Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
You should read the following discussion in conjunction with the sections of this Annual Report on Form 10-K entitled “Risk Factors”, “Forward-Looking Statements”, “Business” and our audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements reflecting current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially
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from those contained in these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Overview
We acquire, own and operate industrial real estate in six major coastal U.S. markets: Los Angeles, Northern New Jersey/New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Miami, and Washington, D.C. We invest in several types of industrial real estate, including warehouse/distribution buildings (approximately 82.0% of our total annualized base rent as of December 31, 2020), flex buildings (including light industrial and R&D) (approximately 5.0%), transshipment buildings (approximately 5.3%) and improved land parcels (approximately 7.7%). We target functional properties in infill locations that may be shared by multiple tenants and that cater to customer demand within the various submarkets in which we operate. Infill locations are geographic locations surrounded by high concentrations of already developed land and existing buildings. As of December 31, 2020, we owned a total of 222 buildings aggregating approximately 13.2 million square feet, 25 improved land parcels consisting of approximately 91.5 acres and one property under redevelopment expected to contain approximately 0.2 million square feet upon completion. As of December 31, 2020, our buildings and improved land parcels were approximately 97.8% and 98.6% leased, respectively, to 488 customers, the largest of which accounted for approximately 5.4% of our total annualized base rent. We are an internally managed Maryland corporation and elected to be taxed as a REIT under Sections 856 through 860 of the Code, commencing with our taxable year ended December 31, 2010.
Our Investment Strategy
We acquire, own and operate industrial real estate in six major coastal U.S. markets: Los Angeles, Northern New Jersey/New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Miami, and Washington, D.C. We invest in several types of industrial real estate, including warehouse/distribution, flex (including light industrial and R&D), transshipment and improved land. We target functional properties in infill locations that may be shared by multiple tenants and that cater to customer demand within the various submarkets in which we operate.
We selected our target markets by drawing upon the experience of our executive management investing and operating in over 50 global industrial markets located in North America, Europe and Asia, the fundamentals of supply and demand, and in anticipation of trends in logistics patterns resulting from population changes, regulatory and physical constraints, changes in technology, e-commerce, the economic and environmental benefits of reducing vehicle miles traveled and other factors. We believe that our target markets have attractive long term investment attributes. We target assets with characteristics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
•Located in high population coastal markets;
•Close proximity to transportation infrastructure (such as sea ports, airports, highways and railways);
•Situated in supply-constrained submarkets with barriers to new industrial development, as a result of physical and/or regulatory constraints;
•Functional and flexible layout that can be modified to accommodate single and multiple tenants;
•Acquisition price at a discount to the replacement cost of the property;
•Potential for enhanced return through re-tenanting or operational and physical improvements; and
•Opportunity for higher and better use of the property over time.
In general, we prefer to utilize local third-party property managers for day-to-day property management and as a source of acquisition opportunities. We believe outsourcing property management is cost effective and provides us with operational flexibility. We may directly manage properties in the future if we determine such direct property management is in our best interest.
We have no current intention to acquire undeveloped or unimproved industrial land or to pursue greenfield ground up development. Nevertheless, we pursue redevelopment, renovation and expansion opportunities of properties that we own, acquire properties and improved land parcels with the intent to redevelop in the near-term, and acquire adjacent land to expand our existing facilities.
We expect that we will continue to acquire the significant majority of our investments as equity interests in individual properties or portfolios of properties. We may acquire industrial properties through the acquisition of other corporations or entities that own industrial real estate. We will opportunistically make investments in debt secured by industrial real estate that would otherwise meet our investment criteria with the intention of ultimately acquiring the underlying real estate. We currently do not intend to target specific percentages of holdings of particular types of industrial properties. This expectation is based upon prevailing market conditions and may change over time in response to different prevailing market conditions.
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The properties we acquire may be stabilized (fully leased) or unstabilized (have near term lease expirations, be partially or fully vacant and may require physical repositioning).
We sell properties from time to time when we believe the prospective total return from a property is particularly low relative to its market value and/or the market value of the property is significantly greater than its estimated replacement cost. Capital from such sales is reinvested into properties that are expected to provide better prospective returns or returned to shareholders. We have disposed of 23 properties since inception in 2010 for an aggregate sales price of approximately $364.7 million and a total gain of approximately $119.9 million.
2020 Developments
COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic, and mitigation measures put in place by governments to slow it, have caused significant economic disruption. We are headquartered in San Francisco and our employees have been working remotely in accordance with recommendations by the City of San Francisco since March 2020. We utilize local, third-party property managers, and they are generally working remotely, as recommended by their municipalities. We have business continuity and communication plans that have allowed, and we believe, although there can be no assurance, will continue to allow us to operate and manage our portfolio effectively during such disruptions. We expect that we will, for the intermediate term, employ lower density work arrangements consistent with social distancing and our business continuity plan.
While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business is not possible to predict accurately, we continue to work
with our customers who have been forced to close or otherwise limit operations or whose businesses have been adversely impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic to, on a case-by-case basis, provide rent deferments. Through February 8, 2021, we have granted rent deferrals to 62 tenants aggregating approximately 2.8% of annualized base rent. No rent abatements were granted. For the 62 rent deferrals granted:
•17 tenants aggregating 0.3% of annualized base rent (11.0% of total deferrals) have completed their rent deferral period and have fully repaid the deferral amounts;
•31 tenants aggregating 2.1% of annualized base rent (73.6% of total deferrals) have not completed their rent deferral repayment period and are fulfilling the terms of their deferral agreements; and
•14 tenants aggregating 0.4% of annualized base rent (15.4% of total deferrals) have defaulted on their rent deferral repayments.
The acquisition and disposition markets slowed in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic as market participants searched for price discovery. While transaction markets have returned to more normal volumes, our acquisition volume will remain dependent on both the quality and pricing of the opportunity set and the price of our stock relative to net asset value per share. We believe, although there can be no assurance, that our balance sheet is well positioned to make opportunistic acquisitions as we have only $11.3 million of debt maturities expiring in 2021 and no balance outstanding on our $250 million revolving credit facility. In addition, we had a cash balance of approximately $107.2 million as of December 31, 2020. See “Item 1A - Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional discussion regarding the risks to which we are and may be subject as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Acquisition Activity
During 2020, we acquired six industrial buildings containing approximately 0.2 million square feet and five improved land parcels containing approximately 12.0 acres for a total purchase price of approximately $96.7 million. The buildings and improved land parcels were acquired from unrelated third parties using existing cash on hand, net proceeds from dispositions and net proceeds from the issuance of common stock. The following table sets forth the industrial buildings and improved land parcels we acquired during 2020:
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Maple Street 6 Rancho Dominguez, CA December 5, 2020 — — 9,750 5.7 %
1The total aggregate initial investment was approximately $100.4 million, including $1.7 million in closing costs and acquisition costs. Additionally, we assumed $2.1 million in intangible liabilities.
2Stabilized capitalization rates, referred to herein as stabilized cap rates, are calculated, at the time of acquisition, as annualized cash basis net operating income for the property stabilized to market occupancy (generally 95%) divided by the total acquisition cost for the property. Total acquisition cost basis for the property includes the initial purchase price, the effects of marking assumed debt to market, buyer’s due diligence and closing costs, estimated near-term capital expenditures and leasing costs necessary to achieve stabilization. We define cash basis net operating income for the property as net operating income excluding straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles. These stabilized cap rates are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions and are not guarantees of future performance, which may be affected by known and unknown risks, trends, uncertainties, and factors that are beyond our control, including risks related to our ability to meet our estimated forecasts related to stabilized cap rates and those risk factors contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
3An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.7 acres.
4An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.8 acres.
5An improved land parcel containing approximately 1.9 acres.
6An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.5 acres.
7An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.1 acres.
Redevelopment Activity
As of December 31, 2020, we owned one property under redevelopment that will contain approximately 0.2 million square feet upon completion with a total expected investment of approximately $64.1 million, including redevelopment costs, capitalized interest and other costs of approximately $61.4 million as follows:
1Total expected investment for the property includes the initial purchase price, buyer’s due diligence and closing costs, estimated near-term redevelopment expenditures, capitalized interest and leasing costs necessary to achieve stabilization.
2Estimated stabilized cap rates are calculated as annualized cash basis net operating income for the property stabilized to market occupancy (generally 95%) divided by the total acquisition cost for the property. We define cash basis net operating income for the property as net operating income excluding straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles. These estimated stabilized cap rates are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions and are not guarantees of future performance, which may be affected by known and unknown risks, trends, uncertainties, and factors that are beyond our control, including risks related to our ability to meet our estimated forecasts related to stabilized cap rates and those risk factors contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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During the year ended December 31, 2020, we completed redevelopment of our Kent 192 property in Kent, Washington and 6th Avenue South property in Seattle, Washington, with estimated stabilized cap rates of 5.0% and 5.1%, respectively. The total aggregate investment was approximately $49.8 million consisting of approximately 0.3 million square feet.
Disposition Activity
During the year ended December 31, 2020, we sold three properties located in the Washington, D.C. market for a total aggregate sales price of approximately $51.3 million, resulting in a gain of approximately $17.8 million, and one property located in the Miami market for a sales price of approximately $22.2 million, resulting in a gain of approximately $9.0 million.
The following summarizes the condensed results of operations of the properties sold during the year ended December 31, 2020 for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 (in thousands):
For the Year Ended December 31,
ATM Program
We have an at-the-market equity offering program (the “$300 Million ATM Program”) pursuant to which we may issue and sell shares of our common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $300.0 million ($84.1 million remaining as of December 31, 2020) in amounts and at times as we determine from time to time. We intend to use the net proceeds from the offering of the shares under the $300 Million ATM Program, if any, for general corporate purposes, which may include future acquisitions and repayment of indebtedness, including borrowings under our revolving credit facility. During 2020, we issued an aggregate of 1,197,597 shares of common stock at a weighted average offering price of $54.08 per share under the $300 Million ATM Program, resulting in net proceeds of approximately $63.8 million and paying total compensation to the applicable sales agents of approximately $0.9 million.
Senior Secured Loan
We had a senior secured loan (the “Senior Secured Loan”) outstanding to a borrower that bore interest at a fixed annual interest rate of 8.0% and was fully repaid in May 2020. The Senior Secured Loan was secured by a portfolio of six improved land parcels located primarily in Newark, New Jersey.
Share Repurchase Program
We have a share repurchase program authorizing us to repurchase up to 3,000,000 shares of our outstanding common stock from time to time through December 31, 2022 (extended from December 31, 2020 by our board of directors on November 3, 2020). Purchases made pursuant to the program, if any, will be made in either the open market or in privately negotiated transactions as permitted by federal securities laws and other legal requirements. The timing, manner, price and amount of any repurchases will be determined by us in our discretion and will be subject to economic and market conditions, stock price, applicable legal requirements and other factors. The program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. As of December 31, 2020, we have not repurchased any shares of our common stock pursuant to our share repurchase program.
Dividend and Distribution Activity
The following table sets forth the cash dividends paid or payable per share during the year ended December 31, 2020:
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Contractual Commitments
As of February 9, 2021, we have outstanding contracts with third-party sellers to acquire six industrial properties for a total aggregate purchase price of approximately $123.8 million, as further described under the heading “Contractual Obligations” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. There is no assurance that we will acquire the properties under contract because the proposed acquisitions are subject to the completion of satisfactory due diligence and various closing conditions.
Outlook
Current operating conditions in our six markets for our business are very good. We believe that on average, the rental rates we are likely to achieve on new or renewed leases for our 2021 expirations will be above the rates currently paid for the same space. However, new speculative development continues. This new development will slow potential rent growth from what it would be without such new development.
