Top Stories: June 2011

Eaton and Carlton of Grubb & Ellis rep. Monkey Sports in $8 million sale; Joseph Laham was represented by Barker of Boston Real Estate Advisors Cushman & Wakefield completes $25 million sale of 200 Newport Ave.; Griffin, Maher, Pergola and Doherty rep. seller and buyer NAI Norwood Group sells 50,000 s/f mfg. facility for Business Finance Authority, sold for $2.2 million; Gagne of Bean Group reps buyer 920 Candia Rd., LLC Toolin of Fini Real Estate sells 24,500 s/f office/flex center for $1.6 million; Caouette of Keller Williams reps buyer John M. Corcoran & Co. to develop 226 units of apartment housing at SouthField, Weymouth, Mass., development cost of $44.6 million Mitchell and Rader of Rader Properties broker $7.9m sale of 600 Longwater Dr., 70,113 s/f office building sold by Oasis Longwater, LLC Snell and Gurall of Concord Property Management handle 59,713 s/f lease to Eggrock Modular Solutions at 265 Foster St. Butler, St. John, Byrne and McLaughlin of Cushman &Wakefield sell 132-unit Kingston Gardens sold by HallKeen CDT Kingston L.P. P6/Saracen Two Oliver Real Estate LLC, Colliers International secures $25 million interim bridge loan for Two Oliver St., Boston Clough and Whelan of Fantini & Gorga place $8.25m for Home Depot, a refinance of the borrower's existing acquisition debt Tito and McGee of NAI Hunneman broker $1.6m sale of 484 Commercial St.; 35,000 s/f designed by Aecom|Earth Tech - planned for LEED Silver BOND receives CMA award of the year for MIT/LL HUSIR project; Keystone Const. and Hallamore Corp. also honored Margulies Perruzzi selected by Middlesex Savings Bank to design 2,500 s/f branch at Milliston Commons, Millis, Mass. - Colantonio named CM Stratton of The Geenty Group brokers $1.175m sale of 21,600 s/f office/whse. bldg.; Advanced Metals Technology sells 54 East Industrial Rd. IREM and the CCIM Institute jointly honored U.S. congressman Jeff Miller as Legislator of the Year - Received award during Capitol Hill Visit Day Gibbons of ABG Realty reps Somerglen LP in $2 million sale of 130 Broadway sold to PSG Framing - 20,000 s/f of commercial whse./retail Redstone breaks ground on Redstone Lofts at the University of Vermont designed to achieve LEED-Silver certification from USGBC American Capital Energy, Inc. awarded contract to construct $85 million, 18.2 MW of solar facilities by Cape and Vineyard Electric Coop Gund Partnership and Suffolk Const. break ground on 100,000 s/f world hdqtrs. for Service Credit Union at 2995 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth, NH Easson named director of the WPI Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park; to manage the 125,000 s/f building First Realty Management's "value-added" management philosophy firm manages a portfolio of 6,000 apartments and condos Harriman DiGuiseppe of Coastal Partners sells 84,000 s/f BJ's Wholesale Club for $25m; Weld and Flood of ING Clarion represent buyer Wilder Cos. signs three new leases at Garden City Center - 14,939 s/f includes Anthropologie now open in 12,200 s/f store City of Cambridge selects Bulfinch's Cambridge Discovery Park as a recipient of the 2011 GoGreen Award for Stormwater Management