UFT Secures $55M in Debt at 50 Broadway

NEW YORK CITY-The United Federation of Teachers has secured $54.5 million in debt financing for the building the union owns at 50 Broadway. Cassidy Turley arranged the first mortgage financing for the 350,000 square foot building, which the UFT occupies and leases to other tenants.

Cassidy Turley senior managing director Neil A. Lipinski, chairman of the New York Tri-State Mark Boisi and Christian Miles, a managing director in the Capital Markets Group, worked the deal. “It was a refinance of existing debt and that loan was $24.5 million and it’s a $20 million letter of credit and a $15 million line of credit,” Lipinski tells GlobeSt.com. “That collectively gets you to the $54.5 million in terms of debt facility.”