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Mortgage Notes Payable, Net
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Mortgage Notes Payable, Net Mortgage Notes Payable, Net
The Company’s mortgage notes payable as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows:
Outstanding Loan Amount
December 31,
PortfolioEncumbered Properties20242023Effective Interest RateInterest RateMaturity
(In thousands)(In thousands)
9 Times Square (1) (4)
$— $49,500 6.41 %FloatingJan. 2025
1140 Avenue of the Americas (2)
199,000 99,000 4.18 %FixedJul. 2026
123 William Street1140,000 140,000 4.74 %FixedMar. 2027
400 E. 67th Street - Laurel Condominium/200 Riverside Boulevard - ICON Garage (2)
250,000 50,000 4.59 %FixedMay 2028
8713 Fifth Avenue (2)
110,000 10,000 5.05 %FixedNov. 2028
196 Orchard Street151,000 51,000 3.85 %FixedAug. 2029
Mortgage notes payable, gross6350,000 399,500 4.43 %
Less: deferred financing costs, net (3)
(2,616)(3,798)
Mortgage notes payable, net$347,384 $395,702 
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(1)Formerly fixed as a result of a “pay-fixed” interest rate swap agreement which matured in April 2024. This interest rate swap effectively fixed the mortgage at an annual rate of 3.72% when it was active prior to April 2024.
(2)These mortgage notes payable are currently either in breach of a debt covenant that may result in further restrictions as specified by the terms of the covenants or a cash sweep event. These covenant breaches or cash sweeps do not result in events of default. For more information please see “Debt Covenant Non-Compliance and Cash Sweep Events” section below.
(3)Deferred financing costs represent commitment fees, legal fees, and other costs associated with obtaining commitments for financing. These costs are amortized to interest expense over the terms of the respective financing agreements using the effective interest method. Unamortized deferred financing costs are expensed when the associated debt is refinanced or repaid before maturity. Costs incurred in seeking financial transactions that do not close are expensed in the period in which it is determined that the financing will not close.
(4)On April 29, 2024, the Company entered into an amendment to the loan agreement that extended the maturity of the loan to October 31, 2024, which the Company further extended to January 31, 2025, pursuant to an option contained in such agreement, at an effective variable interest rate of one-month SOFR plus a spread of 2.60% per annum. The Company determined to market certain of their properties for sale, including 9 Times Square. This amended agreement allowed the Company to begin marketing the property for sale, with the option to extend in the event the property was under contract for sale but had not yet closed at the time of maturity. On December 18, 2024, the Company sold this property for a gross purchase price of $63.5 million and paid off the 9 Times Square loan in conjunction with the sale. For additional information please see Note 3 — Real Estate Investments.
Collateral and Principal Payments
Real estate assets and intangible assets of $481.4 million, at cost (net of below-market lease liabilities), as of December 31, 2024, have been pledged as collateral to the Company’s mortgage notes payable and are not available to satisfy the Company’s other obligations unless first satisfying the mortgage notes payable on the applicable property. The Company is required to make payments of interest on its mortgage note payable on a monthly basis.
The following table summarizes the scheduled aggregate principal payments subsequent to December 31, 2024:
(In thousands)Future Minimum Principal Payments
2025$— 
202699,000 
2027140,000 
202860,000 
202951,000 
Thereafter— 
Total$350,000 
Debt Covenants Non-Compliance and Cash Sweep Events
Debt Covenant Non-Compliance
1140 Avenue of the Americas
The Company has breached both a debt service coverage provision and a reserve fund provision under its non-recourse mortgage secured by the 1140 Avenue of the Americas property in each of the last 18 quarters ended December 31, 2024. The principal amount of the loan was $99.0 million as of December 31, 2024. These breaches are not events of default, rather they require excess cash, if any, generated at the property (after paying operating costs, debt service and capital/tenant replacement reserves) to be held in a segregated account as additional collateral under the loan. The covenants for this loan may be cured if the Company satisfies the required debt service coverage ratio for two consecutive quarters, whereupon the additional collateral will be released. The Company can remain subject to this reserve requirement through maturity of the loan without further penalty or ramifications. As of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 the Company had $1.6 million and $2.5 million, respectively, in cash that is retained by the lender and maintained in restricted cash on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of those dates.
8713 Fifth Avenue
The Company has breached a debt service coverage ratio covenant under the non-recourse mortgage secured by 8713 Fifth Avenue in each of the last 18 quarters ended December 31, 2024. The principal amount for the loan was $10.0 million as of December 31, 2024. The breach of this covenant did not result in an event of default but rather triggered an excess cash flow sweep period that has been ongoing. The excess cash flow sweep period will continue until the covenant breaches are cured in accordance with the terms of the loan agreement. This property has not generated any excess cash since the breach occurred, and thus no cash has ever been trapped related to this property.