We see attractive acquisition opportunities and expect our 2021 acquisition volume to exceed that of 2020, perhaps significantly so. Nevertheless, our acquisition volume will be dependent on both the quality and pricing of the opportunity set and the price of our stock relative to net asset value (“NAV”). Those conditions, not knowable in advance, will determine our results. We will continue to sell assets and redeploy the capital to enhance NAV or return the capital to shareholders. We entered 2021 with our balance sheet exceedingly well positioned for growth, as we have no balance outstanding on our $250 million revolving credit facility and a cash balance of approximately $107.2 million.
Eleven years ago, we completed our $175 million blind-pool IPO with a plan to invest in infill industrial real estate in the six best coastal U.S. markets. Since then, we have grown to approximately $4.5 billion, with $4.0 billion of equity as of December 31, 2020.
Within our six markets we have increasingly focused on urban infill locations. While our net growth will remain limited to a size where we can make directly informed operational decisions, we feel more strongly today than we did eleven years ago about the long-term investment merits of our strategy and the growth opportunities ahead. We are mindful, always, that it is per share rather than aggregate results that matter.
We believe in the long-term operating prospects of our functional, extremely infill coastal assets. We believe in sound balance sheet management. We believe in the benefits of our market-leading corporate governance and exceptionally aligned executive management compensation. As a result, we are enthusiastic about the future and our ability to produce superior results for our shareholders over time.
Our outlook is subject to the risks set forth in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the risks set form in “Item 1A - Risk Factors”.
Inflation
Although the U.S. economy has been experiencing relatively modest inflation rates recently, and a wide variety of industries and sectors are affected differently by changing commodity prices, inflation has increased construction costs but has not had a significant impact on our operating costs. Most of our leases require the tenants to pay their share of operating expenses, including common area maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance, thereby reducing our exposure to increases in costs and operating expenses resulting from inflation. In addition, leases with respect to approximately 63.9% of our total rentable square feet expire within five years which enables us to seek to replace existing leases with new leases at the then-existing market rate.
Financial Condition and Results of Operations
We derive substantially all of our revenues from rents received from tenants under existing leases on each of our properties. These revenues include fixed base rents and recoveries of certain property operating expenses that we have incurred and that we pass through to the individual tenants. Approximately 92.4% of our leased space includes fixed rental increases or Consumer Price Index-based rental increases. Lease terms typically range from three to ten years.
Our primary cash expenses consist of our property operating expenses, which include: real estate taxes, repairs and maintenance, management expenses, insurance, utilities, general and administrative expenses, which include compensation costs, office expenses, professional fees and other administrative expenses, acquisition costs, which include third-party costs paid to brokers and consultants, and interest expense, primarily on our mortgage loans, revolving credit facility, term loans and senior unsecured notes.
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Our consolidated results of operations often are not comparable from period to period due to the impact of property acquisitions at various times during the course of such periods. The results of operations of any acquired property are included in our financial statements as of the date of its acquisition.
The following analysis of our results below for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 includes the changes attributable to same store properties. The same store pool for the comparison of the 2020 and 2019 fiscal years includes all properties that were owned and in operation as of December 31, 2020 and since January 1, 2019 and excludes properties that were either disposed of prior to, held for sale to a third-party or in redevelopment as of December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2020, the same store pool consisted of 198 buildings aggregating approximately 12.0 million square feet representing approximately 91.1% of our total square feet owned and 14 improved land parcels consisting of approximately 54.2 acres. As of December 31, 2020, the non-same store properties, which we acquired, redeveloped or sold during 2019 and 2020, or were held for sale (if any) or in redevelopment as of December 31, 2020, consisted of 24 buildings aggregating approximately 1.2 million square feet, 11 improved land parcels consisting of approximately 37.3 acres and one property under redevelopment expected to contain approximately 0.2 million square feet upon completion. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, our consolidated same store pool occupancy was approximately 98.0% and 97.8%, respectively.
Our future financial condition and results of operations, including rental revenues, straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles, may be impacted by the acquisitions of additional properties, and expenses may vary materially from historical results.
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Comparison of the Year Ended December 31, 2020 to the Year Ended Year Ended December 31, 2019:
For the Year Ended December 31,
(Dollars in thousands)
Rental revenues 1
Tenant expense reimbursements 1
Property operating expenses
Net operating income 3
Other costs and expenses
Other income (expense)
Loss on extinguishment of debt — (189) 189 (100.0) %
1On January 1, 2019, we adopted the practical expedient under Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842), Targeted Improvements, which allows us to elect not to separate lease and non-lease rental income. All rental income earned pursuant to tenant leases is reflected as one line, “Rental revenues and tenant expense reimbursements” on our accompanying consolidated statements of operations. We believe that the above presentation of rental revenues and tenant expense reimbursements is not, and is not intended to be, a presentation in accordance with accounting principals generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). We believe this information is frequently used by management, investors, and other interested parties to evaluate our performance. See “Note 2 - Significant Accounting Policies” in our condensed notes to consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our adoption of this standard.
2Includes 2019 and 2020 acquisitions and dispositions, eleven improved land parcels and one property under redevelopment as of December 31, 2020.
3Includes straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a reconciliation of net operating income and same store net operating income from net income and a discussion of why we believe net operating income and same store net operating income are useful supplemental measures of our operating performance.
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Revenues. Total revenues increased approximately $15.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year due primarily to property acquisitions during 2019 and 2020 and increased revenue on new and renewed leases. Cash rents on new and renewed leases totaling approximately 2.6 million square feet commencing during the year ended December 31, 2020 increased approximately 22.1% compared to the same period from the prior year. For the three months and year ended December 31, 2020, approximately $1.3 million and $4.3 million, respectively, was recorded in straight-line rental revenues related to contractual rent abatements given to certain tenants. During the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to the effects of COVID-19 on our tenants, approximately $1.3 million in straight-line rent receivables was reversed. Additionally, during the year ended December 31, 2020, we terminated a lease with the existing tenant at our Belleville property and executed a new lease with a leading e-commerce firm. The lease termination fee received was approximately $3.3 million and the non-cash deferred rent receivable write-off was approximately $3.2 million.
Property operating expenses. Total property operating expenses increased approximately $4.9 million during the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year. The increase in total property operating expenses was due primarily to an increase of approximately $1.1 million in utilities and maintenance expenses and $1.5 million attributable to increases in real estate taxes for properties included in our same store pool.
Depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization increased approximately $1.9 million during the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year due to property acquisitions during 2019 and 2020.
General and administrative expenses. General and administrative expenses decreased approximately $0.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year due primarily to decreased performance share award expense offset by increased compensation expense. The decrease in performance share award expense primarily related to the expense for performance share awards granted prior to January 1, 2019, which varies quarter to quarter based on our relative share price performance. Performance share award expense for the year ended December 31, 2020 was approximately $6.6 million as compared to approximately $8.0 million for the prior year. See “Note 11 —Stockholder’s Equity” in our notes to the consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our performance share awards.
Acquisition costs. Acquisition costs increased $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 primarily due to dead deal costs incurred during 2020 with respect to potential acquisitions that did not close.
Interest and other income. Interest and other income decreased approximately $2.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year primarily due to lower interest and fees earned on our Senior Secured Loan, offset by interest earned on higher cash balances held during the year ended December 31, 2020.
Interest expense, including amortization. Interest expense decreased approximately $0.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year due primarily to lower average interest rate on our term loan and lower average outstanding borrowings on our mortgage loans payable, offset by a decrease of $0.1 million in capitalized interest compared to the prior year.
Gain on sales of real estate investments. Gain on sales of real estate investments increased approximately $17.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year. The aggregate sales price for property sales for the year ended December 31, 2020 was approximately $73.5 million as compared to approximately $48.9 million for the prior year.
The following analysis of our results below for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 includes the changes attributable to same store properties. The same store pool for the comparison of the 2019 and 2018 fiscal years includes all properties that were owned and in operation as of December 31, 2019 and since January 1, 2018 and excludes properties that were either disposed of prior to, held for sale to a third-party or in redevelopment as of December 31, 2019. As of December 31, 2019, the same store pool consisted of 187 buildings aggregating approximately 11.8 million square feet representing approximately 88.6% of our total square feet owned and ten improved land parcels consisting of approximately 47.2 acres. As of December 31, 2019, the non-same store properties, which we acquired or sold during 2018 and 2019, were held for sale (if any) or in redevelopment as of December 31, 2019, consisted of 33 buildings aggregating approximately $1.5 million square feet, nine improved land parcels consisting of approximately 30.4 acres and four properties under redevelopment expected to contain approximately 0.5 million square feet upon completion. As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, our consolidated same store pool occupancy was approximately 98.4% and 99.1%, respectively.
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Comparison of the Year Ended December 31, 2019 to the Year Ended December 31, 2018:
For the Year Ended December 31,
(Dollars in thousands)
Rental revenues 1
Tenant expense reimbursements 1
Property operating expenses
Net operating income 3
Other costs and expenses
Other income (expense)
Loss on extinguishment of debt (189) — (189) n/a
1On January 1, 2019, we adopted the practical expedient under ASU No. 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842), Targeted Improvements, which allows us to elect not to separate lease and non-lease rental income. All rental income earned pursuant to tenant leases is reflected as one line, “Rental revenues and tenant expense reimbursements” on our accompanying consolidated statements of operations. We believe that the above presentation of rental revenues and tenant expense reimbursements is not, and is not intended to be, a presentation in accordance with GAAP. We believe this information is frequently used by management, investors, and other interested parties to evaluate our performance. See “Note 2 - Significant Accounting Policies” in our condensed notes to consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our adoption of this standard.
2Includes 2018 and 2019 acquisitions and dispositions, nine improved land parcels and four properties under redevelopment as of December 31, 2019.
3Includes straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a reconciliation of net operating income and same store net operating income from net income and a discussion of why we believe net operating income and same store net operating income are useful supplemental measures of our operating performance.
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Revenues. Total revenues increased approximately $19.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the prior year due primarily to property acquisitions during 2019 and 2018 and increased revenue on new and renewed leases. Cash rents on new and renewed leases totaling 0.2 million square feet commencing during the year ended December 31, 2019 increased approximately 17.3% compared to the same period from the prior year. For the three months and year ended December 31, 2019, approximately $0.3 million and $2.0 million, respectively, was recorded in straight-line rental revenues related to contractual rent abatements given to certain tenants.
Property operating expenses. Total property operating expenses increased approximately $4.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the prior year. The increase in total property operating expenses was due primarily to an increase of approximately $3.5 million attributable to property acquisitions during 2019 and 2018.
Depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization increased approximately $3.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the prior year due to property acquisitions during 2019 and 2018.
General and administrative expenses. General and administrative expenses increased approximately $2.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the prior year due primarily to increased compensation expense, bonus expense, accounting service fees, and performance share award expense. The increase in performance share award expense primarily related to the expense for performance share awards granted prior to January 1, 2019, which varies quarter to quarter based on our relative share price performance. Performance share award expense for the year ended December 31, 2019 was approximately $8.0 million as compared to approximately $7.1 million for the prior year. See “Note 11 - Stockholder’s Equity” in our notes to the consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our performance share awards.
Acquisition costs. Acquisition costs decreased by approximately $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the year ended 2018.
Interest and other income. Interest and other income increased approximately $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the prior year primarily due to approximately $3.3 million in interest and fees earned on our Senior Secured Loan, which we made in May 2018, and higher cash balances and interest rates during 2019 compared to the prior year.
Interest expense, including amortization. Interest expense decreased approximately $1.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the prior year due primarily to lower average outstanding borrowings on our revolving credit facility and mortgage loans payable and an increase of $0.7 million in capitalized interest compared to the prior year.
