Real Estate Joint Ventures

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

Consolidated Real Estate Joint Ventures

The table below sets forth information pertaining to our investments in consolidated real estate joint ventures as of September 30, 2020 (dollars in thousands):


				September 30, 2020 (1)
	Date Acquired	Nominal Ownership %		Total Assets		Encumbered Assets		Total Liabilities
Entity			Location
LW Redstone Company, LLC	3/23/2010	85%	Huntsville, Alabama	$	371,537	$	110,972	$	104,204
Stevens Investors, LLC	8/11/2015	95%	Washington, DC	153,869		152,972		81,134
M Square Associates, LLC	6/26/2007	50%	College Park, Maryland	98,322		62,628		56,167
				$	623,728	$	326,572	$	241,505

(1)Excludes amounts eliminated in consolidation.

In March 2020, the LW Redstone Company, LLC joint venture agreement was amended to change the distribution terms to allow the venture to distribute financing proceeds to satisfy our partner’s cumulative preferred return and to provide our partner a priority preferred return on its invested capital.

Unconsolidated Real Estate Joint Ventures

The table below sets forth information pertaining to our investments in unconsolidated real estate joint ventures accounted for using the equity method of accounting (dollars in thousands):


	Date Acquired	Nominal Ownership %	Number of Properties	Carrying Value of Investment (1)
Entity				September 30, 2020		December 31, 2019
GI-COPT DC Partnership LLC	7/21/2016	50%	6	$	36,135	$	37,816
BREIT COPT DC JV LLC	6/20/2019	10%	9	13,527		14,133
			15	$	49,662	$	51,949

(1)Included in the line entitled “investment in unconsolidated real estate joint ventures” on our consolidated balance sheets.

In May 2020, the GI-COPT DC Partnership LLC joint venture agreement was amended to reflect our agreement to initially fund the costs of expanding certain of the joint venture’s existing operating properties. Following our completion of, and the tenant’s commencement of rent payments on, the property expansion, the joint venture will reimburse us for the lesser of the actual development costs of the expansion or $6 million using proceeds from proportional capital contributions by us and our partner.