Description of business

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Description of business

1. Description of business:

Capital Properties, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Tri-State Displays, Inc., Capital Terminal Company and Dunellen, LLC (collectively referred to as “the Company”) for many years operated in two segments, leasing and petroleum storage.  On February 10, 2017, the Company sold its petroleum storage facility and related assets (the “Terminal”) owned or controlled by the Company’s subsidiaries, Capital Terminal Company and Dunellen, LLC to Sprague Operating Resources, LLC (“Sprague”). The sale of the Terminal results in the segment being classified as discontinued operations for all periods presented.  See Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements.  With the sale of the Terminal, the Board determined that there was no longer a need to maintain Capital Terminal Company and Dunellen, LLC, and at its April 24, 2018 regularly scheduled Board meeting, it voted to liquidate and dissolve these two companies.

As a result of the sale of the Terminal, the Company’s operations consist of the long-term leasing of certain of its real estate interests in downtown Providence, Rhode Island (upon the commencement of which the tenants have been required to construct buildings thereon, with the exception of the parking garage and Parcel 6C), the leasing of a portion of its building (“Steeple Street Building”) under short-term leasing arrangements through December 1, 2018 and the leasing of locations along interstate and primary highways in Rhode Island and Massachusetts to Lamar Outdoor Advertising, LLC (“Lamar”) which has constructed outdoor advertising boards thereon.  The Company anticipates that the future development of its remaining properties in and adjacent to the Capital Center area will consist primarily of long-term ground leases.  Pending this development, the Company leases these parcels for public parking to Metropark, Ltd.