OPEN Impact Real Estate Brokers Sale of Property Overlooking Hudson River
(January 3, 2023 – New York City) – OPEN Impact Real Estate LLC (OPEN) announced today that it brokered the sale of Rising Ground’s 28-acre Leake & Watts campus in Yonkers and Bronx, New York to National Resources, a real estate development company, for $52.6 million. Lindsay Ornstein and Stephen Powers, founders of OPEN, with managing director Arthur Skelskie and vice president Alexander Smith, represented Rising Ground in the transaction. Rising Ground will retain a three-acre parcel of the property for various programs.
The Leake & Watts campus overlooks the Hudson River and features landscape designed by famed architect Frederick Law Olmstead. Located within a 30-minute train ride of Midtown Manhattan, the property includes 25 buildings, with 265,000 square feet of space and recreational facilities, such as an outdoor pool, indoor pool, baseball field and an indoor basketball court.
“Approaching the sale wholistically, we strategically structured the transaction to provide the financial and timing certainty necessary to implement the relocation of Rising Ground’s programs in a seamless manner while reducing risk to the nonprofit, said Powers, Co-Founder of OPEN, a leading expert in nonprofit real estate. “We are thrilled to support the strategic vision of this important nonprofit institution through the sale of this real estate holding, positively impacting their programs across the city and region.”
About OPEN Impact Real Estate LLC
OPEN Impact Real Estate (OPEN) is a woman-owned business that delivers a comprehensive range of commercial real estate brokerage and advisory services specializing in serving nonprofits and social-minded, mission-driven organizations. Based in New York City, OPEN serves clients across the United States, particularly those that value the benefits of working with an M/WBE with deep expertise in furthering mission through physical space. OPEN is an affiliate of Transwestern Real Estate Services. For more information, please visit www.openregroup.
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