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MIAMI LAND AND BUILDING
12 Months Ended
Dec. 29, 2013
MIAMI LAND AND BUILDING  
MIAMI LAND AND BUILDING

3.    MIAMI LAND AND BUILDING

On January 31, 2011, our contract to sell certain land in Miami ("Miami Contract") terminated pursuant to its terms because the buyer ("developer") did not consummate the transaction by the closing deadline in the contract. Under the terms of the Miami Contract, we were entitled to receive a $7.0 million termination fee and we filed a claim against the developer to obtain the payment. We settled the claim for an undisclosed amount during the quarter ended September 29, 2013.

On May 27, 2011, we sold 14.0 acres of land in Miami, including a building, which held the operations of one of our subsidiaries, The Miami Herald Media Company, and adjacent parking lots, for a purchase price of $236.0 million ("Miami property"). Approximately 9.4 acres of this Miami property was previously subject to the terminated Miami Contract discussed above. We received cash proceeds of $230.0 million as a result of the sale. The additional $6.0 million was held in an escrow account for our expenses incurred in connection with the relocation of our Miami operations. In April 2012, we received these funds, which were released for payment of costs associated with the relocation of the Miami operations.

In connection with the sale transaction, The Miami Herald Media Company continued to operate from its existing location, at the Miami property, through May 2013 rent-free. As a result of our continuing involvement in the Miami property and because we did not pay rent during this period, the sale was treated as a financing transaction. Accordingly, we continued to depreciate the carrying value of the building until our operations were moved. In addition, we recorded a $236.0 million liability (in financing obligations) equal to the sales proceeds received of $230.0 million plus the $6.0 million received from the escrow account for reimbursement of moving expenses. We were imputing rent based on comparable market rates, which was reflected as interest expense until the operations were moved.

As of the end of May 2013, we moved all of our Miami business operations to a leased facility and our production to our new production plant built next to the business operations in Doral, Florida and we no longer have a continuing involvement with the Miami property. As a result, in fiscal year 2013, we recognized a gain of $12.9 million on the Miami transaction, which was recorded in non-operating (expense) income in our consolidated statements of operations. We also released our financing obligation and PP&E from our consolidated balance sheet during fiscal year 2013, as described in Note 8, Cash Flow Information.