PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT - NET

Property and equipment - net consist of:



(In thousands)	February 2, 2019		February 3, 2018
Land and land improvements	$	61,200	$	60,416
Buildings and leasehold improvements	1,078,142		881,077
Fixtures and equipment	784,170		772,711
Computer software costs	179,071		172,539
Construction-in-progress	78,580		35,084
Property and equipment - cost	2,181,163		1,921,827
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization	1,358,825		1,355,850
Property and equipment - net	$	822,338	$	565,977

Property and equipment - cost includes $29.5 million and $28.6 million at February 2, 2019 and February 3, 2018, respectively, to recognize assets from capital leases. Accumulated depreciation and amortization includes $17.9 million and $13.2 million at February 2, 2019 and February 3, 2018, respectively, related to capital leases. Additionally, we had $144.5 million and $15.6 million in assets from a synthetic lease for our distribution center in Apple Valley, California at February 2, 2019 and February 3, 2018, respectively.

During 2018, 2017, and 2016, respectively, we invested $232.4 million, $142.7 million, and $89.8 million of cash in capital expenditures and we recorded $125.0 million, $117.1 million, and $120.5 million of depreciation expense.

We incurred $0.1 million, $0.0 million, and $0.1 million in asset impairment charges in 2018, 2017, and 2016, respectively. During 2018, we wrote down the value of an asset held for sale. In 2018 and 2017, we did not impair the value of long-lived assets at any stores as a result of our annual store impairment review. In 2016, we wrote down the value of long-lived assets at one store identified as part of our annual store impairment review.

Asset impairment charges are included in selling and administrative expenses in our accompanying consolidated statements of operations. We perform annual impairment reviews of our long-lived assets at the store level. When we perform the annual impairment reviews, we first determine which stores had impairment indicators present. We generally use actual historical cash flows to determine if stores had negative cash flows within the past two years. For each store with negative cash flows, we estimate future cash flows based on operating performance estimates specific to each store’s operations that are based on assumptions currently being used to develop our company level operating plans. If the net book value of a store’s long-lived assets is not recoverable by the expected future cash flows of the store, we estimate the fair value of the store’s assets and recognize an impairment charge for the excess net book value of the store’s long-lived assets over their fair value.