Giga Holdings

Secured $16.25 million construction financing for 77-unit multifamily development Central Pointe in Newark, NJ through Drew Capital and Trevian Capital

Leadership read: The construction financing commits Giga Holdings to a six-story, 77-unit ground-up build in a neighborhood that until recently carried the risk profile that keeps conventional lenders away. Closing a $16.25M construction loan through a private credit provider, rather than a bank, means the capital stack was structured to absorb that risk premium. The affordable set-aside (16 of 77 units) also signals probable engagement with local affordability incentive programs, which layers in regulatory and compliance obligations that persist well past construction close and into stabilization. The related signals collected over the last 90 days are broad across capital-raising categories and don't form a tight comparable set for urban infill multifamily construction financing specifically; the honest read is that this signal stands largely alone in the data available. What it does sit inside is a wider pattern of private credit filling the construction-lending gap that regional banks have pulled back from since 2023. Trevian's involvement here is consistent with that structural shift, not an anomaly. Where this pattern matters at a market level: developers operating at the intersection of urban infill, mixed-income mandates, and private credit financing face concentrated demand for operational leadership fluent in both asset-management disciplines and public-subsidy compliance. The two functions rarely live in the same person, and the gap shows up most acutely at the point between construction completion and stabilized operations.

curated · 2026-05-20 · context →