Lam Generation signs $123M refi loan with Deutsche Bank for hotel in Chelsea

Lam Generation through the entity Chelsea 25 Hotel LLC as borrower signed a refi loan with lender Deutsche Bank valued at $123 million for the hotel building (H2) at 112 West 25th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan.
The deal closed on October 16, 2025 and was recorded on October 23, 2025. The prior lender was MetLife which held debt that had an original loan amount of $120 million.The property has 185,831 square feet of built space according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The loan price per built square foot is $661 per the PincusCo analysis. (The price per square foot analysis is the transaction price divided by square feet as reported in public records and assumes no air rights have been sold.)
The owner bought the property on August 7, 2013, for $67.5 million. The signatory for Lam Generation was Jeffrey Lam . The signatory for Deutsche Bank was Peter Castro and Brandon Atkins .

Prior sales and revenue

The owners according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development includes Jeff Lam, head officer and Cesar Avery, agent. The business entities are Lam Gen 25 Llc and Lam Gen 25 Llc. The 185,831-square-foot property generated revenue of $38.9 million or $209 per square foot, according to the most recent income and expense figures.

The property

The hotel building in Chelsea has 185,831 square feet of built space according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The parcel has frontage of 85 feet and is 197 feet deep with a total lot size of 8,527 square feet. The lot is irregular. The zoning is M1-6 which allows for up to 10 times floor area ratio (FAR) for manufacturing The city-designated market value for the property in 2022 is $70.6 million.

Violations and lawsuits

There were no lawsuits or bankruptcies filed against the property for the past 24 months. In addition, according to city public data, the property has received $4,860 in OATH penalties in the last year.

Development

For the tax lot building, it received its initial certificate of occupancy on January 16, 2020. On the lot, there was one new building construction project, 121187214, for a 341-unit, 141,734 square-foot R-1 building. The project was submitted by Lam Generation and filed by Jeffrey Lam with plans filed September 17, 2014 and permitted February 3, 2016.

The neighborhood

In Chelsea, The bulk, or 35 percent of the 52.5 million square feet of commercial built space are office buildings, with elevator buildings next occupying 28 percent of the space. In sales, Chelsea has the 6th highest sale turnover among other neighborhoods in the city with $1.7 billion in sales volume in the last two years. For development, Chelsea has 1.9 times the average amount of major developments relative to other neighborhoods and is the 14th highest in Manhattan. It had 2.8 million square feet of commercial and multi-family construction under development in the last two years, which represents 5 percent of the neighborhood’s built space. There was one pre-foreclosure suit filed among other hotel buildings in the past 12 months.

The block

On this tax block, PincusCo has identified the owners of 12 of the 25 commercial properties representing 731,084 square feet of the 1,107,133 square feet. The largest owner is Lam Generation, followed by Kaufman Organization and then Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer Registered.
On the tax block, there were five new building construction projects totaling 329,947 square feet. The largest is a 341-unit, 141,734 square-foot hotel/dormitory/shelter (R-1) building submitted by Lam Generation and filed by Jeffrey Lam with plans filed September 17, 2014 and permitted February 3, 2016. The second largest is a 375-unit, 126,733 square-foot hotel/dormitory/shelter (R-1) building submitted by Sal Aquilato with plans filed February 14, 2018 and permitted July 29, 2020.

The majority, or 49 percent of the 1.1 million square feet of built space are office buildings, with hotel buildings next occupying 36 percent of the space.

The borrower

The PincusCo database currently indicates that Lam Generation owned at least six commercial properties in New York City with 339,662 square feet and a city-determined market value of $104.1 million. (Market value is typically about 50% of actual value.) The portfolio has $209.2 million in debt, with top three lenders as MetLife, Investors Bank, and Metropolitan Commercial Bank respectively. Within the portfolio, the bulk, or 86 percent of the 339,662 square feet of built space are hotel properties, with retail properties next occupying 12 percent of the space. The bulk, or 98 percent of the built space, is in Manhattan, with Queens next at 2 percent of the space.

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