December

New England Hotel Realty represents Sanmar in $2.925 million sale of 90-room North Adams, MA Holiday Inn to North Adams Hospitality Colantonio Inc. completes new 104 bed dormitory within existing Mara Village dorm complex at Fitchburg State; design by CBT City Real Estate Development acquires 23 unit Winthrop House apartment complex in Brookline for $5.15 million; buyer to market as condo Hines and Dalton of FHO Partners represent Avid in 203,000 s/f office/R&D lease; Jones Lang LaSalle represents Nordblom Co. Dieker and White of CBRE/NE facilitate $7 million sale of former Circuit City portfolio to Quirk Auto and Ocean State Job Lot Shair of M&J Assoc. leases 2,800 s/f for new Burger King prototype in Portland, ME; Boulos of CBRE/Boulos Co. assists tenant Foote and Karney of O,R&L Commercial broker $1.125 million sale of 25,561 s/f industrial building, New Britain, CT; sold by DS Partners Flaherty, Hansen and Coffin of Colliers Meredith & Grew facilitate 29,647 s/f Cambridge office lease; Gilkey reps landlord The Davis Cos. Beal of A.W. Perry negotiates 7 leases; CRESA Ptrs., Cushman & Wakefield, Grubb & Ellis and Richards Barry Joyce rep tenants Cassum and O'Neil of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler arrange $16.3 million refinancing for 207,000 s/f Marlborough, MA office campus Walsh Bros., DCAM and North Shore Community College break ground on $32 million allied health sciences academic facility in Danvers, MA Weymouth Sharp Street LLC starts construction of 22,000 s/f office building at 302 Weymouth St.; Paramount Partners leasing agent Giuttari and Hardy of MG Commercial lease 60,000 s/f warehouse in Cumberland, RI; Paskalis and Steingold of MG rep landlord Berkeley First Bristol Corp. completes $3 million repositioning of Newport Ave. Plaza, East Providence, RI; NE Retail Construction serves as GC Columbia Const. breaks ground on $60 million IRS modernization project in Andover, MA; project team includes Jonathan Levi Architects and URS D'Angelo fo Quinn Assoc. brokers sale of 2 sites at 250 Cape Highway/Richmond St., Taunton, MA for $955,000 Drinkwater, and Richard of Marcus & Millichap broker $2.796 million sale of 56 unit Briarwood Apartments in Windham, CT Matthews Commercial Props. sells 23,476 s/f office/retail site at 1183 New Haven Rd., Naugatuck, CT for $2.637 million Suffolk Const., CBT Architects and Jones Lang LaSalle to build $38 million AIT Tech Center, Hartford, CT; 259,000 office tower Rosenthal's planned $500 million Fenway Center project to have 1,200 solar panels to generate 650 kW for new commuter rail station Pro Con begins framing for 65,795 s/f Courtyard by Marriott, Keene, NH; developed by Schleicher & Stebbins Hotels and Oleo Corp. Payette breaks ground on Bridgewater State College math/science center; team includes Vanderweil, Barr & Barr, GZA and Acentech Consigli Const. completes 2-phase 12,000 s/f laboratory renovations to Aubert Hall at Univeristy of Maine, Orono campus; design by WBRC KlingStubbins and Tocci Building honored for Autodesk AEC headquarters project by Interior Design Magazine in "eco" category Cornerstone R.E. and Servants Healthcare purchase 60 unit Sherburne Commons, Nantucket, for $6 million; sold by Sovereign Bank RAM Cos. acquires 84,000 s/f Chelmsford, MA building for $7.3 million; Jones Lang LaSalle represents seller New Boston Fund Levy of MEG Cos. brokers 6 new leases at North Broadway Crossing, North Salem, NH bringing retail site to 97% occupancy Blakely of TRB & Associates brokers $2.975 million sale of Ranger Plaza, Methuen, MA; 14,000 s/f sold by DF Land to MMK, LLCLarry Richards re/max properties