Additionally, in the event that the debt service coverage ratio covenant remains in breach at or below the current level for two consecutive calendar quarters and the lender reasonably determines that such breach is due to the property being imprudently managed by the current manager, the lender has the right, but not the obligation, to require that the Company replace the current manager with a third party manager chosen by the Company. The Company has remained in breach for two consecutive quarters as of December 31, 2024, although, the lender has not exercised their right to replace the current manager.
Cash Sweep Events
400 E. 67th Street/200 Riverside Blvd.
The Company entered a lease sweep period under the non-recourse mortgage secured by 400 E. 67th Street/200 Riverside Blvd. in the year ended December 31, 2024, resulting from a near-maturity lease with a major tenant at the property which expired in the third quarter of 2024. The Company can resolve the lease sweep by replacing the tenant. The principal amount for the loan was $50.0 million as of December 31, 2024. Under the loan agreement, a lease sweep period is triggered, when (i) the date that is twelve months prior to the end of the term of the major lease, (ii) the date required by the major tenant to give notice of its exercise of a renewal option, (iii) any major tenant lease is surrendered or terminated prior to the expiration date, (iv) if the major tenant discontinues its operations and the major tenants long term debt is not rated lower than investment grade, (v) any material default under the major tenant’s lease, and (vi) any major tenant insolvency proceeding. A lease sweep period was triggered for the first time in the three months ended June 30, 2024.
Under the lease sweep period, any excess cash generated, if any, is to be held in a segregated reserve account controlled by the lender as additional collateral. As of December 31, 2024 the Company had $4.2 million, in cash swept that is retained by the lender and recorded within restricted cash on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company had no swept cash as of December 31, 2023.
9 Times Square
On April 29, 2024, the Company entered a cash sweep period under the non-recourse mortgage secured by the 9 Times Square asset pursuant to an amendment which, among other things, extended the maturity of the loan to October 31, 2024, which the Company further extended to January 31, 2025, pursuant to an option contained in such agreement. The amendment provides that Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the Amendment) shall be deposited to an account maintained by the Administrative Agent within ten (10) calendar days of the end of each month. On December 18, 2024, the Company sold the property for $63.5 million and paid off the loan in conjunction.
Other Debt Covenants
The Company was in compliance with the remaining covenants under its other mortgage notes payable as of December 31, 2024 and, it continues to monitor compliance with those provisions. If the Company experiences additional lease terminations, due to tenant bankruptcies or otherwise, it is possible that certain of the covenants on other loans may be breached and the Company may also become restricted from accessing excess cash flows from those properties. Similar to the loans discussed above, the Company’s other mortgages also contain cash management provisions that are not considered events of default, and as such, acceleration of principal would only occur upon an event of default.
Notice of Defaults
1140 Avenue of the Americas
The Company was informed by the lender on February 19, 2025 that the Company was in default under the loan agreement for failure to make certain scheduled interest payments. The Company made the payments in question in full on the same day the default notice was received by the Company. The Company believes this is a cure for the event of default. The Company has received no additional notices from the lender, which has neither charged the Company any default interest nor accelerated any portion of that debt.
400 E. 67th Street/200 Riverside Boulevard
On November 19, 2024, the lender sent a notice to the Company alleging that the Company was in default under the loan agreement for events that occurred in the third and fourth quarters of 2023, specifically the Company’s failure to establish a cash management account for excess cash sweeps over monthly debt service requirements. The lender had been remitting excess cash on their own accord until the period of cash sweep was put into effect in 2024 as described above. In their notice of default, the lender asserted the Company owes an estimated $1.0 million in excess cash to be deposited into the loan reserve account. The Company responded to the notice of default rejecting the assertions made by the lender, which the Company believes are without merit as a result of the lender's failure to implement a cash management account and the Company’s inability to take such action unilaterally due to the mechanics for receipt of lease payments provided for by the loan agreement. The Company has not received a response or any additional notices from the lender, which has not accelerated any portion of the loan. The Company has made all other required payments in accordance with the loan agreement. Beginning in March 2025, the lender has charged default interest to the Company, currently totaling $3.3 million. While the Company cannot predict the ultimate outcome of legal matters, the Company currently believes that it is not probable a liability has been incurred with respect to the alleged defaults and intends to challenge the charge of default interest by the lender.