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Repositioned Chelsea Offices Trade to MC Real Estate

MC Real Estate Partners LLC (MCRE) and a private investor have acquired 155 W. 23rd St. in Chelsea from The Kaufman Organization and Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Real Estate. It’s MCRE’s first office acquisition since being formed earlier in 2019 by industry veterans Steve Grant and Andy Nathan.

Deal terms weren’t disclosed. Crain’s New York Business reported that the 82,000-square-foot, circa-1935 property traded for $39.5 million.

Kaufman and GSAM originally acquired 155 W. 23rd in 2015 under a newly-formed 99-year ground lease. “Since acquiring 155 W 23 as part of the former Ring Portfolio in 2015, we have transformed the former vacant property through an extensive capital improvements program into a leading office building in Midtown South,” said Kaufman Investments president Michael Kazmierski.

Cushman & Wakefield’s Adam Spies, Kevin Donner and Michael Gembecki represented the sellers. MCRE will handle leasing in-house and has tapped Kaufman to continue as property manager.

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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