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CEDAR REALTY TRUST, INC. - Annual Report: 2010 (Form 10-K)

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
     
þ   ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010
OR
     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
COMMISSION FILE NUMBER: 001-31817
CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Maryland   42-1241468
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
     
44 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, NY   11050-3765
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (516) 767-6492
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
     
    Name of each exchange on
Title of each class   which registered
     
Common Stock, $0.06 par value   New York Stock Exchange
8-7/8% Series A Cumulative Redeemable    
Preferred Stock, $25.00 Liquidation Value   New York Stock Exchange
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes o     No þ
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes o     No þ
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ     No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes o     No o
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
             
Large accelerated filer o
  Accelerated filer þ   Non-accelerated filer o   Smaller reporting company o
 
      (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No þ
Based on the closing sales price on June 30, 2010 of $6.02 per share, the aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $379,512,000.
The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s Common Stock $.06 par value was 66,233,579 on February 28, 2011.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE:
Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement relating to its 2011 annual meeting of shareholders are incorporated herein by reference.
 
 

 

 


 

CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.
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 Exhibit 21.1
 Exhibit 23.1
 Exhibit 31.1
 Exhibit 31.2
 Exhibit 32.1
 Exhibit 32.2

 

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Part I.
Items 1 and 2. Business and Properties
General
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. (the “Company”), organized in 1984, is a fully-integrated real estate investment trust which focuses primarily on ownership, operation, development and redevelopment of supermarket-anchored shopping centers predominantly in mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastal states. At December 31, 2010, the Company owned and managed (both wholly-owned and in joint venture) a portfolio of 115 operating properties totaling approximately 14.5 million square feet of gross leasable area (“GLA”), including 72 wholly-owned properties comprising approximately 7.4 million square feet, 12 properties owned in joint venture (consolidated) comprising approximately 1.4 million square feet, 21 properties in a managed joint venture (unconsolidated) comprising approximately 3.5 million square feet, six redevelopment properties comprising approximately 1.5 million sq. ft. and four ground-up development properties comprising approximately 0.7 million square feet. Excluding the four ground-up development properties, the 111 property portfolio was approximately 92.5% leased at December 31, 2010. The Company also owned approximately 148 acres of land parcels, a significant portion of which is under development. In addition, the Company has a 76.3% interest in another unconsolidated joint venture, which it does not manage, which owns a single-tenant office property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) under applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). To qualify as a REIT under those provisions, the Company must have a preponderant percentage of its assets invested in, and income derived from, real estate and related sources. The Company’s objectives are to provide to its shareholders a professionally-managed, diversified portfolio of commercial real estate investments (primarily supermarket-anchored shopping centers), which will provide substantial cash flow, currently and in the future, taking into account an acceptable modest risk profile, and which will present opportunities for additional growth in income and capital appreciation.
The Company, organized as a Maryland corporation, has established an umbrella partnership structure through the contribution of substantially all of its assets to Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), organized as a limited partnership under the laws of Delaware. The Company conducts substantially all of its business through the Operating Partnership. At December 31, 2010, the Company owned 97.9% of the Operating Partnership and is its sole general partner. The approximately 1,415,000 limited Operating Partnership Units (“OP Units”) are economically equivalent to the Company’s common stock and are convertible into the Company’s common stock at the option of the holders on a one-to-one basis.
The Company derives substantially all of its revenues from rents and operating expense reimbursements received pursuant to long-term leases. The Company’s operating results therefore depend on the ability of its tenants to make the payments required by the terms of their leases. The Company focuses its investment activities on supermarket-anchored community shopping centers. The Company believes that, because of the need of consumers to purchase food and other staple goods and services generally available at such centers, its type of “necessities-based” properties should provide relatively stable revenue flows even during difficult economic times.

 

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In connection with the transactions with RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (“RioCan”), the Company has acquired, and will continue to seek to acquire, primarily stabilized supermarket-anchored properties in its primary market areas in a joint venture owned 20% by the Company. The Company has historically sought opportunities to acquire stabilized properties as well as properties suited for development, where it can utilize its experience in shopping center construction, renovation, expansion, re-leasing and re-merchandising to achieve long-term cash flow growth and favorable investment returns.
The Company, the Operating Partnership, their subsidiaries and affiliated partnerships are separate legal entities. For ease of reference, the terms “we”, “our”, “us”, “Company” and “Operating Partnership” (including their respective subsidiaries and affiliates) refer to the business and properties of all these entities, unless the context otherwise requires. The Company’s executive offices are located at 44 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York 11050-3765 (telephone 516-767-6492). The Company also maintains property management, construction management and/or leasing offices at several of its shopping-center properties. The Company’s website can be accessed at www.cedarshoppingcenters.com, where a copy of the Company’s Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) can be obtained free of charge. These SEC filings are added to the website as soon as reasonably practicable. The Company’s Code of Ethics, corporate governance guidelines and committee charters are also available on the website.
Recent Developments and Significant Transactions
Common Stock and Preferred Stock
On February 5, 2010, the Company concluded a public offering of 7,500,000 shares of its common stock at $6.60 per share, and realized net proceeds, after offering expenses, of approximately $47.0 million. On March 3, 2010, the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option to the extent of 697,800 shares, and the Company realized additional net proceeds of $4.4 million. In connection with the offering, RioCan (see below) acquired 1,350,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, including 100,000 shares acquired in connection with the exercise of the over-allotment option, and the Company realized net proceeds of $8.9 million from those transactions.
On February 5, 2010, the Company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for up to 5,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock under the Company’s Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan (“DRIP”). The DRIP offers a convenient method for shareholders to invest cash dividends and/or make optional cash payments to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at 98% of their market value. The Board of Directors of the Company has approved an amendment to the DRIP to have all stock purchased at 100% of their market value. This amendment is expected to become effective promptly after the filing of this Form 10-K. Through December, 31, 2010, the Company issued approximately 1,451,000 shares of its common stock under the DRIP at an average price of $5.79 per share and realized proceeds after expenses of approximately $8.2 million.

 

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On April 27, 2010, RioCan exercised its warrant to purchase 1,428,570 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company realized net proceeds of $10.0 million from that transaction.
The Company has a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA Agreement”) with an investment company for sales of its shares of common stock aggregating, as amended, up to $45 million over a commitment period ending in September 2011. Through December 31, 2010, approximately 1,807,000 shares had been sold pursuant to the SEPA Agreement, at an average price of $6.98 per share, and the Company realized net proceeds, after allocation of issuance expenses, of approximately $12.3 million.
In connection with a litigation settlement in April 2010 in the Company’s favor, the Company received a cash payment of $750,000. In addition, the defendants acquired 94,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an average price of $8.01 per share from which the Company realized net proceeds of an additional $750,000.
On August 25, 2010, the Company concluded a public offering of 2,850,000 shares of its 8-7/8% Series A Cumulative Redeemable preferred stock at $24.50 per share, and realized net proceeds, after offering expenses, of approximately $67.4 million. In connection with the sale, the Company’s investment advisor received an underwriter’s discount of approximately $2.4 million.
RioCan
The Company and RioCan entered into an 80% (RioCan) and 20% (Cedar) joint venture in October 2009 (i) initially for the purchase of seven supermarket-anchored properties previously owned by the Company, and (ii) then to acquire additional primarily supermarket-anchored properties in the Company’s primary market areas, in the same joint venture format. The Company transferred the initial seven properties into the joint venture at various times from December 2009 through May 2010 generating approximately $63.1 million of net proceeds and the transfer of approximately $94 million of fixed-rate mortgages. In addition, in April 2010, RioCan exercised its warrant to purchase 1,428,570 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company received proceeds of $10.0 million. Net proceeds from the property transfers and the exercise of the warrants were used to repay/reduce the outstanding balances under the Company’s secured revolving credit facilities.
For specific information relating the properties owned by the Cedar/RioCan joint venture, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” elsewhere in this report.
During 2010, the Company earned approximately $3.6 million in fees from the joint venture, comprised of accounting fees, property management fees, acquisition fees and financing fees. Such fees are included in other revenues in the accompanying statements of operations. In addition, the Company paid fees to its investment advisor of approximately $2.7 million, which are included in transaction costs in the accompanying statements of operations.

 

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Secured Revolving Stabilized Property Credit Facility
The Company has an amended and restated secured revolving stabilized property credit facility with Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, together with three other lead lenders and other participating banks. On September 13, 2010, the Company elected to reduce the total commitments under the facility from $285.0 million to $185.0 million.
Discontinued Operations
During 2010 and 2009, the Company sold, or has treated as “held for sale”, 28 of its properties (including a number of drug store/convenience centers). The carrying values of the assets and liabilities of these properties, principally the net book values of the real estate and the related mortgage loans payable, have been reclassified as “held for sale” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2010 and 2009, if applicable. In addition, the properties’ results of operations have been classified as “discontinued operations” for all periods presented.
For specific information relating the properties sold or treated as “held for sale”, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” elsewhere in this report.
The Company’s Properties
The following tables summarize information relating to the Company’s properties as of December 31, 2010:

 

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                                                            Net book value of  
                    Consolidated Properties     Cedar/RioCan  
    Number of     GLA             Building and             Accumulated     Net book     Joint Venture  
State   properties     (Sq. ft.)     Land     improvements     Total cost     depreciation     value     Prioerties  
 
                                                               
Pennsylvania
    59       8,177,000     $ 168,749,000     $ 698,563,000     $ 867,312,000     $ 104,569,000     $ 762,743,000     $ 311,038,000  
Massachusetts
    9       1,486,000       27,148,000       114,404,000       141,552,000       14,762,000       126,790,000       75,839,000  
Connecticut
    9       1,263,000       25,160,000       124,873,000       150,033,000       18,543,000       131,490,000       26,126,000  
Virginia
    15       1,092,000       27,476,000       104,169,000       131,645,000       19,189,000       112,456,000       46,059,000  
Ohio
    5       80,000       2,218,000       10,398,000       12,616,000       2,175,000       10,441,000        
Maryland
    8       904,000       29,473,000       79,800,000       109,273,000       11,957,000       97,316,000       11,188,000  
New Jersey
    6       1,228,000       13,742,000       74,489,000       88,231,000       12,178,000       76,053,000       54,198,000  
New York
    3       226,000       13,014,000       39,456,000       52,470,000       4,476,000       47,994,000        
Michigan
    1       79,000       2,443,000       9,813,000       12,256,000       1,609,000       10,647,000        
 
                                               
 
                                                               
Total operarting portfolio
    115       14,535,000       309,423,000       1,255,965,000       1,565,388,000       189,458,000       1,375,930,000       524,448,000  
 
                                                               
Projects under development and land held for future expansion and development
    n/a       n/a       19,408,000       6,514,000       25,922,000       3,000       25,919,000        
 
                                               
 
                                                               
Total portfolio
    115       14,535,000     $ 328,831,000     $ 1,262,479,000     $ 1,591,310,000     $ 189,461,000     $ 1,401,849,000       524,448,000  
 
                                               
Unconsolidated joint venture — not managed (a)
                                                            5,848,000  
 
                                                             
Total unconsolidated joint ventures
                                                          $ 530,296,000  
 
                                                             
     
(a)  
The Company has a 76.3% interest in an unconsolidated joint venture, which it does not manage, which owns a single-tenant office property located in Philadelphia, PA.

 

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    Number                             Annualized     Percentage of  
    of             Percentage     Annualized     Base rent     annualized  
Tenant (a)   stores     GLA     of GLA     base rent     per sq. ft.     base rents  
 
                                               
Top ten tenants (b):
                                               
Giant Foods (c)
    29       1,886,000       13.0 %   $ 28,527,000     $ 15.13       17.8 %
Stop & Shop (c)
    6       391,000       2.7 %     4,322,000       11.05       2.7 %
Farm Fresh (c)
    6       364,000       2.5 %     3,909,000       10.74       2.4 %
L.A. Fitness
    6       248,000       1.7 %     3,826,000       15.43       2.4 %
Discount Drug Mart
    1       206,000       1.4 %     2,496,000       12.12       1.6 %
Staples
    10       199,000       1.4 %     3,006,000       15.11       1.9 %
Shaw’s (c)
    4       241,000       1.7 %     2,716,000       11.27       1.7 %
CVS
    11       124,000       0.9 %     2,445,000       19.72       1.5 %
Best Buy
    4       128,000       0.9 %     2,407,000       18.80       1.5 %
Lowe’s
    3       392,000       2.7 %     2,337,000       5.96       1.5 %
 
                                   
Sub-total top ten tenants
    80       4,179,000       28.9 %     55,991,000       13.40       35.0 %
Remaining tenants
    1,195       9,068,000       62.2 %     103,907,000       11.46       65.0 %
 
                                   
Sub-total all tenants
    1,275       13,247,000       91.1 %     159,898,000       12.07       100.0 %
Vacant space (d)
    n/a       1,288,000       8.9 %     n/a       n/a       n/a  
 
                                   
Total (including vacant space)
    1,275       14,535,000       100.0 %   $ 159,898,000     $ 11       n/a  
 
                                   
     
(a)  
Incudes tenants at unconsolidated managed joint venture properties and ground-up development properties.
 
(b)  
Based on annualized base rent.
 
(c)  
Several of the tenants listed above share common ownership with other tenants including, without limitation, (1) Giant Foods and Stop & Shop, and (2) Farm Fresh, Shaw’s, Shop ‘n Save (GLA of 53,000; annualized base rent of $524,000), Shoppers Food Warehouse (GLA of 120,000; annualized base rent of $1,237,000) and Acme (GLA of 172,000; annualized base rent of $756,000).
 
(d)  
Includes vacant space at properties undergoing development and/or redevelopment activities.

 

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                                            Percentage  
    Tenants             Percentage     Annualized     Annualized     of annualized  
Year of lease   with leases     GLA     of GLA     expiring     expiring base     expiring  
expiration (a)   expiring     expiring     expiring     base rents     rents per sq. ft.     base rents  
 
                                               
Month-to-Month
    68       172,000       1.3 %   $ 2,183,000     $ 12.69       1.4 %
2011
    154       815,000       6.2 %     10,949,000       13.43       6.8 %
2012
    183       943,000       7.1 %     11,081,000       11.75       6.9 %
2013
    151       632,000       4.8 %     9,430,000       14.92       5.9 %
2014
    178       1,727,000       13.0 %     16,448,000       9.52       10.3 %
2015
    174       1,431,000       10.8 %     15,435,000       10.79       9.7 %
2016
    74       919,000       6.9 %     8,592,000       9.35       5.4 %
2017
    47       559,000       4.2 %     7,611,000       13.62       4.8 %
2018
    44       863,000       6.5 %     11,284,000       13.08       7.1 %
2019
    55       911,000       6.9 %     11,592,000       12.72       7.2 %
2020
    47       992,000       7.5 %     10,040,000       10.12       6.3 %
2021
    16       344,000       2.6 %     5,784,000       16.81       3.6 %
Thereafter
    84       2,939,000       22.2 %     39,469,000       13.43       24.6 %
 
                                   
All tenants
    1,275       13,247,000       100.0 %     159,898,000       12.07       100.0 %
Vacant space (b)
    n/a       1,288,000       n/a       n/a       n/a       n/a  
 
                                   
Total portfolio
    1,275       14,535,000       n/a     $ 159,898,000     $ 11.00       n/a  
 
                                   
     
(a)  
Incudes tenants at unconsolidated managed joint venture properties and ground-up development properties.
 
(b)  
Includes vacant space at properties undergoing development and/or redevelopment activities.
The terms of the Company’s retail leases generally vary from tenancies at will to 25 years, excluding renewal options. Anchor tenant leases are typically for 10 to 25 years, with one or more renewal options available to the lessee upon expiration of the initial lease term. By contrast, smaller store leases are typically negotiated for five-year terms. The longer terms of major tenant leases serve to protect the Company against significant vacancies and to assure the presence of strong tenants which draw consumers to its centers. The shorter terms of smaller store leases allow the Company under appropriate circumstances to adjust rental rates periodically for non-major store space and, where possible, to upgrade or adjust the overall tenant mix.
Most leases contain provisions requiring tenants to pay their pro rata share of real estate taxes, insurance and certain operating costs. Some leases also provide that tenants pay percentage rent based upon sales volume generally in excess of certain negotiated minimums.
Giant Food Stores, LLC (“Giant Foods”), which is owned by Ahold N.V., a Netherlands corporation, leased approximately 13%, 11% and 11% of the Company’s GLA at December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and accounted for approximately 14%, 13% and 13% of the Company’s total revenues during 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Giant Foods, in combination with Stop & Shop, Inc., which is also owned by Ahold N.V., accounted for approximately 17%, 17% and 17% of the Company’s total revenues during 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. No other tenant leased more than 10% of GLA at December 31, 2010, 2009 or 2008, or contributed more than 10% of total revenues during 2010, 2009 or 2008. On February 15, 2011, Homburg Invest Inc., our co-venturer in nine supermarket anchored shopping centers, initiated a “buy/sell” option. Of the nine supermarket anchored shopping centers, the Company, pursuant to the transaction initiated by Homburg Invest, Inc., has elected to sell eight of such properties of which six are anchored by Giant Food Stores. For more information, see Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements elsewhere in this report. No individual property had a net book value equal to more than 10% of total assets at December 31, 2010, 2009 or 2008.

 

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Depreciation on all of the Company’s properties is calculated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective real properties and improvements, which range from three to forty years.
The Company’s executive offices are located at 44 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York, in which it presently occupies approximately 14,700 square feet leased from a partnership owned 43.6% by the Company’s Chairman. Under the terms of the lease, as amended, this will expire in February 2020. The Company believes that the terms of its lease are at market.
Competition
The Company believes that competition for the acquisition and operation of retail shopping and convenience centers is highly fragmented. It faces competition from institutional investors, public and private REITs, owner-operators engaged in the acquisition, ownership and leasing of shopping centers, as well as from numerous local, regional and national real estate developers and owners in each of its markets. It also faces competition in leasing available space at its properties to prospective tenants. Competition for tenants varies depending upon the characteristics of each local market in which the Company owns and manages properties. The Company believes that the principal competitive factors in attracting tenants in its market areas are location, price and other lease terms, the presence of anchor tenants, the mix, quality and sales results of other tenants, and maintenance, appearance, access and traffic patterns of its properties.
Environmental Matters
Under various federal, state, and local laws, ordinances and regulations, an owner or operator of real estate may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous or toxic substances or other contaminants at property owned, leased, managed or otherwise operated by such person, and may be held liable to a governmental entity or to third parties for property damage, and for investigation and cleanup costs in connection with such contamination. The cost of investigation, remediation or removal of such substances may be substantial, and the presence of such substances, or the failure to properly remediate such conditions, may adversely affect the owner’s, lessor’s or operator’s ability to sell or rent such property or to arrange financing using such property as collateral. In connection with the ownership, operation and management of real estate, the Company may potentially become liable for removal or remediation costs, as well as certain other related costs and liabilities, including governmental fines and injuries to persons and/or property.
The Company believes that environmental studies conducted at the time of acquisition with respect to all of its properties have not revealed environmental liabilities that would have a material adverse effect on its business, results of operations or liquidity. However, no assurances can be given that existing environmental studies with respect to any of the properties reveal all environmental liabilities, that any prior owner of or tenant at a property did not create a material environmental condition not known to the Company, or that a material environmental condition does not otherwise exist at any one or more of its properties. If a material environmental condition does in fact exist, it could have an adverse impact upon the Company’s financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

 

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Employees
As of December 31, 2010, the Company had 109 employees (101 full-time and 8 part-time). The Company believes that its relations with its employees are good.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Economic conditions in the U.S. economy, instability in the credit markets and the uncertain retail environment could adversely affect our ability to continue to pay dividends or cause us to reduce further the amount of our dividends.
As a result of the current state of the U.S. economy, constrained capital markets, the difficult retail environment and the need to renew the Company’s secured revolving stabilized property line of credit facility, on January 29, 2009, our Board of Directors reduced our annual dividend rate on our common stock from $.90 per share to $.45 per share and on April 2, 2009 suspended the payment of dividends. The Board reinstituted dividends at the annual rate of $.36 per share as of January 20, 2010. However, there can be no assurance that as a result of economic conditions the Company will not be forced, once again, to suspend or reduce the payment of dividends.
Volatility and instability in the credit markets could adversely affect our ability to obtain new financing or to refinance existing indebtedness.
Continued uncertainty in the credit markets may negatively impact our ability to access debt financing, to arrange property-specific financing or to refinance our existing debt as it matures on favorable terms or at all. As a result, we may be forced to seek potentially less attractive financings, including equity investments on terms that may not be favorable to us. In doing so, the Company may be compelled to dilute the interests of existing shareholders that could also adversely reduce the trading price of our common stock.
Our properties consist primarily of community shopping centers. Our performance therefore is linked to economic conditions in the market for retail space generally.
Our properties consist primarily of supermarket-anchored community shopping centers, and our performance therefore is linked to economic conditions in the market for retail space generally. This also means that we are subject to the risks that affect the retail environment generally, including the levels of consumer spending, the willingness of retailers to lease space in our shopping centers, tenant bankruptcies, changes in economic conditions and consumer confidence. A downturn in the U.S. economy and reduced consumer spending could impact our tenants’ ability to meet their lease obligations due to poor operating results, lack of liquidity or other reasons and therefore decrease the revenue generated by our properties or the value of our properties. Our ability to lease space and negotiate and maintain favorable rents could also be negatively impacted by the current state of the U.S. economy. Moreover, the

 

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demand for leasing space in our existing shopping centers as well as our development properties could also significantly decline during a significant downturn in the U.S. economy that could result in a decline in our occupancy percentage and reduction in rental revenues. The U.S. economy has experienced, and is expected to continue to experience, substantial unemployment at rates which approach their highest levels in the country’s history. Such levels of reported unemployment may in fact mask more serious unemployment issues, such as persons who have not sought to re-enter the labor force after having been unemployed for substantial periods of time and, further, may not fairly reflect persons who are under-employed or temporarily employed. Sustained levels of high unemployment can be expected to have a serious negative impact on consumer spending in affected areas. While unemployment levels may vary considerably in different areas of the country, and within the markets in which we presently operate, sustained unemployment may have a continuing negative impact on sales by our tenants at our various shopping centers.
There has been recent pressure on prices of petroleum products resulting from actual or potential dislocations in the world’s supply caused by political turmoil in countries which are major sources or distribution links for such products. This has tended to adversely impact the pricing of gasoline, among other products, in this country, which may cause shoppers to restrict their trips by automobile to shopping centers, reduce their purchases of gasoline and other products from the fuel service stations affiliated with the supermarkets at several of our properties, as well as reduce their levels of discretionary spending, all of which, in turn, could adversely affect sales at our properties.
Our performance and value are subject to risks associated with real estate assets and with the real estate industry.
Our performance and value are subject to risks associated with real estate assets and with the real estate industry, including, among other things, risks related to adverse changes in national, regional and local economic and market conditions. Our continued ability to make expected distributions to our shareholders depends on our ability to generate sufficient revenues to meet operating expenses, future debt service and capital expenditure requirements. Events and conditions generally applicable to owners and operators of real property that are beyond our control may decrease cash available for distribution and the value of our properties. These events and conditions include, but may not be limited to, the following:
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local oversupply, increased competition or declining demand for real estate;
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local economic conditions, which may be adversely impacted by plant closings, business layoffs, industry slow-downs, weather conditions, natural disasters and other factors;
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non-payment or deferred payment of rent or other charges by tenants, either as a result of tenant-specific financial ills, or general economic events or circumstances adversely affecting consumer disposable income or credit;
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vacancies or an inability to rent space on acceptable terms;
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increased operating costs, including real estate taxes, insurance premiums, utilities, repairs and maintenance;
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volatility and/or increases in interest rates, or the non-availability of funds in the credit markets in general;
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increased costs of complying with current, new or expanded governmental regulations;
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the relative illiquidity of real estate investments;
  10.  
changing market demographics;
  11.  
changing traffic patterns;
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an inability to arrange property-specific replacement financing for maturing mortgage loans in acceptable amounts or on acceptable terms.
Our substantial indebtedness and constraints on credit may impede our operating performance, as well as our development, redevelopment and acquisition activities, and put us at a competitive disadvantage.
We may incur additional debt in connection with development and redevelopment of properties owned by us and in connection with future acquisitions of real estate. We also may borrow funds to make distributions to shareholders. If we are unable to obtain such financing, we may be forced to delay or cancel such development, redevelopment and acquisition activities, which might require us to record a loss, might impair our future growth, and which in turn may harm our stock price. Our debt may harm our business and operating results by (i) requiring us to use a substantial portion of our available liquidity to pay required debt service and/or repayments or establish additional reserves, which would reduce the amount available for distributions, (ii) placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to competitors that have less debt or debt at more favorable terms, (iii) making us more vulnerable to economic and industry downturns and reducing our flexibility in responding to changing business and economic conditions, and (iv) limiting our ability to borrow more money for operations, capital expenditures, or to finance development, redevelopment and acquisition activities in the future. Increases in interest rates may impede our operating performance and put us at a competitive disadvantage. Payments of required debt service or amounts due at maturity, or creation of additional reserves under loan agreements, could adversely affect our liquidity.
As substantially all of our revenues are derived from rental income, failure of tenants to pay rent or delays in arranging leases and occupancy at our properties could seriously harm our operating results and financial condition.
Substantially all of our revenues are derived from rental income from our properties. Our tenants may experience a downturn in their respective businesses and/or in the economy generally at any time that may weaken their financial condition. As a result, any such tenants may delay lease commencement, fail to make rental payments when due, decline to extend a lease upon its expiration, become insolvent, or declare bankruptcy. Any leasing delays, failure to make rental or other payments when due, or tenant bankruptcies, could result in the termination of tenants’ leases, which would have a negative impact on our operating results. In addition, adverse market and economic conditions and competition may impede our ability to renew leases or re-let space as leases expire, which could harm our business and operating results.

