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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

Acquisitions

On January 2, 2020, CoreCivic completed the acquisition of a portfolio of 28 properties, 24 of which the counter-party contributed to a newly formed partnership of the Company's, for total consideration of $83.2 million, excluding transaction-related expenses.  All of the properties are leased to the federal government through the General Services Administration ("GSA"), an independent agency of the United States government. CoreCivic financed the acquisition with $7.7 million of cash, assumed debt of $52.2 million, as further described in Note 5, and the balance with the issuance of 1.3 million shares of Class A Common Interests in Government Real Estate Solutions, LLC, an unrestricted subsidiary controlled by the Company ("GRES"), that are convertible into cash or, at the Company's option, shares of the Company's common stock following a two-year holding period on a one-for-one basis (the "Operating Partnership Units"), using a partnership structure. In allocating the purchase price of the acquisition, CoreCivic recorded $77.4 million of net tangible assets, $7.5 million of identifiable intangible assets, and $4.9 million of tenant improvements.  CoreCivic acquired the portfolio of properties as a strategic investment that further diversifies the Company's cash flows through government-leased properties.

CoreCivic has determined that its joint venture investment in GRES represents a variable interest entity ("VIE") in accordance with ASC 810, "Consolidation".  CoreCivic has 100% voting control in GRES. Accordingly, CoreCivic concluded that it is the primary beneficiary of GRES and consolidates the VIE.  The primary beneficiary is the entity that has (i) the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity's economic performance and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could be significant to the VIE. Included in property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, on our consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2020 is $81.6 million related to GRES.  The debt related to GRES at September 30, 2020 was $51.5 million, as further described in Note 5.  

Financing Leasing Transactions

On January 24, 2018, CoreCivic entered into a 20-year lease agreement with the Kansas Department of Corrections ("KDOC") for a 2,432-bed correctional facility to be constructed by the Company in Lansing, Kansas.  The new facility replaces the Lansing Correctional Facility, Kansas' largest correctional complex for adult male inmates, originally constructed in 1863.  CoreCivic is responsible for facility maintenance throughout the 20-year term of the lease, at which time ownership will revert to the state of Kansas.  Construction of the facility commenced in the first quarter of 2018, and construction was completed in January 2020, at which time the lease commenced.  CoreCivic accounts for the lease with the KDOC partially as a financing receivable under ASU 2016-02, "Leases (Topic 842)", with the remaining portion of the lease payments attributable to maintenance services and capital expenditures as revenue streams under ASC 606, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers".   As of September 30, 2020, the financing receivable was $149.7 million recognized in Other Assets on the consolidated balance sheet.  Prior to commencement of the lease, the costs incurred to construct the facility were reflected as a construction receivable and, as of December 31, 2019, $137.7 million was recognized in Other Assets on the consolidated balance sheet.  The cash payments associated with the construction of the project were reported as expenditures for facility development and expansions on the consolidated statements of cash flows.

Operating Leasing Transactions

In September 2020, the term of the amended inter-governmental service agreement ("IGSA") between the city of Dilley, Texas and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") to care for up to 2,400 individuals at the South Texas Family Residential Center, a facility the Company leases in Dilley, Texas, was extended from September 2021 to September 2026.  ICE's termination rights, which permit ICE to terminate the agreement for convenience or non-appropriation of funds, without penalty, by providing the Company with at least a 60-day notice, were unchanged under the extension.  Concurrent with the extension of the amended IGSA, the lease with the third-party lessor for the site was also extended through September 2026. Other terms of the extended lease agreement were unchanged and provide the Company with the ability to terminate the lease if ICE terminates the amended IGSA associated with the facility.  As a result of the lease modification, the Company re-measured the lease liability at the effective date of the modification, and recognized a corresponding adjustment to increase the right-of-use asset amounting to $116.0 million.

