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DEVELOPMENT LOANS RECEIVABLE (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Development Loans Receivable [Abstract]  
Development loans receivable
As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, our development loans receivable consisted of the following:


Hotel Property
 
Borrower
 
Principal Outstanding December 31, 2011
  
Principal Outstanding December 31, 2010
  
Interest Rate
  
Maturity Date (1)
 
Operational Hotels
               
Renaissance by Marriott - Woodbridge, NJ
 
Hersha Woodbridge Associates, LLC
  5,000   5,000   11% 
April 1, 2012*
 
Element Hotel - Ewing, NJ
 
American Properties @ Scotch Road, LLC
  2,000   2,000   11% 
August 6, 2012*
 
Hilton Garden Inn - Dover, DE
 
44 Aasha Hospitality Associates, LLC
  1,000   1,000   10% 
November 1, 2012*
 
Hyatt 48Lex - New York, NY
 
44 Lexington Holding, LLC
  14,444(2)  12,939   11% 
December 31, 2012*
 
                    
Construction Hotels
                  
Hyatt Union Square - New York, NY (3)
 
Risingsam Union Square, LLC
  13,303(2)  12,714   10%  N/A 
Hampton Inn - New York, NY (4)
 
SC Waterview, LLC
  -   8,000   10%  N/A 
                     
Total Development Loans Receivable
 
 
 $35,747  $41,653         


* Indicates borrower is a related party


(1)
Represents current maturity date in effect. Agreements for our development loans receivable typically allow for multiple one-year extensions which can be exercised by the borrower if the loan is not in default.  As these loans typically finance hotel development projects, it is common for the borrower to exercise their options to extend the loans, in whole or in part, until the project has been completed and the project provides cash flow to the developer or is refinanced by the developer.
(2)
We amended the following development loans to allow the borrower to elect, quarterly, to pay accrued interest in-kind by adding the accrued interest to the principal balance of the loan as of December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009:


   
Interest Income
Year Ended December 31,
    
Borrower
 
2011
  
2010
  
2009
  
Cumulative Interest Income
Paid In Kind
 
Risingsam Union Square, LLC (3)
 $589  $1,211  $1,069  $3,304 
44 Lexington Holding, LLC
  1,505   1,348   1,178   4,444 
                  
Total
 $2,094  $2,559  $2,247  $7,748 


(3)
On June 14, 2011, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire the Hyatt Union Square hotel in New York, NY for total consideration of $104,303.  The consideration to the seller consists of $36,000 to be paid to the seller in cash, the cancellation by the Company of a $10,000 development loan, and $3,304 of accrued interest on the loan and the assumption by the Company of two mortgage loans secured by the hotel in the original aggregate principal amount of $55,000. In accordance with terms of the purchase and sale agreement, we have ceased accruing interest on this $10,000 development loan as of June 14, 2011.
(4)
On July 22, 2011, we completed the acquisition of the real property and improvements located at 32 Pearl Street, New York, NY from SC Waterview, LLC.  Consideration given in exchange for the property and improvements include the cancellation of a development loan in the original principal amount of $8,000, made to an affiliate of the seller and the cancellation $300 of the accrued interest receivable on the development loan.  See “Note 2 – Investment in Hotel Properties” for additional discussion of this transaction.
Advances and repayments on development loans receivable
Advances and repayments on our development loans receivable consisted of the following for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009:


   
2011
  
2010
  
2009
 
Balance at January 1,
 $41,653  $46,094  $81,500 
New advances
  -   -   2,000 
Interest added to principal
  2,094   2,559   4,502 
Repayments
  -   -   (500)
Principal exchanged for interest in hotel properties
  (8,000)  (7,000)  (20,000)
Impairments, net of discount
  -   -   (21,408)
Balance at December 31,
 $35,747  $41,653  $46,094