 

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Our business may be seriously harmed if a major tenant fails to renew its lease(s) or vacates one or more properties and prevents us from re-leasing such premises by continuing to pay base rent for the balance of the lease terms. In addition, the loss of such a major tenant could result in lease terminations or reductions in rent by other tenants, as provided in their respective leases.
We may be restricted from re-leasing space based on existing exclusivity lease provisions with some of our tenants. In these cases, the leases contain provisions giving the tenant the exclusive right to sell particular types of merchandise or provide specific types of services within the particular retail center which limit the ability of other tenants within that center to sell such merchandise or provide such services. When re-leasing space after a vacancy by one of such other tenants, such lease provisions may limit the number and types of prospective tenants for the vacant space. The failure to re-lease space or to re-lease space on satisfactory terms could harm operating results.
Any bankruptcy filings by, or relating to, one of our tenants or a lease guarantor would generally bar efforts by us to collect pre-bankruptcy debts from that tenant, or lease guarantor, unless we receive an order permitting us to do so from the bankruptcy court. A bankruptcy by a tenant or lease guarantor could delay efforts to collect past due balances, and could ultimately preclude full or in fact any collection of such sums. If a lease is affirmed by the tenant in bankruptcy, all pre-bankruptcy balances due under the lease must generally be paid in full. However, if a lease is disaffirmed by a tenant in bankruptcy, we would have only an unsecured claim for damages, which would be paid normally only to the extent that funds are available, and only in the same percentage as is paid to all other members of the same class of unsecured creditors. It is possible and indeed likely that we would recover substantially less than, or in fact no portion of, the full value of any unsecured claims we hold, which may in turn harm our financial condition.
“New Technology” developments may impact customer traffic at certain tenants’ stores and ultimately sales at such stores.
We may be adversely affected by developments of new technology which may cause the business of certain of our tenants to become substantially diminished or functionally obsolete with the result that such tenants may be unable to pay rent, become insolvent, file for bankruptcy protection, close their stores, or terminate their leases. Examples of the potentially adverse effects of new technology on retail businesses include, amongst other, the advent of on-line movie rentals on video stores, the effect of “e-books” and small screen readers on book stores and increased sales of electronic products “on-line”.
Substantial recent annual increases in on-line sales have also caused many retailers to sell products on line on their websites with pick-ups at a store or warehouse. With special reference to our principal tenants, on-line grocery orders are available and especially useful in urban areas, but have not yet become a major factor affecting supermarkets in our portfolio.

 

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Competition may impede our ability to renew leases or re-let spaces as leases expire, which could harm our business and operating results.
We also face competition from similar retail centers within our respective trade areas that may affect our ability to renew leases or re-let space as leases expire. Certain national retail chain bankruptcies and resulting store closings/lease disaffirmations have generally resulted in increased available retail space which, in turn, has resulted in increased competitive pressure to renew tenant leases upon expiration and to find new tenants for vacant space at such properties. In addition, any new competitive properties that are developed within the trade areas of our existing properties may result in increased competition for customer traffic and creditworthy tenants. Increased competition for tenants may require us to make tenant and/or capital improvements to properties beyond those that we would otherwise have planned to make. Any unbudgeted tenant and/or capital improvements we undertake may reduce cash that would otherwise be available for distributions to shareholders. Ultimately, to the extent we are unable to renew leases or re-let space as leases expire, our business and operations could be negatively impacted.
We face competition for the acquisition of real estate properties, which may impede our ability to make future acquisitions or may increase the cost of these acquisitions.
We compete with many other entities engaged in real estate investment activities for acquisitions of retail shopping centers, including institutional investors, other REITs and other owner-operators of shopping centers. These competitors may drive up the price we must pay for real estate properties, other assets or other companies we seek to acquire or may succeed in acquiring those companies or assets themselves. In addition, our potential acquisition targets may find our competitors to be more attractive suitors because they may have greater resources (including a cost of capital that may be considerably less than ours), may be willing to pay more, or may have a more compatible operating philosophy, or may indeed operate in a broader geographic area than we do. In addition, the number of entities and the amount of funds competing for suitable investment properties may increase. This will result in increased demand for these assets and therefore increased prices paid for them. If we pay higher prices for properties, our profitability will be reduced.
Our current and future joint venture investments could be adversely affected by the lack of sole decision-making authority, reliance on joint venture partners’ financial condition, and any disputes that may arise between our joint venture partners and us.
We presently own a significant number of our properties in joint venture, and in the future we may continue to co-invest with third parties through joint ventures and/or contribute some of our properties to joint ventures. In addition, we have a 76.3% interest in an unconsolidated joint venture that owns a single-tenant office property. We are generally not in a position to exercise sole decision-making authority regarding the properties owned through joint ventures. Investments in joint ventures may, under certain circumstances, involve risks not present when a third party is not involved, including the possibility that joint venture partners might file for bankruptcy protection or fail to fund their share of required capital contributions. Joint venture partners may have business interests or goals that are inconsistent with our business interests or goals, and may be in a position to take actions contrary to our policies or objectives. Such investments also may have the potential risk of impasses on decisions, such as a sale, because neither the

 

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joint venture partner nor we would have full control over the joint venture. Any disputes that may arise between joint venture partners and us may result in litigation or arbitration that would increase our expenses and prevent our officers and/or directors from focusing their time and effort on our business. Consequently, actions by or disputes with joint venture partners might result in subjecting properties owned by the joint venture to additional risk. In addition, we may in certain circumstances be liable for the actions of our third-party joint venture partners. Our joint venture partner(s) or we may not be in a position to respond to capital calls, and such calls could thus adversely affect our ownership or profits interest through subordination, dilution or super priorities. Also, the triggering of buy/sell provisions in the respective joint venture agreements could adversely affect our ownership interests.
As indicated, we have entered into joint venture arrangements with respect to a number of our properties, including both development and stabilized properties. The applicable joint venture agreements generally include so-called “buy/sell” provisions pursuant to which, after a specified period of years, either party may initiate a “buy/sell” arrangement pursuant to which the initiating party can designate a value for the relevant property or properties, and the other party, after a specified notice period, may then elect either to sell its proportionate ownership interest in the joint venture based on that value for the entire property or to purchase the initiating party’s ownership interest based on such valuation for the entire property, subject to certain time limits for closing and other closing conditions where applicable. On February 15, 2011, Homburg Invest Inc., our co-venturer in nine supermarket-anchored shopping centers, initiated a “buy/sell” option under the joint venture agreement. For more information, see Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements elsewhere in this report.
The risk to us is that we may not be in a position financially, by virtue of lack of access to funds at an acceptable cost and within prescribed time limits, to purchase the co-venturer’s interest in the event of such “triggering” of the buy/sell provision by the co-venturer. Accordingly, we may be forced to sell our interest in the relevant property or properties on terms and at a time when such sale might not be considered in our best interests. In the event of such sale, we might also lose the benefit of various fees payable to us by the joint venture for property management, leasing and other services, as well as the benefit, where applicable, of a “promote” structure in such joint venture arrangement pursuant to which we could realize an additional share of profits, gains, cash flow, or proceeds of a sale, (re)financing or other capital transaction. Among other things, such sale could adversely affect on-going rental revenues, market penetration, relationships with tenants, and overall credit metrics.
The financial covenants in our loan agreements may restrict our operating or acquisition activities, which may harm our financial condition and operating results.
The financial covenants in our loan agreements may restrict our operating or acquisition activities, which may harm our financial condition and operating results. The mortgages on our properties contain customary negative covenants, such as those that limit our ability, without the prior consent of the lender, to sell or otherwise transfer any ownership interest, to further mortgage the applicable property, to enter into leases, or to discontinue insurance coverage. Our ability to borrow under our secured revolving credit facilities is subject to compliance with these financial and other covenants, including restrictions on property eligible for collateral, the payment of dividends, and overall restrictions on the amount of indebtedness we can incur. If we breach covenants in our debt agreements, the lenders could declare a default and require us to repay the debt immediately and, if the debt is secured, could take possession of the property or properties securing the loan.

 

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A substantial portion of our properties are located in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastal regions, which exposes us to greater economic risks than if our properties were owned in several geographic regions.
Our properties are located largely in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastal regions, which exposes us to greater economic risks than if we owned properties in more geographic regions. Any adverse economic or real estate developments resulting from the regulatory environment, business climate, fiscal problems or weather in such regions could have an adverse impact on our prospects. In addition, the economic condition of each of our markets may be dependent on one or more industries. An economic downturn in one of these industry sectors may result in an increase in tenant vacancies, which may harm our performance in the affected markets. High barriers to entry in the Northeast due to mature economies, road patterns, density of population, restrictions on development, and high land costs, coupled with large numbers of often overlapping government jurisdictions, may make it difficult for the Company to continue to grow in these areas.
Development and redevelopment activities may be delayed or otherwise may not achieve expected results.
Development and/or redevelopment activities may be cancelled, terminated, abandoned, and/or delayed, or otherwise may not achieve expected results due, among other things, to our inability to achieve favorable leasing results, to obtain all required permits and approvals, and to finance such development activities. We are in the process of developing/redeveloping several of our properties and expect to continue such activities in the future. In this connection, we will bear certain risks, including the risks of failure/lack of, or withdrawal of, expected entitlements, construction delays or cost overruns (including increases in materials and/or labor costs and the requirement for greater off-site improvements than originally contemplated) that may increase project costs and make such project uneconomical, the risk that occupancy or rental rates at a completed project will not be sufficient to enable us to pay operating expenses or achieve targeted rates of return on investment, and the risk of incurring acquisition and/or predevelopment costs in connection with projects that are not pursued to completion. Development/redevelopment activities are also generally subject to governmental permits and approvals, which may be delayed, may not be obtained, or may be conditioned on terms unfavorable to us. In addition, consents may be required from various tenants, lenders, and/or joint venture partners. In case of an unsuccessful project, our loss could exceed our investment in the project.
Our success depends on key personnel whose continued service is not guaranteed.
Our success depends on the efforts of key personnel, whose continued service is not guaranteed. Key personnel could be lost because we could not offer, among other things, competitive compensation programs. The loss of services of key personnel could materially and adversely affect our operations because of diminished relationships with lenders, sources of equity capital, construction companies, and existing and prospective tenants, and the ability to conduct our business and operations without material disruption.

 

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Potential losses may not be covered by insurance.
Potential losses may not be covered by insurance. We carry comprehensive liability, fire, flood, extended coverage and rental loss insurance under a blanket policy covering all of our properties. We believe the policy specifications and insured limits are appropriate and adequate given the relative risk of loss, the cost of the coverage and industry practice. We do not carry insurance for losses such as from war, nuclear accidents, and nuclear, biological and chemical occurrences from terrorist’s acts. Some of the insurance, such as that covering losses due to floods and earthquakes, is subject to limitations involving large deductibles or co-payments and policy limits that may not be sufficient to cover losses. Additionally, certain tenants have termination rights in respect of certain casualties. If we receive casualty proceeds, we may not be able to reinvest such proceeds profitably or at all, and we may be forced to recognize taxable gain on the affected property. If we experience losses that are uninsured or that exceed policy limits, we could lose the capital invested in the damaged properties as well as the anticipated future cash flows from those properties. In addition, if the damaged properties are subject to recourse indebtedness, we would continue to be liable for the indebtedness, even if these properties were irreparably damaged.
Future terrorist attacks could harm the demand for, and the value of, our properties.
Future terrorist attacks, such as the attacks that occurred in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, and other acts of terrorism or war, could harm the demand for, and the value of, our properties. Terrorist attacks could directly impact the value of our properties through damage, destruction, loss or increased security costs, and the availability of insurance for such acts may be limited or may be subject to substantial cost increases. To the extent that our tenants are impacted by future attacks, their ability to continue to honor obligations under their existing leases could be adversely affected.
If we fail to continue as a REIT, our distributions will not be deductible, and our income will be subject to taxation, thereby reducing earnings available for distribution.
If we do not continue to qualify as a REIT, our distributions will not be deductible, and our income will be subject to taxation, reducing earnings available for distribution. We have elected since 1986 to be taxed as a REIT under the Code. A REIT will generally not be subject to federal income taxation on that portion of its income that qualifies as REIT taxable income, to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders and complies with certain other requirements.
We intend to make distributions to shareholders to comply with the requirements of the Code. However, differences in timing between the recognition of taxable income and the actual receipt of cash could require us to sell assets, borrow funds or pay a portion of the dividend in common stock to meet the 90% distribution requirement of the Code. Certain assets generate substantial differences between taxable income and income recognized in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). Such assets include, without limitation, operating real estate that was acquired through structures that may limit or completely eliminate the depreciation deduction that would otherwise be available for income tax purposes. As a result, the Code requirement to distribute a substantial portion of our otherwise net taxable income in order to maintain REIT status could cause us

 

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to (i) distribute amounts that could otherwise be used for future acquisitions, capital expenditures or repayment of debt, (ii) borrow on unfavorable terms, (iii) sell assets on unfavorable terms or (iv) pay a portion of our common dividend in common stock. If we fail to obtain debt or equity capital in the future, it could limit our operations and our ability to grow, which could have a material adverse effect on the value of our common stock.
Dividends payable by REITs do not qualify for the reduced tax rates under tax legislation which reduced the maximum tax rate for dividends payable to individuals from 35% to 15% (through 2012). Although this legislation does not adversely affect the taxation of REITs or dividends paid by REITs, the more favorable rates applicable to regular corporate dividends could cause investors to perceive investments in REITs to be relatively less attractive than investments in the stock of corporations that pay dividends qualifying for reduced rates of tax, which in turn could adversely affect the value of the stock of REITs.
We could incur significant costs related to government regulation and litigation over environmental matters and various other federal, state and local regulatory requirements.
We could incur significant costs related to government regulations and litigation over environmental matters. Under various federal, state and local laws, ordinances and regulations, an owner or operator of real estate may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous or toxic substances or other contaminants at property owned, leased, managed or otherwise operated by such person, and may be held liable to a governmental entity or to third parties for property damage, and for investigation and cleanup costs in connection with such contamination. The cost of investigation, remediation or removal of such substances may be substantial, and the presence of such substances, or the failure to properly remediate such conditions, may adversely affect the owner’s, lessor’s or operator’s ability to sell or rent such property or to arrange financing using such property as collateral. In connection with the ownership, operation and management of real properties, we are potentially liable for removal or remediation costs, as well as certain other related costs and liabilities, including governmental fines, injuries to persons, and damage to property.
We may incur significant costs complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the “ADA”) and similar laws, which require that all public accommodations meet federal requirements related to access and use by disabled persons, and with various other federal, state and local regulatory requirements, such as state and local fire and life safety requirements.
The Company believes environmental studies conducted at the time of acquisition with respect to all of our properties did not reveal any material environmental liabilities, and we are unaware of any subsequent environmental matters that would have created a material liability. We believe that our properties are currently in material compliance with applicable environmental, as well as non-environmental, statutory and regulatory requirements. If one or more of our properties were not in compliance with such federal, state and local laws, we could be required to incur additional costs to bring the property into compliance. If we incur substantial costs to comply with such requirements, our business and operations could be adversely affected. If we fail to comply with such requirements, we might incur governmental fines or private damage awards. We cannot presently determine whether existing requirements will change or whether future requirements will require us to make significant unanticipated expenditures that will adversely impact our business and operations.

 

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Our charter and Maryland law contain provisions that may delay, defer or prevent a change of control transaction and depress our stock price.
Our charter and Maryland law contain provisions that may delay, defer or prevent a change of control transaction and depress the price of our common stock. The charter, subject to certain exceptions, authorizes directors to take such actions as are necessary and desirable relating to qualification as a REIT, and to limit any person to beneficial ownership of no more than 9.9% of the outstanding shares of our common stock. Our Board of Directors, in its sole discretion, may exempt a proposed transferee from the ownership limit, but may not grant an exemption from the ownership limit to any proposed transferee whose direct or indirect ownership could jeopardize our status as a REIT. These restrictions on transferability and ownership will not apply if our Board of Directors determines that it is no longer in our best interests to continue to qualify as, or to be, a REIT. This ownership limit may delay or impede a transaction or a change of control that might involve a premium price for our common stock or otherwise be in the best interests of shareholders. Our Board of Directors has waived the ownership limit to permit each of Inland American Real Estate Trust, Inc. and RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust to acquire up to 14% and 16%, respectively, of our stock; provided, however, that each of them has agreed to various voting restrictions and standstill provisions.
We may authorize and issue stock and OP Units without shareholder approval. Our charter authorizes the Board of Directors to issue additional shares of common or preferred stock, to issue additional OP Units, to classify or reclassify any unissued shares of common or preferred stock, and to set the preferences, rights and other terms of such classified or unclassified shares. In connection with obtaining shareholder approval to increase the number of authorized shares of preferred stock, we have agreed not to use our preferred stock for anti-takeover purposes or in connection with a shareholder rights plan unless we obtain shareholder approval. Certain provisions of the Maryland General Corporation Law (the “MGCL”) may have the effect of inhibiting a third party from making a proposal to acquire us or of impeding a change of control under circumstances that otherwise could provide the holders of shares of our common stock with the opportunity to realize a premium over the then-prevailing market price of such shares, including:
  1.  
“business combination” provisions that, subject to limitations, prohibit certain business combinations between us and an “interested stockholder” (defined generally as any person or an affiliate thereof who beneficially owns 10% or more of the voting power of our shares) for five years after the most recent date on which the stockholder becomes an interested stockholder, and thereafter imposes special appraisal rights and special stockholder voting requirements on these combinations; and
  2.  
“control share” provisions that provide that our “control shares” (defined as shares that, when aggregated with other shares controlled by the stockholder, entitle the stockholder to exercise one of three increasing ranges of voting power in electing directors) acquired in a “control share acquisition” (defined as the direct or indirect acquisition of ownership or control of control shares) have no voting rights except to the extent approved by our shareholders by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast on the matter, excluding all interested shares.

 

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We have opted out of these provisions of the MGCL. However, the Board of Directors may, by resolution, elect to opt in to the business combination provisions of the MGCL, and we may, by amendment to our bylaws, opt in to the control share provisions of the MGCL.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments: None
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
The Company is not presently involved in any litigation, nor, to its knowledge, is any litigation threatened against the Company or its subsidiaries, which is either not covered by the Company’s liability insurance, or, in management’s opinion, would result in a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
Item 4. [Reserved]
Directors and Executive Officers of the Company
Information regarding the Company’s directors and executive officers is set forth below:
             
Name   Age   Position
Leo S. Ullman
    71     Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President
James J. Burns
    71     Director
Raghunath Davloor
    49     Director
Richard Homburg
    61     Director
Pamela N. Hootkin
    63     Director
Paul G. Kirk Jr.
    73     Director
Everett B. Miller III
    65     Director
Roger M. Widmann
    71     Director
Lawrence E. Kreider, Jr.
    63     Chief Financial Officer
Nancy H. Mozzachio
    46     Vice President — Leasing
Thomas B. Richey
    55     President — Development and Construction Division
Brenda J. Walker
    58     Vice President — Chief Operating Officer
Stuart H. Widowski
    50     Secretary and General Counsel
Leo S. Ullman, chief executive officer, president and chairman of the Board of Directors, has been involved in real estate property and asset management for more than thirty years. He was chairman and president since 1978 of the real estate management companies, and their respective predecessors and affiliates, which were merged into the Company in 2003. Mr. Ullman was first elected as the Company’s chairman in April 1998 and served until November 1999. He was re-elected in December 2000. Mr. Ullman also has been chief executive officer and president from April 1998 to date. He has been a member of the New York Bar since 1966 and was in private legal practice until 1998. From 1984 until 1993, he was a partner in the New York law firm of Reid & Priest, and served as initial director of its real estate group. Mr. Ullman received an A.B. from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He has lectured and written books, monographs and articles on investment in U.S. real estate, and is a former adjunct professor of business at the NYU Graduate School of Business. Mr. Ullman serves on the boards of several charities, is a member of the Development Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has received several awards for community service.

