UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 19, 2011
BOSTON PROPERTIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 0-50209 | 04-3372948 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
800 Boylston Street, Suite 1900, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-8103
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(617) 236-3300
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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On August 19, 2011, Boston Properties Limited Partnership (the “Company”), a Delaware limited partnership and the entity through which Boston Properties, Inc. conducts substantially all of its business, completed a secured financing of 601 Lexington Avenue (the “Property”), which is an approximately 1,630,000 square foot office building located in midtown Manhattan, New York. The financing is for a principal amount of $725.0 million at a fixed interest rate of 4.75% per annum. The loan requires interest-only payments during the first twenty-four (24) months of the term of the loan, with amortization based on a thirty (30) year term thereafter. The loan matures on April 10, 2022 (the “Maturity Date”).
The loan may not be prepaid during the first twenty-four (24) months of its term. Thereafter, the Company may prepay the loan in whole, but not in part, with a prepayment fee equal to the greater of (A) (i) the present value of all remaining payments of principal and interest including the outstanding principal due on the Maturity Date, discounted at the rate which, when compounded monthly, is equivalent to the applicable U.S. Treasury rate plus twenty-five (25) basis points, compounded semi-annually, less (ii) the amount of the principal being prepaid, or (B) one percent (1%) of the amount of the principal being prepaid. From and after December 10, 2021, the Company may prepay the loan in whole, but not in part, without any prepayment fee.
The loan is secured by a first mortgage on the Property and an assignment of leases and rents. The loan is generally non-recourse to the Company and contains events of default that are customary for loans of this type.
Substantially all of the cash proceeds from the financing of the Property were used to repay the secured draw of approximately $453.3 million under the Company’s unsecured line of credit and refinance the $267.5 million mortgage loan secured by the Company’s 510 Madison Avenue property in New York City. In connection with the refinancing of 510 Madison Avenue, the lien of the 510 Madison Avenue mortgage was spread to the Property and released from 510 Madison Avenue so that 510 Madison Avenue is no longer encumbered by any mortgage debt.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| BOSTON PROPERTIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | ||||||||
| By: Boston Properties, Inc., its General Partner | ||||||||
| Date: August 25, 2011 | By: | /s/ Michael E. LaBelle | ||||||
| Name: | Michael E. LaBelle | |||||||
| Title: | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | |||||||