60 Guilders has acquired 12 MetroTech Center, an office condominium in Downtown Brooklyn for $128 million. The 186,000-square-foot property is located on the first five floors of the 12 MetroTech Center.

Cushman & Wakefield arranged $106 million in acquisition financing through Starwood Property Trust. Gideon Gil, Lauren Kaufman, Steve Kohn and Alex Hernandez secured the funding—a five-year, interest-only loan—on behalf of the borrower. The deal is one of the largest financing transactions in Brooklyn since the beginning of the pandemic, and according to Gil, it is a prime example of the types of office deals lenders are willing to do amid the uncertainty of the pandemic.

The property has creditworthy tenants and long-term leases and strong sponsorship, making it attractive to lenders.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.