 

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James J. Burns, a director since 2001 and a member of the Audit (Chair), Compensation and Nominating/Corporate Governance committees, was chief financial officer and senior vice president of Reis, Inc. (formerly Wellsford Real Properties, Inc.) from December 2000 until March 2006, and vice chairman from April 2006 until March 2009, when he entered into a consulting role at that company (where he continues to have the primary responsibility for income tax reporting and compliance). He joined Reis in October 1999 as chief accounting officer upon his retirement from Ernst & Young LLP in September 1999. At Ernst & Young LLP, Mr. Burns was a senior audit partner in the E&Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group for 22 years. Since 2000, Mr. Burns has also served as a director of One Liberty Properties, Inc., a real estate investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Burns is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Burns received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Raghunath Davloor, a director since October 2009, has been, from February 2008 to the present, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, Canada’s largest real estate investment trust. RioCan, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is involved in the ownership, development, management, leasing, acquisition and redevelopment of retail properties across Canada. RioCan, through a subsidiary, owns an investment in the Company, and is a partner with the Company in several joint venture properties in the U.S. From January 2006 until February 2008, Mr. Davloor was Vice-President and Director of Investment Banking at TD Securities, covering the real estate sector. For ten years prior thereto, he was with O&Y Properties Corporation and O&Y REIT in a number of progressive positions, ultimately becoming Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining O&Y, Mr. Davloor was a Senior Tax Manager at Arthur Andersen in the real estate advisory services group, specializing in real estate and international taxation. He is a chartered accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Mr. Davloor holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba.
Richard Homburg, a director since 1999, and chairman from November 1999 to August 2000, was born and educated in the Netherlands. Mr. Homburg is chairman and CEO of Homburg Invest Inc. and president of Homburg Invest USA Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Homburg Invest Inc., a publicly-traded Canadian corporation listed on the Toronto and Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchanges). Mr. Homburg was the president and CEO of Uni-Invest N.V., a publicly-listed Netherlands real estate fund, from 1991 until 2000. In 2002, an investment group purchased 100% of the shares of Uni-Invest N.V., taking it private, at which time it was one of the largest real estate funds in the Netherlands with assets of approximately $2.5 billion. In addition to his varied business interests, Mr. Homburg has served on many boards. He is a past director of Evangeline Trust, the Urban Development Institute of Canada, and the World Trade Center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and was co-founder, past president and director of the Investment Property Owners Association of Nova Scotia. He is a director of the Fathers of Confederation Building Trust as well as director or advisory board member of other large charitable organizations. In 2004 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year for the Atlantic Provinces by Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Homburg holds an honorary Doctorate in Commerce from St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Prince Edward Island.

 

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Pamela N. Hootkin, a director since June 2008 and a member of the Audit and Compensation committees, has been senior vice president, treasurer and director of investor relations at Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation since June 2007. She joined Phillips-Van Heusen in 1988 as vice president, treasurer and corporate secretary and in 1999 became vice president, treasurer and director of investor relations. From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Hootkin was vice president and chief financial officer of Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, Inc. From 1975 to 1986, she was employed by Squibb Corporation in various capacities, with her last position being vice president and treasurer of a division of Squibb. Ms. Hootkin is a board member of Safe Horizon, New York (a not-for-profit organization) where she also serves on the executive and finance committees. Ms. Hootkin received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a M.A. from Boston University.
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.,was a director from 2005 to September 2009, when he resigned as the result of his appointment as a United States Senator for Massachusetts to the seat previously held by the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and was re-elected to the Board in June 2010. Mr. Kirk is a member of the Nominating/Corporate Governance (Chair) committee and the Lead Director (as among the independent directors) and is a retired partner of the law firm of Sullivan & Worcester, LLP of Boston, MA. He was a member of the firm from 1977 through 1990. He also serves as Chairman and CEO of Kirk & Associates, Inc., a business advisory and consulting firm. Mr. Kirk currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Rayonier, Incorporated (a real estate investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and the Advisory Board of Bloomberg Government. He has previously served on the Boards of Directors of ITT Corporation (1989-1997) and of Bradley Real Estate, Inc. (1991-2000), a real estate investment trust that was subsequently acquired by Heritage Property Investment Trust, Inc. Mr. Kirk was a founding Director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and served as its Chairman from 1992 to 2009. He was a founding Director of the Commission on Presidential Debates and served as its Co-Chairman from 1987 to 2009. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Kirk served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of the U.S., and from 1983-1985 as its Treasurer. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Kirk is past-Chairman of the Harvard Board of Overseers’ Nominating Committee and of the Harvard Board of Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Department of Athletics. He has received many awards for civic leadership and public service, including honorary doctors of law degrees from Stonehill College and the Southern New England School of Law.
Everett B. Miller, III, a director since 1998 and a member of the Audit and Compensation committees, is vice president of alternative investments at the YMCA Retirement Fund. In March 2003, Mr. Miller was appointed to the Real Estate Advisory Committee of the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Prior to his retirement in May 2002 from Commonfund Realty, Inc., a registered investment advisor, Mr. Miller was the chief operating officer of that company from 1997 until May 2002. From January 1995 through March 1997, Mr. Miller was the Principal Investment Officer for Real Estate and Alternative Investment at the Office of the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut. Prior thereto, Mr. Miller was employed for eighteen years at affiliates of Travelers Realty Investment Co., at which his last position was senior vice president. Mr. Miller received a B.S. from Yale University.

 

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Roger M. Widmann, a director since October 2003 and a member of the Compensation (Chair) and Nominating/Corporate Governance committees, is an investment banker. He was a principal of the investment banking firm of Tanner & Co., Inc. from 1997 to 2004. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Widmann was a senior managing director of Chemical Securities, Inc., a subsidiary of Chemical Banking Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase Corporation). Prior to joining Chemical Securities, Inc., Mr. Widmann was a founder and managing director of First Reserve Corporation, the largest independent energy investing firm in the U.S. Previously, he was senior vice president with the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, responsible for the firm’s domestic and international investment banking business. He had also been a vice president with New Court Securities (now Rothschild, Inc.). He was a director of Lydall, Inc. (listed on the New York Stock Exchange), a manufacturer of thermal, acoustical and filtration materials, from 1974 to 2004, and its chairman from 1998 to 2004. He is a director of Standard Motor Products, Inc. (listed on the New York Stock Exchange), a manufacturer of automobile replacement parts, and GigaBeam Corporation, a manufacturer of “last mile” wireless transmission systems. Mr. Widmann is Chairman of Keystone National Group, a fund of private equity funds, and is Chairman and CEO of Cutwater Associates LLC, a corporate advisory firm. He is also a senior moderator of the Aspen Seminar at The Aspen Institute, and is a board member of the March of Dimes of Greater New York and Vice Chairman of Oxfam America. Mr. Widmann received an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law.
Lawrence E. Kreider, Jr. joined the Company in June 2007 as Chief Financial Officer and has direct responsibility for all financial aspects of the Company’s operations. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kreider was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer and Chief Accounting Officer for Affordable Residential Communities, now named Hilltop Holdings Inc., for substantial periods of time from 2001 to 2007. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Kreider was Senior Vice President of Finance for Warnaco Group Inc. and, in 2000 and 2001, President of Warnaco Europe. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Kreider served in several senior finance positions, including Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, with Revlon, Inc. and MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings. Prior to 1986, he served in senior finance positions with Zale Corporation, Johnson Matthew Jewelry Corporation and Refinement International Company. Mr. Kreider began his career with Coopers & Lybrand, now PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Kreider holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Nancy H. Mozzachio joined the Company in 2003 as Vice President- Leasing and has been involved in the shopping center industry for more than 23 years. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Mozzachio served as Vice President of Leasing and Development for American Continental Properties Group from 1988 to 2003 where she assisted in bringing the first Wal-Mart store to the State of New Jersey. From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Mozzachio was a leasing and development manager for Kode Development Group of Philadelphia, an active developer of supermarket-anchored shopping centers in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey region. Ms. Mozzachio served on several Planning Boards in New Jersey and is a current member of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), Urban Land Institute and Retail Network, as well as an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and Zell-Lurie Real Estate program at The University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School. Ms. Mozzachio received a B.A. from Rutgers University.

 

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Thomas B. Richey joined the Company in 1998 as Vice President of Development and Construction Services, and was elected President of the Development and Construction Division in 2009. Mr. Richey has been involved in the commercial real estate business for more than 30 years. He served as a City Planner & Economic Development Director for the City of Williamsport, PA, from 1980 through 1983. From 1983 to 1986, he was a Project Manager for Lundy Construction Company, a large commercial and industrial general contracting company, and Director of Acquisitions & Construction for Shawnee Management, Inc., a major hotel management company. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Richey was a principal in two real estate companies specializing in the acquisition, development, redevelopment, and operations of hotels and commercial office buildings. From 1996 to 1998, he worked for Grove Associates, Inc., a Harrisburg, PA, area survey and engineering company, where he specialized in the land development plan approval process. Mr. Richey has served as an Economic Development consultant to the National Main Street Center, part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a past Board Member of a regional YMCA, and presently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Harrisburg Area Community College and as a member of the Board of Directors of WITF, Inc., a public radio and television station. He is also an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Urban Land Institute. Mr. Richey received a B.A from Lycoming College.
Brenda J. Walker has been a vice president of the Company since 1998, was elected Chief Operating Office in 2009, was a director from 1998 until June 2008, and was treasurer from April 1998 until November 1999. She was an executive officer since 1992 of the real estate management companies, and their respective predecessors and affiliates, which were merged into the Company in 2003. Ms. Walker has been involved in real estate-related finance, property and asset management for more than thirty-five years. Ms. Walker received a B.A. from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania.
Stuart H. Widowski has been secretary and general counsel of the Company since 1998. He was in private practice for seven years, including five years with the New York law firm of Reid & Priest. From 1991 through 1996, Mr. Widowski served in the legal department of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Mr. Widowski received a B.A. from Brandeis University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan.
Part II.
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Dividend Information
A corporation electing REIT status is required to distribute at least 90% of its “REIT taxable income”, as defined in the Code, to continue qualification as a REIT. The Company paid dividends totaling $0.36 per share during 2010, of which the Company declared a dividend of $0.09 per share to shareholders of record at December 31, 2009, which was paid on January 20, 2010. While the Company intends to continue paying regular quarterly dividends, future dividend declarations will continue to be at the discretion of the Board of Directors, and will depend on the cash flow and financial condition of the Company, capital requirements, annual distribution requirements under the REIT provisions of the Code, and such other factors as the Board of Directors may deem relevant.

 

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Market Information
The Company had 66,520,036 shares of common stock outstanding held by approximately 700 shareholders of record at December 31, 2010. The Company believes it has more than 6,000 beneficial holders of its common stock. The Company’s shares trade on the NYSE under the symbol “CDR”. The following table sets forth, for each quarter for the last two years, (i) the high, low, and closing prices of the Company’s common stock, and (ii) dividends paid:
                                 
    Market price range     Dividends  
Quarter ended   High     Low     Close     paid  
 
                               
2010
                               
 
                               
March 31
  $ 8.20     $ 6.26     $ 7.91     $ (a)
June 30
    8.39       5.85       6.02       0.0900  
September 30
    6.67       4.91       6.08       0.0900  
December 31
    6.81       5.81       6.29       0.0900  
 
                               
2009
                               
 
                               
March 31
  $ 7.47     $ 1.68     $ 1.74     $ 0.1125  
June 30
    5.45       1.96       4.52        
September 30
    6.72       4.10       6.45        
December 31
    6.85       5.64       6.80       0.0900 (a)
     
(a)  
Dividend was paid on January 20, 2010 to shareholders of record at December 31, 2009.
Stockholder Return Performance Presentation
The following line graph sets forth for the period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2010 a comparison of the percentage change in the cumulative total stockholder return on the Company’s common stock compared to the cumulative total return of the Russell 2000 index and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts Equity REIT Total Return Index.
The graph assumes that the shares of the Company’s common stock were bought at the price of $100 per share and that the value of the investment in each of the Company’s common stock and the indices was $100 at the beginning of the period. The graph further assumes the reinvestment of dividends when paid.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
(LINE GRAPH)
                                                 
            Period Ending  
Index   01/01/06     12/31/06     12/31/07     12/31/08     12/31/09     12/31/10  
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
    100.00       120.01       82.26       61.81       61.14       58.94  
Russell 2000
    100.00       118.37       116.51       77.15       98.11       124.46  
NAREIT All Equity REIT Index
    100.00       135.06       113.87       70.91       90.76       116.12  

 

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data (a)
                                         
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2008     2007     2006  
 
                                       
Operations data:
                                       
 
                                       
Total revenues
  $ 157,164,000     $ 168,341,000     $ 156,214,000     $ 138,095,000     $ 112,809,000  
 
                             
Expenses:
                                       
Property operating expenses
    51,307,000       48,949,000       42,879,000       35,785,000       31,008,000  
General and administrative
    9,537,000       10,166,000       8,586,000       9,041,000       6,086,000  
Impairments
    2,493,000       23,636,000                    
Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net
    4,253,000       4,367,000       855,000              
Depreciation and amortization
    42,278,000       50,148,000       44,862,000       37,479,000       30,495,000  
 
                             
Total expenses
    109,868,000       137,266,000       97,182,000       82,305,000       67,589,000  
 
                                       
Operating income
    47,296,000       31,075,000       59,032,000       55,790,000       45,220,000  
 
                                       
Non-operating income and expense:
                                       
Interest expense and amortization/write-off of deferred financing costs
    (52,254,000 )     (47,664,000 )     (43,021,000 )     (36,543,000 )     (32,500,000 )
Equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures
    484,000       1,098,000       956,000       634,000       70,000  
Gain on sales of real estate
          521,000                   141,000  
Interest income
    38,000       63,000       284,000       788,000       641,000  
 
                             
Total non-operating income and expense
    (51,732,000 )     (45,982,000 )     (41,781,000 )     (35,121,000 )     (31,648,000 )
 
                                       
(Loss) income before discontinued operations
    (4,436,000 )     (14,907,000 )     17,251,000       20,669,000       13,572,000  
 
                                       
(Loss) income from discontinued operations
    (39,918,000 )     (2,661,000 )     3,547,000       3,198,000       3,274,000  
Gain on sales of discontinued operations
    170,000       557,000                    
 
                             
 
                                       
Net (loss) income
    (44,184,000 )     (17,011,000 )     20,798,000       23,867,000       16,846,000  
 
                                       
Less, net loss (income) attributable to noncontrolling interests Minority interests in consolidated joint ventures
    1,613,000       (772,000 )     (2,157,000 )     (1,415,000 )     (1,202,000 )
Limited partners’ interest in Operating Partnership
    1,282,000       912,000       (468,000 )     (627,000 )     (389,000 )
 
                             
 
                                       
Net (loss) income attributable to Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
    (41,289,000 )     (16,871,000 )     18,173,000       21,825,000       15,255,000  
 
                                       
Preferred distribution requirements
    (10,196,000 )     (7,876,000 )     (7,877,000 )     (7,877,000 )     (7,877,000 )
 
                             
 
                                       
Net (loss) income attributable to common shareholders
  $ (51,485,000 )   $ (24,747,000 )   $ 10,296,000     $ 13,948,000     $ 7,378,000  
 
                             
 
                                       
Per common share (basic and diluted) attributable to common shareholders:
                                       
Continuing operations
  $ (0.20 )   $ (0.49 )   $ 0.15     $ 0.24     $ 0.13  
Discontinued operations
  $ (0.61 )     (0.05 )     0.08     $ 0.08       0.09  
 
                             
 
  $ (0.81 )   $ (0.54 )   $ 0.23     $ 0.32     $ 0.22  
 
                             
 
                                       
Amounts attributable to Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. common shareholders,net of limited partners’ interest
                                       
(Loss) income from continuing operations
  $ (12,834,000 )   $ (22,731,000 )   $ 6,903,000     $ 10,888,000     $ 4,268,000  
(Loss) income from discontinued operations
    (38,651,000 )     (2,016,000 )     3,393,000       3,060,000       3,110,000  
 
                             
Net (loss) income
  $ (51,485,000 )   $ (24,747,000 )   $ 10,296,000     $ 13,948,000     $ 7,378,000  
 
                             
 
                                       
Dividends to common shareholders
  $ 17,749,000     $ 9,742,000     $ 40,027,000     $ 39,775,000     $ 29,333,000  
Per common share
  $ 0.2700     $ 0.2025     $ 0.9000     $ 0.9000     $ 0.9000  
 
                                       
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding:
                                       
Basic
    63,843,000       46,234,000       44,475,000       44,193,000       32,926,000  
 
                             
Diluted
    63,862,000       46,234,000       44,475,000       44,197,000       33,055,000  
 
                             

 

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data (a) (continued)
                                         
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2008     2007     2006  
 
                                       
Balance sheet data:
                                       
 
                                       
Real estate, net
  $ 1,401,849,000     $ 1,404,494,000     $ 1,308,047,000     $ 1,201,179,000     $ 899,534,000  
Real estate to be transferred to a joint venture
          139,743,000       194,952,000       165,277,000       166,639,000  
Real estate held for sale — discontinued operations
    69,959,000       127,849,000       149,428,000       142,963,000       120,466,000  
Investment in unconsolidated joint ventures
    52,466,000       14,113,000       4,976,000       3,757,000       3,644,000  
Other assets
    98,213,000       98,919,000       77,625,000       89,919,000       64,879,000  
 
                             
Total assets
  $ 1,622,487,000     $ 1,785,118,000     $ 1,735,028,000     $ 1,603,095,000     $ 1,255,162,000  
 
                             
 
                                       
Mortgages and loans payable
  $ 807,327,000     $ 912,596,000     $ 879,492,000     $ 723,515,000     $ 439,102,000  
Mortgage loans payable — real estate to be transferred to a joint venture
          94,018,000       77,307,000       70,458,000       70,599,000  
Mortgage loans payable — discontinued operations
    32,786,000       45,833,000       56,674,000       57,541,000       58,372,000  
Other liabilities
    76,850,000       106,269,000       116,361,000       105,654,000       74,206,000  
 
                             
Total liabilities
    916,963,000       1,158,716,000       1,129,834,000       957,168,000       642,279,000  
Limited partners’ interest in Operating Partnership
    7,053,000       12,638,000       14,257,000       15,570,000       19,608,000  
Equity:
                                       
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. shareholders’ equity
    630,066,000       538,456,000       523,521,000       557,849,000       574,311,000  
Noncontrolling interests
    68,405,000       75,308,000       67,416,000       72,508,000       18,964,000  
 
                             
Total equity
    698,471,000       613,764,000       590,937,000       630,357,000       593,275,000  
 
                             
Total liabilities and equity
  $ 1,622,487,000     $ 1,785,118,000     $ 1,735,028,000     $ 1,603,095,000     $ 1,255,162,000  
 
                             
 
                                       
Weighted average number of common shares:
                                       
Shares used in determination of basic earnings per share
    63,843,000       46,234,000       44,475,000       44,193,000       32,926,000  
Additional shares assuming conversion of OP Units (basic)
    1,814,000       2,014,000       2,024,000       1,985,000       1,737,000  
 
                             
Shares used in determination of basic FFO per share
    65,657,000       48,248,000       46,499,000       46,178,000       34,663,000  
 
                             
 
                                       
Shares used in determination of diluted earnings per share
    63,862,000       46,234,000       44,475,000       44,197,000       33,055,000  
Additional shares assuming conversion of OP Units (diluted)
    1,814,000       2,014,000       2,024,000       1,990,000       1,747,000  
 
                             
Shares used in determination of diluted FFO per share
    65,676,000       48,248,000       46,499,000       46,187,000       34,802,000  
 
                             
 
                                       
Other data:
                                       
Funds (Used in) From Operations (“FFO”) (b)
  $ (10,316,000 )   $ 24,581,000     $ 56,859,000     $ 56,190,000     $ 41,954,000  
 
                                       
Per common share (assuming conversion of OP Units) (basic and diluted):
  $ (0.16 )   $ 0.51     $ 1.22     $ 1.22     $ 1.21  
 
                                       
Cash flows provided by (used in):
                                       
Operating activities
  $ 41,702,000     $ 51,942,000     $ 60,815,000     $ 53,503,000     $ 40,858,000  
Investing activities
  $ (29,834,000 )   $ (70,026,000 )   $ (151,390,000 )   $ (192,432,000 )   $ (190,105,000 )
Financing activities
  $ (14,866,000 )   $ 27,017,000     $ 75,517,000     $ 143,735,000     $ 158,011,000  
 
                                       
Square feet of GLA
    14,535,000       11,789,000       10,991,000       10,898,000       9,107,000  
Percent leased (including development/redevelopment and other non-stabilized properties)
    93 %     92 %     93 %     94 %     92 %
Average annualized base rent per leased square foot
  $ 12.07     $ 11.66     $ 11.11     $ 10.81     $ 10.47  
 
     
(a)  
The data presented reflect certain reclassifications of prior period amounts to conform to the 2010 presentation, principally to reflect the sale and/or treatment as “held for sale” of certain operating properties and the treatment thereof as “discontinued operations”. The reclassifications had no impact on the previously-reported net income attributable to common shareholders or earnings per share.
 
(b)  
See Item 7 — “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for a reconciliation of Funds (Used in) From Operations (“FFO”)to net (loss) income attributable to common shareholders.

 

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this report.
Executive Summary
The Company is a fully-integrated real estate investment trust which focuses primarily on ownership, operation, development and redevelopment of supermarket-anchored shopping centers predominantly in mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastal states. At December 31, 2010, the Company owned and managed (both wholly-owned and in joint venture) a portfolio of 115 operating properties totaling approximately 14.5 million square feet of GLA, including 72 wholly-owned properties comprising approximately 7.4 million square feet, 12 properties owned in joint venture (consolidated) comprising approximately 1.4 million square feet, 21 properties in a managed joint venture (unconsolidated) comprising approximately 3.5 million square feet, six redevelopment properties comprising approximately 1.5 million sq. ft. and four ground-up development properties comprising approximately 0.7 million square feet. Excluding the four ground-up development properties, the 111 property portfolio was approximately 92.5% leased at December 31, 2010. The Company also owned approximately 148 acres of land parcels, a significant portion of which is under development. In addition, the Company has a 76.3% interest in another unconsolidated joint venture, which it does not manage, which owns a single-tenant office property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Company, organized as a Maryland corporation, has established an umbrella partnership structure through the contribution of substantially all of its assets to the Operating Partnership, organized as a limited partnership under the laws of Delaware. The Company conducts substantially all of its business through the Operating Partnership. At December 31, 2010, the Company owned 97.9% of the Operating Partnership and is its sole general partner. The approximately 1,415,000 OP Units are economically equivalent to the Company’s common stock and are convertible into the Company’s common stock at the option of the holders on a one-to-one basis.
The Company derives substantially all of its revenues from rents and operating expense reimbursements received pursuant to long-term leases. The Company’s operating results therefore depend on the ability of its tenants to make the payments required by the terms of their leases. The Company focuses its investment activities on supermarket-anchored community shopping centers. The Company believes that, because of the need of consumers to purchase food and other staple goods and services generally available at such centers, its type of “necessities-based” properties should provide relatively stable revenue flows even during difficult economic times.
In connection with the transactions with RioCan, the Company has acquired, and will continue to seek to acquire, primarily stabilized supermarket-anchored properties in its primary market areas in a joint venture owned 20% by the Company. The Company has historically sought opportunities to acquire stabilized properties as well as properties suited for development, where it can utilize its experience in shopping center construction, renovation, expansion, re-leasing and re-merchandising to achieve long-term cash flow growth and favorable investment returns.

