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Commitments, Contingencies and Guarantees
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments, Contingencies and Guarantees Commitments, Contingencies and Guarantees
Legal Proceedings

From time to time, we are party to various lawsuits, claims and other legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of our business.  We are currently in litigation with the insurance providers in 2020 for Barrington Plaza to recover certain costs associated with reconstruction. Excluding ordinary, routine litigation incidental to our business, we are not currently a party to any legal proceedings that we believe would reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Concentration of Risk

Tenant Receivables

We are subject to credit risk with respect to our tenant receivables and deferred rent receivables related to our tenant leases. Our tenants' ability to honor the terms of their respective leases remains dependent upon economic, regulatory and social factors. We seek to minimize our credit risk from our tenant leases by (i) targeting smaller, more affluent office tenants, from a diverse mix of industries, (ii) performing credit evaluations of prospective tenants and (iii) obtaining security deposits or letters of credit from our tenants.  For the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, no tenant accounted for more than 10% of our total revenues.  See our revenue recognition policy in Note 2 for the charges to revenue for uncollectible amounts for tenant receivables and deferred rent receivables.

Geographic Risk

All of our properties, including our consolidated JVs and our unconsolidated Fund's properties, are located in Los Angeles County, California and Honolulu, Hawaii, and we are therefore susceptible to adverse economic and regulatory developments, as well as natural disasters, in those markets.
Derivative Counterparty Credit Risk

We are subject to credit risk with respect to our derivative counterparties. We do not post or receive collateral with respect to our derivative transactions. Our derivative contracts do not provide for right of offset between derivative contracts. See Note 10 for the details of our derivative contracts. We seek to minimize our credit risk by entering into agreements with a variety of counterparties with investment grade ratings.

Cash Balances

We have significant cash balances invested in a variety of short-term money market funds that are intended to preserve principal value and maintain a high degree of liquidity while providing current income. These investments are not insured against loss of principal and there is no guarantee that our investments in these funds will be redeemable at par value. We also have significant cash balances in bank accounts with high quality financial institutions with investment grade ratings.  Interest bearing bank accounts at each U.S. banking institution are insured by the FDIC up to $250 thousand.

Asset Retirement Obligations

Conditional asset retirement obligations represent a legal obligation to perform an asset retirement activity in which the timing and/or method of settlement is conditional on a future event that may or may not be within our control.  A liability for a conditional asset retirement obligation must be recorded if the fair value of the obligation can be reasonably estimated.  Environmental site assessments have identified thirty-three buildings in our Consolidated Portfolio which contain asbestos, and would have to be removed in compliance with applicable environmental regulations if these properties are demolished or undergo major renovations. As of September 30, 2023, the obligations to remove the asbestos from properties which are currently undergoing major renovations, or that we plan to renovate in the future, are not material to our consolidated financial statements. As of September 30, 2023, the obligations to remove the asbestos from our other properties have indeterminable settlement dates, and we are unable to reasonably estimate the fair value of the associated conditional asset retirement obligations.

Contractual Commitments

Development Projects

In downtown Honolulu, we are converting a 25 story, 493,000 square foot office tower into approximately 493 apartments in phases over a number of years as the office space is vacated. As of September 30, 2023, we had an aggregate remaining contractual commitment for this development project and other development projects of approximately $19.3 million.

Other Contractual Commitments

As of September 30, 2023, we had an aggregate remaining contractual commitment for repositionings, capital expenditure projects and tenant improvements of approximately $15.0 million.

Guarantees

Unconsolidated Fund Guarantees
Our unconsolidated Fund, Partnership X, has a $115.0 million floating-rate term loan that matures on September 14, 2028. The loan carries interest at SOFR + 1.46% (with a zero-percent SOFR floor), which has been effectively fixed at 2.19% until October 1, 2026 with interest rate swaps (which do not have zero-percent SOFR floors). The loan and related swaps were converted to SOFR from LIBOR during the third quarter of 2023, resulting in a small SOFR adjustment to calculate the interest payable to the lender (which is included in the loan spread above). The conversion to SOFR did not change the swap-fixed interest rate. The loan is secured by two properties held by Partnership X and is non-recourse. We have made certain environmental and other limited indemnities and guarantees covering customary non-recourse carve-outs for Partnership X's loan, and we have also guaranteed the related swaps. Partnership X has agreed to indemnify us for any amounts that we would be required to pay under these agreements. As of September 30, 2023, assuming that SOFR does not decrease below zero-percent, the maximum future interest payments for the swaps were $2.9 million. As of September 30, 2023, all of the obligations under the related loan and swap agreements have been performed in accordance with the terms of those agreements. As of September 30, 2023, we estimate the risk of loss for the various indemnities and guarantees to be low. See Note 6 for more information regarding Partnership X.