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SEGMENTS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
SEGMENTS  
SEGMENTS

NOTE 17 SEGMENTS

We have three business segments which offer different products and services. Our three segments are managed separately because each requires different operating strategies or management expertise and are reflective of management's operating philosophies and methods. In addition, our segments or assets within such segments could change in the future as development of certain properties commences or other operational or management changes occur. We do not distinguish or group our combined operations on a geographic basis. Furthermore, all operations are within the United States and no customer or tenant comprises more than 10% of revenues. Our reportable segments are as follows:

  • Master Planned Communities ("MPCs") – includes the development and sale of land, in large-scale, long-term community development projects in and around Las Vegas, Nevada; Houston, Texas; and Columbia, Maryland.

    Operating Assets – includes retail and office properties, a multi-family property, The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center, The Club at Carlton Woods and other real estate investments. These assets are currently generating revenues, and we believe there is an opportunity to redevelop or reposition many of these assets to improve operating performance.

    Strategic Developments – includes all properties held for development and redevelopment which are not currently operating (primarily retail and other interests in real estate at such locations), and our one residential condominium project located in Natick (Boston), Massachusetts, in which the remaining units were sold during the first six months of 2012.

As more fully discussed in Note 4, on July 1, 2011, we acquired our partner's interest in The Woodlands. We now own 100% of The Woodlands and consolidate its operations. As such, The Woodlands operating results for historical periods when this investment was a Real Estate Affiliate are now analyzed internally on a non-GAAP consolidation basis by management in order to provide management comparability between periods for analyzing operating results.

As our segments are managed separately, different operating measures are utilized to assess operating results and allocate resources among the segments. The one common operating measure used to assess operating results for the business segments is Real Estate Property Earnings Before Taxes ("REP EBT") which represents the operating revenues of the properties less property operating expenses and adjustments for interest, as further described below. Management believes that REP EBT provides useful information about the operating performance of all of our assets, projects and properties.

REP EBT, as it relates to our business, is defined as net income (loss) excluding general and administrative expenses, corporate interest income, corporate interest and depreciation expense, provision (benefit) for income taxes, warrant liability gain (loss), the reduction in tax indemnity receivable, equity in earnings from Real Estate Affiliates, Investment in Real Estate Affiliate basis adjustment and reorganization items. We present REP EBT because we use this measure, among others, internally to assess the core operating performance of our assets. We also present this measure because we believe certain investors use it as a measure of a company's historical operating performance and its ability to service and incur debt. We believe that the inclusion of certain adjustments to net income (loss) to calculate REP EBT is appropriate to provide additional information to investors.

Segment operating results are as follows:

 
  Year Ended December 31,  
 
  2012   2011   2010  
 
  Segment
Basis
  Consolidated
Properties
  Real Estate
Affiliates
  Segment
Basis
  Consolidated
Properties
  Real Estate
Affiliates
  Segment
Basis
 
 
  (In thousands)
 

Master Planned Communities

                                           

Land sales

  $ 182,643   $ 114,610   $ 46,773   $ 161,383   $ 38,058   $ 90,986   $ 129,044  

Builder price participation

    5,747     3,816     1,108     4,924     4,124     2,777     6,901  

Minimum rents

    576     659     14     673     —       27     27  

Other land revenues

    18,073     13,133     3,924     17,057     6,332     8,827     15,159  
                               

Total revenues

    207,039     132,218     51,819     184,037     48,514     102,617     151,131  
                               

Cost of sales – land

    89,298     70,108     23,932     94,040     23,388     49,745     73,133  

Land sales operations

    32,817     24,533     7,432     31,965     17,153     20,829     37,982  

Land sales real estate and business taxes

    7,558     7,713     1,906     9,619     12,699     —       12,699  

Other property operating costs

    —       —       —       —       (1 )   —       (1 )

Provisions for impairment

    —       —       —       —       405,331     —       405,331  

Depreciation and amortization

    72     2     46     48     17     111     128  

Interest income

    (45 )   (144 )   (364 )   (508 )   —       (824 )   (824 )

Interest expense (*)

    (14,598 )   (11,920 )   2,132     (9,788 )   (14,127 )   7,857     (6,270 )
                               

Total expenses

    115,102     90,292     35,084     125,376     444,460     77,718     522,178  
                               

Venture partner share of The Woodlands EBT

    —       —       (7,949 )   (7,949 )   —       (11,827 )   (11,827 )
                               

MPC EBT

    91,937     41,926     8,786     50,712     (395,946 )   13,072     (382,874 )
                               

Operating Assets

                                           

Minimum rents

    81,140     69,602     2,803     72,405     65,911     4,026     69,937  

Tenant recoveries

    23,210     19,193     1,061     20,254     18,220     1,484     19,704  

Resort and conference center revenues

    39,782     15,744     19,106     34,850     —       28,850     28,850  

Other rental and property revenues

    20,959     14,072     6,992     21,064     7,390     14,613     22,003  
                               

Total revenues

    165,091     118,611     29,962     148,573     91,521     48,973     140,494  
                               

Rental property real estate taxes

    11,292     9,666     972     10,638     9,962     2,185     12,147  

Rental property maintenance costs

    8,073     6,405     517     6,922     5,811     1,063     6,874  

Resort and conference center operations

    29,112     13,220     13,904     27,124     —       24,471     24,471  

Other property operating costs

    60,072     46,522     9,223     55,745     30,717     17,316     48,033  

Provision for (recovery of) doubtful accounts

    1,335     (98 )   (9 )   (107 )   1,607     154     1,761  

Provisions for impairment

    —       —       —       —       80,924     —       80,924  

Depreciation and amortization

    23,318     16,341     3,968     20,309     16,313     7,148     23,461  

Interest income

    (185 )   (125 )   (2 )   (127 )   (170 )   2     (168 )