 

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Significant Transactions
RioCan
The Company and RioCan entered into an 80% (RioCan) and 20% (Cedar) joint venture in October 2009 (i) initially for the purchase of seven supermarket-anchored properties previously owned by the Company, and (ii) then to acquire additional primarily supermarket-anchored properties in the Company’s primary market areas, in the same joint venture format. The Company transferred the initial seven properties into the joint venture at various times from December 2009 through May 2010 generating approximately $63.1 million of net proceeds and the transfer of approximately $94 million of fixed-rate mortgages. In addition, in April 2010, RioCan exercised its warrant to purchase 1,428,570 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company received proceeds of $10.0 million. Net proceeds from the property transfers and the exercise of the warrants were used to repay/reduce the outstanding balances under the Company’s secured revolving credit facilities.
The following table summarizes information relating to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties as of December 31, 2010:

 

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        Date of                 Transfer              
        transfer                 or     Mortgage        
        or                 purchase     Loans     Int.  
Property Description   State   acquisition         GLA     price     Payable (b)     rate  
 
                                               
Blue Mountain Commons
  PA     12/10/2009     (a)     121,145     $ 32,150,000     $ 17,500,000       5.0 %
Columbus Crossing
  PA     2/23/2010     (a)     142,166       24,538,000       16,880,000       6.8 %
Creekview Plaza
  PA     9/29/2010           136,423       26,240,000       14,432,000       4.8 %
Cross Keys Place
  NJ     10/13/2010           148,173       26,336,000       14,600,000       5.1 %
Exeter Commons
  PA     8/3/2010           361,321       53,000,000       30,000,000       5.3 %
Franklin Village Plaza
  MA     2/4/2010     (a)     304,277       54,656,000       43,500,000       4.8 %
Gettysburg Marketplace
  PA     10/21/2010           82,784       19,850,000       10,918,000       5.0 %
Loyal Plaza
  PA     5/26/2010     (a)     293,825       26,950,000       12,615,000       7.2 %
Marlboro Crossroads
  MD     10/21/2010           67,975       12,500,000       6,875,000       5.1 %
Monroe Marketplace
  PA     9/29/2010           328,013       41,990,000       23,095,000       4.8 %
Montville Commons
  CT     9/29/2010     (c)     117,916       18,900,000              
New River Valley
  VA     9/29/2010           164,663       27,970,000       15,163,000       4.8 %
Northland Center
  PA     10/21/2010           108,260       10,248,000       6,298,000       5.0 %
Pitney Road Plaza
  PA     9/29/2010           45,915       11,060,000       6,083,000       4.8 %
Shaw’s Plaza
  MA     4/27/2010     (a)     176,609       20,363,000       14,200,000       6.0 %
Stop & Shop Plaza
  CT     4/27/2010     (a)     54,510       8,974,000       7,000,000       6.2 %
Sunset Crossing
  PA     12/10/2009     (a)     74,142       9,850,000       4,500,000       5.0 %
Sunrise Plaza
  NJ     9/29/2010           248,160       26,460,000       13,728,000       4.8 %
Town Square Plaza
  PA     1/26/2010           127,636       18,854,000       11,000,000       5.0 %
Towne Crossings
  VA     10/21/2010           111,016       19,000,000       10,450,000       5.0 %
York Marketplace
  PA     10/21/2010           305,410       29,200,000       16,060,000       5.0 %
 
                                         
 
                    3,520,339     $ 519,089,000     $ 294,897,000          
 
                                         
     
(a)  
Initial seven properties previously owned by the Company that were transferred to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture.
 
(b)  
Mortgage loans payable represent either (i) the outstanding balance at the date of transfer or (ii) the loan amount on the date of borrowing, excluding any mortgage discount.
 
(c)  
Subsequent to year end the Company obtained a $10.5 million mortgage loan payable.
In connection with the formation of the joint venture and the agreement to transfer the seven properties which were reclassified to “held for sale”, the Company recorded impairment charges of $2.5 million and $23.6 million in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Such charges were based on a comparison of the arms-length negotiated transfer amounts set forth in the contract with the carrying values of the properties transferred.
In connection with the Cedar/RioCan joint venture transactions, the Company, in 2010, earned approximately $3.6 million in fees from the joint venture, representing accounting fees, management fees, acquisition fees and financing fees. Such fees are included in other revenue in the accompanying statements of operations. In addition, the Company paid fees to its investment advisor of approximately $2.7 million, which are included in transaction costs in the accompanying statements of operations.

 

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Discontinued Operations
During 2010 and 2009, the Company sold, or has treated as “held for sale”, 28 of its properties (including a number of drug store/convenience centers). The carrying values of the assets and liabilities of these properties, principally the net book values of the real estate and the related mortgage loans payable, have been reclassified as “held for sale” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2010 and 2009, if applicable. In addition, the properties’ results of operations have been classified as “discontinued operations” for all periods presented.
The following table summarizes information relating to the Company’s properties which were sold, or treated as “held for sale”, during 2010 and 2009:

 

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                                Mortgage loans payable  
                Property carrying value     Maturity     Int.     Financial statement carrying value  
Property Description   State   GLA     Dec. 31, 2010     Dec. 31, 2009     date     rate     Dec. 31, 2010     Dec. 31, 2009  
 
                                                           
Centerville Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     49,494     $ 2,481,000     $ 5,955,000     May 2015     5.2 %   $ 2,743,000     $ 2,794,000  
Clyde Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     34,592       2,287,000       3,533,000     May 2015     5.2 %     1,903,000       1,939,000  
Columbia Mall
  PA     348,574       10,774,000       19,437,000                          
Enon Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     42,876       4,598,000       5,224,000                          
Fairfield Plaza
  CT     72,279       10,150,000       10,463,000     July 2015     5.0 %     5,009,000       5,106,000  
FirstMerit Bank at Cuyahoga Falls
  OH     18,300       569,000       1,415,000                          
Gahanna Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     48,992       7,103,000       7,879,000     Nov 2016     5.8 %     4,924,000       4,998,000  
Grove City Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     40,848       2,911,000       5,897,000                          
Hilliard Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     40,988       2,627,000       5,968,000                          
Hills & Dales Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     33,553       3,263,000       3,640,000                          
Lodi Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     38,576       2,550,000       3,668,000     May 2015     5.2 %     2,319,000       2,363,000  
Mason Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     52,896       4,499,000       8,832,000                          
Ontario Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     38,623       2,534,000       3,962,000     May 2015     5.2 %     2,141,000       2,181,000  
Pickerington Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     47,810       3,532,000       6,379,000     Jul 2015     5.0 %     4,072,000       4,150,000  
Polaris Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     50,283       4,640,000       6,041,000     May 2015     5.2 %     4,369,000       4,451,000  
Shelby Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     36,596       1,925,000       3,469,000     May 2015     5.2 %     2,141,000       2,181,000  
Westlake Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     55,775       1,667,000       4,707,000     Dec 2016     5.6 %     3,165,000       3,215,000  
Carrolton Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     40,480             3,254,000     Dec 2016     5.6 %           2,343,000  
CVS Westfield (a)
  NY     10,125                                      
Dover Discount Drug Mart Plaza (a)
  OH     38,409                                      
Family Dollar at Zanesville
  OH     6,900             368,000                          
Gabriel Brothers Plaza (a)
  OH     83,740                                      
Hudson Discount Drug Mart Plaza (a)
  OH     32,259                                      
Long Reach Village
  MD     104,922             9,414,000     Mar 2014     5.7 %           4,690,000  
McDonalds/Waffle House at Medina (a)
  OH     6,000                                      
Pondside Plaza
  NY     19,340             1,471,000     May 2015     5.6 %           1,157,000  
Powell Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     49,772             5,024,000     May 2015     5.2 %           4,265,000  
Staples at Oswego (a)
  NY     23,884                                      
 
                                                 
 
        1,466,886       68,110,000       126,000,000                       32,786,000       45,833,000  
Development Land Parcel
  PA           1,849,000       1,849,000                          
 
                                                 
 
        1,466,886     $ 69,959,000     $ 127,849,000                     $ 32,786,000     $ 45,833,000  
 
                                                 
     
(a)  
Properties were sold during 2009, therefore there was no property carrying value as of December 31, 2009.
In connection with the properties which were reclassified to “held for sale”, the Company recorded impairment charges of $39.5 million and $3.6 million in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Such charges were based on a comparison of the carrying values of the properties with either (1) the actual sales price less costs to sell for the properties sold or contract amounts for properties in the process of being sold (all based on arms-length negotiations), or (2) estimated sales prices based on discounted cash flow analyses if no contract amounts were as yet being negotiated.

 

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Summary of Critical Accounting Policies
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates, including those related to revenue recognition and the allowance for doubtful accounts receivable, real estate investments and purchase accounting allocations related thereto, asset impairment, and derivatives used to hedge interest-rate risks. Management’s estimates are based both on information that is currently available and on various other assumptions management believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ from those estimates and those estimates could be different under varying assumptions or conditions.
The Company has identified the following critical accounting policies, the application of which requires significant judgments and estimates:
Revenue Recognition
Rental income with scheduled rent increases is recognized using the straight-line method over the respective terms of the leases. The aggregate excess of rental revenue recognized on a straight-line basis over base rents under applicable lease provisions is included in straight-line rents receivable on the consolidated balance sheet. Leases also generally contain provisions under which the tenants reimburse the Company for a portion of property operating expenses and real estate taxes incurred; such income is recognized in the periods earned. In addition, certain operating leases contain contingent rent provisions under which tenants are required to pay a percentage of their sales in excess of a specified amount as additional rent. The Company defers recognition of contingent rental income until those specified targets are met. Other contingent fees are recognized when earned.
The Company must make estimates as to the collectability of its accounts receivable related to base rent, straight-line rent, expense reimbursements and other revenues. Management analyzes accounts receivable by considering tenant creditworthiness, current economic conditions, and changes in tenants’ payment patterns when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts receivable. These estimates have a direct impact on net income, because a higher bad debt allowance would result in lower net income, whereas a lower bad debt allowance would result in higher net income.
Real Estate Investments
Real estate investments are carried at cost less accumulated depreciation. The provision for depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method based on estimated useful lives. Expenditures for maintenance, repairs and betterments that do not materially prolong the normal useful life of an asset are charged to operations as incurred. Expenditures for betterments that substantially extend the useful lives of real estate assets are capitalized. Real estate investments include costs of development and redevelopment activities, and construction in progress. Capitalized costs, including interest and other carrying costs during the construction and/or renovation periods, are included in the cost of the related asset and charged to operations through depreciation over the asset’s estimated useful

 

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life. The Company is required to make subjective estimates as to the useful lives of its real estate assets for purposes of determining the amount of depreciation to reflect on an annual basis. These assessments have a direct impact on net income. A shorter estimate of the useful life of an asset would have the effect of increasing depreciation expense and lowering net income, whereas a longer estimate of the useful life of an asset would have the effect of reducing depreciation expense and increasing net income.
A variety of costs are incurred in the acquisition, development and leasing of a property, such as pre-construction costs essential to the development of the property, development costs, construction costs, interest costs, real estate taxes, salaries and related costs, and other costs incurred during the period of development. After a determination is made to capitalize a cost, it is allocated to the specific component of a project that is benefited. The Company ceases capitalization on the portions substantially completed and occupied, or held available for occupancy, and capitalizes only those costs associated with the portions under construction. The Company considers a construction project as substantially completed and held available for occupancy upon the completion of tenant improvements, but not later than one year from cessation of major development activity. Determination of when a development project is substantially complete and capitalization must cease involves a degree of judgment. The effect of a longer capitalization period would be to increase capitalized costs and would result in higher net income, whereas the effect of a shorter capitalization period would be to reduce capitalized costs and would result in lower net income.
The Company allocates the fair value of real estate acquired to land, buildings and improvements. In addition, the fair value of in-place leases is allocated to intangible lease assets and liabilities.
The fair value of the tangible assets of an acquired property is determined by valuing the property as if it were vacant, which value is then allocated to land, buildings and improvements based on management’s determination of the relative fair values of such assets. In valuing an acquired property’s intangibles, factors considered by management include an estimate of carrying costs during the expected lease-up periods, such as real estate taxes, insurance, other operating expenses, and estimates of lost rental revenue during the expected lease-up periods based on its evaluation of current market demand. Management also estimates costs to execute similar leases, including leasing commissions, tenant improvements, legal and other related costs.
The values of acquired above-market and below-market leases are recorded based on the present values (using discount rates which reflect the risks associated with the leases acquired) of the differences between the contractual amounts to be received and management’s estimate of market lease rates, measured over the terms of the respective leases that management deemed appropriate at the time of the acquisitions. Such valuations include a consideration of the non-cancellable terms of the respective leases as well as any applicable renewal period(s). The fair values associated with below-market rental renewal options are determined based on the Company’s experience and the relevant facts and circumstances that existed at the time of the acquisitions. The values of above-market leases are amortized to rental income over the terms of the respective non-cancelable lease periods. The portion of the values of below-market leases associated with the original non-cancelable lease terms are amortized to rental income over the terms of the respective non-cancelable lease periods. The portion of the values of the leases associated with below-market renewal options that are likely of exercise are amortized to rental income over the respective renewal periods. The value of other intangible assets (including leasing commissions, tenant improvements, etc.) is amortized to expense over the applicable terms of the respective leases. If a lease were to be terminated prior to its stated expiration or not renewed, all unamortized amounts relating to that lease would be recognized in operations at that time.

 

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Management is required to make subjective assessments in connection with its valuation of real estate acquisitions. These assessments have a direct impact on net income, because (i) above-market and below-market lease intangibles are amortized to rental income, and (ii) the value of other intangibles is amortized to expense. Accordingly, higher allocations to below-market lease liability and other intangibles would result in higher rental income and amortization expense, whereas lower allocations to below-market lease liability and other intangibles would result in lower rental income and amortization expense.
The principal impact on the Company’s financial statements of the adoption of recent updated accounting guidance related to business combinations, which became effective January 1, 2009, is that the Company has expensed most transaction costs relating to its acquisition activities.
Management reviews each real estate investment for impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of a real estate investment may not be recoverable. The review of recoverability is based on an estimate of the future cash flows that are expected to result from the real estate investment’s use and eventual disposition. These estimates of cash flows consider factors such as expected future operating income, trends and prospects, as well as the effects of leasing demand, competition and other factors. If an impairment event exists due to the projected inability to recover the carrying value of a real estate investment, an impairment loss is recorded to the extent that the carrying value exceeds estimated fair value. A real estate investment held for sale is carried at the lower of its carrying amount or estimated fair value, less the cost of a potential sale. Depreciation and amortization are suspended during the period the property is held for sale. Management is required to make subjective assessments as to whether there are impairments in the value of its real estate properties. These assessments have a direct impact on net income, because an impairment loss is recognized in the period that the assessment is made.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company’s 2004 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Incentive Plan”) establishes the procedures for the granting of incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted shares, performance units and performance shares. The maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock that may be issued pursuant to the Incentive Plan, as amended, is 2,750,000, and the maximum number of shares that may be granted to a participant in any calendar year is 250,000. Substantially all grants issued pursuant to the Incentive Plan are “restricted stock grants” which specify vesting (i) upon the third anniversary of the date of grant for time-based grants, or (ii) upon the completion of a designated period of performance for performance-based grants. Time—based grants are valued according to the market price for the Company’s common stock at the date of grant. For performance-based grants, the Company engages an independent appraisal company to determine the value of the shares at the date of grant, taking into account the underlying contingency risks associated with the performance criteria. These value estimates have a direct impact on net income, because higher valuations would result in lower net income, whereas lower valuations would result in higher net income. The value of such grants is being amortized on a straight-line basis over the respective vesting periods, as adjusted for fluctuations in the market value of the Company’s common stock.

 

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Results of Operations
Differences in results of operations between 2010 and 2009, and between 2009 and 2008, respectively, were primarily the result of the impact of the Cedar/RioCan joint venture transactions, the Company’s property acquisition/disposition program and continuing development/redevelopment activities. During the period January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010, the Company acquired two supermarket anchored shopping centers aggregating approximately 522,000 square feet of GLA and one future development site aggregating approximately 206,000 square feet of GLA. In addition, the Company placed into service four ground-up developments having an aggregate cost of approximately $152.8 million. The Company sold or treated as “held for sale” 28 properties (primarily drug store/convenience centers) aggregating approximately 1.5 million square feet of GLA for an aggregate sales price of approximately $99.6 million. The Company transferred seven properties to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture, aggregating approximately 1,167,000 square feet of GLA. In connection with such transfer, the Company realized approximately $63.1 million in net proceeds. Net (loss) income attributable to common shareholders was ($51.5) million, ($24.7) million and $10.3 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Comparison of 2010 to 2009
                                                 
                                            Properties  
                    (Decrease)     Percent             held in  
    2010     2009     increase     change     Other     both periods  
 
                                               
Total revenues
  $ 157,164,000     $ 168,341,000     $ (11,177,000 )     -7 %   $ (8,114,000 )     (3,063,000 )
Property operating expenses
    51,307,000       48,949,000       2,358,000       5 %     1,499,000       859,000  
Depreciation and amortization
    42,278,000       50,148,000       (7,870,000 )     -16 %     (6,992,000 )     (878,000 )
General and administrative
    9,537,000       10,166,000       (629,000 )     -6 %     n/a       n/a  
Impairments
    2,493,000       23,636,000       (21,143,000 )     n/a       n/a       n/a  
Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net
    4,253,000       4,367,000       (114,000 )     n/a       n/a       n/a  
Non-operating income and expense, net (i)
    51,732,000       45,982,000       5,750,000       13 %     n/a       n/a  
Discontinued operations:
                                               
(Loss) income from operations
    (388,000 )     898,000       (1,286,000 )     n/a       n/a       n/a  
Impairment charges
    39,530,000       3,559,000       35,971,000       n/a       n/a       n/a  
Gain on sales
    170,000       557,000       (387,000 )     n/a       n/a       n/a  
     
(i)  
Non-operating income and expense consists principally of interest expense (including amortization and write-off of deferred financing costs), equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures, and gain on sale of a land parcel.
Properties held in both periods. The Company held 80 properties throughout 2010 and 2009.
Total revenues decreased primarily as a result of (i) a decrease in non-cash amortization of intangible lease liabilities primarily as a result of the completion of scheduled amortization at certain properties ($2.4 million) (which also resulted in a decrease in depreciation and amortization expense), (ii) a decrease in tenant recovery income ($0.3 million), (iii) a decrease in straight-line rents ($0.6 million) and (iv) a decrease in other income ($0.1 million), which was partially offset by (v) an increase in base rents ($0.3 million). In connection with the worsening economic climate beginning in the latter part of 2008 and continuing throughout the respective periods, the Company received a number of requests from tenants for rent relief. While the Company did in fact grant such relief in selected limited circumstances, the aggregate amount of such relief granted had a limited impact on results of operations. However, there can be no assurance that the amount of such relief will not become more significant in future periods.

 

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Property operating expenses increased primarily as a result of (i) an increase in non-billable operating expenses ($0.1 million), (ii) an increase in utilities ($0.1 million), (iii) an increase in management fees ($0.1 million), and (iv) an increase in bad debt expense ($0.5 million).
Depreciation and amortization expenses included under “Other” reflects the acceleration of depreciation expense in 2009 ($6.1 million) at two properties at which the Company demolished portions of buildings as part of the redevelopment plans for those properties.
General and administrative expenses decreased primarily as the result of a legal settlement received in the Company’s favor in 2010.
Impairments relate to the agreement to transfer the seven properties to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture, as more fully discussed elsewhere in this report.
Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net, for 2010 include (i) an acquisition fee that was paid to the Company’s investment advisor related to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture ($2.7 million), (ii) costs incurred related to the acquisition of a single-tenant office property located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ($0.3 million), and (iii) the write off of costs incurred in the prior years related to (a) a potential development project in Milford, Delaware that the Company determined would not go forward ($1.3 million), and (b) a cancelled acquisition ($0.1 million). Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net, for 2009 include (i) the costs associated with the acquisitions of San Souci Plaza and New London Mall (net of minority interest share) and the costs primarily associated with a cancelled acquisition (an aggregate of $1.5 million), (ii) the decision to terminate potential development opportunities in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Ephrata, Pennsylvania (an aggregate of $2.8 million), and (iii) the costs primarily associated with a cancelled acquisition.
Non-operating income and expense, net, increased primarily as a result of (i) higher amortization of deferred financing costs ($4.5 million) resulting from (a) extending the secured revolving stabilized property credit facility, originally in January 2009 and again in November 2009, and (b) the Company’s reduction in September 2010 of its aggregate commitments under its secured revolving stabilized property credit facility, resulting in an accelerated write-off of deferred financing costs of approximately $2.6 million, (ii) a decrease in development activity reducing the amount of interest expense capitalized to development projects ($2.9 million), (iii) a decrease in equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures ($0.6 million), (iv) higher loan interest expense principally related to an increase in the interest rate for the secured revolving stabilized property credit facility, which was partially offset by a reduction in the outstanding balance of the secured revolving stabilized credit facility ($0.3 million), and (v) a decrease in gain on sale of land parcel ($0.5 million), partially offset by (vi) a decrease in mortgage interest expense ($3.1 million) principally related to the transfer of properties to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture.

