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Investments in and Advances to Joint Ventures |
The Company’s equity method joint ventures are included in Investments in and Advances to Joint Ventures in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. Joint ventures terminated in 2020 are discussed below. The Company’s joint ventures as of December 31, 2020 are as follows:
Condensed combined financial information of the Company’s unconsolidated joint venture investments is as follows (in thousands):
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on revenues and receivables for the Company’s joint ventures is more fully described in Note 2. Revenues earned by the Company related to all of the Company’s unconsolidated joint ventures and interest income on its preferred interests in the BRE DDR Joint Ventures are as follows (in millions):
The Company’s joint venture agreements generally include provisions whereby each partner has the right to trigger a purchase or sale of its interest in the joint venture or to initiate a purchase or sale of the properties after a certain number of years or if either party is in default of the joint venture agreements. The Company is not obligated to purchase the interests of its outside joint venture partners under these provisions. BRE DDR Joint Ventures The Company’s two unconsolidated joint ventures with Blackstone, namely BRE DDR III and BRE DDR IV, had substantially similar terms. An affiliate of Blackstone was the managing member and effectively owned 95% of the common equity of each of the two BRE DDR Joint Ventures, and consolidated affiliates of SITE Centers effectively owned the remaining 5%, as well as a preferred interest in both joint ventures. The Company provided leasing and property management services to all of the joint venture properties. The Company’s preferred interests were entitled to certain preferential cumulative distributions payable out of operating cash flows and certain capital proceeds pursuant to the terms and conditions of the preferred investments. The preferred investments had an annual distribution rate of 8.5% including any deferred and unpaid preferred distributions. Blackstone had the right to defer up to 2.0% of the 8.5% preferred fixed distributions as a payment in kind (“PIK”) distribution. Blackstone had made this PIK deferral election since the formation of both joint ventures. The preferred interest distributions were recognized as Interest Income within the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and were classified as a note receivable in Investments in and Advances to Joint Ventures on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. As a result of the valuation allowances recorded, as disclosed below, the Company did not recognize as interest income the 2.0% PIK. The unpaid preferred investment (and any accrued distributions) were paid as part of the termination of the joint ventures (see below). Aggregate valuation allowance adjustments related to the preferred interests were recorded of $19.4 million, $15.5 million and $11.4 million, for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Adjustments to the valuation allowance were recorded as Reserve of Preferred Equity Interests on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. The Company reassessed the aggregate valuation allowance quarterly based upon actual timing and values of recent property sales, as well as then-current market assumptions. The managing member of the two joint ventures exercised significant influence over the timing of asset sales. As a result, valuation allowances were established to reflect the risk that the securities would not be repaid in full. The valuation techniques used to value the collateral included discounted cash flow analysis on the expected cash flows of each asset, as well as the income capitalization approach, which considered prevailing market capitalization rates, analysis of recent comparable sales transactions, actual sales negotiations and bona fide purchase offers received from third parties, prior to the transaction consummated with Blackstone. In addition, for the aggregate valuation allowance recorded as of September 30, 2020, the valuation assumed the entire estimated transaction consideration discussed below, as appropriate, given the closings of the transactions were considered probable as of that date. On October 15, 2020, an affiliate of Blackstone transferred its common equity interest in BRE DDR IV to the Company for consideration of $1.00 and the Company’s preferred investment in the BRE DDR IV joint venture was redeemed, thereby leaving the Company as the sole owner of (i) the properties previously owned by BRE DDR IV, including Ashbridge Square, The Hub, Southmont Plaza, Millenia Crossing, Concourse Village and two properties, Echelon Village Plaza and Larkin’s Corner, in which the Company did not previously have a material economic interest, and (ii) $5.4 million in net cash. These seven properties had an estimated gross aggregate fair value of $192.5 million. The Company acquired these seven properties subject to existing mortgage loans which had an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $146.6 million as of October 15, 2020 (Note 5).
On November 20, 2020, the Company transferred its common and preferred equity interests in BRE DDR III to an affiliate of Blackstone in exchange for BRE DDR III’s interests in the single-purpose subsidiaries which owned White Oak Village and Midtowne Park and $4.9 million in net cash. These two properties had an estimated gross aggregate fair value of $79.8 million and are subject to existing mortgage loans, which had an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $50.0 million as of November 20, 2020 (Note 5).
In connection with estimating the fair value of the net assets received for both transactions, the fair value of each property was estimated, and the aggregate gross fair value of the properties received was estimated to be $272.3 million. The valuation technique used to value the properties was a discounted cash flow analysis for each property. The discounted cash flow analyses used to estimate the fair value of properties received involves significant estimates and assumptions, including discount rates, exit capitalization rates and certain market leasing assumptions. Disposition of Shopping Centers and Joint Venture Interests In February 2020, the Company sold its 15% interest in the DDRTC Joint Venture to its partner, an affiliate of TIAA-CREF, which resulted in net proceeds to the Company of $140.4 million. The Company recorded a Gain on Sale of Joint Venture Interests of $45.6 million in connection with this sale. In addition, in the fourth quarter of 2020, the Company transferred and redeemed its common and preferred equity interests in the BRE DDR Joint Ventures in exchange for the acquisition of certain of the underlying assets resulting in a Loss on Sale of Joint Venture Interests of $0.2 million. Excluding the DDRTC Joint Venture and the BRE DDR Joint Ventures assets noted above, the Company’s joint ventures sold two, six and 40 shopping centers and land for an aggregate sales price of $27.7 million, $356.3 million and $786.5 million, respectively, of which the Company’s share of the gain on sale was $1.8 million, $4.2 million and $13.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Included in the 2018 shopping center dispositions were three assets sold to the Company by two of its unconsolidated joint ventures for $35.1 million. |