Trinity Place Holdings Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2021
NOTE 1 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION
General Business Plan
Trinity Place Holdings Inc., which we refer to in these financial statements as “Trinity,” “we,” “our,” or “us,” is a real estate holding, investment, development and asset management company. Our largest asset is currently a property located at 77 Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan (“77 Greenwich”), which is nearing completion of development as a mixed-use project consisting of a 90-unit residential condominium tower, retail space and a New York City elementary school. We also own a recently built 105-unit, 12-story multi-family property located at 237 11th Street in Brooklyn, New York (“237 11th”), and, through joint ventures, a 50% interest in a recently built 95-unit multi-family property known as The Berkley, located at 223 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, New York (“The Berkley”), which is under contract for sale, and a 10% interest in a recently built 234-unit multi-family property located one block from The Berkley at 250 North 10th Street (“250 North 10th”) acquired in January 2020, also in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, we own a property occupied by retail tenants in Paramus, New Jersey.
We also control a variety of intellectual property assets focused on the consumer sector, a legacy of our predecessor, Syms Corp. (“Syms”), including FilenesBasement.com, our rights to the Stanley Blacker® brand, as well as the intellectual property associated with the Running of the Brides® event and An Educated Consumer is Our Best Customer® slogan. In addition, we had approximately $247.5 million of federal net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) at December 31, 2021, which can be used to reduce our future taxable income and capital gains.
Trinity is the successor to Syms, which also owned Filene’s Basement. Syms and its subsidiaries filed for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code in 2011. In September 2012, the Syms Plan of Reorganization (the “Plan”) became effective and Syms and its subsidiaries consummated their reorganization under Chapter 11 through a series of transactions contemplated by the Plan and emerged from bankruptcy. As part of those transactions, reorganized Syms merged with and into Trinity, with Trinity as the surviving corporation. We completed our final payment and reserve obligations under the Plan in March 2016.
On January 18, 2018, Syms and certain of its subsidiaries (the “Reorganized Debtors”) filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”) a motion for entry of a final decree (the “Final Decree”) (i) closing the chapter 11 cases of the Reorganized Debtors; and (ii) retaining the Bankruptcy Court’s jurisdiction as provided for in the Plan, including to enforce or interpret its own orders pertaining to the chapter 11 cases including, but not limited to, the Plan and Final Decree, among other matters. On February 6, 2018, the Bankruptcy Court entered the Final Decree closing the chapter 11 cases of the Reorganized Debtors.
Square footage, leased occupancy percentage and residential unit disclosures in the notes to consolidated financial statements are unaudited.
COVID-19 Pandemic, Management’s Plans and Liquidity
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous federal, state, local and foreign governmental authorities issued a range of “stay-at-home orders”, proclamations and directives aimed at minimizing the spread of COVID-19, among other restrictions on businesses and individuals. Additional proclamations and directives have been issued in response to further outbreaks, and may be issued in the future. The outbreak and restrictions have adversely affected our business operations including, among other things, a temporary suspension of construction work at our most significant asset, 77 Greenwich, which resumed in mid-April 2020, initially on a modified basis as certain work was deemed “essential” construction, and the temporary closing of the sales center for the 77 Greenwich residential condominium units as well as the temporary suspension of the remediation work being performed on 237 11th, which resumed in early June 2020 and was completed in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The economic downturn and volatility in financial markets appear to have been primarily driven by uncertainties associated with the pandemic. As it relates to our business, these uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the adverse effect of the pandemic on the New York City and broader economy, residential and potential residential sentiment in New York City, particularly Manhattan, lending institutions, construction and material supply partners, travel and transportation services, our employees, residents and tenants, and traffic to and within geographic areas containing our real estate assets. The pandemic has adversely affected our near-term, and may adversely affect our long-term, liquidity, cash flows and revenues and has required and may continue to require significant actions in response, including, but not limited to, reducing or discounting prices for our residential condominium units more than originally budgeted, seeking loan extensions and covenant modifications, modifying, eliminating or deferring rent payments in the short term for tenants in an effort to mitigate financial hardships and seeking access to federal, state and/or local financing and other programs in 2020 and 2021. We were also subject