Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report: September 11, 2003
(Date of earliest event reported)
MACK-CALI REALTY, L.P.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
| 333-57103 (Commission File No.) | 22-3315804 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
11 Commerce Drive, Cranford, New Jersey 07016
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(908) 272-8000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
In order to best report Funds From Operations (“FFO”) in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent guidance in respect of Regulation G concerning non-GAAP financial measures and to disclose FFO on a comparable basis with the vast majority of other companies in the industry, Mack-Cali Realty, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”) is revising its definition of FFO to adhere to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust’s definition of FFO by including the effect of income arising from the straight-lining of rent and non-recurring charges. Beginning with the Operating Partnership’s filing of its second quarter 2003 Form 10-Q, the Operating Partnership reflected, and will continue to reflect, this change retroactively to the earliest periods being reported.
The Operating Partnership’s revised FFO, including a reconciliation of net income to FFO, for the years ended December 31, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 and 1998 are summarized in the following table(in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 174,647 | $ | 165,834 | $ | 226,391 | $ | 152,604 | $ | 148,794 | ||||||||||
| Add: Real estate-related depreciation and amortization (1) | 112,718 | 94,198 | 94,250 | 89,731 | 79,169 | |||||||||||||||
| Extraordinary item – loss on early retirement of debt | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2,670 | |||||||||||||||
| (Deduct)/Add: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Realized (gains) losses and unrealized losses on | ||||||||||||||||||||
| disposition of rental property, net | (2,759 | ) | 11,864 | (85,353 | ) | (1,957 | ) | -- | ||||||||||||
| Gain on sale of land | 717 | -- | 2,248 | -- | -- | |||||||||||||||
| Equity in earnings from gain on sale | (3,506 | ) | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||||||||||
| Funds from operations | 281,817 | 271,896 | 237,536 | 240,378 | 230,633 | |||||||||||||||
| Deduct: Distributions to preferred unitholders | (15,656 | ) | (15,644 | ) | (15,441 | ) | (15,476 | ) | (16,313 | ) | ||||||||||
| Funds from operations, after distributions to preferred unitholders | $ | 266,161 | $ | 256,252 | $ | 222,095 | $ | 224,902 | $ | 214,320 | ||||||||||
(1) Includes the Operating Partnership’s share from unconsolidated joint ventures of $4,054, $3,567, $2,928, $3,166 and $817 for the years ended December 31, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 and 1998, respectively.
Since, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, the effect of straight-lining of rents and non-recurring charges has always been included in reported net income, the changes described above will not have an impact on net income or earnings per share as previously reported.
The Operating Partnership considers FFO a relevant measure of REIT financial performance which the financial community desires REITs to provide. FFO is defined as net income (loss) before minority interest of unitholders, computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains (or losses) from extraordinary items and sales of depreciable rental property, plus real estate-related depreciation and amortization. FFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income as an indication of the Operating Partnership’s performance or to cash flows as a measure of liquidity. FFO presented herein is not necessarily comparable to FFO presented by other real estate companies due to the fact that not all real estate companies use the same definition. However, the Operating Partnership’s FFO is comparable to the FFO of real estate companies that use the current definition of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| MACK-CALI REALTY, L.P. —————————————— By: Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, its General Partner |
| Date: September 11, 2003 | By: /s/ Barry Lefkowitz —————————————— Barry Lefkowitz Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
