Property Dispositions

From time to time, we may decide to sell a property. We have an active capital recycling program, with a goal of extending the average lease term through reinvestment, improving portfolio credit quality through dispositions and acquisitions of assets, increasing the asset criticality factor in our portfolio, and/or executing strategic dispositions of assets. We may decide to dispose of a property due to vacancy, tenants electing not to renew their leases, tenant insolvency, or lease rejection in the bankruptcy process. In such cases, we assess whether we can obtain the highest value from the property by selling it, as opposed to re-leasing it. We may also sell a property when we receive an unsolicited offer or negotiate a price for an investment that is consistent with our strategy for that investment. When it is appropriate to do so, we classify the property as an asset held for sale on our consolidated balance sheet.

Property Dispositions

The results of operations for properties that have been sold or classified as held for sale are included in the consolidated financial statements and are summarized as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2018		2017
Revenues	$	—	$	7,006
Operating expenses	—		(3,049		)
Interest expense	—		(1,088		)
Equity in losses of equity method investments in real estate	—		(688		)
Loss on extinguishment of debt	—		(1,320		)
Provision for income taxes	—		(10		)
Gain on sale of real estate, net of tax	—		1,634
Income from properties sold or classified as held for sale, net of income taxes	$	—	$	2,485

2017 Dispositions

I-drive Property Disposition and I-drive Wheel Restructuring

In 2012, we entered into a contract for the construction of a domestic build-to-suit project with IDL Master Tenant, LLC, a developer, for the construction of the I-drive Property and the I-drive Wheel at that location. We had accounted for the construction of the I-drive Property as Real estate under construction. The funding for the construction of the I-drive Wheel was provided by the I-drive Wheel Loan. Pursuant to the accounting guidance regarding ADC Arrangements, we accounted for the I-drive Wheel Loan under the equity method of accounting as the characteristics of the arrangement with the third-party developer were more similar to a jointly owned investment or partnership rather than a loan. During 2015, the construction on both the I-drive Property and the I-drive Wheel were completed and they were placed into service.

On March 17, 2017, the developer exercised its purchase option and acquired the I-drive Property for a purchase price of $117.5 million (net proceeds of $23.5 million). The $60.0 million non-recourse mortgage loan encumbering the I-drive Property was repaid at closing by the buyer. In connection with the disposition, we provided seller financing in the form of a $34.0 million mezzanine loan, which was considered to be a non-cash investing activity, and the sale was accounted for under the cost recovery method. As a result, the $2.1 million gain on sale was deferred during the first quarter of 2017. As a result of the adoption of ASU 2017-05 (Note 2), we recognized a cumulative effect adjustment to recognize the deferred gain on our opening balance sheet as of January 1, 2018.

In addition to the sale of the I-drive Property, we restructured the I-drive Wheel Loan on March 17, 2017. In connection with the restructuring of the I-drive Wheel Loan, we determined that the loan no longer qualifies as an ADC Arrangement and should no longer be accounted for as an equity investment. As a result, we reclassified the aggregate loan balance noted above to loans receivable, included in Other Assets, net, which was a non-cash investing activity. A deferred gain of $16.4 million was recorded during the first quarter of 2017, which was the difference between the fair value of the remaining $35.0 million loan and the $18.6 million carrying value of our previously held equity investment on March 17, 2017. As a result of the adoption of ASU 2017-05 (Note 2), we recognized a $6.0 million cumulative effect adjustment to partially recognize the deferred gain within our opening balance sheet as of January 1, 2018. The remaining portion of the deferred gain will be recognized into income through the accretion of the loan balance during the remaining life of the loan.

KBR Property Disposition

In August 2016, we simultaneously entered into two agreements with one of our tenants, KBR, Inc., to amend the lease at one property and terminate the lease at another property, both located in Houston, Texas. The lease modification and lease termination were contingent upon one another and became effective upon disposing of one net-lease property on March 13, 2017, which was previously classified as held for sale as of December 31, 2016 prior to its sale in the first quarter of 2017. Upon disposition, we received proceeds of $14.1 million, net of closing costs, and recognized a gain on sale, net of tax of $1.6 million, which was recorded under the full accrual method. In addition, as a result of the aforementioned lease modification, contractual rents were renegotiated to be at market and the existing below-market rent lease liability of $15.7 million was written off and recognized in Rental income during the three months ended March 31, 2017 (Note 7). In addition, as a result of the termination of the lease noted above, we accelerated the below-market lease intangible liabilities of $3.3 million that were also recognized in Rental income during the three months ended March 31, 2017.

We did not have any significant dispositions during the three months ended March 31, 2018.