Gain on sales of real estate investments. Gain on sales of real estate investments decreased approximately $19.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the prior year. The aggregate sales price for property sales for the year ended December 31, 2019 was approximately $48.9 million as compared to approximately $82.1 million for the prior year.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The primary objective of our financing strategy is to maintain financial flexibility with a conservative capital structure using retained cash flows, proceeds from dispositions of properties, long-term debt and the issuance of common and perpetual preferred stock to finance our growth. Over the long-term, we intend to:
•limit the sum of the outstanding principal amount of our consolidated indebtedness and the liquidation preference of any outstanding perpetual preferred stock to less than 35% of our total enterprise value;
•maintain a fixed charge coverage ratio in excess of 2.0x;
•maintain a debt-to-adjusted EBITDA ratio below 6.0x;
•limit the principal amount of our outstanding floating rate debt to less than 20% of our total consolidated indebtedness; and
•have staggered debt maturities that are aligned to our expected average lease term (5-7 years), positioning us to re-price parts of our capital structure as our rental rates change with market conditions.
We intend to preserve a flexible capital structure with a long-term goal to maintain our investment grade rating and be in a position to issue additional unsecured debt and perpetual preferred stock. Fitch Ratings assigned us an issuer rating of BBB with a stable outlook. A security rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating agency. There can be no assurance that we will be able to maintain our current credit rating. Our credit rating can affect the amount and type of capital we can access, as well as the terms of any financings we may obtain. In the event our current credit rating is downgraded, it may become difficult or expensive to obtain additional
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financing or refinance existing obligations and commitments. We intend to primarily utilize senior unsecured notes, term loans, credit facilities, dispositions of properties, common stock and perpetual preferred stock. We may also assume debt in connection with property acquisitions which may have a higher loan-to-value ratio.
We expect to meet our short-term liquidity requirements generally through net cash provided by operations, existing cash balances and, if necessary, short-term borrowings under our revolving credit facility. We believe that our net cash provided by operations will be adequate to fund operating requirements, pay interest on any borrowings and fund distributions in accordance with the REIT requirements of the federal income tax laws. In the near-term, we intend to fund future investments in properties with cash on hand, term loans, senior unsecured notes, mortgages, borrowings under our revolving credit facility, perpetual preferred and common stock issuances and, from time to time, property dispositions. We expect to meet our long-term liquidity requirements, including with respect to other investments in industrial properties, property acquisitions, property redevelopments, renovations and expansions and scheduled debt maturities, through borrowings under our revolving credit facility, periodic issuances of common stock, perpetual preferred stock, and long-term secured and unsecured debt, and, from time to time, with proceeds from the disposition of properties. The success of our acquisition strategy may depend, in part, on our ability to obtain and borrow under our revolving credit facility and to access additional capital through issuances of equity and debt securities.
The following sets forth certain information regarding our current at-the-market common stock offering program as of December 31, 2020:
The table below sets forth the activity under our at-the-market common stock offering programs during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively (in thousands, except share and price per share data):
Our Senior Secured Loan bore interest at a fixed annual interest rate of 8.0% and was fully repaid in May 2020. The Senior Secured Loan was secured by a portfolio of six improved land parcels located primarily in Newark, New Jersey. As of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, there was approximately $0 and $15.9 million, respectively, net of deferred loan fees of approximately $0 and $0.1 million, respectively, outstanding on the Senior Secured Loan and approximately $0 and $0.3 million, respectively, of interest receivable outstanding on the Senior Secured Loan.
As of December 31, 2020, we had $50.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in September 2022, $100.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in July 2024, $50.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in July 2026, $50.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in October 2027 and $100.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in December 2029 (collectively, the “Senior Unsecured Notes”) and a credit facility (the “Facility”), which consists of a $250.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility that matures in October 2022 and a $100.0 million term loan that matures in January 2022. As of both December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, there were no borrowings outstanding on our revolving credit facility and $100.0 million of borrowings outstanding on our term loan.
As of December 31, 2020, we had one interest rate cap to hedge the variable cash flows associated with $50.0 million of our existing $100.0 million variable-rate term loan. The cap has a notional value of $50.0 million and will effectively cap the annual interest rate payable at 4.0% plus 1.20% to 1.70%, depending on leverage, with respect to $50.0 million for the period from December 1, 2014 (effective date) to May 4, 2021. As of December 31, 2019, we had an additional interest rate cap with a notional value of $50.0 million (which expired on February 3, 2020) to hedge the variable cash flows associated with $50.0 million of our existing $100.0 million variable-rate term loan. We are required to make certain monthly variable rate payments on the term loan, while the applicable counterparty is obligated to make certain monthly floating rate payments based on LIBOR to us in the event LIBOR is greater than 4.0%, referencing the same notional amount.
The aggregate amount of the Facility may be increased to a total of up to $600.0 million, subject to the approval of the administrative agent and the identification of lenders willing to make available additional amounts. Outstanding borrowings under the Facility are limited to the lesser of (i) the sum of the $250.0 million revolving credit facility and the $100.0 million term loan or (ii) 60.0% of the value of the unencumbered properties. Interest on the Facility, including the term loan, is
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generally to be paid based upon, at our option, either (i) LIBOR plus the applicable LIBOR margin or (ii) the applicable base rate which is the greatest of the administrative agent’s prime rate, 0.50% above the federal funds effective rate, or thirty-day LIBOR plus the applicable LIBOR margin for LIBOR rate loans under the Facility plus 1.25%. The applicable LIBOR margin will range from 1.05% to 1.50% (1.05% as of December 31, 2020) for the revolving credit facility and 1.20% to 1.70% (1.20% as of December 31, 2020) for the $100.0 million term loan, depending on the ratio of our outstanding consolidated indebtedness to the value of our consolidated gross asset value. The Facility requires quarterly payments of an annual facility fee in an amount ranging from 0.15% to 0.30% depending on the ratio of our outstanding consolidated indebtedness to the value of our consolidated gross asset value.
The Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes are guaranteed by us and by substantially all of the current and to-be-formed subsidiaries of the borrower that own an unencumbered property. The Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes are unsecured by our properties or by interests in the subsidiaries that hold such properties. The Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes include a series of financial and other covenants with which we must comply. We were in compliance with the covenants under the Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, we had outstanding mortgage loans payable, net of deferred financing costs, of approximately $11.3 million and $44.3 million, respectively, and held cash and cash equivalents totaling approximately $107.2 million and $110.1 million, respectively. Subsequent to December 31, 2020, we used cash on hand to repay the mortgage loan payable of $11.3 million.
The following tables summarize our debt maturities and principal payments as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020, and market capitalization, capitalization ratios, Adjusted EBITDA, interest coverage, fixed charge coverage and debt ratios as of and for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 (dollars in thousands – except per share data):
CreditFacility TermLoans SeniorUnsecuredNotes MortgageLoansPayable Total Debt
Weighted average interest rate n/a 1.3 % 3.8 % 5.5 % 3.3 %
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Equity
Common Stock
Total Debt-to-Total Investments in Properties 3 20.6 % 22.8 %
Total Debt-to-Total Market Capitalization 5 10.3 % 11.9 %
Floating Rate Debt as a % of Total Debt 6 21.7 % 20.3 %
Unhedged Floating Rate Debt as a % of Total Debt 7 10.9 % — %
Mortgage Loans Payable as a % of Total Debt 8 2.5 % 9.0 %
Mortgage Loans Payable as a % of Total Investments in Properties 9 0.5 % 2.1 %
Fixed Charge Coverage 12 7.1x 6.0x
Total Debt-to-Adjusted EBITDA 13 3.5x 4.1x
Weighted Average Maturity of Total Debt (years) 4.5 5.1
1Includes 203,729 and 426,770 shares of unvested restricted stock outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
2Closing price of our shares of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, in dollars per share.
3Total debt-to-total investments in properties is calculated as total debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by total investments in properties as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
4Total debt-to-total investments in properties and Senior Secured Loan is calculated as total debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by total investments in properties and total Senior Secured Loan, net of deferred loan fees of approximately $0 and $0.1 million, as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Senior Secured Loan was fully repaid in May 2020.
5Total debt-to-total market capitalization is calculated as total debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by total market capitalization as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
6Floating rate debt as a percentage of total debt is calculated as floating rate debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by total debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs. Floating rate debt includes $100.0 million variable-rate term loan borrowings, of which $50.0 million is subject to an interest rate cap of 4.0% plus 1.20% to 1.70%, depending on leverage as of December 31, 2020, and $150.0 million variable-rate term loan borrowings, of which $100.0 million was subject to interest rate caps of 4.0% plus 1.20% to 1.70% as of December 31, 2019. See “Note 9 – Derivative Financial Instruments” in our notes to consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our interest rate caps.
7Unhedged floating rate debt as a percentage of total debt is calculated as unhedged floating rate debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by total debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs. Hedged debt includes our $100.0 million variable-rate term loan borrowings, of which $50.0 million is subject to an interest rate cap of 4.0% plus 1.20% to 1.70%, depending on leverage as of December 31, 2020, and our $100.0 million variable rate term loan borrowings of which $100.0 million was subject to interest rate caps of 4.0% plus 1.20% to 1.70% as of December 31, 2019. See “Note 9 – Derivative Financial Instruments” in our notes to consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our interest rate caps.
8Mortgage loans payable as a percentage of total debt is calculated as mortgage loans payable, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by total debt, net of deferred financing costs.
9Mortgage loans payable as a percentage of total investments in properties is calculated as mortgage loans payable, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by total investments in properties.
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10Earnings before interest, taxes, gains (losses) from sales of property, depreciation and amortization, acquisition costs and stock-based compensation (“Adjusted EBITDA”) for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a definition and reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA from net income and a discussion of why we believe Adjusted EBITDA is a useful supplemental measure of our operating performance.
11Interest coverage is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA divided by interest expense, including amortization. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a definition and reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA from net income and a discussion of why we believe Adjusted EBITDA is a useful supplemental measure of our operating performance.
12Fixed charge coverage is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA divided by interest expense, including amortization plus capitalized interest. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a definition and reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA from net income and a discussion of why we believe Adjusted EBITDA is a useful supplemental measure of our operating performance.
13Total debt-to-Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as total debt, including premiums and net of deferred financing costs, divided by annualized Adjusted EBITDA. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a definition and reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA from net income and a discussion of why we believe Adjusted EBITDA is a useful supplemental measure of our operating performance.
The following table sets forth the cash dividends paid or payable per share during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:
Sources and Uses of Cash
Our principal sources of cash are cash from operations, borrowings under loans payable, draws on our Facility, common and preferred stock issuances, proceeds from property dispositions and issuances of unsecured notes. Our principal uses of cash are asset acquisitions, debt service, capital expenditures, operating costs, corporate overhead costs and common stock dividends.
Cash From Operating Activities. Net cash provided by operating activities totaled approximately $101.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to approximately $94.7 million for the year ended 2019. This increase in cash provided by operating activities is primarily attributable to additional cash flows generated from the properties acquired during 2020 and 2019 and increased rents on new and renewed leases at our same store properties. Additionally, during the year ended December 31, 2020, we received cash of approximately $3.3 million related to the termination of a lease held with the existing tenant at our Belleville property.
Cash From Investing Activities. Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $52.1 million and $251.5 million, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, which consists primarily of cash paid for property acquisitions of $98.1 million and $238.7 million, respectively, and additions to capital improvements of approximately $40.6 million and $60.0 million, respectively, offset by net proceeds from sales of real estate investments of approximately $70.7 million and $47.1 million, respectively, and net cash received for repayment of the Senior Secured Loan of $15.9 million and $0, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
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Cash From Financing Activities. Net cash used by financing activities was approximately $53.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, which consists primarily of approximately $63.8 million in net common stock issuance proceeds, offset by approximately $74.8 million in equity dividend payments and $33.0 million in mortgage loan payments. Net cash provided by financing activities was approximately $235.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which consists primarily of approximately $274.0 million in net common stock issuance proceeds and borrowings of $100.0 million in connection with our issuance of senior unsecured notes, offset by approximately $63.6 million in equity dividend payments, $50.0 million in payments on our term loan that was to mature in August 2021 and and approximately $19.0 million in net payments on our revolving credit facility.
