{"id":101624,"date":"2026-01-15T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101624\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:42:07","slug":"bankunited-leads-28m-loan-for-staten-island-industrial-acquisition-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101624\/","title":{"rendered":"BankUnited Leads $28M Loan for Staten Island Industrial Acquisition \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pump up the volume.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/prox\/\" title=\"ProX\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ProX<\/a>, a manufacturer of hard-sided packing cases for sound equipment, lights and other entertainment supplies, has sealed $28.2 million of acquisition financing for the purchase of a newly built warehouse property in Staten Island, Commercial Observer has learned.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/?p=558718&amp;preview=true&amp;preview_id=558718\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canfield Lands $174M Construction Loan for First Phase of SoCal Housing Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/bankunited\/\" title=\"BankUnited\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BankUnited<\/a> provided a $24.9 million senior loan for ProX\u2019s $33.3 million acquisition of a 136,346-square-foot industrial complex at 2807 Arthur Kill Road in the South Shore area of Staten Island. Pursuit Lending also supplied a $3.3 million loan through the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sba.gov\/funding-programs\/loans\/504-loans\">Small Business Administration 504 program<\/a> as part of the 85 percent loan-to\u2013value deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/meridian-capital-group\/\" title=\"Meridian Capital Group\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meridian Capital Group<\/a>\u2019s Benjamin Klugmann negotiated the financing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a highly coordinated transaction that required close collaboration between two lenders with different underwriting approaches,\u201d Klugmann said in a statement. \u201cBankUnited and Pursuit worked seamlessly together, allowing us to structure a solution that matched the strength of the sponsor and the quality of the real estate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BankUnited, Pursuit and ProX did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Coen can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/01\/bankunited-prox-staten-island-industrial\/mailto:acoen@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acoen@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pump up the volume.\u00a0 ProX, a manufacturer of hard-sided packing cases for sound equipment, lights and other entertainment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[46531,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-101624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-benjamin-klugmann","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-staten-island","13":"tag-staten-island-headlines","14":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}