 

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Discontinued operations for 2010 and 2009 include the results of operations, impairment charges and gain on sales for 28 of the Company’s properties (including a number of drug store/convenience centers) which it sold or treated as “held for sale”, located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and New York, as more fully discussed elsewhere in this report.
Other includes principally (a) the results of properties acquired after January 1, 2009, (b) the results of properties transferred to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture through the respective dates of transfer, (c) acquisition, financing and property management fees earned by the Company, (d) results of recently placed into service ground-up developments and on-going activities related to the re-development properties, and (e) unallocated property and construction management compensation and benefits (including stock-based compensation), summarized as follows:
Revenues:
         
Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties
  $ (14,656,000 )
Fees earned by the Company and other
    3,549,000  
Property acquisitions
    1,885,000  
Development and redevelopment properties
    1,108,000  
 
     
 
  $ (8,114,000 )
 
     
Property operating expenses:
         
Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties
  $ (3,616,000 )
Unallocated compensation and benefits
    2,135,000  
Property acquisitions
    257,000  
Development and redevelopment properties
    2,723,000  
 
     
 
  $ 1,499,000  
 
     
Depreciation and amortization expense:
         
Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties
  $ (4,207,000 )
Property acquisitions
    1,137,000  
Development and redevelopment properties
    2,226,000  
Accelerated depreciation at two redevelopment properties
    (6,148,000 )
 
     
 
  $ (6,992,000 )
 
     

 

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Comparison of 2009 to 2008
                                                 
                                            Properties  
                    Increase     Percent             held in  
    2009     2008     (decrease)     change     Other     both years  
   
Total revenues
  $ 168,341,000     $ 156,214,000     $ 12,127,000       8 %   $ 12,288,000       (161,000 )
Property operating expenses
    48,949,000       42,879,000       6,070,000       14 %     4,380,000       1,690,000  
Depreciation and amortization
    50,148,000       44,862,000       5,286,000       12 %     6,268,000       (982,000 )
General and administrative
    10,166,000       8,586,000       1,580,000       18 %     n/a       n/a  
Impairments
    23,636,000             23,636,000       n/a       n/a       n/a  
Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net
    4,367,000       855,000       3,512,000       n/a       n/a       n/a  
Non-operating income and expense, net (i)
    45,982,000       41,781,000       4,201,000       10 %     n/a       n/a  
Discontinued operations:
                                               
Income from operations
    898,000       3,547,000       (2,649,000 )     n/a       n/a       n/a  
Impairment charges
    3,559,000             3,559,000       n/a       n/a       n/a  
Gain on sales
    557,000             557,000       n/a       n/a       n/a  
(i)  
Non-operating income and expense consists principally of interest expense (including amortization and write-off of deferred financing costs) and equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures, and gain on sale of a land parcel.
Properties held in both periods. The Company held 78 properties throughout 2009 and 2008.
Total revenues decreased primarily as a result of (i) a decrease in non-cash straight-line rents primarily as a result of early lease terminations ($0.8 million), (ii) a decrease in non-cash amortization of intangible lease liabilities primarily as a result of the completion of scheduled amortization at certain properties ($0.3 million) (which also resulted in a decrease in depreciation and amortization expense), (iii) a decrease in percentage rent ($42,000), and (iv) a decrease in other income ($0.6 million), partially offset by (v) an increase in tenant recoveries ($1.2 million), predominantly the result of an increase in billable property operating expenses, and (vi) an increase in base rent income ($0.4 million). In connection with the worsening economic climate beginning in the latter part of 2008 and continuing into 2009, the Company received a number of requests from tenants for rent relief. While the Company did in fact grant such relief in selected limited circumstances, the aggregate amount of such relief granted had a limited impact on results of operations. However, there can be no assurance that the amount of such relief will not become more significant in future periods.
Property operating expenses increased primarily as a result of (i) a net increase ($1.1 million) in expenses billable to tenants, primarily as a result of (a) an increase in real estate taxes from reassessments at recently-acquired or redeveloped properties ($0.7 million), (b) an increase in snow removal costs ($1.1 million), partially offset by (c) a decrease in insurance expense ($0.3 million), (d) a decrease in repairs and maintenance expenses ($0.1 million), (e) a decrease in landscaping expense ($0.1 million), and (f) a decrease in a number of smaller operating expense categories ($0.2 million), and (ii) an increase in the provision for doubtful accounts primarily as a result of the more challenging economic conditions in 2009 for a number of non-core tenants ($1.1 million), which is partially offset by (iii) a decrease in expenses not billable to tenants ($0.4 million).

 

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Depreciation and amortization expenses included under “Other” reflects the acceleration of depreciation expense in 2009 ($6.1 million) at two properties at which the Company demolished portions of buildings as part of the redevelopment plans for those properties.
General and administrative expenses increased primarily as a result of increases in stock-based compensation expense through increased amortization of an increased number of restricted stock grants and mark-to-market adjustments relating to stock-based compensation.
Impairments relate to the agreement to transfer the seven properties to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture, as more fully discussed elsewhere in this report.
Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net, for 2009 include (i) the costs associated with the acquisitions of San Souci Plaza and New London Mall (net of minority interest share) and the costs primarily associated with a cancelled acquisition (an aggregate of $1.5 million), (ii) the decision to terminate potential development opportunities in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Ephrata, Pennsylvania (an aggregate of $2.8 million), and (iii) the costs primarily associated with a cancelled acquisition. Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net, for 2008 include (i) the decision to terminate potential development opportunities primarily in Ephrata, Pennsylvania and Roanoke, Virginia (an aggregate of $652,000) and (ii) costs incurred related to a canceled potential joint venture ($203,000).
Non-operating income and expense, net, increased primarily as a result of (i) higher amortization of deferred financing costs ($1.9 million) resulting from (a) extending the secured revolving stabilized property credit facility, originally in January 2009 and again in November 2009, and (b) the secured revolving development property credit facility and the property-specific construction facility, having closed in June 2008 and September 2008, respectively, being outstanding throughout all of 2009, (ii) higher loan balances outstanding principally to fund the equity portions of acquisitions and development activities ($4.4 million), (iii) reduction in interest income ($0.2 million), and (iv) a decrease in development activity reducing the amount of interest expense capitalized to development projects ($0.9 million), partially offset by (v) the gain on sale of a land parcel ($0.5 million), (vi) an increase in equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures ($0.2 million), and (vii) a decrease in the outstanding balances under the Company’s secured credit facilities reducing interest expense ($2.5 million).
Discontinued operations for 2009 and 2008 include the results of operations, impairment charges and gain on sales for 28 of the Company’s properties (including a number of drug store/convenience centers) which it sold or treated as “held for sale”, located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and New York, as more fully discussed elsewhere in this report.

 

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Other includes principally (a) the results of properties acquired after January 1, 2009, (b) the results of properties transferred to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture through the respective dates of transfer, (c) acquisition, financing and property management fees earned by the Company, (d) results of recently placed into service ground-up developments and on-going activities related to the re-development properties, and (e) unallocated property and construction management compensation and benefits (including stock-based compensation), summarized as follows:
Revenues:
         
Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties
  $ 627,000  
Property acquisitions
    9,844,000  
Development and redevelopment properties
    1,817,000  
 
     
 
  $ 12,288,000  
 
     
Property operating expenses:
         
Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties
  $ (54,000 )
Unallocated compensation and benefits
    576,000  
Property acquisitions
    2,631,000  
Development and redevelopment properties
    1,227,000  
 
     
 
  $ 4,380,000  
 
     
Depreciation and amortization expense:
         
Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties
  $ (950,000 )
Property acquisitions
    2,660,000  
Development and redevelopment properties
    (1,590,000 )
Accelerated depreciation at two redevelopment properties
    6,148,000  
 
     
 
  $ 6,268,000  
 
     
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company funds operating expenses and other short-term liquidity requirements, including debt service, tenant improvements, leasing commissions, collateralization of certain interest rate swap obligations, preferred and common dividend distributions, if made, and distributions to minority interest partners, primarily from operations. The Company has also used its secured revolving stabilized property credit facility for these purposes. The Company expects to fund long-term liquidity requirements for property acquisitions, development and/or redevelopment costs, capital improvements, and maturing debt initially with its credit facilities and construction financing, and ultimately through a combination of issuing and/or assuming additional mortgage debt, the sale of equity securities, the issuance of additional OP Units, and the sale of properties or interests therein (including joint venture arrangements).
Throughout most of 2010 there has been a continued fundamental contraction of the U.S. credit and capital markets, whereby banks and other credit providers have tightened their lending standards and severely restricted the availability of credit. Accordingly, although there has been an improvement in general credit availability during the latter part of 2010, for this and other reasons, there can be no assurance that the Company will have the availability of mortgage financing on completed development projects, additional construction financing, net proceeds from the contribution of properties to joint ventures, or proceeds from the refinancing of existing debt.

 

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In December 2009, following a review of the state of the economy and the Company’s financial position, the Company’s Board of Directors determined to resume payment of a cash dividend in the amount $0.09 per share ($0.36 per share on an annualized basis) on the Company’s common stock.
The Company has a $185 million secured revolving stabilized property credit facility with Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, together with three other lead lenders and other participating banks. On September 13, 2010, the Company elected to reduce the total commitments under the facility from $285.0 million to $185.0 million. The facility is expandable to $400 million, subject principally to acceptable collateral and the availability of additional lender commitments and will expire on January 31, 2012, subject to a one-year extension option. The principal terms of the facility include (i) an availability based primarily on appraisals, with a 67.5% advance rate, (ii) an interest rate based on LIBOR plus 350 bps, with a 200 bps LIBOR floor, (iii) a leverage ratio limited to 67.5%, and (iv) an unused portion fee of 50 bps. Borrowings outstanding under the facility aggregated $29.5 million at December 31, 2010; such borrowings bore interest at a rate of 5.5% per annum; the Company had pledged 31 of its shopping center properties as collateral for such borrowings as of that date, including six properties which are being treated as “real estate held for sale” during 2010.
The secured revolving stabilized property credit facility has been, and will be, used to fund acquisitions, certain development and redevelopment activities, capital expenditures, mortgage repayments, dividend distributions, working capital and other general corporate purposes. The facility is subject to customary financial covenants, including limits on leverage and distributions (limited to 95% of funds from operations, as defined), and other financial statement ratios. Based on covenant measurements and collateral in place as of December 31, 2010, the Company was permitted to draw up to approximately $140.2 million, of which approximately $110.7 million remained available as of that date. As of December 31, 2010, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants and financial statement ratios required by the terms of the secured revolving stabilized property credit facility.
The Company has a $150 million secured revolving development property credit facility with KeyBank, National Association (as agent) and several other banks, pursuant to which the Company has pledged certain of its development projects and redevelopment properties as collateral for borrowings thereunder. The facility, as amended, is expandable to $250 million, subject to certain conditions, including acceptable collateral, and will expire in June 2011, subject to a one-year extension option. Borrowings under the facility bear interest at the Company’s option at either LIBOR or the agent bank’s prime rate, plus a spread of 225 bps or 75 bps, respectively. Advances under the facility are calculated at the least of 70% of aggregate project costs, 70% of “as stabilized” appraised values, or costs incurred in excess of a 30% equity requirement on the part of the Company. The facility also requires an unused portion fee of 15 bps. This facility has been and will be used to fund in part the Company’s and certain joint ventures’ development activities. In order to draw funds under this construction facility, the Company must meet certain pre-leasing and other conditions. Borrowings outstanding under the facility aggregated $103.1 million at December 31, 2010, and such borrowings bore interest at a rate of 2.5% per annum. As of December 31, 2010, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants and financial statement ratios required by the terms of the secured revolving development property credit facility.

 

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The Company has a $70.7 million construction facility (as amended on November 3, 2010) with Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (as agent) and several other banks, pursuant to which the Company pledged its joint venture development project in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania as collateral for borrowings to be made thereunder. The facility is guaranteed by the Company and will expire in September 2011, subject to a one-year extension option. Borrowings under the facility bear interest at the Company’s option at either LIBOR plus a spread of 325 bps, or the agent bank’s prime rate. Borrowings outstanding under the facility aggregated $62.6 million at December 31, 2010, and such borrowings bore interest at an average rate of 3.5% per annum. As of December 31, 2010, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants and financial statement ratios required by the terms of the construction facility.
Other property-specific mortgage loans payable at December 31, 2010 consisted of fixed-rate notes totaling $591.2 million, with a weighted average interest rate of 5.8%, and variable-rate debt totaling $83.6 million, with a weighted average interest rate of 4.1%. Total mortgage loans payable and secured revolving credit facilities have an overall weighted average interest rate of 5.2% and mature at various dates through 2029. For 2011, the Company has approximately $8.7 million of scheduled mortgage repayments and $83.6 million of scheduled balloon payments.
The terms of several of the Company’s mortgage loans payable require the Company to deposit certain replacement and other reserves with its lenders. Such “restricted cash” is generally available only for property-level requirements for which the reserves have been established, and is not available to fund other property-level or Company-level obligations.
The Company and RioCan entered into an 80% (RioCan) and 20% (Cedar) joint venture in October 2009 (i) initially for the purchase of seven supermarket-anchored properties previously owned by the Company, and (ii) then to acquire additional primarily supermarket-anchored properties in the Company’s primary market areas, in the same joint venture format. The Company transferred the initial seven properties into the joint venture at various times from December 2009 through May 2010 generating approximately $63.1 million of net proceeds and the transfer of approximately $94 million of fixed-rate mortgages. In addition, in April 2010, RioCan exercised its warrant to purchase 1,428,570 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company received proceeds of $10.0 million. Net proceeds from the property transfers and the exercise of the warrants were used to repay/reduce the outstanding balances under the Company’s secured revolving credit facilities.
In connection with the Cedar/RioCan joint venture transactions, the Company, in 2010, earned approximately $3.6 million in fees from the joint venture, representing accounting fees, management fees, acquisition fees and financing fees. Such fees are included in other revenues in the accompanying statements of operations. In addition, the Company paid fees to its investment advisor of approximately $2.7 million, which are included in transaction costs in the accompanying statements of operations.
On February 5, 2010, the Company concluded a public offering of 7,500,000 shares of its common stock at $6.60 per share, and realized net proceeds after offering expenses of approximately $47.0 million. On March 3, 2010, the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option to the extent of 697,800 shares, and the Company realized additional net proceeds of $4.4 million. In connection with the offering, RioCan acquired 1,350,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, including 100,000 shares acquired in connection with the exercise of the over-allotment option, and the Company realized net proceeds of $8.9 million.

 

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On February 5, 2010, the Company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for up to 5,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock under the Company’s Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan (“DRIP”). The DRIP offers a convenient method for shareholders to invest cash dividends and/or make optional cash payments to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at 98% of their market value. The Board of Directors of the Company has approved an amendment to the DRIP to have all stock purchased at 100% of their market value. This amendment is expected to become effective promptly after the filing of this Form 10-K. Through December, 31, 2010, the Company issued approximately 1,451,000 shares of its common stock at an average price of $5.79 per share and realized proceeds after expenses of approximately $8.2 million. During January, February and March 2011, the Company issued an additional approximate 471,000 shares of its common stock at an average of $6.02 per share and realized net proceeds of approximately $2.8 million.
On August 25, 2010, the Company concluded a public offering of 2,850,000 shares of its 8-7/8% Series A Cumulative Redeemable preferred stock at $24.50 per share, and realized net proceeds, after offering expenses, of approximately $67.4 million. In connection with the sale, the Company’s investment advisor received an underwriter’s discount of approximately $2.4 million.
The Company has a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA Agreement”) with an investment company for sales of its shares of common stock aggregating up to $45 million over a commitment period ending in September 2011. Through December 31, 2010, approximately 1,807,000 shares had been sold pursuant to the SEPA Agreement, at an average price of $6.98 per share, and the Company realized net proceeds, after allocation of issuance expenses, of approximately $12.3 million.
During 2010, the Company, at its option, elected to redeem approximately 552,000 OP Units that had been offered for conversion by the holders thereof, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $3.4 million. Such OP Units had been issued to certain members of the group from which the Company had acquired the major portion of its Ohio drug store/convenience center properties.
The Company expects to have sufficient liquidity to effectively manage its business. Such liquidity sources include, amongst others (i) cash on hand, (ii) operating cash flows, (iii) availability under its secured revolving credit facilities, (iv) property-specific financings, (v) sales of properties, (vi) proceeds from contributions of properties to joint ventures, and/or (vi) issuances of additional shares of common or preferred stock.

 

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Contractual obligations and commercial commitments
The following table sets forth the Company’s significant debt repayment, interest and operating lease obligations at December 31, 2010:
                                                         
    Maturity Date  
    2011     2012     2013     2014     2015     Thereafter     Total  
Debt:
                                                       
Mortgage loans payable (i) (ii)
  $ 92,290,000     $ 52,046,000     $ 63,830,000     $ 119,189,000     $ 103,786,000     $ 243,589,000     $ 674,730,000  
Stabilized property credit facility (iii)
          29,535,000                               29,535,000  
Development property credit facility (iii)
    103,062,000                                     103,062,000  
Interest payments (iv)
    40,733,000       36,354,000       27,778,000       22,720,000       14,799,000       10,520,000       152,904,000  
Operating lease obligations
    1,213,000       1,219,000       1,234,000       1,250,000       1,269,000       20,282,000       26,467,000  
 
                                         
Total
  $ 237,298,000     $ 119,154,000     $ 92,842,000     $ 143,159,000     $ 119,854,000     $ 274,391,000     $ 986,698,000  
 
                                         
(i)  
Does not include mortgage loans payable applicable to unconsolidated joint ventures or discontinued operations.
 
(ii)  
Mortgage loans payable for 2011 includes $62.6 million applicable to property-specific construction financing which is subject to a one-year extension option.
 
(iii)  
Subject to a one-year extension option.
 
(iv)  
Represents interest payments expected to be incurred on the Company’s consolidated debt obligations as of December 31, 2010, including capitalized interest. For variable-rate debt, the rate in effect at December 31, 2010 is assumed to remain in effect until the maturities of the respective obligations.
In addition, the Company plans to spend between $35.0 million and $55.0 million during 2011 in connection with development and redevelopment activities in process as of December 31, 2010.
Net Cash Flows
Operating Activities
Net cash flows provided by operating activities amounted to $41.7 million during 2010, compared to $51.9 million during 2009 and $60.8 million during 2008. The comparative changes in operating cash flows during 2010, 2009 and 2008 were primarily the result of the impact of the Cedar/RioCan joint venture transactions, the Company’s property acquisition/disposition program, and continuing development/redevelopment activities.
Investing Activities
Net cash flows used in investing activities were $29.8 million in 2010, $70.0 million in 2009 and $151.4 million in 2008, and were primarily the result of the Cedar/RioCan joint venture transactions and the Company’s acquisition/disposition activities. During 2010, the Company made investments in the Cedar/RioCan joint venture ($51.4 million), acquired a single-tenant office property and incurred expenditures for property improvements (an aggregate of $30.2 million), and had an increase in other receivables and construction escrows (an aggregate of $3.4 million), offset by proceeds from the transfers of five properties to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture ($31.0 million), distributions of capital from the Cedar/RioCan joint venture ($21.5 million), and the sales of properties treated as discontinued operations ($2.7 million). During 2009, the Company acquired two shopping and convenience centers and incurred expenditures for property improvements, an aggregate of $108.3 million. The Company realized proceeds from the transfers of two properties to the RioCan joint venture ($32.1 million) and from the sales of properties treated as discontinued operations ($6.8 million). During 2008, the Company acquired four shopping and convenience centers, acquired land for development, expansion and/or future development and incurred expenditures for property improvements, an aggregate of $131.9 million. The Company also purchased the joint venture minority interests in four properties for $17.5 million.

 

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Financing Activities
Net cash flows (used in) provided by financing activities were $(14.9 million) in 2010, $27.0 million in 2009 and $75.5 million in 2008. During 2010, the Company had net repayments to its revolving credit facilities ($125.1 million), preferred and common stock distributions ($31.9 million), repayment of mortgage obligations ($20.9 million, including $11.0 million of mortgage balloon payments), termination payments relating to interest rate swaps ($5.5 million), distributions paid to noncontrolling interests (consolidated minority interest and limited partners - $4.2 million), redemptions of OP Units ($3.4 million), and the payment of debt financing costs ($2.0 million), offset by the proceeds from sales of preferred and common stock ($141.2 million), the proceeds of mortgage financings ($27.0 million), and the proceeds from the exercise of the RioCan warrant ($10.0 million). During 2009, the Company received proceeds of mortgage financings of $60.9 million, proceeds from sales of common stock of $40.9 million, $12.2 million in contributions from noncontrolling interests (minority interest partners) $5.0 million in proceeds from a standby equity advance (not settled as of December 31, 2009), offset by net repayments to its revolving credit facilities of $46.8 million, repayment of mortgage obligations of $18.2 million (including $8.9 million of mortgage balloon payments), preferred and common stock distributions of $12.9 million, the payment of financing costs of $10.0 million, and distributions paid to noncontrolling interests (minority and limited partner interests) of $4.1 million. During 2008, the Company received net advance proceeds of $114.1 million from its revolving credit facilities, $106.7 million in net proceeds from mortgage financings, and $6.3 million in contributions from noncontrolling interests (minority interest partners), offset by the repayment of mortgage obligations of $93.3 million (including $84.8 million of mortgage balloon payments), preferred and common stock distributions of $47.9 million, distributions paid to noncontrolling interests (minority and limited partner interests) of $5.2 million, the payment of financing costs of $5.1 million, and the redemption of noncontrolling interests (a limited partner’s OP Units) of $0.1 million.
Funds (Used In) From Operations
Funds (Used In) From Operations (“FFO”) is a widely-recognized non-GAAP financial measure for REITs that the Company believes, when considered with financial statements determined in accordance with GAAP, is useful to investors in understanding financial performance and providing a relevant basis for comparison among REITs. In addition, FFO is useful to investors as it captures features particular to real estate performance by recognizing that real estate generally appreciates over time or maintains residual value to a much greater extent than do other depreciable assets. Investors should review FFO, along with GAAP net income, when trying to understand an equity REIT’s operating performance. The Company presents FFO because the Company considers it an important supplemental measure of its operating performance and believes that it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs. Among other things, the Company uses FFO or an adjusted FFO-based measure (i) as a criterion to determine performance-based bonuses for members of senior management, (ii) in performance comparisons with other shopping center REITs, and (iii) to measure compliance with certain financial covenants under the terms of the Loan Agreements relating to the Company’s credit facilities.