Interest expense

    16,289     10,586     2,316     12,902     16,515     836     17,351  

Early extinguishment of debt

    —       11,305     —       11,305     —       —       —    

Equity in Earnings from Real Estate Affiliates

    (3,683 )   —       (3,926 )   (3,926 )   —       338     338  
                               

Total expenses

    145,623     113,822     26,963     140,785     161,679     53,513     215,192  
                               

Venture partner share of The Woodlands EBT

    —       —       425     425     —       2,157     2,157  
                               

Operating Assets EBT

    19,468     4,789     3,424     8,213     (70,158 )   (2,383 )   (72,541 )
                               

Strategic Developments

                                           

Minimum rents

    905     917     —       917     1,015     —       1,015  

Tenant recoveries

    141     130     —       130     347     —       347  

Condominium unit sales

    267     22,067     —       22,067     1,139     —       1,139  

Other rental and property revenues

    3,443     1,746     —       1,746     182     —       182  
                               

Total revenues

    4,756     24,860     —       24,860     2,683     —       2,683  
                               

Condominium unit cost of sales

    96     14,465     —       14,465     1,000     —       1,000  

Condominium sales operations

    131     1,401     —       1,401     252     —       252  

Real estate taxes

    2,351     604     —       604     3,756     —       3,756  

Rental property maintenance costs

    582     671     —       671     684     —       684  

Other property operating costs

    2,963     4,027     —       4,027     5,925     —       5,925  

Provision for (recovery of) doubtful accounts

    (111 )   (137 )   —       (137 )   175     —       175  

Provisions for impairment

    —       —       —       —       17,101     —       17,101  

Depreciation and amortization

    225     234     —       234     212     —       212  

Interest expense

    219     323     —       323     34     —       34  
                               

Total expenses

    6,456     21,588     —       21,588     29,139     —       29,139  
                               

Strategic Developments EBT

    (1,700 )   3,272     —       3,272     (26,456 )   —       (26,456 )
                               

EBT

  $ 109,705   $ 49,987   $ 12,210   $ 62,197   $ (492,560 ) $ 10,689   $ (481,871 )
                               

(*)
Negative interest expense amounts relate to interest capitalized on debt assigned to our Operating Assets Segment for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2011.

The following reconciles REP EBT to GAAP-basis income (loss):

Reconciliation of REP EBT to GAAP-net income (loss)
  Year Ended December 31,  
 
  2012   2011   2010  
 
  (In thousands)
 

Real Estate Property EBT:

                   

Segment basis

  $ 109,705   $ 62,197   $ (481,871 )

Real Estate Affiliates

    (3,683 )   (12,210 )   (10,689 )
               

Segment EBT

    106,022     49,987     (492,560 )

General and administrative

    (34,423 )   (32,342 )   (21,538 )

Corporate interest income, net

    10,153     8,595     199  

Warrant liability gain (loss)

    (185,017 )   101,584     (140,900 )

Benefit (provision) for income taxes

    (6,887 )   18,325     633,459  

Reduction in tax indemnity receivable

    (20,260 )   —       —    

Equity in earnings from Real Estate Affiliates

    3,683     8,578     9,413  

Investment in Real Estate Affiliate basis adjustment

    —       (6,053 )   —    

Reorganization items

    —       —       (57,282 )

Corporate depreciation

    (814 )   (204 )   (21 )
               

Net income (loss)

  $ (127,543 ) $ 148,470   $ (69,230 )
               

The following reconciles segment revenues to GAAP-basis consolidated and combined revenues:

Reconciliation of Segment Basis Revenues to GAAP Revenues
  Year Ended December 31,  
 
  2012   2011   2010  
 
  (In thousands)
 

Master Planned Communities – Total Segment

  $ 207,039   $ 184,037   $ 151,131  

Operating Assets – Total Segment

    165,091     148,573     140,494  

Strategic Developments – Total Segment

    4,756     24,860     2,683  
               

Total Segment revenues

    376,886     357,470     294,308  

Less: The Woodlands Partnerships revenues

    —       (81,781 )   (151,590 )
               

Total revenues – GAAP basis

  $ 376,886   $ 275,689   $ 142,718  
               

The assets by segment and the reconciliation of total segment assets to the total assets in the combined financial statements at December 31, 2012 and 2011 are summarized as follows:

 
  Year Ended December 31,  
 
  2012   2011   2010  
 
  (In thousands)
 

Master Planned Communities

  $ 1,756,625   $ 1,780,596   $ 1,765,487  

Operating Assets

    944,562     871,549     812,646  

Strategic Developments

    288,287     189,807     206,037  
               

Total segment assets

    2,989,474     2,841,952     2,784,170  

Corporate and other

    513,568     557,641     730,741  

Real Estate Affiliates

    —       —       (492,204 )
               

Total assets

  $ 3,503,042   $ 3,399,593   $ 3,022,707  
               

The increase in the 2012 Strategic Development segment's asset balance of $98.5 million as compared to 2011, is primarily due to approximately $60.0 million of costs incurred related to our Woodlands development projects (approximately $18.0 million of these costs are due to a reclassification of land from our Master Planned Communities Segment) and the collection of approximately $19.6 million of pre-sale condominium deposits from our ONE Ala Moana project. The balance of the increase is due to costs incurred related to our other development projects.