Blackstone to Finance $1.2B Luxury Towers on NYC Waterfront

Blackstone will provide $322M in financing for a $1.25B luxury residential advancement with two apartment towers that will be constructed on the NYC waterfront at 570 Washington Road by a joint enterprise of Zeckendorf Improvement, Atlas Funds Team and The Baupost Group.

According to a report in the NY Submit, Newmark’s Financial debt & Equity device arranged the financing from Blackstone, which will fund the land acquisition and pre-development operate on the task. 

The brokerage, which has been rising its fairness business enterprise by focusing on large JV promotions in NYC, also facilitated the trio’s joint enterprise with extra than $400M of equity.

The associates will create two luxury condominium apartment towers—the tallest increasing 450 feet—overlooking the Hudson River on a 1.3-acre empty lot adjacent to NYC’s West Facet Freeway. The development encompasses an full metropolis block and is upcoming doorway to Google’s new 1.7M SF St. John’s Terminal campus in Reduced Manhattan.

“[The developers] are perfectly-positioned to supply a exceptional, large-excellent project that will profit from the continued development of the West Side of Manhattan,” explained Michael Eglit, head of US originations for Blackstone Authentic Estate Financial debt Approaches, in a statement.

Atlas Funds led a rezoning hard work for the area that began in 2013 and culminated in the rezoning of a 4-block web-site that turned the Google campus and integrated a $100M payment to the Hudson River Park Belief in exchange for unused air legal rights.

Centered on the zoning adjustments, the 1.3-acre site for the challenge led by Zeckendorf permits the growth of much more than 600K SF of residential and mixed-use space.

Zeckendorf and Atlas acquired the 570 Washington web-site from Westbrook Properties from Westbrook Companions for $350M in a deal that closed in February. In an arrangement brokered by Newmark, Boston-dependent Baupost agreed to sign up for the joint venture two months ago.

In April, Google closed on a offer with Oxford Properties to purchase St. John’s Terminal for $2.1B. The Terminal, positioned at 550 Washington Street in a neighborhood acknowledged as Hudson Square, is getting combined with adjacent homes at 315 Hudson Road and 345 Hudson Road to form the new 1.7M SF campus for the tech large.

In accordance to a report in NY YIMBY, the campus house in the two Hudson Avenue structures have been done. The St. John’s Terminal making is predicted to open up by the middle of the up coming yr when the campus will develop into the NYC headquarters for Google’s International Enterprise Group.

Oxford Homes Group bought the 3.25-acre St. John’s Terminal internet site, which incorporates 600 feet of Hudson River frontage, from Westbrook Companions and Atlas Cash Team for $700M in 2018.

St. John’s Terminal was created in 1934 by the New York Central Railroad as a terminus of the Significant Line, an elevated freight line together Manhattan’s West Aspect. As redeveloped by Oxford, the Terminal characteristics substantial landscaped terraces that encompass the perimeters of the fourth floor and every single degree previously mentioned the tenth ground, permitting Google to occupy what is identified as a “biophilic workplace neighborhood.”