 

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The Company computes FFO in accordance with the “White Paper” on FFO published by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”), which defines FFO as net income applicable to common shareholders (determined in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains or losses from debt restructurings and sales of properties, plus real estate-related depreciation and amortization, and after adjustments for partnerships and joint ventures (which are computed to reflect FFO on the same basis).
FFO does not represent cash generated from operating activities and should not be considered as an alternative to net income applicable to common shareholders or to cash flow from operating activities. FFO is not indicative of cash available to fund ongoing cash needs, including the ability to make cash distributions. Although FFO is a measure used for comparability in assessing the performance of REITs, as the NAREIT White Paper only provides guidelines for computing FFO, the computation of FFO may vary from one company to another. The following table sets forth the Company’s calculations of FFO for 2010, 2009 and 2008:
                         
    2010     2009     2008  
 
                       
Net (loss) income attributable to common shareholders
  $ (51,485,000 )   $ (24,747,000 )   $ 10,296,000  
Add (deduct):
                       
Real estate depreciation and amortization
    46,279,000       55,391,000       49,732,000  
Noncontrolling interests:
                       
Limited partners’ interest
    (1,282,000 )     (912,000 )     468,000  
Minority interests in consolidated joint ventures
    (1,613,000 )     772,000       2,157,000  
Minority interests’ share of FFO applicable to consolidated joint ventures
    (4,357,000 )     (5,787,000 )     (6,134,000 )
Equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures
    (484,000 )     (1,098,000 )     (956,000 )
FFO from unconsolidated joint ventures
    2,796,000       1,519,000       1,296,000  
Gain on sales of discontinued operations
    (170,000 )     (557,000 )      
 
                 
Funds (Used in) From Operations
  $ (10,316,000 )   $ 24,581,000     $ 56,859,000  
 
                 
 
                       
FFO per common share (assuming conversion of OP Units)
                       
Basic and diluted
  $ (0.16 )   $ 0.51     $ 1.22  
 
                       
Weighted average number of common shares (basic):
                       
Shares used in determination of basic earnings per share
    63,843,000       46,234,000       44,475,000  
Additional shares assuming conversion of OP Units
    1,814,000       2,014,000       2,024,000  
 
                 
Shares used in determination of basic FFO per share
    65,657,000       48,248,000       46,499,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Weighted average number of common shares (dilutive):
                       
Shares used in determination of diluted earnings per share
    63,862,000       46,234,000       44,475,000  
Additional shares assuming conversion of OP Units
    1,814,000       2,014,000       2,024,000  
 
                 
Shares used in determination of diluted FFO per share
    65,676,000       48,248,000       46,499,000  
 
                 

 

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Inflation
Low to moderate levels of inflation during the past several years have favorably impacted the Company’s operations by stabilizing operating expenses. However, the Company’s properties have tenants whose leases include expense reimbursements and other provisions to minimize the effect of inflation. At the same time, low inflation has had the indirect effect of reducing the Company’s ability to increase tenant rents upon the signing of new leases and/or lease renewals.
New Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 of the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
One of the principal market risks facing the Company is interest rate risk on its credit facilities. The Company may, when advantageous, hedge its interest rate risk by using derivative financial instruments. The Company is not subject to foreign currency risk.
The Company is exposed to interest rate changes primarily through (i) the variable-rate credit facilities used to maintain liquidity, fund capital expenditures, development/redevelopment activities, and expand its real estate investment portfolio, (ii) property-specific variable-rate construction financing, and (iii) other property-specific variable-rate mortgages. The Company’s objectives with respect to interest rate risk are to limit the impact of interest rate changes on operations and cash flows, and to lower its overall borrowing costs. To achieve these objectives, the Company may borrow at fixed rates and may enter into derivative financial instruments such as interest rate swaps, caps, etc., in order to mitigate its interest rate risk on a related variable-rate financial instrument. The Company does not enter into derivative or interest rate transactions for speculative purposes. Additionally, the Company has a policy of entering into derivative contracts only with major financial institutions. At December 31, 2010, the Company had approximately $20.1 million of mortgage loans payable subject to interest rate swaps which converted LIBOR-based variable rates to fixed annual rates of 5.4% and 6.5% per annum. On January 20, 2010, the Company paid approximately $5.5 million to terminate interest rate swaps applicable to approximately $23.9 million of anticipated permanent financing for its development joint venture project in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
At December 31, 2010, long-term debt consisted of fixed-rate mortgage loans payable and variable-rate debt (principally the Company’s variable-rate credit facilities). The average interest rate on the $591.2 million of fixed-rate indebtedness outstanding was 5.8%, with maturities at various dates through 2029. The average interest rate on the $216.2 million of variable-rate debt (including $132.6 million in advances under the Company’s revolving credit facilities) was 3.3%. The secured revolving stabilized property credit facility matures in January 2012, subject to a one-year extension option. The secured revolving development property credit facility matures in June 2011, subject to a one-year extension option. With respect to $186.6 million of variable-rate debt outstanding at December 31, 2010, if interest rates either increase or decrease by 1%, the Company’s interest cost would increase or decrease respectively by approximately $1.9 million per annum. With respect to the remaining $29.5 million of variable-rate debt outstanding at December 31, 2010, represented by the Company’s secured revolving stabilized property credit facility, interest is based on LIBOR with a 200 bps LIBOR floor. Accordingly, if interest rates either increase or decrease by 1%, the Company’s interest cost applicable on this line would increase by approximately $0.3 million per annum only if LIBOR was in excess of 2.0% per annum.

 

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
         
    52  
 
       
    53  
 
       
    54  
 
       
    55  
 
       
    57  
 
       
    58-104  
 
       
Schedule Filed As Part Of This Report
       
 
       
    98-104  
All other schedules have been omitted because the required information is not present, is not present in amounts sufficient to require submission of the schedule, or is included in the consolidated financial statements or notes thereto.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations, equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 8. These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. at December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated March 15, 2011 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
         
  /s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP    
New York, New York
March 15, 2011

 

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CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
                 
    December 31,  
    2010     2009  
   
Assets
               
Real estate:
               
Land
  $ 328,831,000     $ 333,898,000  
Buildings and improvements
    1,262,479,000       1,221,740,000  
 
           
 
    1,591,310,000       1,555,638,000  
Less accumulated depreciation
    (189,461,000 )     (151,144,000 )
 
           
Real estate, net
    1,401,849,000       1,404,494,000  
 
               
Real estate to be transferred to a joint venture
          139,743,000  
Real estate held for sale — discontinued operations
    69,959,000       127,849,000  
Investment in unconsolidated joint ventures
    52,466,000       14,113,000  
 
               
Cash and cash equivalents
    14,166,000       17,164,000  
Restricted cash
    14,545,000       14,075,000  
Receivables:
               
Rents and other tenant receivables, net
    7,048,000       7,423,000  
Straight-line rents
    15,674,000       14,044,000  
Joint venture settlements and other receivables
    8,599,000       2,322,000  
Other assets
    9,676,000       9,316,000  
Deferred charges, net
    28,505,000       34,575,000  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 1,622,487,000     $ 1,785,118,000  
 
           
 
               
Liabilities and equity
               
Mortgage loans payable
  $ 674,730,000     $ 654,911,000  
Mortgage loans payable — real estate to be transferred to a joint venture
          94,018,000  
Mortgage loans payable — real estate held for sale — discontinued operations
    32,786,000       45,833,000  
Secured revolving credit facilities
    132,597,000       257,685,000  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
    29,026,000       46,902,000  
Unamortized intangible lease liabilities
    46,487,000       52,058,000  
Liabilities — real estate held for sale and, at December 31, 2009, real estate to be transferred to a joint venture
    1,337,000       7,309,000  
 
           
Total liabilities
    916,963,000       1,158,716,000  
 
           
 
               
Limited partners’ interest in Operating Partnership
    7,053,000       12,638,000  
 
               
Commitments and contingencies
           
 
               
Equity:
               
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. shareholders’ equity:
               
Preferred stock ($.01 par value, $25.00 per share liquidation value, 12,500,000 shares authorized, 6,400,000 and 3,550,000 shares, respectively, issued and outstanding)
    158,575,000       88,750,000  
Common stock ($.06 par value, 150,000,000 shares authorized 66,520,000 and 52,139,000 shares, respectively, issued and outstanding)
    3,991,000       3,128,000  
Treasury stock (1,120,000 and 981,000 shares, respectively, at cost)
    (10,367,000 )     (9,688,000 )
Additional paid-in capital
    712,548,000       621,299,000  
Cumulative distributions in excess of net income
    (231,275,000 )     (162,041,000 )
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (3,406,000 )     (2,992,000 )
 
           
Total Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. shareholders’ equity
    630,066,000       538,456,000  
 
           
Noncontrolling interests:
               
Minority interests in consolidated joint ventures
    62,050,000       67,229,000  
Limited partners’ interest in Operating Partnership
    6,355,000       8,079,000  
 
           
Total noncontrolling interests
    68,405,000       75,308,000  
 
           
Total equity
    698,471,000       613,764,000  
 
           
Total liabilities and equity
  $ 1,622,487,000     $ 1,785,118,000  
 
           
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CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
                         
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2008  
   
Revenues:
                       
Rents
  $ 123,205,000     $ 135,104,000     $ 126,228,000  
Expense recoveries
    30,092,000       31,878,000       28,862,000  
Other
    3,867,000       1,359,000       1,124,000  
 
                 
Total revenues
    157,164,000       168,341,000       156,214,000  
 
                 
Expenses:
                       
Operating, maintenance and management
    31,828,000       30,131,000       25,455,000  
Real estate and other property-related taxes
    19,479,000       18,818,000       17,424,000  
General and administrative
    9,537,000       10,166,000       8,586,000  
Impairments
    2,493,000       23,636,000        
Acquisition transaction costs and terminated projects, net
    4,253,000       4,367,000       855,000  
Depreciation and amortization
    42,278,000       50,148,000       44,862,000  
 
                 
Total expenses
    109,868,000       137,266,000       97,182,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Operating income
    47,296,000       31,075,000       59,032,000  
Non-operating income and expense:
                       
Interest expense, including amortization of deferred financing costs
    (49,702,000 )     (47,664,000 )     (43,021,000 )
Write-off of deferred financing costs
    (2,552,000 )            
Interest income
    38,000       63,000       284,000  
Equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures
    484,000       1,098,000       956,000  
Gain on sale of land parcel
          521,000        
 
                 
Total non-operating income and expense
    (51,732,000 )     (45,982,000 )     (41,781,000 )
 
                 
 
                       
(Loss) income before discontinued operations
    (4,436,000 )     (14,907,000 )     17,251,000  
 
                       
(Loss) income from discontinued operations
    (39,918,000 )     (2,661,000 )     3,547,000  
Gain on sales of discontinued operations
    170,000       557,000        
 
                 
Total discontinued operations
    (39,748,000 )     (2,104,000 )     3,547,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Net (loss) income
    (44,184,000 )     (17,011,000 )     20,798,000  
 
                       
Less, net loss (income) attributable to noncontrolling interests:
                       
Minority interests in consolidated joint ventures
    1,613,000       (772,000 )     (2,157,000 )
Limited partners’ interest in Operating Partnership
    1,282,000       912,000       (468,000 )
 
                 
Total net loss (income) attributable to noncontrolling interests
    2,895,000       140,000       (2,625,000 )
 
                 
 
                       
Net (loss) income attributable to Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
    (41,289,000 )     (16,871,000 )     18,173,000  
 
                       
Preferred distribution requirements
    (10,196,000 )     (7,876,000 )     (7,877,000 )
 
                 
Net (loss) income attributable to common shareholders
  $ (51,485,000 )   $ (24,747,000 )   $ 10,296,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Per common share attributable to common sharehoders (basic and diluted):
                       
Continuing operations
  $ (0.20 )   $ (0.49 )   $ 0.15  
Discontinued operations
    (0.61 )     (0.05 )   $ 0.08  
 
                 
 
  $ (0.81 )   $ (0.54 )   $ 0.23  
 
                 
 
                       
Amounts attributable to Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. common shareholders, net of limited partners’ interest:
                       
(Loss) income from continuing operations
  $ (12,834,000 )   $ (22,731,000 )   $ 6,903,000  
(Loss) income from discontinued operations
    (38,816,000 )     (2,550,000 )     3,393,000  
Gain on sales of discontinued operations
    165,000       534,000        
 
                 
Net (loss) income
  $ (51,485,000 )   $ (24,747,000 )   $ 10,296,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding
    63,843,000       46,234,000       44,475,000  
 
                 
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CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Equity
Years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
                                                                         
    Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Shareholders  
    Preferred stock                                     Cumulative     Accumulated        
            $25.00     Common stock     Treasury     Additional     distributions     other        
            Liquidation             $0.06     stock,     paid-in     in excess of     comprehensive        
    Shares     value     Shares     Par value     at cost     capital     net income     (loss) income     Total  
 
                                                                       
Balance, December 31, 2007
    3,550,000     $ 88,750,000       44,238,000     $ 2,654,000     $ (8,192,000 )   $ 572,394,000     $ (97,821,000 )   $ 64,000     $ 557,849,000  
 
                                                                       
Net income
                                                    18,173,000               18,173,000  
Unrealized loss on change in fair value of cash flow hedges
                                                            (7,320,000 )     (7,320,000 )
 
                                                                     
Total other comprehensive income
                                                                    10,853,000  
 
                                                                     
 
                                                                       
Deferred compensation activity, net
                    225,000       13,000       (983,000 )     3,342,000                       2,372,000  
Conversion of OP units into common stock
                    5,000       1,000               67,000                       68,000  
Preferred distribution requirements
                                                    (7,877,000 )             (7,877,000 )
Distributions to common shareholders/ noncontrolling interests
                                                    (40,027,000 )             (40,027,000 )
Additional noncontrolling interests’ shares
                                                                     
Purchase/redemption of noncontrolling interests’ shares
                                                                     
Reallocation adjustment of limited partners’ interest
                                            283,000                       283,000  
 
                                                     
   
Balance, December 31, 2008
    3,550,000       88,750,000       44,468,000       2,668,000       (9,175,000 )     576,086,000       (127,552,000 )     (7,256,000 )     523,521,000  
 
                                                                       
Net loss
                                                    (16,871,000 )             (16,871,000 )
Unrealized gain on change in fair value of cash flow hedges
                                                            4,264,000       4,264,000  
 
                                                                     
Total other comprehensive loss
                                                                    (12,607,000 )
 
                                                                     
 
                                                                       
Deferred compensation activity, net
                    570,000       34,000       (513,000 )     3,070,000                       2,591,000  
Net proceeds from the sales of common stock and issuance of warrants
                    7,089,000       425,000               40,465,000                       40,890,000  
Conversion of OP units into common stock
                    12,000       1,000               130,000                       131,000  
Preferred distribution requirements
                                                    (7,876,000 )             (7,876,000 )
Distributions to common shareholders/ noncontrolling interests
                                                    (9,742,000 )             (9,742,000 )
Reallocation adjustment of limited partners’ interest
                                            1,548,000                       1,548,000  
Additional noncontrolling interests’ shares
                                                                       
 
                                                     
 
                                                                       
Balance, December 31, 2009
    3,550,000       88,750,000       52,139,000       3,128,000       (9,688,000 )     621,299,000       (162,041,000 )     (2,992,000 )     538,456,000  
 
                                                                       
Net (loss) income
                                                    (41,289,000 )             (41,289,000 )
Unrealized gain on change in fair value of cash flow hedges
                                                            (414,000 )     (414,000 )
 
                                                                     
Total other comprehensive loss
                                                                    (41,703,000 )
 
                                                                     
 
                                                                       
Deferred compensation activity, net
                    436,000       27,000       (679,000 )     3,604,000                       2,952,000  
Net proceeds from the sale of preferred and common stock
    2,850,000       69,825,000       12,455,000       747,000               77,433,000                       148,005,000  
Net proceeds from dividend reinvestment plan
                    1,451,000       87,000               8,144,000                       8,231,000  
Preferred distribution requirements
                                                    (10,196,000 )             (10,196,000 )
Distributions to common shareholders/ noncontrolling interests
                                                    (17,749,000 )             (17,749,000 )
Conversion of OP Units into common stock
                    39,000       2,000               401,000                       403,000  
Reallocation adjustment of limited partners’ interest
                                            1,667,000                       1,667,000  
 
                                                     
   
Balance, December 31, 2010
    6,400,000     $ 158,575,000       66,520,000     $ 3,991,000     $ (10,367,000 )   $ 712,548,000     $ (231,275,000 )   $ (3,406,000 )   $ 630,066,000  
 
                                                     
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CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Equity
Years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008

(continued)
                                 
    Noncontrolling Interests        
            Limited                
    Minority     partners’                
    interests in     interest in                
    consolidated     Operating             Total  
    joint ventures     Partnership     Total     equity  
 
                               
Balance, December 31, 2007
  $ 62,402,000     $ 10,106,000     $ 72,508,000     $ 630,357,000  
 
                               
Net income
    2,157,000       183,000       2,340,000       20,513,000  
Unrealized loss on change in fair value of cash flow hedges
    (336,000 )     (129,000 )     (465,000 )     (7,785,000 )
 
                       
Total other comprehensive income
    1,821,000       54,000       1,875,000       12,728,000  
 
                       
 
                               
Deferred compensation activity, net
                      2,372,000  
Conversion of OP units into common stock
          (68,000 )     (68,000 )      
Preferred distribution requirements
                      (7,877,000 )
Distributions to common shareholders/ noncontrolling interests
    (3,427,000 )     (717,000 )     (4,144,000 )     (44,171,000 )
Additional noncontrolling interests’ shares
    6,364,000               6,364,000       6,364,000  
Purchase/redemption of noncontrolling interests’ shares
    (9,010,000 )             (9,010,000 )     (9,010,000 )
Reallocation adjustment of limited partners’ interest
          (109,000 )     (109,000 )     174,000  
 
                       
 
                               
Balance, December 31, 2008
    58,150,000       9,266,000       67,416,000       590,937,000  
 
                               
Net loss
    772,000       (361,000 )     411,000       (16,460,000 )
Unrealized gain on change in fair value of cash flow hedges
          79,000       79,000       4,343,000  
 
                       
Total other comprehensive loss
    772,000       (282,000 )     490,000       (12,117,000 )
 
                       
 
                               
Deferred compensation activity, net
                      2,591,000  
Net proceeds from the sales of common stock and issuance of warrants
                      40,890,000  
Conversion of OP units into common stock
          (131,000 )     (131,000 )      
Preferred distribution requirements
                      (7,876,000 )
Distributions to common shareholders/ noncontrolling interests
    (3,905,000 )     (167,000 )     (4,072,000 )     (13,814,000 )
Reallocation adjustment of limited partners’ interest
          (607,000 )     (607,000 )     941,000  
Additional noncontrolling interests’ shares
    12,212,000             12,212,000       12,212,000  
 
                       
 
                               
Balance, December 31, 2009
    67,229,000       8,079,000       75,308,000       613,764,000  
 
                               
Net (loss) income
    (1,613,000 )     (642,000 )     (2,255,000 )     (43,544,000 )
Unrealized gain on change in fair value of cash flow hedges
          (22,000 )     (22,000 )     (436,000 )
 
                       
Total other comprehensive loss
    (1,613,000 )     (664,000 )     (2,277,000 )     (43,980,000 )
 
                       
 
                               
Deferred compensation activity, net
                      2,952,000  
Net proceeds from the sale of preferred and common stock
                      148,005,000  
Net proceeds from dividend reinvestment plan
                      8,231,000  
Preferred distribution requirements
                      (10,196,000 )
Distributions to common shareholders/ noncontrolling interests
    (3,566,000 )     (209,000 )     (3,775,000 )     (21,524,000 )
Conversion of OP Units into common stock
          (194,000 )     (194,000 )     209,000  
Reallocation adjustment of limited partners’ interest
          (657,000 )     (657,000 )     1,010,000  
 
                       
 
                               
Balance, December 31, 2010
  $ 62,050,000     $ 6,355,000     $ 68,405,000     $ 698,471,000  
 
                       
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CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
                         
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2008  
Cash flow from operating activities:
                       
Net (loss) income
  $ (44,184,000 )   $ (17,011,000 )     20,798,000  
Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash provided by operating activities:
                       
Non-cash provisions:
                       
Equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures
    (484,000 )     (1,098,000 )     (956,000 )
Distributions from unconsolidated joint ventures
    819,000       921,000       834,000  
Impairments
    2,493,000       23,636,000        
Terminated projects
    1,302,000       3,094,000       463,000  
Impairments — discontinued operations
    39,527,000       3,559,000        
Gain on sales of real estate
    (170,000 )     (1,078,000 )      
Straight-line rents
    (1,854,000 )     (2,874,000 )     (2,876,000 )
Provision for doubtful accounts
    3,952,000              
Depreciation and amortization
    46,464,000       55,391,000       50,013,000  
Amortization of intangible lease liabilities
    (9,154,000 )     (13,522,000 )     (14,409,000 )
Amortization/market price adjustments relating to stock-based compensation
    2,979,000       2,433,000       1,099,000  
Amortization and accelerated write-off of deferred financing costs
    8,109,000       3,648,000       1,790,000  
Increases/decreases in operating assets and liabilities:
                       
Rents and other receivables, net
    (3,566,000 )     (2,555,000 )     1,822,000  
Joint venture settlements
    (995,000 )            
Prepaid expenses and other
    (2,029,000 )     (5,168,000 )     153,000  
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
    (1,507,000 )     2,566,000       2,084,000  
 
                 
Net cash provided by operating activities
    41,702,000       51,942,000       60,815,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Cash flow from investing activities:
                       
Expenditures for real estate and improvements
    (30,155,000 )     (108,300,000 )     (131,874,000 )
Net proceeds from sales of real estate
    2,661,000       6,752,000        
Net proceeds from transfers to unconsolidated joint venture, less cash at dates of transfer
    31,013,000       32,089,000        
Investments in and advances to unconsolidated joint ventures
    (51,441,000 )     (350,000 )     (1,097,000 )
Distributions of capital from unconsolidated joint venture
    21,502,000              
Increase in other receivables
    (2,563,000 )            
Construction escrows and other
    (851,000 )     (217,000 )     (965,000 )
Purchase of consolidated joint venture minority interest
                (17,454,000 )
 
                 
Net cash used in investing activities
    (29,834,000 )     (70,026,000 )     (151,390,000 )
 
                 
 
                       
Cash flow from financing activities:
                       
Net (repayments)/advances (to)/from revolving credit facilities
    (125,088,000 )     (46,805,000 )     114,050,000  
Proceeds from mortgage financings
    26,984,000       60,950,000       106,738,000  
Mortgage repayments
    (20,944,000 )     (18,203,000 )     (93,317,000 )
Payments of debt financing costs
    (2,025,000 )     (9,973,000 )     (5,062,000 )
Termination payment related to interest rate swaps
    (5,476,000 )            
Noncontrolling interests:
                       
Contributions from consolidated joint venture minority interests, net
          12,212,000       6,383,000  
Distributions to consolidated joint venture minority interests
    (3,566,000 )     (3,905,000 )     (3,427,000 )
Redemption of Operating Partnership Units
    (3,443,000 )           (122,000 )
Distributions to limited partners
    (654,000 )     (227,000 )     (1,822,000 )
Net proceeds from the sales of preferred and common stock
    141,248,000       40,890,000        
Exercise of warrant
    10,000,000              
Preferred stock distributions
    (9,457,000 )     (7,876,000 )     (7,877,000 )
Distributions to common shareholders
    (22,445,000 )     (5,046,000 )     (40,027,000 )
Proceeds from standby equity advance not settled
          5,000,000        
 
