LEASES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

The Company has operating leases related to the land under certain hotel properties, conference centers, parking spaces, automobiles, our corporate office and other miscellaneous office equipment. These leases have remaining terms of 1 year to 79 years, some of which include options to extend the leases for additional years. The exercise of lease renewal options is at our sole discretion. Certain leases also include options to purchase the leased property. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet; we recognize lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

Certain of our lease agreements include rental payments based on a percentage of revenue over contractual levels and others include rental payments adjusted periodically for inflation. Our lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or restrictive covenants that materially affect our business. We rent or sublease certain real estate to third parties. In

2019, 2018, and 2017, we recorded gross third party tenant income of $2.2 million, $1.7 million, and $1.4 million, respectively, which were recorded in Other income in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASC No. 842, Leases, and recognized right-of-use lease assets and related liabilities. The right-of-use assets and related liabilities include renewal options reasonably certain to be exercised. We base our lease calculations on our estimated incremental borrowing rate. As of December 31, 2019, our weighted average incremental borrowing rate was 4.9%.

In 2019, 2018, and 2017, the Company's total operating lease cost was $3.3 million, $3.6 million, and $4.0 million, respectively, and the operating cash outflows from operating leases was $3.0 million, $3.6 million, and $3.5 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2019, the weighted average operating lease term was 28.25 years.

On January 31, 2019, we exercised our option pursuant to a ground lease agreement to purchase the land upon which our hotel property in Baltimore (Hunt Valley), MD is located for $4.2 million, which resulted in a termination of obligations under the ground lease.

On December 4, 2019, we exercised our right to acquire a fee simple interest in the land upon which our Hyatt Place in Garden City, NY is located for nominal consideration. As a result, the hotel is no longer subject to a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) lease with the Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Authority.

Operating lease maturities as of December 31, 2019 are as follows (in thousands):



2020	$	2,148
2021	2,038
2022	1,815
2023	959
2024	900
Thereafter	28,904
Total lease payments ⁽¹⁾	36,764
Less imputed interest	(17,160		)
Total	$	19,604

(1) Certain payments above include future increases to the minimum fixed rent based on the Consumer Price Index in effect at the initial measurement of the lease balances.