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Note 13- Related Party Transactions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

Note 13 – Related Party Transactions

Receivables and Payables

As of September 30, 2021, the Company had less than $0.1 million in receivables due from related parties, included in Other assets, net on the consolidated balance sheet, which relates to receivables due from properties managed by the Company which were provided to the properties for working capital. Additionally, the Company had less than $0.1 million in payables due to properties managed by the Company related to amounts borrowed by the Company for working capital, which are reflected in Payables due to related parties on the consolidated balance sheet.

As of December 31, 2020, the Company had $0.2 million in receivables due from related parties, included in Other assets, net on the consolidated balance sheet, which relates to receivables due from properties managed by the Company which were provided to the properties for working capital. Additionally, the Company had $0.7 million in payables due to properties managed by the Company related to amounts borrowed by the Company for working capital, which are reflected in Payables due to related parties on the consolidated balance sheet.

Approximately $0.3 million and $1.1 million of the Company’s total revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, respectively, was generated from related parties. Approximately $0.4 million and $1.2 million of the Company’s total revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively, was generated from related parties. Additionally, approximately $0.3 million and $0.5 million of the Company’s accounts receivable, net balance at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, was owed from related parties.

During 2019, the Company agreed to pay $1.5 million of consideration to Mr. Yockey in exchange for repurchasing a portion of his ownership interest in BSR prior to the Mergers. Approximately $1.0 million of this consideration was paid to Mr. Yockey in January 2020 and the remaining $0.5 million was paid to Mr. Yockey in the second quarter of 2021.

The Mergers

As consideration in the Mergers that have closed as of the date of these financial statements, as a result of their interests in the Broad Street Entities party to such Mergers, (i) Mr. Jacoby received 2,533,650 shares of the Company’s common stock and 856,805 OP units, (ii) Mr. Yockey received 2,533,650 shares of the Company’s common stock and 420,523 OP units, (iii) Alexander Topchy, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, received an aggregate of 137,345 shares of the Company’s common stock and 48,320 OP units, (iv) Daniel J.W. Neal, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, received, directly or indirectly, 878,170 shares of the Company’s common stock, and (v) Samuel M. Spiritos, a director of the Company, indirectly received 13,827 shares of the Company’s common stock. As consideration in the remaining two Mergers as a result of their interests in the remaining Broad Street Entities, (i) Mr. Jacoby will receive an aggregate of approximately 17,985 shares of the Company’s common stock and 136,213 OP units, (ii) Mr. Yockey will receive an aggregate of approximately 17,985 shares of the Company’s common stock and 136,213 OP units, (iii) Mr. Topchy will receive 1,934 shares of the Company’s common stock and 14,338 OP units and (iv) Mr. Neal will receive, directly or indirectly, an aggregate of approximately 16,450 shares of the Company’s common stock.

Management Fees

The Company provides management services for the two properties to be acquired as of September 30, 2021 in the remaining Mergers. For each property, the Company receives a management fee ranging from 3.0% to 4.0% of such property’s gross income. As described above, Messrs. Jacoby, Yockey, Topchy and Neal have interests in some or all of the Broad Street Entities that own the two properties.

Messrs. Jacoby and Yockey, along with Mr. Topchy, Jeffrey H. Foster, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, and Aras Holden, the Company’s vice president of asset management and acquisitions, own an interest in BBL Current Investors LLC (“BBL”). BBL redeveloped a property adjacent to the Company’s Midtown Colonial property into a mixed-use facility with retail on the ground floor and multi-family above. The Company will manage the retail portion of the property and will receive management fees from BBL beginning in the fourth quarter of 2021. However, the Company will have no ownership interest in the property.

Ground Lease

The Company owns the fee-simple interest in the land that the Cromwell Field Shopping Center, a property previously managed by the Company, is located on under a leasehold interest. The Company leased the land to the owner of the Cromwell Field Shopping Center pursuant to a ground lease and recognized less than $0.1 million of revenue under the ground lease for the nine months ended

September 30, 2021. The ground lease was terminated upon the acquisition of Cromwell Field Shopping Center as described in Note 3 —2021 Real Estate Acquisitions”. The Company recognized less than $0.1 million and approximately $0.1 million of revenue, respectively, under the ground lease for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020.

Tax Protection Agreements

On December 27, 2019, pursuant to the Merger Agreements, the Company and the Operating Partnership entered into tax protection agreements (the “Tax Protection Agreements”) with each of the prior investors in BSV Colonial Investor LLC, BSV Lamonticello Investors LLC and BSV Patrick Street Member LLC, including Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Yockey and Mr. Topchy, in connection with their receipt of OP units in certain of the Initial Mergers. Pursuant to the Tax Protection Agreements, until the seventh anniversary of the completion of the Initial Mergers, the Company and the Operating Partnership may be required to indemnify the other parties thereto for their tax liabilities related to built-in gain that exists with respect to the properties known as Midtown Colonial, Midtown Lamonticello and Vista Shops at Golden Mile (the “Protected Properties”). Furthermore, until the seventh anniversary of the completion of the Initial Mergers, the Company and the Operating Partnership will be required to use commercially reasonable efforts to avoid any event, including a sale of the Protected Properties, that triggers built-in gain to the other parties to the Tax Protection Agreements, subject to certain exceptions, including like-kind exchanges under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Guarantees

The Company’s subsidiaries’ obligations under the Basis Term Loan Agreement, the Sub-OP Operating Agreement, the Brookhill mortgage loan, and the Spotswood mortgage loan are guaranteed by Mr. Jacoby and Mr. Yockey. We have agreed to indemnify Mr. Yockey for any losses he incurs as a result of his guarantee of the Basis Term Loan, the Sub-OP Operating Agreement, and the Brookhill mortgage loan. Mr. Jacoby is also a guarantor under the MVB Loan Agreement, the Lamont Street Preferred Interest, the Highlandtown mortgage loan and the Cromwell mortgage loan.

Consulting Agreement

The Company has engaged Timbergate Ventures, LLC, an entity wholly owned by Mr. Yockey, as a consultant for a two-year term beginning December 27, 2019. Pursuant to this arrangement, the Company pays Timbergate Ventures, LLC a consulting fee of $0.2 million per year. During each of the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, approximately $50,000 was recorded in general and administrative expenses related to this consulting agreement. During each of the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, approximately $150,000 was recorded in general and administrative expenses related to this consulting agreement.

Legal Fees

Samuel M. Spiritos, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, is the managing partner of Shulman Rogers LLP, which represents the Company in certain real estate matters, including with matters related to the Mergers. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company paid less than $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively, in legal fees to Shulman Rogers LLP. During each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company paid less than $0.1 million in legal fees to Shulman Rogers LLP.