Critical Accounting Policies
Below is a discussion of the accounting policies that we believe are critical. We consider these policies critical because they require estimates about matters that are inherently uncertain, involve various assumptions and require significant management judgment, and because they are important for understanding and evaluating our reported financial results. These judgments will affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and our disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the dates of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Applying different estimates or assumptions may result in materially different amounts reported in our financial statements.
Capitalization of Costs. We capitalize costs directly related to the redevelopment, renovation and expansion of our investment in real estate. Costs associated with such projects are capitalized as incurred. If the project is abandoned, these costs are expensed during the period in which the redevelopment or expansion project is abandoned. Costs considered for capitalization include, but are not limited to, construction costs, interest, real estate taxes and insurance, if appropriate. These costs are capitalized only during the period in which activities necessary to ready an asset for its intended use are in progress. In the event that the activities to ready the asset for its intended use are suspended, the capitalization period will cease until such activities are resumed. Costs incurred for maintaining and repairing properties, which do not extend their useful lives, are expensed as incurred.
Interest is capitalized based on actual capital expenditures from the period when redevelopment, renovation or expansion commences until the asset is ready for its intended use, at the weighted average borrowing rate during the period.
Property Acquisitions. Effective January 1, 2017, we adopted ASU 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business which requires that when substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired (or disposed of) is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or a group of similar identifiable assets, the integrated set of assets and activities is not considered a business. To be a business, the set of acquired activities and assets must include inputs and one or more substantive processes that together contribute to the ability to create outputs. We have determined that our real estate property acquisitions will generally be accounted for as asset acquisitions under the clarified definition. Prior to January 1, 2017, we generally accounted for property acquisitions as business combinations, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 805, Business Combinations. Upon acquisition of a property we estimate the fair value of acquired tangible assets (consisting generally of land, buildings and improvements) and intangible assets and liabilities (consisting generally of the above and below-market leases and the origination value of all in-place leases). We determine fair values using Level 3 inputs such as replacement cost, estimated cash flow projections and other valuation techniques and applying appropriate discount and capitalization rates based on available market information. Mortgage loans assumed in connection with acquisitions are recorded at their fair value using current market interest rates for similar debt at the date of acquisition. Acquisition-related costs associated with asset acquisitions are capitalized to individual tangible and intangible assets and liabilities assumed on a relative fair value basis and acquisition-related costs associated with business combinations are expensed as incurred.
The fair value of the tangible assets is determined by valuing the property as if it were vacant. Land values are derived from current comparative sales values, when available, or management’s estimates of the fair value based on market conditions and the experience of our management team. Building and improvement values are calculated as replacement cost less depreciation, or management’s estimates of the fair value of these assets using discounted cash flow analyses or similar methods. The fair value of the above and below-market leases is based on the present value of the difference between the contractual amounts to be received pursuant to the acquired leases (using a discount rate that reflects the risks associated with the acquired leases) and our estimate of the market lease rates measured over a period equal to the remaining term of the leases plus the term of any below-market fixed rate renewal options. The above and below-market lease values are amortized to rental revenues over the remaining initial term plus the term of any below-market fixed rate renewal options that are considered bargain renewal options of the respective leases. The origination value of in-place leases is based on costs to execute similar leases, including commissions and other related costs. The origination value of in-place leases also includes real estate taxes,
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insurance and an estimate of lost rental revenue at market rates during the estimated time required to lease up the property from vacant to the occupancy level at the date of acquisition.
Impairment. Carrying values for financial reporting purposes are reviewed for impairment on a property-by-property basis whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of a property may not be fully recoverable. Examples of such events or changes in circumstances may include classifying an asset to be held for sale, changing the intended hold period or when an asset remains vacant significantly longer than expected. The intended use of an asset either held for sale or held for use can significantly impact how impairment is measured. If an asset is intended to be held for the long-term, the recoverability is based on the undiscounted future cash flows. If the asset carrying value is not supported on an undiscounted future cash flow basis, then the asset carrying value is measured against the lower of cost or the present value of expected cash flows over the expected hold period. An impairment charge to earnings is recognized for the excess of the asset’s carrying value over the lower of cost or the present values of expected cash flows over the expected hold period. If an asset is intended to be sold, impairment is determined using the estimated fair value less costs to sell. The estimation of expected future net cash flows is inherently uncertain and relies on assumptions, among other things, regarding current and future economic and market conditions and the availability of capital. We determine the estimated fair values based on its assumptions regarding rental rates, lease-up and holding periods, as well as sales prices. When available, current market information is used to determine capitalization and rental growth rates. If available, current comparative sales values may also be used to establish fair value. When market information is not readily available, the inputs are based on our understanding of market conditions and the experience of our management team. Actual results could differ significantly from our estimates. The discount rates used in the fair value estimates represent a rate commensurate with the indicated holding period with a premium layered on for risk.
Revenue Recognition. We record rental revenue from operating leases on a straight-line basis over the term of the leases and maintain an allowance for estimated losses that may result from the inability of our tenants to make required payments. If tenants fail to make contractual lease payments that are greater than our allowance for doubtful accounts, security deposits and letters of credit, then we may have to recognize additional doubtful account charges in future periods. We monitor the liquidity and creditworthiness of our tenants on an on-going basis by reviewing their financial condition periodically as appropriate. Each period we review our outstanding accounts receivable, including straight-line rents, for doubtful accounts and provide allowances as needed. We also record lease termination fees when a tenant has executed a definitive termination agreement with us and the payment of the termination fee is not subject to any conditions that must be met or waived before the fee is due to us. If a tenant remains in the leased space following the execution of a definitive termination agreement, the applicable termination will be deferred and recognized over the term of such tenant’s occupancy.
Tenant expense reimbursement income includes payments and amounts due from tenants pursuant to their leases for real estate taxes, insurance and other recoverable property operating expenses and is recognized as revenues during the same period the related expenses are incurred.
Income Taxes. We elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Code and operate as such beginning with our taxable year ended December 31, 2010. To qualify as a REIT, we must meet certain organizational and operational requirements, including a requirement to distribute at least 90% of our annual REIT taxable income to our stockholders (which is computed without regard to the dividends paid deduction or net capital gain and which does not necessarily equal net income as calculated in accordance with GAAP). As a REIT, we generally will not be subject to federal income tax to the extent we distribute qualifying dividends to our stockholders. If we fail to qualify as a REIT in any taxable year, we will be subject to federal income tax on our taxable income at regular corporate income tax rates and generally will not be permitted to qualify for treatment as a REIT for federal income tax purposes for the four taxable years following the year during which qualification is lost unless the IRS grants us relief under certain statutory provisions. Such an event could materially adversely affect our net income and net cash available for distribution to stockholders. However, we believe we are organized and operate in such a manner as to qualify for treatment as a REIT.
Stock-Based Compensation and Other Long-Term Incentive Compensation. We follow the provisions of ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation, to account for our stock-based compensation plan, which requires that the compensation cost relating to stock-based payment transactions be recognized in the financial statements and that the cost be measured on the fair value of the equity or liability instruments issued. Our 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2019 Plan") provides for the grant of restricted stock awards, performance share awards, unrestricted shares or any combination of the foregoing. Stock-based compensation is recognized as a general and administrative expense in the financial statements and measured at the fair value of the award on the date of grant. We estimate the forfeiture rate based on historical experience as well as expected behavior. The amount of the expense may be subject to adjustment in future periods depending on the specific characteristics of the stock-based award.
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In addition, we have awarded long-term incentive target awards (the "Performance Share awards") under the Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan (as amended and restated, the "Amended LTIP"), which we amended and restated on January 8, 2019, to our executives that are payable in shares of our common stock after the conclusion of each pre-established performance measurement period, which is generally three years. The amount that may be earned is variable depending on the relative total shareholder return of our stock as compared to the total shareholder return of the MSCI U.S. REIT Index (RMS) and the FTSE Nareit Equity Industrial Index over the pre-established performance measurement period. Under the Amended LTIP, each participant’s Performance Share award granted on or after January 1, 2019 will be expressed as a number of shares of common stock and settled in shares of common stock. Target awards were previously expressed as a dollar amount and settled in shares of common stock. Commencing with Performance Share awards granted on or after January 1, 2019, the grant date fair value of the Performance Share awards will be determined under current accounting treatment using a Monte Carlo simulation model on the date of grant and recognized on a straight-line basis over the performance period. For Performance Share awards granted prior to January 1, 2019, we estimate the fair value of the Performance Share awards using a Monte Carlo simulation model on the date of grant and at each reporting period. The Performance Share awards granted prior to January 1, 2019 are recognized as compensation expense over the requisite performance period based on the fair value of the Performance Share awards at the balance sheet date, which varies quarter to quarter based on our relative share price performance, and are included as a component of Performance Share awards payable in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are material to investors.
Contractual Obligations
As of February 9, 2021, we have outstanding contracts with third-party sellers to acquire six industrial properties for a total aggregate purchase price of approximately $123.8 million. There is no assurance that we will acquire the properties under contract because the proposed acquisitions are subject to the completion of satisfactory due diligence and various closing conditions.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We use the following non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are useful to investors as key supplemental measures of our operating performance: funds from operations, or FFO, Adjusted EBITDA, net operating income, or NOI, same store NOI and cash-basis same store NOI. FFO, Adjusted EBITDA, NOI, same store NOI and cash-basis same store NOI should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance in accordance with GAAP. Further, our computation of FFO, Adjusted EBITDA, NOI, same store NOI and cash-basis same store NOI may not be comparable to FFO, Adjusted EBITDA, NOI, same store NOI and cash-basis same store NOI reported by other companies.
We compute FFO in accordance with standards established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“Nareit”), which defines FFO as net income (loss) (determined in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains (losses) from sales of property and impairment write-downs of depreciable real estate, plus depreciation and amortization on real estate assets and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures (which are calculated to reflect FFO on the same basis). We believe that presenting FFO provides useful information to investors regarding our operating performance because it is a measure of our operations without regard to specified non-cash items, such as real estate depreciation and amortization and gain or loss on sale of assets.
We believe that FFO is a meaningful supplemental measure of our operating performance because historical cost accounting for real estate assets in accordance with GAAP implicitly assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time. Since real estate values have historically risen or fallen with market conditions, many industry investors and analysts have considered the presentation of operating results for real estate companies that use historical cost accounting alone to be insufficient. As a result, we believe that the use of FFO, together with the required GAAP presentations, provide a more complete understanding of our operating performance.
The following table reflects the calculation of FFO reconciled from net income (loss), net of redemption of preferred stock and preferred stock dividends for the three months ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 and for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 (dollars in thousands except per share data):
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For the Three Months Ended December 31, For the Three Months Ended December 31,
For the Year Ended December 31, For the Year Ended December 31,
1To be consistent with our policies of determining whether instruments granted in share-based payment transactions are participating securities and accounting for earnings per share, the FFO per common share is adjusted for FFO distributed through declared dividends (if any) and allocated to all participating securities (weighted average common shares outstanding and unvested restricted shares outstanding) under the two-class method. Under this method, allocations were made to 203,729, 426,985, and 383,930 of weighted average unvested restricted shares outstanding
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for the three months ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and 341,673, 402,380, and 368,912 for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
2Includes performance share award expense of approximately $2.9 million, $1.8 million and $2.7 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and approximately $6.6 million, $8.0 million and $7.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, which varies quarter to quarter based on our total shareholder return outperforming the MSCI U.S. REIT Index (RMS) and the FTSE Nareit Equity Industrial Index over the prior three year period. See “Note 11 – Stockholders’ Equity” in our notes to consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our performance share awards.
