Borough Developers Closes on $84M Sale of Downtown Brooklyn Development Site
Why this matters
Retail has become a quiet outperformer. A decade of effectively zero new development has left necessity-driven, grocery-anchored, and Sun Belt strip product with negligible vacancy and re-leasing spreads in the high single digits. Cap rates have compressed in step, and the bid for stabilized portfolios is again broad across REITs, pension funds, and institutional core-plus capital. New York continues to bifurcate sharply: trophy office leasing at record rents, commodity Class B in conversion discussions or court-supervised processes. Rent-stabilized multifamily remains supply-constrained and tightly held. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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Brooklyn-based Borough Developers has acquired a major mixed-use development site in Downtown Brooklyn, right across from the new retail project at a former Macy’s , Commercial Observer has learned. The firm acquired…
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