Toll-Brothers Joint Ventures with JP Morgan on $157M Project in Harrison
Real Estate In-Depth | January 23, 2019
HARRISON—Toll Brothers’ groundbreaking adaptive reuse of two office buildings here has a new partner and more than $100 million in construction financing.
The developer reports it has formed a joint venture with New York City-based J.P. Morgan Asset Management to develop the $157 million, 421-unit Carraway luxury apartment property off Westchester Avenue in Harrison.
The joint venture has secured a $102-million construction loan split evenly among Wells Fargo, National Association, which is serving as administrative agent, and Capital One. The debt and equity financing deals were arranged by Toll Brothers’ in-house finance department.
Toll Brothers Apartment Living will manage the development, marketing, leasing and property management of Carraway.
The Horsham, PA-based development firm broke ground on the project in August 2017 that initially involved the demolition of the 103 Corporate Park Drive and 105 Corporate Park Drive office buildings. The 10.3-acre site is directly adjacent to the Westchester Lifetime Fitness Health Club (built at the site of the former Journal News newspaper) and the future site of grocer Wegmans’ Harrison store, which also will be built on the site of a former office building.
“We are excited to be a part of the redevelopment activity occurring in Westchester County,” says Charles Elliott, president, Toll Brothers Apartment Living. “Carraway will raise the caliber of luxury residential offerings in the region and complement the other mixed-use development in the vicinity, creating a new vibrant destination for the area.”
Fred Cooper, Toll Brothers’ SVP for finance, international development and investor relations, adds, “We are pleased with the strong team of debt and equity providers that have come together to develop Carraway. This is our first joint venture with JP Morgan Asset Management and represents another dimension to our multi-faceted relationship with JP Morgan. Wells Fargo and Capital One are banks with whom we have had long relationships financing urban and suburban rental and student housing projects, as well as high-rise for-sale condo projects and our corporate credit facilities.”
Carraway, when completed will have ground floor retail and an in-building parking garage. Among the planned amenities include a club room, fitness center, kid’s playroom, pet spa, bike lounge, craft room, co-working lounge and pool. Leasing and first move-ins are projected for late 2019.
The project involves the first conversion of an office building to residential use in the Town of Harrison and along the I-287 commercial corridor.