FFO increased by approximately $1.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020 compared to the same period from the prior year due primarily to property acquisitions during 2019 and 2020 and same store NOI growth of approximately $1.7 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020 compared to the same period from the prior year. The FFO increase was offset by increased weighted average common shares outstanding for the three months ended December 31, 2020 compared to the same period from the prior year. FFO increased by approximately $8.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the same period from the prior year due primarily to property acquisitions during 2019 and 2020 and same store NOI growth of approximately $8.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the same period from the prior year. FFO also increased due to a decrease of approximately $1.4 million in performance share award expense for the year ended December 31, 2020, compared to the same period from the prior year. The FFO increase was also offset by approximately $3.0 million in bad debt expense, primarily due to the effects of COVID-19 on our tenants, including approximately $1.3 million in straight-line rent reversals, during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to approximately $0.6 million in bad debt expense, including approximately $0.3 million in straight-line rent reversals, during the year-ended December 31, 2019. Weighted average common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2020 increased compared to the same period from the prior year.
We compute Adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, gain on sales of real estate investments, acquisition costs and stock-based compensation. We believe that presenting Adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors regarding our operating performance because it is a measure of our operations on an unleveraged basis before the effects of tax, gain (loss) on sales of real estate investments, non-cash depreciation and amortization expense, acquisition costs and stock-based compensation. By excluding interest expense, Adjusted EBITDA allows investors to measure our operating performance independent of our capital structure and indebtedness and, therefore, allows for more meaningful comparison of our operating performance between quarters and other interim periods as well as annual periods and for the comparison of our operating performance to that of other companies, both in the real estate industry and in other industries. As we are currently in a growth phase, acquisition costs are excluded from Adjusted EBITDA to allow for the comparison of our operating performance to that of stabilized companies.
The following table reflects the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA reconciled from net income for the three months ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 and for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 (dollars in thousands):
For the Three Months Ended December 31, For the Three Months Ended December 31,
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For the Year Ended December 31, For the Year Ended December 31,
We compute NOI as rental revenues, including tenant expense reimbursements, less property operating expenses. We compute same store NOI as rental revenues, including tenant expense reimbursements, less property operating expenses on a same store basis. NOI excludes depreciation, amortization, general and administrative expenses, acquisition costs and interest expense, including amortization. We compute cash-basis same store NOI as same store NOI excluding straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles. The same store pool for the comparison of the three months and years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 includes all properties that were owned as of December 31, 2020 and since January 1, 2019 and excludes properties that were either disposed of prior to, held for sale to a third-party or in redevelopment as of December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2020, the same store pool consisted of 198 buildings aggregating approximately 12.0 million square feet representing approximately 91.1% of our total square feet owned and 14 improved land parcels containing approximately 54.2 acres. The same store pool for the comparison of the three months and years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 includes all properties that were owned as of December 31, 2019 and since January 1, 2018 and excludes properties that were either disposed of prior to, held for sale to a third-party or in redevelopment as of December 31, 2019. As of December 31, 2019, the same store pool consisted of 187 buildings aggregating approximately 11.8 million square feet representing approximately 88.6% of our total square feet owned and ten improved land parcels containing approximately 47.2 acres. We believe that presenting NOI, same store NOI and cash-basis same store NOI provides useful information to investors regarding the operating performance of our properties because NOI excludes certain items that are not considered to be controllable in connection with the management of the properties, such as depreciation, amortization, general and administrative expenses, acquisition costs and interest expense. By presenting same store NOI and cash-basis same store NOI, the operating results on a same store basis are directly comparable from period to period.
The following table reflects the calculation of NOI, same store NOI and cash-basis same store NOI reconciled from net income for the three months and the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 (dollars in thousands):
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For the Three Months Ended December 31, For the Three Months Ended December 31,
1Includes $0.1 million, $0.1 million and $0 of lease termination income for the three months ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
2Includes 2019 and 2020 acquisitions and dispositions, one property under redevelopment and two completed redevelopment properties with an aggregate gross book value of approximately $49.3 million as of December 31, 2020.
3Includes 2018 and 2019 acquisitions and dispositions, four properties under redevelopment and one completed
redevelopment property with a gross book value of approximately $10.0 million as of December 31, 2019.
4Includes $0.1 million, $0.1 million and $0 of lease termination income for the three months ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
5Includes straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles for the same store pool only.
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For the Year Ended December 31, For the Year Ended December 31,
1Includes approximately $3.8 million, $0.3 million and $0.7 million of lease termination income for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
2Includes 2019 and 2020 acquisitions and dispositions, one property under redevelopment and two completed redevelopment properties with an aggregate gross book value of $49.3 million as of December 31, 2020.
3Includes 2018 and 2019 acquisitions and dispositions, four properties under redevelopment and one completed redevelopment property with a gross book value of approximately $10.0 million as of December 31, 2019.
4Includes approximately $3.7 million, $0.3 million and $0.7 million of lease termination income for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
5Includes straight-line rents and amortization of lease intangibles for the same store pool only.
Cash-basis same store NOI increased by approximately $1.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020 compared to the same period from the prior year. For the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, approximately $0.7 million and $0.2 million, respectively, of contractual rent abatements were given to certain tenants in the same-store pool and approximately $0.1 million for both periods in lease termination income was received from certain tenants in the same store pool. In addition, approximately $0.3 million of the increase in cash-basis same store NOI for both the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, related to properties that were acquired vacant or with near term expirations in 2018. The increase in cash-basis same store NOI was also offset by an increase of approximately $0.1 million in cash bad debt expense during the three months ended December 31, 2020 compared to the same period in the prior year.
Cash-basis same store NOI increased by approximately $8.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year primarily due to increased rental revenue and tenant reimbursement revenue on new and renewed leases and approximately $3.7 million in lease termination income, of which approximately $3.3 million related to the termination of a lease held with the existing tenant at our Belleville property. We have since executed a new lease for our Belleville property with a leading e-commerce firm. In connection with the termination we incurred a non-cash deferred rent receivable write-off of approximately $3.4 million. For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, approximately $2.5 million and $1.8 million, respectively, of contractual rent abatements were given to certain tenants in the same-store pool and approximately $3.7 million and $0.3 million, respectively, in lease termination income was received from certain tenants in the same store pool. Approximately $1.0 million of the increase in cash-basis same store NOI for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 related to properties that were acquired vacant or with near term expirations in 2018. The increase in cash-basis same store NOI was also offset by an increase of approximately $1.1 million in cash bad debt expense, primarily due to the effects of COVID-19 on our tenants, during the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the prior year.
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Item 7A. Quantitative And Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
Market risk includes risks that arise from changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, commodity prices, equity prices and other market changes that affect market sensitive instruments. In pursuing our business strategies, the primary market risk which we are exposed to is interest rate risk. We are exposed to interest rate changes primarily as a result of debt used to maintain liquidity, fund capital expenditures and expand our investment portfolio and operations. We seek to limit the impact of interest rate changes on earnings and cash flows and to lower our overall borrowing costs. As described below, some of our outstanding debt bears interest at variable rates, and we expect that some of our future outstanding debt will have variable interest rates. We may use interest rate caps and/or swap agreements to manage our interest rate risks relating to our variable rate debt. We expect to replace variable rate debt on a regular basis with fixed rate, long-term debt to finance our assets and operations.
As of December 31, 2020, we had $100.0 million of borrowings outstanding under our Facility. Of the $100.0 million outstanding on the Facility, $50.0 million is subject to an interest rate cap. See “Note 9 – Derivative Financial Instruments” in our notes to consolidated financial statements for more information regarding our interest rate caps. Amounts borrowed under our Facility bear interest at a variable rate based on LIBOR plus an applicable LIBOR margin. The weighted average interest rate on borrowings outstanding under our Facility was 1.3% as of December 31, 2020. If the LIBOR rate were to fluctuate by 0.25%, interest expense would increase or decrease, depending on rate movement, future earnings and cash flows by approximately $0.3 million annually on the total of the outstanding balances on our Facility as of December 31, 2020.
In the event that LIBOR is discontinued, the interest rate for our debt, including our Facility, will be based on a replacement rate or an alternate base rate as specified in the applicable documentation governing such debt or as otherwise agreed upon. Such an event would not affect our ability to borrow or maintain already outstanding borrowings, but the replacement rate or alternate base rate could be higher or more volatile than LIBOR prior to its discontinuance. In addition, uncertainty about the extent and manner of future changes may result in interest rates and/or payments that are higher or lower than if LIBOR were to remain available in its current form.
While we expect LIBOR to be available in substantially its current form until the end of 2021, it is possible that LIBOR will become unavailable prior to that point. This could result, for example, if sufficient banks decline to make submission to the LIBOR administrator. In that case, the risks associated with the transition to an alternative reference rate will be accelerated and may be magnified.
Item 8. Financial Statements And Supplementary Data.
See Part IV, Item 15 – “Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules” beginning on page F-1 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Item 9. Changes In And Disagreements With Accountants On Accounting And Financial Disclosure.
None.
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Item 9A. Controls And Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management has evaluated, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act), and has concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to give reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms and is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Terreno Realty Corporation’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. This internal control system was designed to provide reasonable assurance to the company’s management and board of directors regarding the preparation and fair presentation of published financial statements. All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation.
Terreno Realty Corporation’s management assessed the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020. In making this assessment, it used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013 framework). Based on its assessment, management of Terreno Realty Corporation believes that, as of December 31, 2020, the company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective based on those criteria. Terreno Realty Corporation’s independent auditors have issued an audit report on the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting, as stated in their report included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, (which expresses an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020).
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Terreno Realty Corporation
Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited Terreno Realty Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Terreno Realty Corporation (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes and the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15 of the Company and our report dated February 10, 2021 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
San Francisco, California
February 10, 2021
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Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended December 31, 2020 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Item 9B. Other Information.
None.
Part III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
The information required by Item 10 will be contained in a definitive proxy statement for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we anticipate will be filed no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 11. Executive Compensation.
The information required by Item 11 will be contained in a definitive proxy statement for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we anticipate will be filed no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
The information required by Item 12 will be contained in a definitive proxy statement for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we anticipate will be filed no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
The information required by Item 13 will be contained in a definitive proxy statement for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we anticipate will be filed no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services.
The information required by Item 14 will be contained in a definitive proxy statement for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we anticipate will be filed no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and is incorporated herein by reference.
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Part IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
(a)
1. and 2. Financial Statementsand Schedules
The following consolidated financial information is included as a separate section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K beginning on page F-1 as follows:
Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 1
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 3
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 9
Schedule III – Real Estate Investments and Accumulated Depreciation 1
All other schedules for which provision is made in the applicable accounting regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission are not required under the related instructions or are inapplicable, and therefore have been omitted, or the required information is included in the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.
3. Exhibits
The exhibits required to be filed by Item 601 of Regulation S-K are listed in the Exhibit Index at the end of this Annual Report on Form 10-K immediately preceding the signature page, which is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 16. Form 10-K Summary.
None.
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Terreno Realty Corporation
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Terreno Realty Corporation (the Company) as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15 (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 10, 2021 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
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Valuation of acquired properties
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company‘s auditor since 2012.
