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Acquisitions
Since January 1, 2013, we have completed the following acquisitions:
· A 20.1% interest in 650 Madison Avenue, a 27-story, 594,000 square foot Class A office and retail tower located on Madison Avenue between 59th and 60th Street, for $260 million ($1.295 billion at 100%).
· A 92.5% interest in 655 Fifth Avenue, a 57,500 square foot retail and office property located at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan, for $277.5 million ($300 million at 100%).
· Land and air rights for 137,000 zoning square feet thereby completing the assemblage for our 220 Central Park South development site in Manhattan, for $194 million.
· Three other Manhattan street retail properties, in separate transactions, for an aggregate of $65.3 million.
Dispositions
Since January 1, 2013, we have sold 20 assets and marketable securities, including J.C. Penney, for an aggregate of $1.8 billion, with net proceeds of approximately $1.3 billion. Below is a summary of these sales.
· Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, New York, for $500 million.
· The Plant, a power strip shopping center in San Jose, California, for $203 million.
· 866 United Nations Plaza, a 360,000 square foot office building in Manhattan, for $200 million.
· A retail property in Philadelphia, which is a part of the Gallery at Market Street, for $60 million.
· A parcel of land known as Harlem Park located at 1800 Park Avenue (at 125th Street) in New York City, for $66 million.
· A retail property in Tampa, Florida for $45 million, of which our 75% share was $33.8 million.
· 12 other properties, in separate transactions, for an aggregate of $82.3 million.
· Marketable securities, principally J.C. Penney, for an aggregate of $378.7 million.
· Our 26.2% interest in LNR for net proceeds of $240.5 million.
· Our 50% interest in the Downtown Crossing site in Boston for net proceeds of $45 million.
Financing Activities
Since January 1, 2013, we have executed the following capital market transactions:
· A $600 million loan secured by our 220 Central Park South development site.
· The restructuring of the $678 million (face amount) Skyline properties mortgage loan.
· Extended one of our two $1.25 billion revolving credit facilities from June 2015 to June 2017, with two six-month extension options.
· Five additional financings secured by real estate aggregating $1.707 billion at a weighted average interest rate of 3.63% and a weighted average term of 7.5 years. One of these financings was to support a recently acquired asset and the other four yielded approximately $351 million of net proceeds.
· Issued $300 million of 5.4% Series L Preferred Shares and redeemed all of the outstanding Series F and H Preferred Shares and the Series D-15 Preferred Units, which had a weighted average rate of 6.77%, for $299.4 million.