                 
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities
    (14,866,000 )     27,017,000       75,517,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents
    (2,998,000 )     8,933,000       (15,058,000 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    17,164,000       8,231,000       23,289,000  
 
                 
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 14,166,000     $ 17,164,000       8,231,000  
 
                 
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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Note 1. Organization and Basis of Preparation
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. (the “Company”) was organized in 1984 and elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) in 1986. The Company focuses primarily on ownership, operation, development and redevelopment of supermarket-anchored shopping centers predominantly in mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastal states. At December 31, 2010, the Company owned and managed 115 operating properties, including 21 properties in a managed unconsolidated joint venture.
Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”) is the entity through which the Company conducts substantially all of its business and owns (either directly or through subsidiaries) substantially all of its assets. At December 31, 2010 the Company owned a 97.9% economic interest in, and was the sole general partner of, the Operating Partnership. The limited partners’ interest in the Operating Partnership (2.1% at December 31, 2010) is represented by Operating Partnership Units (“OP Units”). The carrying amount of such interest is adjusted at the end of each reporting period to an amount equal to the limited partners’ ownership percentage of the Operating Partnership’s net equity. The approximately 1.4 million OP Units outstanding at December 31, 2010 are economically equivalent to the Company’s common stock and are convertible into the Company’s common stock at the option of the respective holders on a one-to-one basis.
As used herein, the “Company” refers to Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, including the Operating Partnership or, where the context so requires, Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. only.
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts and operations of the Company, the Operating Partnership, its subsidiaries, and certain joint venture partnerships in which it participates. The Company consolidates all variable interest entities (“VIEs”) for which it is the primary beneficiary. Generally, a VIE is an entity with one or more of the following characteristics: (a) the total equity investment at risk is not sufficient to permit the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support, (b) as a group, the holders of the equity investment at risk (i) lack the power to make decisions about the entity’s activities that significantly impacts the entity’s performance through voting or similar rights, (ii) have no obligation to absorb the expected losses of the entity, or (iii) have no right to receive the expected residual returns of the entity, or (c) the equity investors have voting rights that are not proportional to their economic interests, and substantially all of the entity’s activities either involve, or are conducted on behalf of, an investor that has disproportionately few voting rights. In January 2010, the Company adopted the updated accounting guidance for determining whether an entity is a VIE, which requires the performance of a qualitative rather than a quantitative analysis to determine the primary beneficiary of a VIE. The updated guidance requires an entity to consolidate a VIE if it has (i) the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance, and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could be significant to the VIE. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Significant judgments related to these determinations include estimates about the current and future fair values and performance of real estate held by these VIEs and general market conditions.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
With respect to its 12 consolidated operating joint ventures, the Company has general partnership interests of 20% in nine properties, 40% in two properties and 50% in one property. As (i) such entities are not VIEs, and (ii) the Company is the sole general partner and exercises substantial operating control over these entities, the Company has determined that such entities should be consolidated for financial statement purposes. Current accounting guidance provides a framework for determining whether a general partner controls, and should consolidate, a limited partnership or similar entity in which it owns a minority interest.
The Company’s three 60%-owned joint ventures for development projects in Limerick, Pottsgrove and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, are consolidated as they are deemed to be VIEs and the Company is the primary beneficiary in each case. At December 31, 2010, these VIEs owned real estate with a carrying value of $136.8 million. The assets of the consolidated VIEs can be used to settle obligations other than those of the consolidated VIEs. At that date, one of the VIEs had a property-specific mortgage loan payable aggregating $62.6 million, and the real estate owned by the other two VIEs partially collateralized the secured revolving development property credit facility to the extent of $28.1 million. Such obligations are guaranteed by, and are recourse to, the Company. For such development projects, the Company reviews the applicable budgets and provides supervisory support.
With respect to its unconsolidated joint ventures, the Company has a 20% interest in a joint venture with RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust of Toronto, Canada, a publicly-traded Canadian real estate investment trust (“RioCan”) formed initially for the acquisition of seven shopping center properties owned by the Company; all seven properties had been transferred to the joint venture by May 2010. The accounting treatment presentation on the accompanying consolidated balance sheet is to reflect the Company’s applicable carrying values as “real estate to be transferred to a joint venture” retroactively for all periods presented, whereas the accounting treatment presentation on the accompanying consolidated statement of operations is to reflect the results of the properties’ operations through the respective dates of transfer in current operations and, prospectively following their transfer to the joint venture, as “equity in income (loss) of unconsolidated joint ventures”. Although the Company provides management and other services, RioCan has significant management participation rights. The Company has determined that this joint venture is not a VIE and, accordingly, the Company accounts for its investment in this joint venture under the equity method.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
In addition, the Company has a 76.3% limited partner’s interest in a joint venture which owns a single-tenant office property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Company has no control over the entity, does not provide any management or other services to the entity, and has no substantial participating or “kick out” rights and, accordingly, the Company has determined that this joint venture is not a VIE. The Company accounts for its investment in this joint venture under the equity method.
At December 31, 2010, the Company had deposits of $0.8 million on four land parcels to be purchased for future development. Although each of the entities holding the deposits is considered a VIE, the Company has not consolidated any of them as the Company is not the primary beneficiary in each case.
Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
The accompanying financial statements are prepared on the accrual basis in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), which requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the periods covered by the financial statements. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
The consolidated financial statements reflect certain reclassifications of prior period amounts to conform to the 2010 presentation, principally to reflect the sale and/or treatment as “held for sale” of certain operating properties and the treatment thereof as “discontinued operations”. The reclassifications had no impact on previously-reported net income attributable to common shareholders or earnings per share.
Real Estate Investments and Discontinued Operations
Real estate investments are carried at cost less accumulated depreciation. The provision for depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method based upon the estimated useful lives of the respective assets of between 3 and 40 years. Depreciation expense amounted to $39.2 million, $42.8 million and $36.7 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Expenditures for betterments that substantially extend the useful lives of the assets are capitalized. Expenditures for maintenance, repairs, and betterments that do not substantially prolong the normal useful life of an asset are charged to operations as incurred, and amounted to $2.0 million, $2.1 million and $2.0 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Upon the sale (or treatment as “held for sale”) or other disposition of assets, the cost and related accumulated depreciation and amortization are removed from the accounts and the resulting gain or impairment loss, if any, is reflected as discontinued operations. In addition, prior periods’ financial statements would be reclassified to reflect the sold properties’ operations as discontinued.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Real estate investments include costs of development and redevelopment activities, and construction in progress. Capitalized costs, including interest and other carrying costs during the construction and/or renovation periods, are included in the cost of the related asset and charged to operations through depreciation over the asset’s estimated useful life. Interest and financing costs capitalized amounted to $2.5 million, $6.3 million and $6.7 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. A variety of costs are incurred in the acquisition, development and leasing of a property, such as pre-construction costs essential to the development of the property, development costs, construction costs, interest costs, real estate taxes, salaries and related costs, and other costs incurred during the period of development. After a determination is made to capitalize a cost, it is allocated to the specific component of a project that is benefited. The Company ceases capitalization on the portions substantially completed and occupied, or held available for occupancy, and capitalizes only those costs associated with the portions under development. The Company considers a construction project to be substantially completed and held available for occupancy upon the completion of tenant improvements, but not later than one year from cessation of major construction activity.
Management reviews each real estate investment for impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of a real estate investment may not be recoverable. The review of recoverability is based on an estimate of the future cash flows that are expected to result from the real estate investment’s use and eventual disposition. These cash flows consider factors such as expected future operating income, trends and prospects, as well as the effects of leasing demand, competition and other factors. If an impairment event exists due to the projected inability to recover the carrying value of a real estate investment, an impairment loss is recorded to the extent that the carrying value exceeds estimated fair value. Real estate investments held for sale are carried at the lower of their respective carrying amounts or estimated fair values, less costs to sell. Depreciation and amortization are suspended during the periods held for sale.
In connection with the Cedar/RioCan joint venture transactions, the Company recorded net impairment charges of $2.5 million and $23.6 million, respectively, in 2010 and 2009. Such charges were based on a comparison of the arms-length negotiated transfer amounts set forth in the contract with the carrying values of the properties transferred. The accounting treatment presentation on the accompanying consolidated statements of operations is to reflect the results of the properties’ operations through the respective dates of transfers in current operations and, prospectively following their transfer to the joint venture, as “equity in income of unconsolidated joint ventures”. Accordingly, the accompanying statement of operations includes revenues prior to the properties being transferred to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture in the amounts of $3.3 million, $18.6 million and $17.7 million, respectively, for 2010, 2009 and 2008.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
During 2010, the Company wrote off costs incurred in prior years for (i) a potential development project in Williamsport, Pennsylvania that the Company determined would not go forward ($1.3 million), (ii) costs incurred related to the acquisition of a single-tenant office property located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ($0.3 million), and (iii) the costs primarily associated with a cancelled acquisition ($0.1 million). In 2010, the Company incurred fees to its investment advisor as it relates to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture ($2.7 million).
During 2009, the Company wrote off costs incurred in prior years for (i) potential development projects in Milford, Delaware and Ephrata, Pennsylvania that the Company determined would not go forward (an aggregate of $2.8 million), and (ii) costs incurred related to the acquisitions of San Souci Plaza and New London Mall (net of minority interest share) and the costs primarily associated with a cancelled acquisition (an aggregate of $1.5 million).
During 2010 and 2009, the Company sold, or has treated as “held for sale”, 28 of its properties (including a number of drug store/convenience centers), located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Connecticut. In connection therewith, net impairment charges of $39.5 million and $3.6 million were recorded in 2010 and 2009, respectively.
Conditional asset retirement obligation
A conditional asset retirement obligation is a legal obligation to perform an asset retirement activity in which the timing and/or method of settlement is conditional on a future event that may or may not be within the control of the Company. The Company would record a liability for a conditional asset retirement obligation if the fair value of the obligation can be reasonably estimated. Environmental studies conducted at the time of acquisition with respect to all of the Company’s properties did not reveal any material environmental liabilities, and the Company is unaware of any subsequent environmental matters that would have created a material liability. The Company believes that its properties are currently in material compliance with applicable environmental, as well as non-environmental, statutory and regulatory requirements. There were no conditional asset retirement obligation liabilities recorded by the Company during the three years ended December 31, 2010.
Fair Value Measurements
The fair value measurement accounting guidance establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes observable and unobservable inputs used to measure fair value into three levels:
   
Level 1 — Inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.
   
Level 2 — Inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
   
Level 3 — Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.
The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to Level 1 inputs and the lowest priority to Level 3 inputs. In determining fair value, the Company utilizes valuation techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs to the extent possible while also considering counterparty credit risk in the assessment of fair value. Financial liabilities measured at fair value in the consolidated financial statements consist of interest rate swaps. The fair values of interest rate swaps are determined using widely accepted valuation techniques, including discounted cash flow analysis, on the expected cash flows of each derivative. The analysis reflects the contractual terms of the swaps, including the period to maturity, and uses observable market-based inputs, including interest rate curves (“significant other observable inputs”). The fair value calculation also includes an amount for risk of non-performance using “significant unobservable inputs” such as estimates of current credit spreads to evaluate the likelihood of default. The Company has concluded, as of December 31, 2010, that the fair value associated with the “significant unobservable inputs” relating to the Company’s risk of non-performance was insignificant to the overall fair value of the interest rate swap agreements and, as a result, the Company has determined that the relevant inputs for purposes of calculating the fair value of the interest rate swap agreements, in their entirety, were based upon “significant other observable inputs”. Nonfinancial assets and liabilities measured at fair value in the consolidated financial statements consist of real estate to be transferred to a joint venture and real estate held for sale- discontinued operations.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The following tables show the hierarchy for those assets measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively:
                                 
    Assets Measured at Fair Value on a  
    Non Recurring Basis  
    December 31, 2010  
Asset Description   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
 
                               
Real estate held for sale
  $     $ 22,773,000     $ 47,186,000     $ 69,959,000  
 
                       
                                 
    Assets Measured at Fair Value on a  
    Non Recurring Basis  
    December 31, 2009  
Asset Description   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
 
                               
Real estate held for sale
  $     $ 11,598,000     $     $ 11,598,000 (a)
 
                               
Real estate to be transferred to a joint venture
          139,743,000             139,743,000  
 
                       
 
                               
 
  $     $ 151,341,000     $     $ 151,341,000  
 
                       
     
(a)  
Excludes $116.2 million of properties valued at cost as of December 31, 2009, which were subsequently treated as real estate held for sale during 2010 and recorded at fair value.
The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, rents and other receivables, other assets, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate fair value. The valuation of the liability for the Company’s interest rate swaps ($1.6 million and $5.9 million at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively), which is measured on a recurring basis, was determined to be a Level 2 within the valuation hierarchy, and was based on independent values provided by financial institutions. The valuations of the assets for the Company’s real estate to be transferred to a joint venture and real estate held for sale — discontinued operations, which is measured on a nonrecurring basis, have been determined to be (i) a Level 2 within the valuation hierarchy, based on the respective contracts of transfer and/or sale or (ii) Level 3 within the valuation hierarchy, where applicable, based on estimated sales prices determined by discounted cash flow analyses and/or appraisals if no contract amounts were as yet being negotiated. The discounted cash flow analyses included all estimated cash inflows and outflows over a specific holding period and where applicable, any estimated debt premiums. These cash flows were comprised of unobservable inputs which included contractual rental revenues and forecasted rental revenues and expenses based upon market conditions and expectations for growth. Capitalization rates and discount rates utilized in these analyses were based upon observable rates that the Company believed to be within a reasonable range of current market rates for the respective properties.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The fair value of the Company’s fixed rate mortgage loans was estimated using available market information and discounted cash flows analyses based on borrowing rates the Company believes it could obtain with similar terms and maturities. As of December 31, 2010 and 2009, the aggregate fair values of the Company’s fixed rate mortgage loans were approximately $595.3 million and $547.5 million, respectively; the carrying values of such loans were $591.1million and $572.7 million, respectively, at those dates.
Intangible Lease Asset/Liability
The Company allocates the fair value of real estate acquired to land, buildings and improvements. In addition, the fair value of in-place leases is allocated to intangible lease assets and liabilities.
The fair value of the tangible assets of an acquired property is determined by valuing the property as if it were vacant, which value is then allocated to land, buildings and improvements based on management’s determination of the relative fair values of these assets. In valuing an acquired property’s intangibles, factors considered by management include an estimate of carrying costs during the expected lease-up periods, such as real estate taxes, insurance, other operating expenses, and estimates of lost rental revenue during the expected lease-up periods based on its evaluation of current market demand. Management also estimates costs to execute similar leases, including leasing commissions, tenant improvements, legal and other related costs.
The values of acquired above-market and below-market leases are recorded based on the present values (using discount rates which reflect the risks associated with the leases acquired) of the differences between the contractual amounts to be received and management’s estimate of market lease rates, measured over the terms of the respective leases that management deemed appropriate at the time of the acquisitions. Such valuations include a consideration of the non-cancellable terms of the respective leases as well as any applicable renewal period(s). The fair values associated with below-market rental renewal options are determined based on the Company’s experience and the relevant facts and circumstances that existed at the time of the acquisitions. The values of above-market leases are amortized to rental income over the terms of the respective non-cancelable lease periods. The portion of the values of below-market leases associated with the original non-cancelable lease terms are amortized to rental income over the terms of the respective non-cancelable lease periods. The portion of the values of the leases associated with below-market renewal options that are likely of exercise are amortized to rental income over the respective renewal periods. The value of other intangible assets (including leasing commissions, tenant improvements, etc.) is amortized to expense over the applicable terms of the respective leases. If a lease were to be terminated prior to its stated expiration or not renewed, all unamortized amounts relating to that lease would be recognized in operations at that time.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
With respect to the Company’s acquisitions, the fair values of in-place leases and other intangibles have been allocated to the intangible asset and liability accounts. Such allocations are preliminary and are based on information and estimates available as of the respective dates of acquisition. As final information becomes available and is refined, appropriate adjustments are made to the purchase price allocations, which are finalized within twelve months of the respective dates of acquisition.
Total unamortized intangible lease liabilities relate primarily to below-market leases, and amounted to $46.5 million and $52.1 million at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
As a result of recording the intangible lease assets and liabilities, (i) revenues were increased by $8.3 million, $12.8 million and $13.3 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively, relating to the amortization of intangible lease liabilities, and (ii) depreciation and amortization expense was increased correspondingly by $10.1 million, $12.7 million and $13.0 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
The unamortized balance of intangible lease liabilities at December 31, 2010 is net of accumulated amortization of $56.1 million, and will be credited to future operations through 2043 as follows:
         
2011
  $ 6,632,000  
2012
    5,910,000  
2013
    5,343,000  
2014
    4,872,000  
2015
    3,769,000  
Thereafter
    19,961,000  
 
     
 
  $ 46,487,000  
 
     
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash in banks and short-term investments with original maturities of less than ninety days, and include cash at consolidated joint ventures of $6.7 million and $7.4 million at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
Restricted Cash
The terms of several of the Company’s mortgage loans payable require the Company to deposit certain replacement and other reserves with its lenders. Such “restricted cash” is generally available only for property-level requirements for which the reserves have been established, is not available to fund other property-level or Company-level obligations.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Rents and Other Receivables
Management has determined that all of the Company’s leases with its various tenants are operating leases. Rental income with scheduled rent increases is recognized using the straight-line method over the respective non-cancelable terms of the leases. The aggregate excess of rental revenue recognized on a straight-line basis over the contractual base rents is included in straight-line rents on the consolidated balance sheet. Leases also generally contain provisions under which the tenants reimburse the Company for a portion of property operating expenses and real estate taxes incurred, generally attributable to their respective allocable portions of GLA. Such income is recognized in the periods earned. In addition, a limited number of operating leases contain contingent rent provisions under which tenants are required to pay, as additional rent, a percentage of their sales in excess of a specified amount. The Company defers recognition of contingent rental income until those specified sales targets are met. Other contingent fees are recognized when earned.
The Company must make estimates as to the collectability of its accounts receivable related to base rent, straight-line rent, percentage rent, expense reimbursements and other revenues. When management analyzes accounts receivable and evaluates the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts, it considers such things as historical bad debts, tenant creditworthiness, current economic trends, current developments relevant to a tenant’s business specifically and to its business category generally, and changes in tenants’ payment patterns. The allowance for doubtful accounts was $5.4 million and $5.3 million at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. The provision for doubtful accounts (included in operating, maintenance and management expenses) was $3.3 million, $2.5 million and $1.1 million in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents in excess of insured amounts and tenant receivables. The Company places its cash and cash equivalents with high quality financial institutions. Management performs ongoing credit evaluations of its tenants and requires certain tenants to provide security deposits and/or suitable guarantees.
Giant Food Stores, LLC (“Giant Foods”), which is owned by Ahold N.V., a Netherlands corporation, accounted for approximately 14%, 13% and 13% of the Company’s total revenues in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Giant Foods, in combination with Stop & Shop, Inc., which is also owned by Ahold N.V., accounted for approximately 17%, 17% and 17% of the Company’s total revenues in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. On February 15, 2011, Homburg Invest, Inc., our co-venturer in nine supermarket-anchored shopping centers, initiated a “buy/sell” option. Of the nine supermarket anchored shopping centers, the Company, pursuant to the transaction initiated by Homburg Invest Inc., has elected to sell eight of such properties of which six are anchored by Giant Food Stores.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Total revenues from properties located in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut as a percentage of consolidated total revenues are as follows for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively:
                         
State   2010     2009     2008  
   
Pennsylvania
    51.9 %     49.0 %     51.1 %
Massachusetts
    9.5 %     14.2 %     15.2 %
Connecticut
    8.9 %     11.7 %     8.7 %
Other Assets
Other assets at December 31, 2010 and 2009 are comprised of the following:
                 
    December 31,  
    2010     2009  
Prepaid expenses
  $ 5,258,000     $ 5,279,000  
Cumulative mark-to-market adjustments related to stock-based compensation
    2,101,000       2,100,000  
Property deposits
    1,792,000       1,430,000  
Other
    525,000       507,000  
 
           
 
  $ 9,676,000     $ 9,316,000  
 
           
Deferred Charges, Net
Deferred charges at December 31, 2010 and 2009 are net of accumulated amortization and are comprised of the following:
                 
    December 31,  
    2010     2009  
Lease origination costs (i)
  $ 16,117,000     $ 16,295,000  
Financing costs (ii)(iii)
    10,837,000       16,573,000  
Other
    1,551,000       1,707,000  
 
           
 
  $ 28,505,000     $ 34,575,000  
 
           
     
(i)  
Lease origination costs include the unamortized balance of intangible lease assets resulting from purchase accounting allocations of $7.7 million and $8.7 million, respectively.
 
(ii)  
Financing costs are incurred in connection with the Company’s credit facilities and other long-term debt.
 
