-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, UkJF+gj/3Jno5RIPEOrqbrj196opf7bdNIwZ3YPZAL/XtEMunIH0FDQDYVpXGVeX VPwgd+C2tVVyahsmCskYMg== 0000000000-05-028530.txt : 20060809 0000000000-05-028530.hdr.sgml : 20060809 20050608115230 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-05-028530 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20050608 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ARLINGTON HOSPITALITY INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000778423 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: HOTELS & MOTELS [7011] IRS NUMBER: 363312434 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2355 SOUTH ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ROAD STREET 2: SUITE 400 CITY: ARLINGTON HEIGHTS STATE: IL ZIP: 60005 BUSINESS PHONE: 8472285400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2355 SOUTH ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ROAD STREET 2: SUITE 400 CITY: ARLINGTON HEIGHTS STATE: IL ZIP: 60005 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: AMERIHOST PROPERTIES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: AMERICA POP INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19871111 LETTER 1 filename1.txt Mail Stop 4561 June 8, 2005 Mr. James B. Dale Chief Financial Officer Arlington Hospitality, Inc. 2355 South Arlington Heights Road, Suite 400 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005 Re: Arlington Hospitality, Inc. Form10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 Filed March 31, 2005 File No. 0-15291 Dear Mr. Dale: We have reviewed your response letter dated May 27, 2005 and have the following additional comments. In our comments, we ask you to provide us with supplemental information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or on any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. Note 12 Sale of Hotels and Plan for Future Hotel Dispositions, page F-29 1. We note your response to our previous comment number one. If the basis for reporting the proceeds from the sale of these hotels gross is because you are developing and constructing the hotels for sale, explain why you are not reporting hotels under development as a separate line item on your balance sheet. In addition, your impairment policy should be revised to address how you assess and recognize impairment for properties under development. Refer to paragraphs B122 and B123 of SFAS 144. Further, explain why the sales of AmeriHost Inn hotels are not accounted for as discontinued operations under SFAS 144. Refer to the guidelines of EITF 03-13 in your response and also address whether these hotels produce cash flows to you through their operations prior to their sale. If you are operating these hotels prior to their sale and they are providing operating cash flows, explain why you believe these hotels should be classified as hotels under development and correspondingly why the proceeds from their sales should be reported as revenues rather than net as gain or loss on sale. 2. In your response to our previous comment number two you state "this obligation was contingent since the Company had the option to pay higher rent rather than pay PMC the Assigned Value shortfall, if any, upon the sale of a hotel pursuant to this amendment." Tell us if you paid higher rent during this period. Note 14 - Commitments, Contingencies and Other Matters, page F-33: 3. We note your response to our previous comments four through six. Please provide us with a schedule showing your accounting for the conversion of the 17 hotels from an operating lease to a capital lease. Specifically, show the amount of the loss recognized in the reduction in fair market value that was considered in the recordation of the capital leases. Please provide the balance sheet activity and statement of operations activity by line item for this transaction and the subsequent activity in these accounts for 2004, including the Arlington Fee and Proceeds Deficit Notes. Please respond to the comments included in this letter within ten business days. If you have any questions, you may contact Thomas Flinn, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3469 or the undersigned at (202) 551-3498 if you have questions. Sincerely, Linda Van Doorn Senior Assistant Chief Accountant Mr. James B. Dale Arlington Hospitality, Inc. June 8, 2005 Page 1 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----