Exhibit 10.1
FOURTH AMENDMENT TO MASTER LEASE
THIS FOURTH AMENDMENT TO MASTER LEASE (this “Amendment”) is made and effective as of October 15, 2018 (the “Fourth Amendment Effective Date”), by and between GOLD MERGER SUB, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, having an office at c/o Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc., 845 Berkshire Blvd., Suite 200, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania 19610, as landlord (together with its permitted successors and assigns, “Landlord”), and PINNACLE MLS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, having an office at 3980 Howard Hughes Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89169, as tenant (together with its permitted successors and assigns, “Tenant”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Landlord’s predecessor (“Pinnacle PropCo”), as landlord, and Tenant, as tenant, entered into that certain Master Lease, dated as of April 28, 2016, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Master Lease, dated as of August 29, 2016, that certain Second Amendment to Master Lease, dated as of October 25, 2016, and that certain Third Amendment to Master Lease, dated as of March 24, 2017 (as amended, the “Master Lease”; capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Master Lease), pursuant to the terms of which Landlord leased to Tenant the Leased Property;
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Merger Agreement, dated as of July 20, 2015, by and among Pinnacle PropCo, Landlord, and Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (“GLPI”), as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 25, 2016, by and among Pinnacle PropCo, Landlord, and GLPI, Pinnacle PropCo merged with and into Landlord on April 28, 2016, and Pinnacle PropCo’s interest in the Master Lease was transferred to Landlord by operation of law;
WHEREAS, pursuant to that Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “2017 Merger Agreement”), dated as December 17, 2017, by and among Tenant’s parent, Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. (“PNK”), Penn National Gaming, Inc. (“Penn”), and Franchise Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), PNK, Penn, and Merger Sub have agreed that Merger Sub will merge with and into PNK, with PNK surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Penn;
WHEREAS, in connection with the closing under the 2017 Merger Agreement, Landlord is acquiring, and Penn’s wholly owned subsidiary Plainville Gaming and Redevelopment, LLC is transferring, on the Effective Date, ownership interests in the real estate of the casino and racetrack located at 301 Washington St., Plainville, MA 02762 (commonly known as Plainridge Park Casino, “Plainridge Park Facility”);
WHEREAS, in connection with the 2017 Merger Agreement, Landlord and Tenant each desire to amend the Master Lease to (i) remove the following Facilities therefrom: Ameristar Kansas City in Kansas City, MO, Ameristar St. Charles in St. Charles, MO, Belterra Resort in Florence, IN and the Ogle Haus Inn in Vevay, IN (collectively, the “Divested Facilities”), (ii) pursuant to Section 1.2 of the Master Lease, add the Plainridge Park Facility as a Facility, and all of Landlord’s right and interest in and to the Land, Leased Improvements and Fixtures relating to the Plainridge Park Facility to the Leased Property, (iii) adjust the Rent on account of the removal of the Divested Facilities and the inclusion of the Plainridge Park Facility, and (iv) to amend certain other terms and conditions as more particularly set forth herein.