CLEVELAND, June 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Forest City Realty
Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FCEA) today announced that a joint venture
between the company and Madison International Realty has closed the
acquisition of Forest City's partner's 49 percent interest in DKLB
BKLN, a 365-unit apartment community located at 80 DeKalb Avenue in
Brooklyn, New York. Forest City,
which owns the remaining 51 percent interest, developed the
property in partnership with a comingled fund managed by National
Real Estate Advisors, LLC (National). DKLB BKLN opened in 2009.
The transaction values National's share of the property at a
total of $93.5 million, including
assumption of debt.
"Brooklyn continues to be one
of the strongest rental apartment markets in the country, and DKLB
BKLN has quickly become both a landmark in the Fort Greene
neighborhood and a valuable and productive asset for our company,"
said David J. LaRue, Forest City
president and chief executive officer. "All of that makes acquiring
our partner's interest a compelling opportunity and a low-risk
capital allocation decision."
The New York City metro area is
Forest City's largest core market by net operating income. In
addition to DKLB BKLN, the regional portfolio includes the
11-building MetroTech Center office campus in Brooklyn, the New York Times Building and
New York by Gehry in Manhattan, and the Tata Innovation Center at
Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island,
among other properties.
About Forest City
Forest City Realty Trust, Inc. is a
NYSE-listed national real estate company with $8.0 billion in consolidated assets. The Company
is principally engaged in the ownership, development, management
and acquisition of commercial and residential real estate
throughout the United States. For more information, visit
www.forestcity.net.
About Madison International Realty
Madison
International Realty (www.madisonint.com) is a leading liquidity
provider to real estate investors worldwide. Madison provides
joint venture and preferred equity capital for real estate owners
and investors that are looking to de-lever their properties; seek
an exit strategy; or where existing sponsors seek to sell a portion
of their ownership position. The firm provides equity for
recapitalizations, partner buyouts and capital infusions; and
acquires joint venture, limited partner and co-investment interests
as principals. Madison invests only in secondary transactions
and focuses solely on existing properties and portfolios in the
U.S., U.K., and Western Europe. Madison has offices in
New York, London and Frankfurt, Germany, where the firm operates
under the name of Madison International Realty GmbH.
About National Real Estate Advisors
National Real
Estate Advisors is a leading investment manager specializing in
build-to-core, developing and owning large-scale, urban commercial
and multifamily projects for its institutional client accounts.
National constructs investment portfolios of stabilized modern
property assets—apartment, office, mixed-use, industrial, data
center and hotel—with design features, technological enhancements,
and amenities that can drive high tenant demand and create value
for investors. National is an independently operated subsidiary of
the National Electrical Benefit Fund. For more information visit
www.natadvisors.com.
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release that state Forest City's or its management's intentions,
hopes, beliefs, expectations or predictions of the future are
forward-looking statements. The company's actual results could
differ materially from those expressed or implied in such
forward-looking statements due to various risks, uncertainties and
other factors. Risks and factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements
include, but are not limited to, the uncertain outcome, impact,
effects and results of the company's Board of Directors' review of
operating, strategic, financial and structural alternatives, the
company's ability to carry out future transactions and strategic
investments, as well as the acquisition related costs,
unanticipated difficulties realizing benefits expected when
entering into a transaction, the company's ability to qualify or to
remain qualified as a REIT, its ability to satisfy REIT
distribution requirements, the impact of issuing equity, debt or
both, and selling assets to satisfy its future distributions
required as a REIT or to fund capital expenditures, future growth
and expansion initiatives, the impact of the amount and timing of
any future distributions, the impact from complying with REIT
qualification requirements limiting its flexibility or causing it
to forego otherwise attractive opportunities beyond rental real
estate operations, the impact of complying with the REIT
requirements related to hedging, its lack of experience operating
as a REIT, legislative, administrative, regulatory or other actions
affecting REITs, including positions taken by the Internal Revenue
Service, the possibility that the company's Board of Directors will
unilaterally revoke its REIT election, the possibility that the
anticipated benefits of qualifying as a REIT will not be realized,
or will not be realized within the expected time period, the impact
of current lending and capital market conditions on its liquidity,
its ability to finance or refinance projects or repay its debt, the
impact of the slow economic recovery on the ownership, development
and management of its commercial real estate portfolio, general
real estate investment and development risks, litigation risks,
vacancies in its properties, risks associated with developing and
managing properties in partnership with others, competition, its
ability to renew leases or re-lease spaces as leases expire,
illiquidity of real estate investments, its ability to identify and
transact on chosen strategic alternatives for a portion of its
retail portfolio, bankruptcy or defaults of tenants, anchor store
consolidations or closings, the impact of terrorist acts and other
armed conflicts, its substantial debt leverage and the ability to
obtain and service debt, the impact of restrictions imposed by the
company's revolving credit facility, term loan and senior debt,
exposure to hedging agreements, the level and volatility of
interest rates, the continued availability of tax-exempt government
financing, its ability to receive payment on the notes receivable
issued by Onexim in connection with their purchase of our interests
in the Barclays Center and the Nets, the impact of credit rating
downgrades, effects of uninsured or underinsured losses, effects of
a downgrade or failure of its insurance carriers, environmental
liabilities, competing interests of its directors and executive
officers, the ability to recruit and retain key personnel, risks
associated with the sale of tax credits, downturns in the housing
market, the ability to maintain effective internal controls,
compliance with governmental regulations, increased legislative and
regulatory scrutiny of the financial services industry, changes in
federal, state or local tax laws and international trade
agreements, volatility in the market price of its publicly traded
securities, inflation risks, cybersecurity risks, cyber incidents,
shareholder activism efforts, conflicts of interest, risks related
to its organizational structure including operating through its
Operating Partnership and its UPREIT structure, as well as other
risks listed from time to time in the company's SEC filings,
including but not limited to, the company's annual and quarterly
reports.
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