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Hotel developer Sam Chang’s $164.5 million sale of a three-pack of hotels at 337, 339 and 343 West 39th Street in Times Square to Hersha Hospitality Trust was the largest commercial transaction to close in February, data from PropertyShark.com shows. The second largest was the $110 million sale by an affiliate of developer Heritage Partners at 415 Greenwich Street of three commercial and 31 residential units at the 66-unit condominium conversion project in Tribeca, to an affiliate of California-based real estate investment firm KBS Capital Advisors. The next two largest sales were commercial units. In the first, an affiliate of Avenue Capital Group sold four retail condo units at the 115-unit condo conversion Avonova at 219 West 81st Street to an affiliate of Madison Capital for $26.5 million. In the other, an affiliate of the developer World-Wide Group sold three retail condos at 255 East 74th Street to an affiliate of the Related Companies for $25 million. [more]

Hotel developer Sam Chang has finally lined up a buyer for his three-pack of budget hotels on West 39th Street, The Real Deal has learned. Chang and his company’s COO Gary Wisinski of McSam confirmed they have a deal in the works that’s set to close next month for the three hotels in one building with separate entrances at 337, 339 and 343 West 39th Street. Sources said the buyer is Hersha Hospitality, a Philadelphia-based, publicly traded REIT and an affiliate of the Hersha Trust, which has partnered with McSam before. Last year, Chang boasted to The Real Deal that he and all the Hersha Hospitality Management partners have similar large diamond rings and diamond-encrusted Rolexes. Chang denied Hersha is the buyer, but noted he has signed a strict confidentiality agreement related to the sale. [more]