Related Party Transactions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions

Related Party Transactions

Alexander’s, Inc.

We own 32.4% of Alexander’s. Steven Roth, the Chairman of Vornado’s Board of Trustee’s and its Chief Executive Officer, is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Alexander’s. We provide various services to Alexander’s in accordance with management, development and leasing agreements. These agreements are described in Note 6 - Investments in Partially Owned Entities.

Interstate Properties (“Interstate”)

Interstate is a general partnership in which Mr. Roth is the managing general partner. David Mandelbaum and Russell B. Wight, Jr., Trustees of Vornado and Directors of Alexander’s, respectively, are Interstate’s two other general partners. As of December 31, 2019, Interstate and its partners beneficially owned an aggregate of approximately 7.1% of the common shares of beneficial interest of Vornado and 26.1% of Alexander’s common stock.

We manage and lease the real estate assets of Interstate pursuant to a management agreement for which we receive an annual fee equal to 4% of annual base rent and percentage rent. The management agreement has a term of one year and is automatically renewable unless terminated by either of the parties on 60 days’ notice at the end of the term. We believe, based upon comparable fees charged by other real estate companies, that the management agreement terms are fair to us. We earned $300,000, $453,000, and $501,000 of management fees under the agreement for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

Urban Edge Properties

On March 4, 2019, we converted to common shares and sold all of our 5,717,184 partnership units of UE. In prior years, we provided UE with information technology support. UE is providing us with leasing and property management services for (i) certain small retail properties and (ii) our affiliate, Alexander's, Rego retail assets. Fees paid to UE for servicing the retail assets of Alexander’s are similar to the fees that we are receiving from Alexander’s.

220 Central Park South

We are constructing a residential condominium tower at 220 CPS. Of the condominium units closed during the year ended December 31, 2019, one was sold to a limited liability company owned by the spouse of a related party, David Mandelbaum, a Trustee and a Director of Alexander’s, and another was sold to Mr. Mandelbaum’s brother. The net proceeds were $23,357,000 and $16,099,000, respectively.

Fifth Avenue and Times Square JV

We provide various services to Fifth Avenue and Times Square JV in accordance with management, development, leasing and other agreements. These agreements are described in Note 6 - Investments in Partially Owned Entities. Haim Chera, Executive Vice President - Head of Retail, has an investment in Crown, a company controlled by Mr. Chera's family. Crown has a nominal minority interest in Fifth Avenue and Times Square JV. Additionally, we have other investments with Crown.