Share Incentive and Other Compensation

Share Incentive Plan

The Second Amended and Restated 2006 Incentive Plan (the “Share Incentive Plan”) authorizes the Company to issue options, Restricted Shares, LTIP Units and other securities (collectively “Awards”) to, among others, the Company’s officers, trustees and employees. At June 30, 2018 a total of 1,185,947 shares remained available to be issued under the Share Incentive Plan.

Restricted Shares and LTIP Units

During the six months ended June 30, 2018, the Company issued 381,821 LTIP Units and 5,768 Restricted Share Units to employees of the Company pursuant to the Share Incentive Plan. These awards were measured at their fair value on the grant date, based on a valuation provided by an independent third-party appraiser incorporating the following factors:


•	A portion of these annual equity award is granted in performance-based Restricted Share Units or LTIP Units that may be earned based on the Company’s attainment of specified relative total shareholder returns (“Relative TSR”) hurdles.

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In the event the Relative TSR percentile falls between the 25th percentile and the 50th percentile, Relative TSR vesting percentage is determined using a straight line linear interpolation between 50% and 100% and in the event that the Relative TSR percentile falls between the 50th percentile and 75th percentile, the Relative TSR vesting percentage is determined using a straight line linear interpolation between 100% and 200%.

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Two-thirds (2/3) of the performance-based LTIP Units will vest based on the Company’s total shareholder return (“TSR”) for the three-year forward-looking performance period ending December 31, 2020 relative to the constituents of the SNL U.S. REIT Retail Shopping Center Index and one-third (1/3) on the Company’s TSR for the three-year forward-looking performance period as compared to the constituents of the SNL U.S. REIT Retail Index (both on a non-weighted basis).


•	If the Company’s performance fails to achieve the aforementioned hurdles at the culmination of the three-year performance period, all performance-based shares will be forfeited. Any earned performance-based shares vest 60% at the end of the performance period, with the remaining 40% of shares vesting ratably over the next two years.

The total value of the above Restricted Share Units and LTIP Units as of the grant date was $10.6 million. Total long-term incentive compensation expense, including the expense related to the Share Incentive Plan, was $2.1 million and $2.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively and $4.3 million and $4.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively and is recorded in General and Administrative on the Consolidated Statements of Income.

In addition, members of the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) have been issued shares and units under the Share Incentive Plan. During 2018, the Company issued 17,427 LTIP Units and 17,050 Restricted Shares to Trustees of the Company in connection with Trustee fees. Vesting with respect to 8,949 of the LTIP Units and 5,181 of the Restricted Shares will be on the first anniversary of the date of issuance and 8,478 of the LTIP Units and 11,869 of the Restricted Shares vest over three years with 33% vesting on each of the next three anniversaries of the issuance date. The Restricted Shares do not carry voting rights or other rights of Common Shares until vesting and may not be transferred, assigned or pledged until the recipients have a vested non-forfeitable right to such shares. Dividends are not paid currently on unvested Restricted Shares, but are paid cumulatively from the issuance date through the applicable vesting date of such Restricted Shares. Total trustee fee expense, including the expense related to the Share Incentive Plan, was $0.6 million for each of the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017.

In 2009, the Company adopted the Long Term Investment Alignment Program (the “Program”) pursuant to which the Company may grant awards to employees, entitling them to receive up to 25% of any potential future payments of Promote to the Operating Partnership from Funds III and IV. The Company has granted such awards to employees representing 25% of the potential Promote payments from Fund III to the Operating Partnership and 22.8% of the potential Promote payments from Fund IV to the Operating Partnership. Payments to senior executives under the Program require further Board approval at the time any potential payments are due pursuant to these grants. Compensation relating to these awards will be recognized in each reporting period in which Board approval is granted.

As payments to other employees are not subject to further Board approval, compensation relating to these awards will be recorded based on the estimated fair value at each reporting period in accordance with ASC Topic 718, Compensation– Stock Compensation. The awards in connection with Fund IV were determined to have no intrinsic value as of June 30, 2018.

Compensation expense of $0 million and $0.4 million was recognized for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, related to the Program in connection with Fund III.

A summary of the status of the Company’s unvested Restricted Shares and LTIP Units is presented below:



Unvested Restricted Shares and LTIP Units	Common Restricted Shares		Weighted Grant-Date Fair Value		LTIP Units		Weighted Grant-Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2017	46,499		$	27.58	856,877		$	26.99
Granted	19,442		29.85		310,551		31.80
Vested	(23,430	)	30.47		(257,124	)	28.27
Forfeited	(1,184	)	32.65		(205	)	32.49
Unvested at December 31, 2017	41,327		26.92		910,099		28.28
Granted	22,818		23.65		399,248		27.06
Vested	(25,261	)	30.79		(303,066	)	30.04
Forfeited	(47	)	35.37		—		—
Unvested at June 30, 2018	38,837		$	22.47	1,006,281		$	27.27

The weighted-average grant date fair value for Restricted Shares and LTIP Units granted for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and the year ended December 31, 2017 were $26.88 and $31.69, respectively. As of June 30, 2018, there was $19.6 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested share-based compensation arrangements granted under the Share Incentive Plan. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.8 years. The total fair value of Restricted Shares that vested for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and the year ended December 31, 2017, was $0.8 million and $0.7 million, respectively. The total fair value of LTIP Units that vested during the six months ended June 30, 2018 and the year ended December 31, 2017, was $9.1 million and $7.3 million, respectively.

Other Plans

On a combined basis, the Company incurred a total of $0.2 million related to the following employee benefit plans for each of the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017:

Employee Share Purchase Plan

The Acadia Realty Trust Employee Share Purchase Plan (the “Purchase Plan”), allows eligible employees of the Company to purchase Common Shares through payroll deductions. The Purchase Plan provides for employees to purchase Common Shares on a quarterly basis at a 15% discount to the closing price of the Company’s Common Shares on either the first day or the last day of the quarter, whichever is lower. A participant may not purchase more the $25,000 in Common Shares per year. Compensation expense will be recognized by the Company to the extent of the above discount to the closing price of the Common Shares with respect to the applicable quarter. A total of 2,174 and 2,407 Common Shares were purchased by employees under the Purchase Plan for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

Deferred Share Plan

During 2006, the Company adopted a Trustee Deferral and Distribution Election, under which the participating Trustees earn deferred compensation.

Employee 401(k) Plan

The Company maintains a 401(k) plan for employees under which the Company currently matches 50% of a plan participant’s contribution up to 6% of the employee’s annual salary. A plan participant may contribute up to a maximum of 15% of their compensation, up to $18,500, for the year ending December 31, 2018.