San Francisco, California
February 10, 2021
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Terreno Realty Corporation
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands – except share and per share data)
ASSETS
Investments in real estate
Accumulated depreciation and amortization (238,073) (208,279)
Senior secured loan, net — 15,858
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Liabilities
Credit facility $ — $ —
Accounts payable and other liabilities 26,688 27,699
Commitments and contingencies (Note 14)
Equity
Stockholders’ equity
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (183) (437)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Terreno Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands – except share and per share data)
For the Year Ended December 31,
REVENUES
COSTS AND EXPENSES
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)
Loss on extinguishment of debt — (189) —
Allocation to participating securities (400) (351) (401)
EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE – BASIC AND DILUTED:
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Terreno Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
(in thousands)
For the Year Ended December 31,
Other comprehensive income (loss): cash flow hedge adjustment 254 324 285
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Terreno Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Equity
(in thousands – except share data)
Number ofShares Amount
Issuance of restricted stock 53,915 — — — — — — —
Stock-based compensation — — 2,285 — — — — 2,285
Common stock dividends — — — — — (53,907) — (53,907)
Other comprehensive loss — — — — — — 285 285
Issuance of restricted stock 111,099 — — — — — — —
Stock-based compensation — — 4,026 — — — — 4,026
Common stock dividends — — — — — (67,080) — (67,080)
Other comprehensive income — — — — — — 324 324
Issuance of restricted stock 78,041 — — — — — — —
Stock-based compensation — — 6,688 — — — — 6,688
Other comprehensive income — — — — — — 254 254
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Terreno Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
For the Year Ended December 31,
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities
Loss on extinguishment of debt — 189 —
Deferred senior secured loan fee amortization (57) (531) (392)
Changes in assets and liabilities
Accounts payable and other liabilities 678 1,542 468
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Cash paid for senior secured loan — — (55,000)
Repayment on senior secured loan 15,915 — —
Origination and other fees received on senior secured loan — — 900
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Issuance costs on issuance of common stock (940) (4,023) (3,030)
Repurchase of common stock related to employee awards (9,837) (3,959) (3,870)
Payments on term loans payable — (50,000) —
Borrowings on senior unsecured notes — 100,000 —
Payment of deferred financing costs — (943) (1,366)
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
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Supplemental disclosures of non-cash transactions
Non-cash issuance of common stock to the deferred compensation plan (7,546) — —
Non-cash repayment of senior secured loan — (39,085) —
Lease liability arising from recognition of right-of-use asset — 647 —
Reconciliation of cash paid for property acquisitions
Assumption of other assets and liabilities (2,303) (11,845) (5,252)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Terreno Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1. Organization
Terreno Realty Corporation (“Terreno”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”) acquires, owns and operates industrial real estate in six major coastal U.S. markets: Los Angeles, Northern New Jersey/New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Miami, and Washington, D.C. All square feet, acres, occupancy, expected investment and related expected redevelopment costs and number of properties and improved land parcels disclosed in these notes to the consolidated financial statements are unaudited. As of December 31, 2020, the Company owned 222 buildings aggregating approximately 13.2 million square feet, 25 improved land parcels consisting of approximately 91.5 acres and one property under redevelopment expected to contain approximately 0.2 million square feet upon completion.
The Company is an internally managed Maryland corporation and elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) under Sections 856 through 860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), commencing with its taxable year ended December 31, 2010.
Note 2. Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation. The accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). The accompanying consolidated financial statements include all of the Company’s accounts and its subsidiaries and all intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Use of Estimates. The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Capitalization of Costs. The Company capitalizes costs directly related to the redevelopment, renovation and expansion of its investment in real estate. Costs associated with such projects are capitalized as incurred. If the project is abandoned, these costs are expensed during the period in which the redevelopment, renovation or expansion project is abandoned. Costs considered for capitalization include, but are not limited to, construction costs, interest, real estate taxes and insurance, if appropriate. These costs are capitalized only during the period in which activities necessary to ready an asset for its intended use are in progress. In the event that the activities to ready the asset for its intended use are suspended, the capitalization period will cease until such activities are resumed. Costs incurred for maintaining and repairing properties, which do not extend their useful lives, are expensed as incurred.
Interest is capitalized based on actual capital expenditures from the period when redevelopment, renovation or expansion commences until the asset is ready for its intended use, at the weighted average borrowing rate during the period.
Investments in Real Estate. Investments in real estate, including tenant improvements, leasehold improvements and leasing costs, are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation, unless circumstances indicate that the cost cannot be recovered, in which case, an adjustment to the carrying value of the property is made to reduce it to its estimated fair value. The Company also reviews the impact of above and below-market leases, in-place leases and lease origination costs for acquisitions and records an intangible asset or liability accordingly.
Impairment. Carrying values for financial reporting purposes are reviewed for impairment on a property-by-property basis whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of a property may not be fully recoverable. Examples of such events or changes in circumstances may include classifying an asset to be held for sale, changing the intended hold period or when an asset remains vacant significantly longer than expected. The intended use of an asset either held for sale or held for use can significantly impact how impairment is measured. If an asset is intended to be held for the long-term, the recoverability is based on the undiscounted future cash flows. If the asset carrying value is not supported on an undiscounted future cash flow basis, then the asset carrying value is measured against the lower of cost or the present value of expected cash flows over the expected hold period. An impairment charge to earnings is recognized for the excess of the asset’s carrying value over the lower of cost or the present values of expected cash flows over the expected hold period. If an asset is intended to be sold, impairment is determined using the estimated fair value less costs to sell. The estimation of expected future net cash flows is inherently uncertain and relies on assumptions, among other things, regarding current and future economic and market conditions and the availability of capital. The Company determines the estimated fair values based on its assumptions regarding rental rates, lease-up and holding periods, as well as sales prices. When available, current market information is used to
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determine capitalization and rental growth rates. If available, current comparative sales values may also be used to establish fair value. When market information is not readily available, the inputs are based on the Company’s understanding of market conditions and the experience of the Company’s management team. Actual results could differ significantly from the Company’s estimates. The discount rates used in the fair value estimates represent a rate commensurate with the indicated holding period with a premium layered on for risk. There were no impairment charges recorded to the carrying values of the Company’s properties during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 or 2018.
Loans Held-for-Investment. Loans that are held-for-investment are carried at cost, net of loan fees and origination costs, as applicable, unless the loans are deemed impaired. Impairment occurs when it is deemed probable that the Company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms of loans that are held-for-investment. The Company evaluates its senior secured loan (the “Senior Secured Loan”), which is classified as held-for-investment, for impairment quarterly. If the Senior Secured Loan is considered to be impaired, the Company records an allowance through the provision for Senior Secured Loan losses to reduce the carrying value of the Senior Secured Loan to the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the Senior Secured Loan’s contractual effective rate or the fair value of the collateral, if repayment is expected solely from the collateral. Actual losses, if any, could differ significantly from the Company’s estimates. There were no impairment charges recorded to the carrying value of the Senior Secured Loan during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
Property Acquisitions. Effective January 1, 2017, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business, which requires that when substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired (or disposed of) is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or a group of similar identifiable assets, the integrated set of assets and activities is not considered a business. To be a business, the set of acquired activities and assets must include inputs and one or more substantive processes that together contribute to the ability to create outputs. The Company has determined that its real estate property acquisitions will generally be accounted for as asset acquisitions under the clarified definition. Prior to January 1, 2017, the Company generally accounted for property acquisitions as business combinations, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 805, Business Combinations. Upon acquisition of a property, the Company estimates the fair value of acquired tangible assets (consisting generally of land, buildings and improvements) and intangible assets and liabilities (consisting generally of the above and below-market leases and the origination value of all in-place leases). The Company determines fair values using Level 3 inputs such as replacement cost, estimated cash flow projections and other valuation techniques and applying appropriate discount and capitalization rates based on available market information. Mortgage loans assumed in connection with acquisitions are recorded at their fair value using current market interest rates for similar debt at the date of acquisition. Acquisition-related costs associated with asset acquisitions are capitalized to individual tangible and intangible assets and liabilities assumed on a relative fair value basis and acquisition-related costs associated with business combinations are expensed as incurred.
The fair value of the tangible assets is determined by valuing the property as if it were vacant. Land values are derived from current comparative sales values, when available, or management’s estimates of the fair value based on market conditions and the experience of the Company’s management team. Building and improvement values are calculated as replacement cost less depreciation, or management’s estimates of the fair value of these assets using discounted cash flow analyses or similar methods. The fair value of the above and below-market leases is based on the present value of the difference between the contractual amounts to be received pursuant to the acquired leases (using a discount rate that reflects the risks associated with the acquired leases) and the Company’s estimate of the market lease rates measured over a period equal to the remaining term of the leases plus the term of any below-market fixed rate renewal options. The above and below-market lease values are amortized to rental revenues over the remaining initial term plus the term of any below-market fixed rate renewal options that are considered bargain renewal options of the respective leases. The total net impact to rental revenues due to the amortization of above and below-market leases was a net increase of approximately $5.4 million, $4.7 million and $3.7 million, for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. The origination value of in-place leases is based on costs to execute similar leases including commissions and other related costs. The origination value of in-place leases also includes real estate taxes, insurance and an estimate of lost rental revenue at market rates during the estimated time required to lease up the property from vacant to the occupancy level at the date of acquisition. The remaining weighted average lease term related to these intangible assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2020 is 7.8 years. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company’s intangible assets and liabilities, including properties held for sale (if any), consisted of the following (dollars in thousands):
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Gross AccumulatedAmortization Net Gross AccumulatedAmortization Net
Projected net amortization of the intangible assets and liabilities for the next five years and thereafter as of December 31, 2020 is as follows (dollars in thousands):
Depreciation and Useful Lives of Real Estate and Intangible Assets. Depreciation and amortization are computed on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the related assets or liabilities. The following table reflects the standard depreciable lives typically used to compute depreciation and amortization. However, such depreciable lives may be different based on the estimated useful life of such assets or liabilities.
Description Standard Depreciable Life
Land Not depreciated
Building 40 years
Building Improvements 5 - 40 years
Tenant Improvements Shorter of lease term or useful life
Leasing Costs Lease term
In-place leases Lease term
Above/Below-Market Leases Lease term
Held for Sale Assets. The Company considers a property to be held for sale when it meets the criteria established under ASC 360, Property, Plant, and Equipment (See “Note 5 – Held for Sale/Disposed Assets”). Properties held for sale are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less estimated costs to sell and are not depreciated while they are held for sale.
Cash and Cash Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents consists of cash held in a major banking institution and other highly liquid short-term investments with original maturities of three months or less. Cash equivalents are generally invested in U.S. government securities, government agency securities or money market accounts.
Restricted Cash. Restricted cash includes cash held in escrow in connection with property acquisitions and reserves for certain capital improvements, leasing, interest and real estate tax and insurance payments as required by certain mortgage loan obligations.
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The following summarizes the reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash as presented in the accompanying consolidated statements of cash flows (dollars in thousands):
For the Year Ended December 31,
Beginning
Ending
Revenue Recognition. The Company records rental revenue from operating leases on a straight-line basis over the term of the leases and maintains an allowance for estimated losses that may result from the inability of its tenants to make required payments. If tenants fail to make contractual lease payments that are greater than the Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts, security deposits and letters of credit, then the Company may have to recognize additional doubtful account charges in future periods. The Company monitors the liquidity and creditworthiness of its tenants on an on-going basis by reviewing their financial condition periodically as appropriate. Each period the Company reviews its outstanding accounts receivable, including straight-line rents, for doubtful accounts and provides allowances as needed. The Company also records lease termination fees when a tenant has executed a definitive termination agreement with the Company and the payment of the termination fee is not subject to any conditions that must be met or waived before the fee is due to the Company. If a tenant remains in the leased space following the execution of a definitive termination agreement, the applicable termination will be deferred and recognized over the term of such tenant’s occupancy. Tenant expense reimbursement income includes payments and amounts due from tenants pursuant to their leases for real estate taxes, insurance and other recoverable property operating expenses and is recognized as revenues during the same period the related expenses are incurred.
As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, approximately $32.5 million and $27.4 million, respectively, of straight-line rent and accounts receivable, net of allowances of approximately $0.9 million and $0.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, were included as a component of other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) ("ASU No. 2014-09"), using the modified retrospective approach, which requires a cumulative effect adjustment as of the date of the Company's adoption. Under the modified retrospective approach, an entity may also elect to apply this standard to either (i) all contracts as of January 1, 2018 or (ii) only to contracts that were not completed as of January 1, 2018. A completed contract is a contract for which all (or substantially all) of the revenue was recognized under legacy GAAP that was in effect before the date of initial application. Based on the Company’s evaluation of contracts within the scope of ASU No. 2014-09, the guidance impacts revenue related to the sales of real estate, which is evaluated in conjunction with ASC 610-20, Other Income - Gains and Losses from the Derecognition of Nonfinancial Assets ("ASC 610-20") (see below).
Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted the guidance of ASC 610-20, which applies to sales or transfers to noncustomers of nonfinancial assets or in substance nonfinancial assets that do not meet the definition of a business. Generally, the Company’s sales of real estate would be considered a sale of a nonfinancial asset as defined by ASC 610-20. ASC 610-20 refers to the revenue recognition principles under ASU 2014-09 (see above). Under ASC 610-20, if the Company determines it does not have a controlling financial interest in the entity that holds the asset and the arrangement meets the criteria to be accounted for as a contract, the Company will derecognize the asset and recognize a gain or loss on the sale of the real estate when control of the underlying asset transfers to the buyer. As a result of adoption of the standard, there was no material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Deferred Financing Costs. Costs incurred in connection with financings are capitalized and amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the related loan. Deferred financing costs associated with the Company's revolving credit facility are classified as an asset and deferred financing costs associated with debt liabilities are reported as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the debt liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Deferred
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financing costs related to the revolving credit facility and debt liabilities are shown at cost, net of accumulated amortization in the aggregate of approximately $9.4 million and $8.3 million as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Income Taxes. The Company elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Code and operates as such beginning with its taxable year ended December 31, 2010. To qualify as a REIT, the Company must meet certain organizational and operational requirements, including a requirement to distribute at least 90% of its annual REIT taxable income to its stockholders (which is computed without regard to the dividends paid deduction or net capital gain and which does not necessarily equal net income as calculated in accordance with GAAP). As a REIT, the Company generally will not be subject to federal income tax to the extent it distributes qualifying dividends to its stockholders. If it fails to qualify as a REIT in any taxable year, it will be subject to federal income tax on its taxable income at regular corporate income tax rates and generally will not be permitted to qualify for treatment as a REIT for federal income tax purposes for the four taxable years following the year during which qualification is lost unless the IRS grants it relief under certain statutory provisions. Such an event could materially adversely affect the Company’s net income and net cash available for distribution to stockholders. However, the Company believes it is organized and operates in such a manner as to qualify for treatment as a REIT.
ASC 740-10, Income Taxes, (“ASC 740-10”), provides guidance for how uncertain tax positions should be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in the financial statements. ASC 740-10 requires the evaluation of tax positions taken in the course of preparing the Company’s tax returns to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” of being sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax benefits of positions not deemed to meet the more-likely-than-not threshold are recorded as a tax expense in the current year. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company did not have any unrecognized tax benefits and does not believe that there will be any material changes in unrecognized tax positions over the next 12 months. The Company’s tax returns are subject to examination by federal, state and local tax jurisdictions beginning with the 2010 calendar year.
Stock-Based Compensation and Other Long-Term Incentive Compensation. The Company follows the provisions of ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation, to account for its stock-based compensation plan, which requires that the compensation cost relating to stock-based payment transactions be recognized in the financial statements and that the cost be measured on the fair value of the equity or liability instruments issued. The Company's 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2019 Plan") provides for the grant of restricted stock awards, performance share awards, unrestricted shares or any combination of the foregoing. Stock-based compensation is recognized as a general and administrative expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and measured at the fair value of the award on the date of grant. The Company estimates the forfeiture rate based on historical experience as well as expected behavior. The amount of the expense may be subject to adjustment in future periods depending on the specific characteristics of the stock-based award.
In addition, the Company has awarded long-term incentive target awards (the “Performance Share awards”) under its Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan (as amended and restated the "Amended LTIP"), which the Company amended and restated on January 8, 2019, to its executives that may be payable in shares of the Company’s common stock after the conclusion of each pre-established performance measurement period, which is generally three years. The amount that may be earned is variable depending on the relative total shareholder return of the Company’s common stock as compared to the total shareholder return of the MSCI U.S. REIT Index (RMS) and the FTSE Nareit Equity Industrial Index over the pre-established performance measurement period. Under the Amended LTIP, each participant’s Performance Share award granted on or after January 1, 2019 will be expressed as a number of shares of common stock and settled in shares of common stock. Target awards were previously expressed as a dollar amount and settled in shares of common stock. Commencing with Performance Share awards granted on or after January 1, 2019, the grant date fair value of the Performance Share awards will be determined under current accounting treatment using a Monte Carlo simulation model on the date of grant and recognized on a straight-line basis over the performance period. For Performance Share awards granted prior to January 1, 2019, the Company estimates the fair value of the Performance Share awards using a Monte Carlo simulation model on the date of grant and at each reporting period. The Performance Share awards granted prior to January 1, 2019 are recognized as compensation expense over the requisite performance period based on the fair value of the Performance Share awards at the balance sheet date, which varies quarter to quarter based on the Company’s relative share price performance, and are included as a component of Performance Share awards payable in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
Use of Derivative Financial Instruments. ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging (See “Note 9 – Derivative Financial Instruments”), provides the disclosure requirements for derivatives and hedging activities with the intent to provide users of financial statements with an enhanced understanding of: (a) how and why the Company uses derivative instruments, (b) how the Company accounts for derivative instruments and related hedged items, and (c) how derivative instruments and related hedged items affect the Company’s financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. Further, qualitative disclosures are required that explain the Company’s objectives and strategies for using derivatives, as well as quantitative disclosures about the fair value of and gains and losses on derivative instruments.
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The Company records all derivatives on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at fair value. The accounting for changes in the fair value of derivatives depends on the intended use of the derivative, whether the Company has elected to designate a derivative in a hedging relationship and apply hedge accounting and whether the hedging relationship has satisfied the criteria necessary to apply hedge accounting. Derivatives designated and qualifying as a hedge of the exposure to changes in the fair value of an asset, liability, or firm commitment attributable to a particular risk, such as interest rate risk, are considered fair value hedges. Derivatives designated and qualifying as a hedge of the exposure to variability in expected future cash flows, or other types of forecasted transactions, are considered cash flow hedges. Hedge accounting generally provides for the matching of the timing of gain or loss recognition on the hedging instrument with the recognition of the changes in the fair value of the hedged asset or liability that are attributable to the hedged risk in a fair value hedge or the earnings effect of the hedged forecasted transactions in a cash flow hedge. The Company may enter into derivative contracts that are intended to economically hedge certain of its risks, even though hedge accounting does not apply or the Company elects not to apply hedge accounting.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments. ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (See “Note 10 – Fair Value Measurements”), defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. ASC 820 also provides guidance for using fair value to measure financial assets and liabilities. ASC 820 requires disclosure of the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the fair value measurements fall, including measurements using quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1), quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active (Level 2), and significant valuation assumptions that are not readily observable in the market (Level 3).
New Accounting Standards. ASU No. 2016-02 requires lessees to recognize the following for all leases (with the exception of short-term leases) at the commencement date: 1) a lease liability, which is a lessee’s obligation to make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis; and 2) a right-of-use asset (“ROU asset”), which is an asset that represents the lessee’s right to use, or control the use of, a specified asset for the lease term. ASU No. 2016-02 also requires lessees to classify leases as either a finance or operating lease based on whether or not the lease is effectively a financed purchase of the leased asset by the lessee. This classification is used to evaluate whether the lease expense should be recognized based on an effective interest method as a finance lease or on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease as an operating lease. The Company is the lessee of one office space, which was classified as an operating lease under Topic 840. As the Company elected the package of practical expedients as described above, the classification of existing leases was not reassessed and as such, this lease continues to be accounted for as an operating lease.
In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842), Targeted Improvements (“ASU No. 2018-11”), which provides lessors with a practical expedient, by class of underlying asset, to not separate nonlease components from the associated lease component and, instead to account for those components as a single component if the nonlease components otherwise would be accounted for under the new revenue recognition standard (Topic 606) and if certain conditions are met. Upon adoption of ASU No. 2016-02, the Company adopted this practical expedient, specifically related to its tenant reimbursements which would otherwise be accounted for under the new revenue recognition standard. The Company believes the two conditions have been met for tenant reimbursements as 1) the timing and pattern of transfer of the nonlease components and associated lease components are the same and 2) the non-lease component is not the predominant component in the arrangement. In addition, ASU No. 2018-11 provides an additional optional transition method to allow entities to apply the new lease accounting standard at the adoption date and recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings. An entity’s reporting for the comparative periods presented in the financial statements in which it adopts the new lease accounting standard will continue to be reported under the current lease accounting standards of Topic 840. The Company adopted this transition method upon adoption of ASU No. 2016-02 on January 1, 2019. There was no cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings upon adoption.
In December 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-20, Leases (Topic 842), Narrow-Scope Improvements for Lessors (“ASU No. 2018-20”), which permits lessors, as an accounting policy election, to not evaluate whether certain sales taxes andother similar taxes are lessor costs or lessee costs and instead to account for these costs as if they were lessee costs. In addition,ASU No. 2018-20 requires lessors to 1) exclude lessor costs paid directly by lessees to third parties on the lessor’s behalf fromvariable payments and 2) include lessor costs that are reimbursed by the lessee in the measurement of variable lease revenueand the associated expense. The amendments also clarify that lessors are required to allocate the variable payments to the leaseand non-lease components and follow the recognition guidance in Topic 842 for the lease component and other applicableguidance, such as ASU No. 2014-09, for the non-lease component.
As a result of the adoption of ASU No. 2016-02, ASU No. 2018-11, and ASC No. 2018-20, there was no material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements as a lessor or lessee. In accordance with the guidance, the Company has combined rental revenues and tenant expense reimbursements on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. The Company
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does not currently capitalize internal leasing costs. In addition, on January 1, 2019, the Company recognized a lease liability of approximately $0.9 million and a related ROU asset of approximately $0.8 million on its consolidated balance sheets, based on the present value of lease payments for the remaining term of the Company’s corporate office lease, which was approximately 3.5 years as of the adoption date. As the rate implicit in the lease was not readily determinable, the discount rate applied to measure the lease liability and ROU asset was based on the Company’s incremental borrowing rate of 2.7% as of the adoption date. The lease liability is included as a component of accounts payable and other liabilities and the ROU asset is included as a component of other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. All operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. As of December 31, 2020, the lease liability was approximately $0.4 million and the ROU asset was approximately $0.4 million.
Segment Disclosure. ASC 280, Segment Reporting, establishes standards for reporting financial and descriptive information about an enterprise’s reportable segments. The Company has determined that it has one reportable segment, with activities related to investing in real estate. The Company’s investments in real estate are geographically diversified and the chief operating decision makers evaluate operating performance on an individual asset level. As each of the Company’s assets has similar economic characteristics, the assets have been aggregated into one reportable segment.
Note 3. Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a significant concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents. The Company may maintain deposits in federally insured financial institutions in excess of federally insured limits. However, the Company’s management believes the Company is not exposed to significant credit risk due to the financial position of the depository institutions in which those deposits are held.
As of December 31, 2020, the Company owned 62 buildings aggregating approximately 3.6 million square feet and nine improved land parcels consisting of approximately 48.6 acres located in Northern New Jersey/New York City, which accounted for a combined percentage of approximately 29.5% of its annualized base rent. Such annualized base rent percentages are based on contractual base rent from leases in effect as of December 31, 2020, excluding any partial or full rent abatements.
Other real estate companies compete with the Company in its real estate markets. This results in competition for tenants to occupy space. The existence of competing properties could have a material impact on the Company’s ability to lease space and on the level of rent that can be achieved. The Company had no tenants that accounted for greater than 10% of its rental revenues for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018.
Note 4. Investments in Real Estate
During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company acquired six industrial buildings containing approximately 0.2 million square feet and five improved land parcels containing approximately 12.0 acres. The total aggregate initial investment, including acquisition costs, was approximately $100.4 million, of which $78.8 million was recorded to land, $17.0 million to buildings and improvements and $4.6 million to intangible assets. Additionally, the Company assumed $2.1 million in intangible liabilities.
