Organization and Description of Business

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]

1.     Organization and Description of Business

Campus Crest Communities, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, referred to herein as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” “our,” and “Campus Crest,” is a self-managed, self-administered and vertically-integrated real estate investment trust (“REIT”) focused on developing, building, owning and managing a diversified portfolio of high-quality, residence life focused student housing properties. We currently own the sole general partner interest and own limited partner interests in Campus Crest Communities Operating Partnership, LP (the “Operating Partnership”). We hold substantially all of our assets, and conduct substantially all of our business, through the Operating Partnership.

We have made an election to qualify, and we believe we are operating so as to qualify, as a REIT under Sections 856 through 859 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”). As a REIT, we generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax to the extent that we meet the organizational and operational requirements and our distributions equal or exceed 90.0% of REIT taxable income. For all periods subsequent to the REIT election, we have met the organizational and operational requirements and distributions have exceeded net taxable income.

We have made an election to treat Campus Crest TRS Holdings, Inc. (“TRS Holdings”), our wholly-owned subsidiary, as a taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”). TRS Holdings holds the development, construction and management companies that provide services to entities in which we do not own 100% of the equity interests. As a TRS, the operations of TRS Holdings and its subsidiaries are generally subject to federal, state and local income and franchise taxes.

As of December 31, 2013, we had ownership interests in 41 operating student housing Grove properties comprising approximately 8,151 apartment units and 22,303 beds. Thirty-one of our operating Grove properties are wholly-owned and ten of our operating Grove properties are owned through joint ventures with Harrison Street Real Estate Capital ("HSRE") or with HSRE and Brandywine Realty Trust (“Brandywine”). As of December 31, 2013, we also owned interests in 28 operating student housing Copper Beech (see Note 5) properties, containing approximately 5,047 units and 13,177 beds, and one wholly-owned redevelopment property containing approximately 382 units and 629 beds. Our portfolio consists of the following:

	Student Housing		Student Housing
	Properties in		Properties Under
	Operation		Construction  (1)
Wholly owned Grove properties		31		4
Joint Venture Grove properties		10		2
Total Grove Properties		41		6
Joint Venture evo properties (2)		-		3
CB Portfolio		28		1
Total Portfolio(3)		69		10

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⁽¹⁾ For delivery in the 2014-2015 academic year, consolidated entities under construction include The Grove at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, The Grove at Grand Forks, North Dakota, The Grove at Gainesville, Florida, and The Grove at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. For delivery in the 2014-2015 academic year, joint venture properties under construction include evo at Cira Centre South, Pennsylvania, The Grove at Louisville, Kentucky, The Grove at Greensboro, North Carolina, evo à Square Victoria, Montreal, and evo à Sherbrooke, Montreal. We also have an interest in a Copper Beech property under construction, Copper Beech at Ames.

⁽²⁾ Renovation work began on evo à Sherbrooke in January 2014.

⁽³⁾ The re-development of our 100% owned property in Toledo, OH, which was acquired in March 2013, is excluded. We expect to announce more details on the redevelopment in 2014. See Note 5.