PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
The prospectus summary below highlights information contained elsewhere or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. The prospectus summary is not complete and does not contain all the information that you should consider before deciding whether to exchange your private notes for exchange notes pursuant to the exchange offer. For a more complete understanding of our business and financial affairs, we encourage you to read this entire prospectus, including “Risk Factors,” together with the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus, including, without limitation, the 2020 Form 10-K and First Quarter 2021 Form 10-Q, before making a decision whether to participate in the exchange offer.
Unless the context requires or otherwise indicates, references in this prospectus to “we,” “our,” “us” or “our company” refer to Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc., a Maryland corporation (“IIP”), and its consolidated subsidiaries, including IIP Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”).
You should read the following summary together with the more detailed information regarding our company and the financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus or incorporated by reference in this prospectus, including under the caption “Risk Factors.”
Our Company
Overview
We own, acquire and manage specialized industrial properties leased to experienced, state-licensed operators for their regulated cannabis facilities. We have leased and expect to continue to lease our properties on a triple-net lease basis, where the tenant is responsible for all aspects of and costs related to the property and its operation during the lease term, including structural repairs, maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance.
IIP was incorporated in Maryland on June 15, 2016 and operates as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes. IIP conducts its business through a traditional umbrella partnership real estate investment trust, or UPREIT structure, in which its properties are owned by the Operating Partnership, directly or through subsidiaries. IIP is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership and owns, directly or through subsidiaries, 100% of the limited partnership interests in the Operating Partnership. As the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership, IIP has the full, exclusive and complete responsibility for the Operating Partnership’s day-to-day management and control. IIP has no material assets, other than its investment in the Operating Partnership. As of March 31, 2021, we had 16 full-time employees.
Our co-founder and executive chairman, Alan D. Gold, is a 35-year veteran of the real estate industry, and our senior management team has significant experience in all aspects of the real estate industry, including acquisitions, dispositions, construction, development, management, finance and capital markets.
As of March 31, 2021, we owned 68 properties that were 100% leased to state-licensed cannabis operators and comprising an aggregate of approximately 5.9 million rentable square feet (including approximately 2.1 million rentable square feet under development/redevelopment) in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, with a weighted-average remaining lease term of approximately 16.7 years. As of March 31, 2021, we had invested an aggregate of approximately $1.1 billion in the aggregate (excluding transaction costs) and had committed an additional approximately $330.0 million (including tenant improvements and construction costs accrued but not yet funded as of March 31, 2021) to reimburse certain tenants and sellers for completion of construction and tenant improvements at our properties.
Our principal executive office is located at 389 Center Drive, Suite 200, Park City, UT 84098. Our telephone number is (858) 997-3332. Our website is located at www.innovativeindustrialproperties.com. The information found on, or otherwise accessible through, our website is not incorporated into, and does not form a part of, this prospectus or any other report or document we file with or furnish to the SEC.