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SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Share Incentive Plan [Abstract]  
Share Incentive Plan
Share Incentive Plan

During 2012, the Company terminated the 1999 and 2003 Plans and adopted the Amended 2006 Plan. The Amended 2006 Plan increased the authorization to issue options, Restricted Shares and LTIP Units (collectively "Awards") available to officers and employees by 1.9 million shares to 2.1 million shares. Options are granted by the Compensation Committee (the "Committee"), which currently consists of three non-employee Trustees, and will not have an exercise price less than 100% of the fair market value of the Common Shares and a term of greater than ten years at the grant date. Vesting of options is at the discretion of the Committee. The Committee determines the restrictions placed on Awards, including the dividends or distributions thereon and the term of such restrictions. The Committee also determines the award and vesting of the awards based on the attainment of specified performance objectives of the Company within a specified performance period.

On February 22, 2013, the Company issued a total of 284,447 LTIP Units and 590 Restricted Share Units to officers of the Company and 11,880 Restricted Share Units to other employees of the Company. Vesting with respect to these awards is generally recognized ratably over the five annual anniversaries following the issuance date. Vesting with respect to 16% of the awards issued to officers is also generally subject to achieving certain Company performance measures. LTIP Units are similar to Restricted Shares but provide for a quarterly partnership distribution in a like amount as paid to Common OP Units. This distribution is paid on both unvested and vested LTIP Units. The LTIP Units are convertible into Common OP Units and Common Shares upon vesting and a revaluation of the book capital accounts.

These awards were measured at their fair value as if they were vested on the grant date. Fair value was established as the market price of the Company's Common Shares as of the close of trading on the day preceding the grant date.

The total value of the above Restricted Share Units and LTIP Units as of the grant date was $7.9 million. The weighted average fair value for Restricted Shares and LTIP Units granted for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 were $26.40, $22.31 and $19.08, respectively.

Total long-term incentive compensation expense, including the expense related to the above mentioned plans, was $7.3 million, $3.6 million and $4.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively and is recorded in General and Administrative on the consolidated statements of income.



ACADIA REALTY TRUST AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

15. Share Incentive Plan, continued

On May 15, 2013, the Company issued 20,718 Restricted Shares to Trustees of the Company in connection with Trustee fees. Vesting with respect to 10,950 of the Restricted Shares will be on the first anniversary of the date of issuance and 9,768 of the Restricted Shares vest over three years with 33% vesting on each of the next three anniversaries of the issuance date. The Restricted

Shares do not carry voting rights or other rights of Common Shares until vesting and may not be transferred, assigned or pledged until the recipients have a vested non-forfeitable right to such shares. Dividends are not paid currently on unvested Restricted Shares, but are paid cumulatively from the issuance date through the applicable vesting date of such Restricted Shares. Trustee fee expense of $0.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2013 has been recognized in the accompanying consolidated statement of income related to this issuance.

In 2009, the Company adopted the Long Term Investment Alignment Program (the "Program") pursuant to which the Company may award units primarily to senior executives which would entitle them to receive up to 25% of any future Fund III Promote when and if such Promote is ultimately realized. The Company has awarded all of the units under the Program, and these units were determined to have no value at issuance or as of December 31, 2013. In accordance with ASC Topic 718, "Compensation - Stock Compensation," compensation relating to these awards will be recorded based on the change in the estimated fair value at each reporting period.

As of December 31, 2013, the Company had 92,086 options outstanding to officers and employees and 21,000 options outstanding to non-employee Trustees of the Company all of which have vested. These options are for ten-year terms from the grant date and vested in three equal annual installments, which began on their respective grant dates.

A summary of option activity under all option arrangements as of December 31, 2013 and 2012, and changes during the years then ended, is presented below:

Options
 
Shares
 
Weighted
 Average
 Exercise Price
 
Weighted Average
 Remaining
 Contractual
 Term (years)
 
Aggregate Intrinsic
 Value
 (dollars in thousands)
Outstanding and exercisable at December 31, 2011
 
150,283

 
$
18.33

 
3.5

 
$
272

Granted
 

 

 

 

Exercised
 
(12,636
)
 
14.23

 

 
137

Forfeited or Expired
 

 

 

 

Outstanding and exercisable at December 31, 2012
 
137,647

 
18.71

 
2.6

 
877

Granted
 

 

 

 

Exercised
 
(23,815
)
 
15.96

 

 
211

Forfeited or Expired
 
(746
)
 
20.65

 

 

Outstanding and exercisable at December 31, 2013
 
113,086

 
$
19.28

 
3.5

 
$
628



The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 was $0.2 million, $0.1 million and $0.02 million, respectively.

A summary of the status of the Company’s unvested Restricted Shares and LTIP Units as of December 31, 2013 and 2012 and changes during the years then ended is presented below:

ACADIA REALTY TRUST AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

15. Share Incentive Plan, continued
Unvested Restricted Shares and LTIP Units
 
Restricted
 Shares
 
Weighted
 Grant-Date
 Fair Value
 
LTIP Units
 
Weighted
 Grant-Date
 Fair Value
Unvested at December 31, 2011
 
75,739

 
$
18.25

 
838,898

 
$
17.85

Granted
 
30,153

 
21.88

 
281,714

 
21.99

Vested
 
(43,819
)
 
19.29

 
(176,926
)
 
16.92

Forfeited
 
(1,157
)
 
16.02

 

 

Unvested at December 31, 2012
 
60,916

 
19.36

 
943,686

 
19.27

Granted
 
31,830

 
23.75

 
290,912

 
26.69

Vested
 
(28,179
)
 
18.77

 
(350,264
)
 
19.51

Forfeited
 
(830
)
 
23.00

 

 

Unvested at December 31, 2013
 
63,737

 
$
23.34

 
884,334

 
$
21.62



As of December 31, 2013, there was $11.1 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested share-based compensation arrangements granted under share incentive plans. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.4 years. The total fair value of Restricted Shares that vested during the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 was $0.5 million, $0.8 million and $2.2 million, respectively.