Idle Facilities

As of September 30, 2020, CoreCivic had five idled correctional facilities in the CoreCivic Safety segment that are currently available and being actively marketed as solutions to meet the needs of potential customers. The following table summarizes each of the idled facilities and their respective carrying values, excluding equipment and other assets that could generally be transferred and used at other facilities CoreCivic owns without significant cost (dollars in thousands):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Carrying Values

 

 

 

Design

 

 

Date

 

September 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

Facility

 

Capacity

 

 

Idled

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Prairie Correctional Facility

 

 

1,600

 

 

2010

 

$

14,277

 

 

$

14,863

 

Huerfano County Correctional Center

 

 

752

 

 

2010

 

 

16,062

 

 

 

16,266

 

Diamondback Correctional Facility

 

 

2,160

 

 

2010

 

 

38,421

 

 

 

39,729

 

Marion Adjustment Center

 

 

826

 

 

2013

 

 

11,148

 

 

 

11,351

 

Kit Carson Correctional Center

 

 

1,488

 

 

2016

 

 

52,712

 

 

 

54,041

 

 

 

 

6,826

 

 

 

 

$

132,620

 

 

$

136,250

 

 

As of September 30, 2020, CoreCivic also had one idled non-core facility in its Safety segment containing 240 beds with a total net book value of $3.1 million; four facilities in its Community segment, including three that became idle during 2020, containing an aggregate of 939 beds with a total net book value of $13.7 million; and three previously leased residential reentry centers in its Properties segment, containing an aggregate of 430 beds with a total net book value of $9.2 million.  

CoreCivic incurred approximately $2.1 million and $1.9 million in operating expenses at these idled facilities for the period they were idle during the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.   CoreCivic incurred approximately $6.1 million and $5.4 million in operating expenses at these idled facilities for the period they were idle during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

On April 15, 2020, CoreCivic sold an idled facility in its Community segment, containing 92 beds, for a gross sales price of $1.6 million. In anticipation of the sale, CoreCivic reported an impairment charge of $0.5 million in the first quarter of 2020 based on the realizable value resulting from the sale.  On May 26, 2020, CoreCivic sold an idled non-core facility in its Safety segment, containing 200 beds with a net book value of $0.5 million, for net proceeds of $3.3 million.  The gain on the sale of $2.8 million was recognized in the second quarter of 2020 and reflected in other income on the consolidated statement of operations.

On September 15, 2020, CoreCivic announced that it had entered into a new contract under an IGSA between the city of Cushing, Oklahoma and the U.S. Marshals Service to utilize the Company's 1,692-bed Cimarron Correctional Facility in the CoreCivic Safety segment.  The Company had previously announced its intention to idle the Cimarron facility during the third quarter of 2020, predominately due to a lower number of inmate populations from the state of Oklahoma resulting from COVID-19, combined with the consequential impact of COVID-19 on the State's budget. The new management contract commenced on September 15, 2020, and has an initial term of three years, with unlimited 24-month extension options thereafter upon mutual agreement. As of September 30, 2020, the net book value of the Cimarron facility was $73.3 million.

Also as a result of the lower resident populations from the state of Oklahoma and the impact of COVID-19, CoreCivic Community transferred the remaining resident populations at its 390-bed Tulsa Transitional Center to Oklahoma's system, idling the Tulsa facility during the third quarter of 2020. Closure of the Tulsa facility followed the closure of the 200-bed Oklahoma City Transitional Center during the second quarter of 2020, and the 289-bed Turley Residential Center in Oklahoma in 2019.  During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Federal Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") awarded a new contract to CoreCivic for residential reentry and home confinement services pursuant to a solicitation for capacity and services to be provided in the state of Oklahoma.  As a result, CoreCivic expects to reactivate the Turley Residential Center during the first quarter of 2021, and provide the BOP additional reentry services at its owned and operated Oklahoma Reentry Opportunity Center (formerly known as the Carver Transitional Center) in Oklahoma which will supplement the existing utilization by the state of Oklahoma.

CoreCivic considers the cancellation of a contract or an expiration and non-renewal of a lease agreement in its CoreCivic Properties segment as an indicator of impairment, and tested each of the idled properties for impairment when it was notified by the respective customers or tenants that they would no longer be utilizing such property.  CoreCivic evaluates on a quarterly basis market developments for the potential utilization of each of these properties in order to identify events that may cause CoreCivic to reconsider its most recent assumptions, such as the agreement to sell a property at less than its carrying value.  As a result of CoreCivic's analyses, in the second quarter of 2020, CoreCivic reported an impairment charge of $9.8 million on one of the residential reentry facilities in Oklahoma, based on its anticipated use as a commercial real estate property rather than a reentry facility.  The fair value measurement for the Oklahoma residential reentry facility was estimated using unobservable Level 3 inputs, as defined in ASC 820, using market comparable data for similar properties in the local market.