The following table sets forth the wholly-owned industrial properties the Company acquired during the year ended December 31, 2020:
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Maple Street 5 Rancho Dominguez, CA December 5, 2020 — — 9,750
1The total aggregate investment was approximately $100.4 million, including $1.6 million in closing costs and acquisition costs. Additionally, the Company assumed $2.1 million in intangible liabilities.
2An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.7 acres.
3Also includes an improved land parcel containing approximately 2.8 acres.
4An improved land parcel containing approximately 1.9 acres.
5An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.5 acres.
6An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.1 acres.
The Company recorded revenues and net income for the year ended December 31, 2020 of approximately $2.4 million and $1.1 million, respectively, related to the 2020 acquisitions.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company acquired 17 industrial buildings containing approximately 0.7 million square feet and four improved land parcels containing approximately 22.6 acres. The total aggregate initial investment, including acquisition costs, was approximately $289.6 million, of which $224.1 million was recorded to land, $53.9 million to buildings and improvements and $11.6 million to intangible assets. Additionally, the Company assumed $10.0 million in intangible liabilities.
As of December 31, 2020, the Company owned one property under redevelopment expected to contain approximately 0.2 million square feet upon completion with a total expected investment of approximately $64.1 million, including redevelopment costs, capitalized interest and other costs of approximately $61.4 million. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company completed redevelopment of its Kent 192 property in Kent, Washington and 6th Avenue South property in Seattle, Washington, totaling approximately 0.3 million square feet. The total investment was approximately $49.8 million. The Company capitalized interest associated with redevelopment and expansion activities of approximately $1.6 million, $3.2 million and $2.5 million, respectively, during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018.
The following table sets forth the wholly-owned industrial properties the Company acquired during the year ended December 31, 2019:
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1The total aggregate investment was approximately $289.6 million, including $6.0 million in closing costs and acquisition costs. Additionally, the Company assumed $10.0 million in intangible liabilities.
2An improved land parcel containing approximately 16.8 acres.
3Also includes an improved land parcel containing approximately 2.9 acres.
4An improved land parcel containing approximately 2.0 acres.
5An improved land parcel containing approximately 0.9 acres.
The Company recorded revenues and net income for the year ended December 31, 2019 of approximately $7.6 million and $3.0 million, respectively, related to the 2019 acquisitions.
The above assets and liabilities were recorded at fair value, which uses Level 3 inputs. The properties were acquired from unrelated third parties using existing cash on hand, proceeds from property sales, issuance of common stock and borrowings on the revolving credit facility.
Note 5. Held for Sale/Disposed Assets
The Company considers a property to be held for sale when it meets the criteria established under ASC 360, Property, Plant, and Equipment. Properties held for sale are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less estimated costs to sell and are not depreciated while they are held for sale. As of December 31, 2020, the Company did not have any properties held for sale.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company sold three properties located in the Washington, D.C. market for a total aggregate sales price of approximately $51.3 million, resulting in a gain of approximately $17.8 million, and one property located in the Miami market for a sales price of approximately $22.2 million, resulting in a gain of approximately $9.0 million.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company sold one property in the Los Angeles market for a sales price of approximately $12.4 million, resulting in a gain of approximately $4.5 million, one redevelopment property in the Miami market for a sales price of approximately $14.0 million, resulting in a gain of approximately $1.8 million, and two properties located in the Washington, D.C. market for an aggregate sales price of approximately $22.5 million, resulting in an aggregate gain of approximately $3.1 million.
Note 6. Senior Secured Loan
The Company had a Senior Secured Loan outstanding to a borrower that bore interest at a fixed annual interest rate of 8.0% and was fully repaid in May 2020. The Senior Secured Loan was secured by a portfolio of six improved land parcels located primarily in Newark, New Jersey. As of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, there was approximately $0 and $15.9 million, respectively, net of deferred loan fees of approximately $0 and $0.1 million, respectively, outstanding on the Senior Secured Loan and approximately $0 and $0.3 million, respectively, of interest receivable outstanding on the Senior Secured Loan. Interest receivable is included as a component of other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
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Note 7. Debt
As of December 31, 2020, the Company had $50.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in September 2022, $100.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in July 2024, $50.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in July 2026, $50.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in October 2027 and $100.0 million of senior unsecured notes that mature in December 2029 (collectively, the “Senior Unsecured Notes”), and a credit facility (the “Facility”), which consists of a $250.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility that matures in October 2022 and a $100.0 million term loan that matures in January 2022. As of both December 31, 2020 and 2019, there were no borrowings outstanding on the revolving credit facility and $100.0 million of borrowings outstanding on the term loan. As of December 31, 2020, the Company had one interest rate cap to hedge the variable cash flows associated with $50.0 million of its existing $100.0 million variable-rate term loan. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had two interest rate caps to hedge the variable cash flows associated with its existing $100.0 million variable-rate term loan. See “Note 9 - Derivative Financial Instruments” for more information regarding the Company’s interest rate caps.
The aggregate amount of the Facility may be increased to a total of up to $600.0 million, subject to the approval of the administrative agent and the identification of lenders willing to make available additional amounts. Outstanding borrowings under the Facility are limited to the lesser of (i) the sum of the $250.0 million revolving credit facility and the $100.0 million term loan or (ii) 60.0% of the value of the unencumbered properties. Interest on the Facility, including the term loan, is generally to be paid based upon, at the Company’s option, either (i) LIBOR plus the applicable LIBOR margin or (ii) the applicable base rate which is the greatest of the administrative agent’s prime rate, 0.50% above the federal funds effective rate, or thirty-day LIBOR plus the applicable LIBOR margin for LIBOR rate loans under the Facility plus 1.25%. The applicable LIBOR margin will range from 1.05% to 1.50% (1.05% as of December 31, 2020) for the revolving credit facility and 1.20% to 1.70% (1.20% as of December 31, 2020) for the $100.0 million term loan that matures in January 2022, depending on the ratio of the Company’s outstanding consolidated indebtedness to the value of the Company’s consolidated gross asset value. The Facility requires quarterly payments of an annual facility fee in an amount ranging from 0.15% to 0.30% depending on the ratio of the Company’s outstanding consolidated indebtedness to the value of the Company’s consolidated gross asset value.
The Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes are guaranteed by the Company and by substantially all of the current and to-be-formed subsidiaries of the Company that own an unencumbered property. The Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes are unsecured by the Company’s properties or by interests in the subsidiaries that hold such properties. The Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes include a series of financial and other covenants with which the Company must comply. The Company was in compliance with the covenants under the Facility and the Senior Unsecured Notes as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
As of December 31, 2020, the Company had one mortgage loan payable, net of deferred financing costs, totaling approximately $11.3 million, which bore interest at a weighted average fixed annual rate of 5.5%. The mortgage loan payable is collateralized by one property, is non-recourse and requires monthly interest and principal payments until it matures in April 2021. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had two mortgage loans payable, net of deferred financing costs, totaling approximately $44.3 million, which bore interest at a weighted average fixed annual interest rate of 4.1%. As of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the total gross book value of the properties securing the debt was approximately $32.7 million and $114.9 million, respectively.
The scheduled principal payments of the Company’s debt as of December 31, 2020 were as follows (dollars in thousands):
CreditFacility TermLoans SeniorUnsecuredNotes MortgageLoansPayable Total Debt
Weighted Average Interest Rate n/a 1.3 % 3.8 % 5.5 % 3.3 %
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Note 8. Leasing
The following is a schedule of minimum future cash rentals on tenant operating leases in effect as of December 31, 2020. The schedule does not reflect future rental revenues from the renewal or replacement of existing leases and excludes property operating expense reimbursements (dollars in thousands):
Note 9. Derivative Financial Instruments
Risk Management Objective of Using Derivatives
The Company is exposed to certain risk arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. The Company principally manages its exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risks through management of its core business activities. The Company manages economic risks, including interest rate, liquidity, and credit risk primarily by managing the amount, sources, and duration of its debt funding and the use of derivative financial instruments. Specifically, the Company enters into derivative financial instruments to manage exposures that arise from business activities that result in the payment of future known and uncertain cash amounts, the value of which are determined by interest rates. The Company’s derivative financial instruments are used to manage differences in the amount, timing, and duration of its known or expected cash payments principally related to its borrowings.
Derivative Instruments
The Company’s objectives in using interest rate derivatives are to add stability to interest expense and to manage exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish this objective, the Company primarily uses interest rate caps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. Interest rate caps involve the receipt of variable amounts from a counterparty at the end of each period in which the interest rate exceeds the agreed fixed price. The Company does not use derivatives for trading or speculative purposes. The Company requires that hedging derivative instruments be highly effective in reducing the risk exposure that they are designated to hedge. As a result, there is no significant ineffectiveness from any of its derivative activities.
The accounting for changes in fair value (i.e., gains or losses) of a derivative instrument depends on whether it has been designated and qualifies as part of a hedging relationship and further, on the type of hedging relationship. Derivatives that are not designated as hedges must be adjusted to fair value through earnings. For a derivative that is designated and that qualifies as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of the change in fair value of the derivative is initially recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”). Amounts recorded in AOCI are subsequently reclassified into earnings in the period that the hedged forecasted transaction affects earnings. The ineffective portion of a derivative’s change in fair value is immediately recognized in earnings.
As of December 31, 2020, the Company had one interest rate cap to hedge the variable cash flows associated with $50.0 million of its existing $100.0 million variable-rate term loan. The cap has a notional value of $50.0 million and will effectively cap the annual interest rate payable at 4.0% plus 1.20% to 1.70%, depending on leverage, with respect to $50.0 million for the period from December 1, 2014 (effective date) to May 4, 2021. The Company previously had an additional interest rate cap with a notional value of $50.0 million (which expired on February 3, 2020) to hedge the variable cash flows associated with $50.0 million of its existing $100.0 million variable-rate term loan. The Company is required to make certain monthly variable rate payments on the term loan, while the applicable counterparty is obligated to make certain monthly floating rate payments based on LIBOR to the Company in the event LIBOR is greater than 4.0%, referencing the same notional amount.
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The Company records all derivative instruments on a gross basis in other assets on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, and accordingly, there are no offsetting amounts that net assets against liabilities. The following table presents a summary of the Company’s derivative instruments designated as hedging instruments (dollars in thousands):
Assets:
The effective portion of changes in the fair value of derivatives designated and qualified as cash flow hedges is recorded in AOCI and will be reclassified to interest expense in the period that the hedged forecasted transaction affects earnings on the Company’s variable rate debt. The ineffective portion of the change in fair value of the derivatives is recognized directly in earnings into interest expense.
The following table presents the effect of the Company’s derivative financial instruments on its accompanying consolidated statements of operations for years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 (dollars in thousands):
For the Year Ended December 31,
Interest rate caps in cash flow hedging relationships:
Amount of gain recognized in AOCI on derivatives (effective portion) $ — $ (26)
The Company estimates that approximately $0.2 million will be reclassified from AOCI as an increase to interest expense over the next twelve months.
Note 10. Fair Value Measurements
ASC 820 requires disclosure of the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the fair value measurements fall, including measurements using quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1), quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active (Level 2), and significant valuation assumptions that are not readily observable in the market (Level 3).
Recurring Measurements – Interest Rate Contracts
Fair Value of Interest Rate Caps
Currently, the Company uses interest rate cap agreements to manage its interest rate risk. The valuation of these instruments is determined using widely accepted valuation techniques including discounted cash flow analysis on the expected cash flows of the derivatives. This analysis reflects the contractual terms of the derivatives, including the period to maturity, and uses observable market-based inputs, including interest rate curves. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company applied the provisions of this standard to the valuation of its interest rate caps.
The following sets forth the Company’s financial instruments that are accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 (dollars in thousands):
Fair Value Measurement Using
Assets
Interest rate caps at:
December 31, 2020 $ — $ — $ — $ —