Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies:

Basis of Presentation:

The accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("GAAP") for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. They do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements and have not been audited by an independent registered public accounting firm.

The Company's sole significant asset is its investment in the Operating Partnership and as a result, substantially all of the Company's assets and liabilities represent the assets and liabilities of the Operating Partnership. In addition, the Operating Partnership has investments in a number of consolidated variable interest entities ("VIEs"), including Fashion District Philadelphia and SanTan Village Regional Center.

The Operating Partnership's consolidated VIEs included the following assets and liabilities:


	March 31, 2021		December 31, 2020
Assets:
Property, net	$	520,900	$	551,062
Other assets	93,215		97,713
Total assets	$	614,115	$	648,775
Liabilities:
Mortgage notes payable	$	420,254	$	420,233
Other liabilities	78,489		81,266
Total liabilities	$	498,743	$	501,499

All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in the consolidated financial statements.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies: (Continued)

The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements for the interim periods have been made. The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2020 has been derived from the audited financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by GAAP. The following table presents a reconciliation of the beginning of period and end of period cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash reported on the Company's consolidated balance sheets to the totals shown on its consolidated statements of cash flows:


	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Beginning of period
Cash and cash equivalents	$	465,297	$	100,005
Restricted cash	17,362		14,211
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash	$	482,659	$	114,216
End of period
Cash and cash equivalents	$	1,083,813	$	652,354
Restricted cash	67,255		10,753
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash	$	1,151,068	$	663,107

COVID-19 Pandemic:

In March 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. As a result, all of the markets that the Company operates in were subject to stay-at-home orders, and the majority of its properties were temporarily closed in part or completely. Following staggered re-openings during 2020, all Centers have been open and operating since October 7, 2020, and government mandated restrictions have greatly eased for most of the Centers during 2021, including in the Company's key markets of California and New York, which were the most capacity-restricted markets upon re-opening in 2020.

COVID-19 Lease Accounting:

In April 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a Staff Question-and-Answer (“Q&A”) to clarify whether lease concessions related to the effects of COVID-19 require the application of the lease modification guidance under Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 842, "Leases" ("the lease modification accounting framework"). Under ASC 842, the Company would have to determine, on a lease-by-lease basis, if a lease concession was the result of a new arrangement reached with the tenant or an enforceable right and obligation within the existing lease. The Q&A allows for the bypass of a lease-by-lease analysis, and allows the Company to elect to either apply the lease modification accounting framework or not to all of its lease concessions with similar characteristics and circumstances. The Company has elected to apply the lease modification accounting framework to lease concessions that include the abatement of rent in its consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2021.