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Business Operations
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Business Operations  
Business Operations

NOTE 2 – Business Operations

 

Dover Motorsports, Inc. is a public holding company that is a  marketer and promoter of motorsports entertainment in the United States. Through our subsidiaries, we own and operate Dover International Speedway® in Dover, Delaware and Nashville Superspeedway® near Nashville, Tennessee. Our Dover facility was scheduled to promote the following six events during 2020, all of which would be under the auspices of the premier sanctioning body in motorsports - the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (“NASCAR”):

 

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2 NASCAR Cup Series events (May and August);

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2 NASCAR Xfinity Series events (May and August);

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1 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series event (May); and

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1 NASCAR ARCA Menards Series East event (August).

 

Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, our May NASCAR weekend has been postponed and we do not yet have a date for the rescheduling of any of the events that were postponed. It is possible that our May NASCAR Cup Series event will be moved to August and that we will hold a double header with back to back NASCAR Cup Series events held on Saturday and Sunday. It is also possible that none of these events are held or that they are held without fans present in the stands. There are no reliable estimates of how long the pandemic will last or how many people are likely to be affected by it. For that reason, we are unable to predict the long-term impact of the pandemic on our business at this time. The extent to which COVID-19 impacts our results will depend on future developments, but the outbreak and associated economic impacts could have a material adverse effect on our future financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We have hosted the Firefly Music Festival (“Firefly”) on our property in Dover, Delaware for eight consecutive years and it was scheduled to return on June 18-21, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event was canceled.The inaugural three day festival with 40 musical acts was held in July 2012 and the 2019 event was held on June 21-23, 2019 with approximately 120 musical acts. In September 2014, Red Frog Events LLC formed RFGV Festivals LLC - a joint venture with Goldenvoice that promotes Firefly.  Goldenvoice is a company of AEG Presents, LLC, a subsidiary of Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. AEG Presents, one of the world’s largest presenters of live music and entertainment events, announced on July 18, 2018 that it had acquired the remainder of RFGV Festivals LLC from Red Frog. Our amended agreement with RFGV Festivals grants them two 5 year options to extend our facility rental agreement through 2032 in exchange for a rental commitment to secure our property. In addition to the facility rental fee, we also receive a percentage of the concession sales we manage at the events.

 

Nashville Superspeedway no longer promotes motorsports events and has not entered into sanction agreements with NASCAR since 2011. We lease the facility on a short term basis to third parties from time to time. On August 17, 2017, we entered into an agreement with an entity owned by Panattoni Development Company (“buyer”) relative to the sale of approximately 147 acres of land at a purchase price of $35,000 per acre. On March 2, 2018,  we closed on the sale of the property with proceeds, less closing costs, of $4,945,000. Net proceeds after taxes were approximately $4,150,000 resulting in a gain of $2,512,000. On September 1, 2017, we also awarded to the buyer a three year option for 88.03 additional acres at a purchase price of $55,000 per acre. That option agreement has been amended twice since: first, on February 9, 2018, to extend its term and to add additional acreage; and second, on June 25, 2019, in connection with the purchaser's exercise of its option on two parcels, we adjusted the acreage and further extended the term of the option on a third parcel. On July 26, 2019, the purchaser closed on the first two parcels, comprising approximately 133 acres, which yielded to us proceeds, less closing costs, of $6,397,000. Net proceeds after taxes were approximately $5,314,000 resulting in a gain of $4,186,000. One parcel of 97.17 acres remains under the option agreement with a  purchase price of $66,685 per acre. The purchaser paid to us $500,000 for the extension of this option until March 1, 2022, and this non-refundable payment would be credited to the purchase price at the closing of that option parcel. Assuming this option is exercised, the remaining Nashville Superspeedway property will consist of approximately 1,000 acres. At March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, $21,274,000 and $21,282,000 was reported as long term assets in our consolidated balance sheets, respectively.

 

On February 28, 2019, we entered into an agreement to sell 7.63 acres of land at our Nashville facility for proceeds, less closing costs, of $267,000.  The sale closed in the first quarter of 2019 and resulted in a gain of $139,000, which we have reported as gain on sale of land in our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.

 

During September 2018, we entered into negotiations to sell a parcel of land we owned near St. Louis.  The sale closed in the first quarter of 2019 with proceeds, less closing costs, of $531,000.