Thursday, January 23, 2014

HFF arranges $85 million construction loan for TripAdvisor headquarters in Needham, MA


Rendering of planned six-story, 280,000-SF corporate headquarters building
for TripAdvisor in Needham, MA
 
Riaz Cassum
BOSTON, MA – HFF announced it has arranged an $85 million construction loan for the six-story, 280,000-square-foot, built-to-suit corporate headquarters of TripAdvisor in Needham, Massachusetts.

               HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture of Normandy Real Estate Partners and Greenfield Partners, to secure the floating-rate loan.  The lender group was led by RBS Citizens and also included People’s United Bank. 

               Due for completion in 2015, TripAdvisor’s headquarters will consist of a custom-built, LEED Certified Gold office building with an employee cafeteria, fitness center and meeting areas, along with an 1,100- space parking garage. 

The property is situated on 4.7 acres along First Avenue in the larger Center 128 mixed-use development directly fronting Route 128/Interstate 95 in Needham, about eight miles west of downtown Boston.       

The HFF team representing the borrower was led by senior managing director Riaz Cassum, director Porter Terry and senior real estate analyst Brett Paulsrud.

Porter Terry
“Normandy and Greenfield had the vision and persistence to transform an underutilized group of 1950’s era R&D buildings into an amenity-rich corporate office location and HFF was thrilled to play a part,” said Cassum.

The RBS Citizens and People’s United Bank teams were respectively led by senior vice presidents William Butler and David Lewis

“RBS Citizens was thrilled to help both Normandy and Greenfield bring TripAdvisor to Center 128,” added Butler.       

                Normandy Real Estate Partners is a leading real estate operator and investment manager headquartered in Morristown, NJ with offices in Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C.

Normandy currently manages a series of discretionary real estate funds totaling approximately $1.5 billion of equity commitments.

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

Kristen M. Murphy
Associate Director
HFF | One Post Office Square, Suite 3500 | Boston, MA 02109
Main: 617-338-0990 | Direct: 617-848-1572 | Cell: 617-543-4873 | www.hfflp.com


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