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BASIS OF PRESENTATION
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
BASIS OF PRESENTATION  
BASIS OF PRESENTATION

NOTE 1 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION

General Business Plan

Trinity Place Holdings Inc. (“Trinity,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is a real estate holding, investment, development and asset management company. Our largest asset is currently a property located at 77 Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan (“77 Greenwich”). 77 Greenwich was a vacant building that was demolished and is under development as a mixed-use project consisting of a 90 unit residential condominium tower, retail space and a New York City elementary school. We also own a newly built 105‑unit, 12‑story multi-famisly property in Brooklyn, New York (“237 11th”), acquired in May 2018, and, through joint ventures, a 50% interest in a newly built 95‑unit multi-family property known as The Berkley, and a 10% interest in a 234-unit multi-family property located one block from the Berkley at 250 North 10th Street ("250 North 10th Street") acquired in January 2020, also in Brooklyn, New York. In addition we own a property occupied by a retail tenant in Paramus, New Jersey.

We also control a variety of intellectual property assets focused on the consumer sector, a legacy of our predecessor, Syms Corp. (“Syms”), including our on-line marketplace at FilenesBasement.com, our rights to the Stanley Blacker® brand, as well as the intellectual property associated with the Running of the Brides® event and An Educated Consumer is Our Best Customer® slogan. In addition, we had approximately $241.5 million of federal net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) at December 31, 2019, which can be used to reduce our future taxable income and capital gains.

Trinity is the successor to Syms, which also owned Filene’s Basement. Syms and its subsidiaries filed for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code in 2011. In September 2012, the Syms Plan of Reorganization (the “Plan”) became effective and Syms and its subsidiaries consummated their reorganization under Chapter 11 through a series of transactions contemplated by the Plan and emerged from bankruptcy. As part of those transactions, reorganized Syms merged with and into Trinity, with Trinity as the surviving corporation. We completed our final payment and reserve obligations under the Plan in March 2016.

On January 18, 2018, Syms and certain of its subsidiaries (together, the “Reorganized Debtors”) filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”) a motion (the “Motion”) for entry of a final decree (the “Final Decree”) (i) closing the chapter 11 cases of the Reorganized Debtors; (ii) terminating the services of the claims and noticing agent; and (iii) retaining the Bankruptcy Court’s jurisdiction as provided for in the Plan, including to enforce or interpret its own orders pertaining to the chapter 11 cases including, but not limited to, the Plan and Final Decree. On the same date, the Reorganized Debtors filed a Final Report in support of the Motion. On February 6, 2018, the Bankruptcy Court entered the Final Decree pursuant to which the chapter 11 cases of the Reorganized Debtors were closed.