, Playbill, Q Prime, the Actors Fund of America, Magno Sound Studios and Key Brand Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Meridian Capital Group recently facilitated the development of Pod Philadelphia, a new 252-key micro-hotel project, arranging $53.5 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/new-pod-hotel-lands-construction-loan\/\">construction financing for the hotel<\/a>\u00a0on behalf of development partners Modus Hotels and Parkway Corp. In January, the company arranged $48 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/manhattan-office-asset-lands-48m\/\">CMBS financing for an office building<\/a> in Manhattan\u2019s Soho neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Himmel + Meringoff Properties acquired a 127,000-square-foot, six-story office\/warehouse property situated in Queen\u2019s Long Island City neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Yardi Matrix<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently renovated by Himmel + Meringoff Properties, its longtime owner, the century-old building is located near Times Square in the Midtown West submarket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":1004216412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21808,21825,1600,21742,10,21747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004216268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-finance","category-new-york","category-latest","category-northeast","category-office"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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