Monday, December 16, 2013

BankUnited Closes $80 Million in New Commercial Loans


Lauderdale Marine Center, 2001 Southwest 20th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL

The Miami Lakes, FL Bank  Provides $60 MillionTo Refinance Lauderdale Marine Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL
  
MIAMI LAKES, FL– BankUnited announced it closed a $60 million loan to East Yard Partners LLC and West Yard Partners LLC to refinance the Lauderdale Marine Center, a 51-acre full service boatyard and marina located at 2001 Southwest 20th Street in Fort Lauderdale.

Talking Heads
The owners bought the property in 1997. The property features 245,769 square feet of building improvements and 84,079 square feet of covered boat slips.

Lauderdale Marine Center is a premier, all-inclusive, marine center with the largest boat repair facility in the United States, able to haul, store and repair vessels up to 170 feet and 330 tons.

The loan underscores BankUnited’s commitment to making credit available to those in South Florida’s multibillion dollar marine industry, a key economic engine that helps drive the regional economy. 






BankUnited’s New York Commercial Lending Team Announces $20 Million Loan for 195 Chrystie Street Building in New York

NEW YORK, NY – BankUnited announced it made a $20 million loan to Chrystie Studios for a first mortgage on its commercial property at 195 Chrystie Street, New York, NY.

Once home to new wave band Talking Heads, whose members lived and rehearsed on the building’s ninth floor, the 95,000-square-foot building on New York’s Lower East Side now houses a mix of artist studios and creative offices for graphic designers, photographers, modeling agencies, recording studios and others.

Joseph Sforzo, an officer in BankUnited’s commercial real estate group in New York, was the lender on the transaction.

195 Chrystie Street, Lower East Side
 New York, NY
BankUnited, N.A., a national bank and wholly-owned subsidiary of BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE: BKU), is headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida with $14.3 billion of assets, 98 banking centers in 15 Florida counties and five banking centers in the New York metropolitan area at September 30, 2013.

Ranked 10th on Forbes Magazine's list of "Best Banks in America 2012," and one of the largest independent depository institutions headquartered in Florida by assets, BankUnited provides a wide range of commercial and consumer banking services.

 For additional information, call (877) 779-2265 or visit www.BankUnited.com.

 BankUnited can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/BankUnited.official and on Twitter @BankUnited.





 For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Mary Harris, (305) 817-8117                                            
Savannah Whaley, (954) 776-1999, ext. 225

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