(iii)  
On September 13, 2010, the Company elected to reduce the total commitments under its secured revolving stabilized property credit facility by $100.0 million. In this connection, the Company accelerated the write-off of approximately $2.6 million of deferred financing costs

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Deferred charges are amortized over the terms of the related agreements. Amortization expense related to deferred charges (including amortization of deferred financing costs included in non-operating income and expense) amounted to $11.0 million, $6.9 million and $4.9 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The unamortized balances of deferred lease origination costs and deferred financing costs are net of accumulated amortization of $15.0 million and $20.3 million, respectively, and will be charged to future operations as follows (lease origination costs through 2033, and financing costs through 2029):
                 
    Lease        
    origination     Financing  
    costs     costs  
Non-amortizing (i)
  $ 373,000     $ 68,000  
2011
    2,552,000       4,764,000  
2012
    2,209,000       3,492,000  
2013
    1,974,000       874,000  
2014
    1,601,000       518,000  
2015
    1,278,000       328,000  
Thereafter
    6,130,000       793,000  
 
           
 
  $ 16,117,000     $ 10,837,000  
 
           
     
(i)  
Represents (a) lease origination costs applicable to leases with commencement dates beginning after December 31, 2010 and (b) financing costs applicable to commitment fees/deposits relating to mortgage loans payable concluded after December 31, 2010.
Income Taxes
The Company has elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). A REIT will generally not be subject to federal income taxation on that portion of its income that qualifies as REIT taxable income, to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of such REIT taxable income to its shareholders and complies with certain other requirements. As of December 31, 2010, the Company was in compliance with all REIT requirements.
The Company follows a two-step approach for evaluating uncertain tax positions. Recognition (step one) occurs when an enterprise concludes that a tax position, based solely on its technical merits, is more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination. Measurement (step two) determines the amount of benefit that more-likely-than-not will be realized upon settlement. Derecognition of a tax position that was previously recognized would occur when a company subsequently determines that a tax position no longer meets the more-likely-than-not threshold of being sustained. The use of a valuation allowance as a substitute for derecognition of tax positions is prohibited. The Company has not identified any uncertain tax positions which would require an accrual.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Derivative Financial Instruments
The Company occasionally utilizes derivative financial instruments, principally interest rate swaps, to manage its exposure to fluctuations in interest rates. The Company has established policies and procedures for risk assessment, and the approval, reporting and monitoring of derivative financial instruments. Derivative financial instruments must be effective in reducing the Company’s interest rate risk exposure in order to qualify for hedge accounting. When the terms of an underlying transaction are modified, or when the underlying hedged item ceases to exist, all changes in the fair value of the instrument are marked-to-market with changes in value included in net income for each period until the derivative financial instrument matures or is settled. Any derivative financial instrument used for risk management that does not meet the hedging criteria is marked-to-market with the changes in value included in net income. The Company has not entered into, and does not plan to enter into, derivative financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes. Additionally, the Company has a policy of entering into derivative contracts only with major financial institutions. On January 20, 2010, the Company paid approximately $5.5 million to terminate interest rate swaps applicable to the financing for its development joint venture project in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
As of December 31, 2010, the Company believes it has no significant risk associated with non-performance of the financial institutions which are the counterparties to its derivative contracts. Additionally, based on the rates in effect as of December 31, 2010, if a counterparty were to default, the Company would receive a net interest benefit. At December 31, 2010, the Company had approximately $20.1 million of mortgage loans payable subject to interest rate swaps. Such interest rate swaps converted LIBOR-based variable rates to fixed annual rates of 5.4% and 6.5% per annum. At that date, the Company had accrued liabilities of $1.6 million (included in accounts payable and accrued expenses on the consolidated balance sheet) relating to the fair value of interest rate swaps applicable to existing mortgage loans payable. Charges and/or credits relating to the changes in fair values of such interest rate swaps are made to accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income, noncontrolling interests (minority interests in consolidated joint ventures and limited partners’ interest), or operations (included in interest expense), as appropriate.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The following is a summary of the derivative financial instruments held by the Company at December 31, 2010 and 2009:
                                                             
                Notional values         Balance   Fair value  
Designation/               December 31,             December 31,     Expiration   sheet   December 31,     December 31,  
Cash flow   Derivative   Count     2010     Count     2009     dates   location   2010     2009  
Non-qualifying
  Interest         $       1     $ 23,891,000     2011   Accounts payable and   $     $ 1,297,000  
                                                 
Qualifying
  rate swaps     2     $ 20,094,000       8     $ 56,925,000     2010 - 2020   accrued expenses   $ 1,642,000     $ 4,655,000  
                                                 
The following presents the effect of the Company’s derivative financial instruments on the consolidated statements of operations and the consolidated statements of equity for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively:
                             
        Amount of gain (loss) recognized in other  
        comprehensive (loss) income (effective portion)  
Designation/       Years ended December 31,  
Cash flow   Derivative   2010     2009     2008  
 
                           
Non-qualifying
  Interest rate   $     $ 106,000     $  
 
                     
Qualifying
  swaps   $ (414,000 )   $ 4,237,000     $ (7,785,000 )
 
                     
The above table does not include amortization and adjustments related to the terminated Strousburg swap.
                             
        Amount of gain (loss) recognized in interest expense  
        (ineffectve portion)  
 
                           
Non-qualifying
  Interest rate   $     $ 107,000     $  
 
                     
Qualifying
  swaps   $     $ 67,000     $ (223,000 )
 
                     

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Limited Partners Interest In Operating Partnership (Mezz OP Units)
The Company follows the accounting guidance related to noncontrolling interests in consolidated financial statements, which clarifies that a noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary (minority interests or certain limited partners’ interest, in the case of the Company), subject to the classification and measurement of redeemable securities, is an ownership interest in a consolidated entity which should be reported as equity in the parent company’s consolidated financial statements. The guidance requires a reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of equity attributable to noncontrolling interests and disclosure, on the face of the consolidated income statement, of those amounts of consolidated net income attributable to the noncontrolling interests, eliminating the past practice of reporting these amounts as an adjustment in arriving at consolidated net income. The Company classifies the balances related to minority interests in consolidated joint ventures and limited partners’ interest in the Operating Partnership into the consolidated equity accounts, as appropriate (certain non-controlling interests of the Company are classified in the mezzanine section of the balance sheet (the “Mezz OP Units”) as such Mezz OP Units do not meet the requirements for equity classification, since certain of the holders of OP Units have registration rights that provide such holders with the right to demand registration under the federal securities laws of the common stock of the Company issuable upon conversion of such OP Units). The Company adjusts the carrying value of the Mezz OP Units each period to equal the greater of its historical carrying value or its redemption value. Through December 31, 2010, there have been no cumulative net adjustments recorded to the carrying amounts of the Mezz OP Units.
Included below is a roll forward analysis of the activity relating to the Mezz OP Units:
                 
    2010     2009  
Balance at beginning of period
  $ 12,638,000     $ 14,257,000  
 
               
Net loss
    (640,000 )     (551,000 )
Unrealized (loss) gain on change in fair value of cash flow hedges
    (18,000 )     117,000  
 
           
Total other comprehensive loss
    (658,000 )     (434,000 )
 
           
 
               
Distributions
    (266,000 )     (247,000 )
Redemption and reallocations of OP Units
    (4,661,000 )     (938,000 )
 
           
 
               
Balance, December 31
  $ 7,053,000     $ 12,638,000  
 
           
Earnings/Dividends Per Share
Basic earnings per share (“EPS”) is computed by dividing net (loss) income attributable to the Company’s common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period (including restricted shares and shares held by Rabbi Trusts as these are participating securities). Fully-diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into shares of common stock. The calculation of the number of such additional shares related to the warrants issued to RioCan prior to exercise was 19,000 for 2010; however such amount was anti-dilutive as the Company reported a net loss for that year. The calculation of the number of such additional shares related to the RioCan and other warrants and stock options was anti-dilutive for 2009 and 2008. Fully-dilutive EPS was the same as basic EPS for all periods.
Dividends to common shareholders in 2010, 2009 and 2008 were $17,749,000 ($0.2700 per share), $9,742,000 ($0.2025 per share), and $40,027,000 ($0.9000 per share), respectively.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company’s 2004 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Incentive Plan”) establishes the procedures for the granting of incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted shares, performance units and performance shares. The maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock that may be issued pursuant to the Incentive Plan is 2,750,000, and the maximum number of shares that may be granted to a participant in any calendar year may not exceed 250,000. Substantially all grants issued pursuant to the Incentive Plan are “restricted stock grants” which specify vesting (i) upon the third anniversary of the date of grant for time-based grants, or (ii) upon the completion of a designated period of performance for performance-based grants and satisfaction of the performance criteria. The shares granted in March 2010 in connection with the Company’s performance-based target bonus compensation arrangements for 2009 will vest one year from the date of grant. Time-based grants are valued according to the market price for the Company’s common stock at the date of grant. For performance-based grants, the Company generally engages an independent appraisal company to determine the value of the shares at the date of grant, taking into account the underlying contingency risks associated with the performance criteria.
In October 2006, the Company issued 35,000 shares of common stock as performance-based grants, which were to vest if the total annual return on an investment in the Company’s common stock (“TSR”) over the three-year period ended December 31, 2008 was equal to, or greater than, an average of 8% per year. The independent appraisal determined the value of the performance-based shares to be $12.07 per share, compared to a market price at the date of grant of $16.49 per share. With respect to the awards granted in 2006, the Company did not attain an average 8% TSR for such three-year period as provided by the Incentive Plan for vesting. However, the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors took into account (1) that factors outside of the Company’s control resulted in the failure to achieve the requisite return, and (2) that the Company had outperformed its peer group during such three-year period. Accordingly, the Committee believed that it was appropriate to vest some of the awards and allowed 40% of the awards, or an aggregate of 14,000 shares, to vest. The decision had no impact on the Company’s results of operations.
In February 2007, the Company issued 37,000 shares of common stock as performance-based grants, which were to vest if the TSR over the three-year period ended December 31, 2009 was equal to, or greater than, an average of 8% per year. The independent appraisal determined the value of the performance-based shares to be $10.09 per share, compared to a market price at the date of grant of $16.45 per share. With respect to the awards granted in 2007, the Company did not attain an average 8% TSR for such three-year period as provided by the Incentive Plan for vesting and, accordingly, none of these shares vested.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
In January 2008 and June 2008, the Company issued 53,000 shares and 7,000 shares of common stock, respectively, as performance-based grants, which were to vest if the TSR over the three-year period ended December 31, 2010 was equal to, or greater than, an average of 8% per year. The independent appraisal determined the value of the January 2008 performance-based shares to be $6.05 per share, compared to a market price at the date of grant of $10.07 per share; similar methodology determined the value of the June 2008 performance-based shares to be $10.31 per share, compared to a market price at the date of grant of $12.13 per share. With respect to the awards granted in 2008, the Company did not attain an average 8% TSR for such three-year period as provided by the Incentive Plan for vesting and, accordingly, none of these shares vested.
In January 2009, the Company issued 218,000 shares of common stock as performance-based grants, based on the TSR over the three-year period ending December 31, 2011, with 75% to vest if such TSR is equal to, or greater than an average of 6% TSR per year on the Company’s common stock, and 25% to vest based on a comparison of TSR for such three years to the Company’s peer group. The independent appraisal determined the values of the performance-based shares to be $5.44 and $6.48 per share, respectively, compared to a market price at the date of grant of $7.02 per share.
In January 2010, the Company issued 227,000 shares of common stock as performance-based grants. As modified in September 2010, one-half of these amounts will vest upon the satisfaction of the following conditions: (a) if the TSR on the Company’s common stock is at least an average of 6% per year for the three years ending December 31, 2012, and (b) if there is a positive comparison of TSR on the Company’s common stock to the median of the TSR for the Company’s peer group for the three years ending December 31, 2012. The independent appraisal determined the values of the category (a) and (b) performance-based shares to be $4.56 per share and $6.00 per share, respectively, compared to a market price at the date of grant of $6.70 per share. In September 2010, the Company issued 3,000 shares of performance-based grants which will vest the same as the January 2010 grants. The Company has valued these shares at the market price of $6.17 per share on the date of grant.
The additional restricted shares issued during 2010, 2009 and 2008 were time-based grants, and amounted to 279,000 shares, 397,000 shares and 187,000 shares, respectively. The value of all grants is being amortized on a straight-line basis over the respective vesting periods (irrespective of achievement of the performance grants) adjusted, as applicable, for fluctuations in the market value of the Company’s common stock and forfeiture assumptions. Those grants of restricted shares that are transferred to Rabbi Trusts are classified as treasury stock on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The following table sets forth certain stock-based compensation information for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively:

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
                         
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2008  
Restricted share grants
    509,000       615,000       247,000  
Average per-share grant price
  $ 6.54     $ 4.95     $ 9.39  
Recorded as deferred compensation, net
  $ 3,267,000     $ 3,032,000     $ 2,306,000  
 
                       
Charged to operations:
                       
Amortization relating to stock-based compensation
  $ 3,260,000     $ 2,921,000     $ 2,389,000  
Adjustments to reflect changes in market price of Company’s common stock
    (281,000 )     (488,000 )     (1,290,000 )
 
                 
Total charged to operations
  $ 2,979,000     $ 2,433,000     $ 1,099,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Non-vested shares:
                       
Non-vested, beginning of period
    980,000       508,000       380,000  
Grants
    509,000       615,000       247,000  
Vested during period
    (148,000 )     (104,000 )     (97,000 )
Forfeitures/cancellations
    (61,000 )     (39,000 )     (22,000 )
 
                 
Non-vested, end of period
    1,280,000       980,000       508,000  
 
                 
Average value of non-vested shares (based on grant price)
  $ 6.28     $ 7.54     $ 12.27  
 
                 
 
                       
Weighted average price of the awards forfeited
  $ 6.58     $ 9.99     $ 12.02  
 
                 
 
                       
Value of shares vested during the period (based on grant price)
  $ 2,282,000     $ 1,496,000     $ 1,365,000  
 
                 
At December 31, 2010, 1.1 million shares remained available for grants pursuant to the Incentive Plan, and $2.9 million remained as deferred compensation, to be amortized over various periods ending in September 2013.
During 2001, pursuant to the 1998 Stock Option Plan (the “Option Plan”), the Company granted to the then directors options to purchase an aggregate of approximately 13,000 shares of common stock at $10.50 per share, the market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of the grant. The options are fully exercisable and expire on July 11, 2011. In connection with the adoption of the Incentive Plan, the Company agreed that it would not grant any more options under the Option Plan.
In connection with an acquisition of a shopping center in 2002, the Operating Partnership issued warrants to purchase approximately 83,000 OP Units to a then minority interest partner in the property. Such warrants have an exercise price of $13.50 per unit, subject to certain anti-dilution adjustments, are fully vested, and expire on May 31, 2012.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
401(k) Retirement Plan
The Company has a 401(k) retirement plan (the “Plan”), which permits all eligible employees to defer a portion of their compensation under the Code. Pursuant to the provisions of the Plan, the Company may make discretionary contributions on behalf of eligible employees. The Company made contributions to the Plan of $266,000, $248,000 and $243,000 in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
                         
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2008  
Supplemental disclosure of cash activities:
                       
Interest paid
  $ 46,247,000     $ 50,413,000       49,006,000  
 
                       
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash activities:
                       
Additions to deferred compensation plans
    3,267,000       3,032,000       2,306,000  
Assumption of mortgage loans payable — acquisitions
    (12,967,000 )     (54,565,000 )     (34,631,000 )
Assumption of mortgage loans payable — disposition
    12,358,000       9,932,000        
Conversion of OP Units into common stock
    403,000       131,000       68,000  
Issuance of warrants
          1,643,000        
Issuance of non-interest bearing purchase money mortgage (b)
                (13,851,000 )
Assumption of interest rate swap liabilities
                (2,288,000 )
Purchase accounting allocations:
                       
Intangible lease liabilities
    (2,600,000 )     (3,215,000 )     (4,636,000 )
Intangible lease assets
          7,057,000       10,301,000  
Net valuation decrease in assumed mortgage loan payable (a)
          1,649,000       143,000  
Other non-cash investing and financing activities:
                       
Accrued interest rate swap liabilities
    (1,166,000 )     4,638,000       (8,206,000 )
Accrued real estate improvement costs
    (2,849,000 )     (7,868,000 )     8,407,000  
Accrued construction escrows
    (373,000 )     (1,006,000 )     (479,000 )
Accrued financing costs and other
    (763,000 )     (22,000 )     (26,000 )
Capitalization of deferred financing costs
    652,000       1,486,000       988,000  
 
                       
Deconsolidation of properties transferred to joint venture:
                       
Real estate, net
    139,743,000       42,829,000        
Mortgage loans payable
    (94,018,000 )            
Other assets/liabilties, net
    (3,574,000 )     1,277,000        
Investment in and advances to unconsolidated joint venture
    9,423,000       8,610,000        
     
(a)  
The net valuation decrease in an assumed mortgage loan payable resulted from adjusting the contract rate of interest (4.9% per annum) to a market rate of interest (6.1% per annum).
 
(b)  
A $14,575,000 non-interest bearing mortgage was issued in connection with a purchase of land, and was valued at a net amount of $13,851,000. This reflected a valuation decrease of $724,000 to a market rate of 9.25% per annum.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Recently-Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In January 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued updated guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures, which requires disclosure of details of significant asset or liability transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 measurements within the fair value hierarchy and inclusion of gross purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements in the rollforward of assets and liabilities valued using Level 3 inputs within the fair value hierarchy. The guidance also clarifies and expands existing disclosure requirements related to the disaggregation of fair value disclosures and inputs used in arriving at fair values for assets and liabilities using Level 2 and Level 3 inputs within the fair value hierarchy. This guidance was effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2009, except for the gross presentation of the Level 3 rollforward, which is required for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2010, and for the respective interim periods within those years. The adoption of that portion of the guidance that became effective on January 1, 2010 did not have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements; the Company does not expect the adoption of that portion of the guidance which becomes effective on January 1, 2011 to have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
Note 3. Real Estate/Discontinued Operations/Investment in Cedar/RioCan Joint Venture
Real estate at December 31, 2010 and 2009 is comprised of the following:
                 
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009  
Cost
               
Balance, beginning of year (a)
  $ 1,555,638,000     $ 1,422,563,000  
Properties acquired
    13,375,000       73,152,000  
Improvements and betterments
    23,207,000       66,070,000  
Write-off of fully-depreciated assets
    (910,000 )     (6,147,000 )
 
           
Balance, end of the year
  $ 1,591,310,000     $ 1,555,638,000  
 
           
 
               
Accumulated depreciation
               
Balance, beginning of the year (a)
  $ (151,144,000 )   $ (114,516,000 )
Depreciation expense
    (39,227,000 )     (42,775,000 )
Write-off of fully-depreciated assets
    910,000       6,147,000  
 
           
Balance, end of the year
  $ (189,461,000 )   $ (151,144,000 )
 
           
 
               
Net book value
  $ 1,401,849,000     $ 1,404,494,000  
 
           
     
(a)  
Restated to reflect the reclassifications of properties treated as discontinued operations
Real estate net book value at December 31, 2010 and 2009 included projects under development and land held for expansion and/or future development of $73.9 million and $128.7 million, respectively.
Wholly-owned properties
On October 19, 2010, the Company acquired a single-tenant office property adjacent to the Company’s 76.3%-owned joint venture property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (with the same tenant). The closing required cash of approximately $2.5 million (principally the funding of lender escrows) and the assumption of a $13.0 million first mortgage loan, bearing interest at 6.5% per annum and maturing in 2012.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
At December 31, 2010, a substantial portion of the Company’s real estate was pledged as collateral for mortgage loans payable and the secured revolving credit facilities, as follows:
         
    Net book  
Description   value  
 
       
Collateral for mortgage loans payable
  $ 935,795,000  
Collateral for revolving credit facilities
    453,252,000  
Unencumbered properties
    12,802,000  
 
     
Total
  $ 1,401,849,000  
 
     
Discontinued operations
During 2010 and 2009, the Company sold, or has treated as “held for sale”, 28 of its properties (including a number of drug store/convenience centers). The carrying values of the assets and liabilities of these properties, principally the net book values of the real estate and the related mortgage loans payable, have been reclassified as “held for sale” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2010 and 2009. In addition, the properties’ results of operations have been classified as “discontinued operations” for all periods presented.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The following table summarizes information relating to the Company’s properties which were sold, or treated as “held for sale”, during 2010 and 2009:
                                                 
                        Mortgage loans payable  
        Property carrying value     Maturity   Int.     Financial statement carrying value  
Property Description   State   Dec. 31, 2010     Dec. 31, 2009     date   rate     Dec. 31, 2010     Dec. 31, 2009  
 
                                               
Centerville Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH   $ 2,481,000     $ 5,955,000     May 2015     5.2 %   $ 2,743,000     $ 2,794,000  
Clyde Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     2,287,000       3,533,000     May 2015     5.2 %     1,903,000       1,939,000  
Columbia Mall
  PA     10,774,000       19,437,000                      
Enon Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     4,598,000       5,224,000                      
Fairfield Plaza
  CT     10,150,000       10,463,000     July 2015     5.0 %     5,009,000       5,106,000  
FirstMerit Bank at Cuyahoga Falls
  OH     569,000       1,415,000                      
Gahanna Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     7,103,000       7,879,000     Nov 2016     5.8 %     4,924,000       4,998,000  
Grove City Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     2,911,000       5,897,000                      
Hilliard Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     2,627,000       5,968,000                      
Hills & Dales Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     3,263,000       3,640,000                      
Lodi Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     2,550,000       3,668,000     May 2015     5.2 %     2,319,000       2,363,000  
Mason Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     4,499,000       8,832,000                      
Ontario Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     2,534,000       3,962,000     May 2015     5.2 %     2,141,000       2,181,000  
Pickerington Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     3,532,000       6,379,000     Jul 2015     5.0 %     4,072,000       4,150,000  
Polaris Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     4,640,000       6,041,000     May 2015     5.2 %     4,369,000       4,451,000  
Shelby Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     1,925,000       3,469,000     May 2015     5.2 %     2,141,000       2,181,000  
Westlake Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH     1,667,000       4,707,000     Dec 2016     5.6 %     3,165,000       3,215,000  
Carrolton Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH           3,254,000     Dec 2016     5.6 %           2,343,000  
CVS Westfield (a)
  NY                                
Dover Discount Drug Mart Plaza (a)
  OH                                
Family Dollar at Zanesville
  OH           368,000                      
Gabriel Brothers Plaza (a)
  OH                                
Hudson Discount Drug Mart Plaza (a)
  OH                                
Long Reach Village
  MD           9,414,000     Mar 2014     5.7 %           4,690,000  
McDonalds/Waffle House at Medina (a)
  OH                                
Pondside Plaza
  NY           1,471,000     May 2015     5.6 %           1,157,000  
Powell Discount Drug Mart Plaza
  OH           5,024,000     May 2015     5.2 %           4,265,000  
Staples at Oswego (a)
  NY                                
 
                                       
 
        68,110,000       126,000,000                   32,786,000       45,833,000  
Development Land Parcel
  PA     1,849,000       1,849,000                      
 
                                       
 
      $ 69,959,000     $ 127,849,000                 $ 32,786,000     $ 45,833,000  
 
                                       
     
(a)  
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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
During the recent volatile economic environment, which commenced in 2008, the Company’s properties in Ohio, principally drugstore-anchored centers, were disproportionately impacted, relative to the Company’s other properties, by continuing unemployment and adverse economic conditions attributable in large part to the decline in automobile production and sales which, in turn, resulted in factory closings and/or downsizing. This has resulted in disproportionately larger vacancies at those properties. As a result of unemployment and reduction in spending at these properties, as well as the challenges in maintaining viable tenancies in those areas, the Company has developed a strategy to dispose of these and several other properties. Accordingly, in connection with the properties which were reclassified to “held for sale”, the Company recorded impairment charges of $39.5 million and $3.6 million in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Such charges were based on a comparison of the carrying values of the properties with either (1) the actual sales price less costs to sell for the properties sold or contract amounts for properties in the process of being sold (all based on arms-length negotiations), or (2) estimated sales prices based on discounted cash flow analyses and/or appraisals if no contract amounts were as yet being negotiated, as discussed in more detail in Note 2.
Prior to the Company’s plan to dispose of the assets that were reclassified to “held for sale” in 2010, the Company performed recoverability analyses based on the estimated cash flows that were expected to result from the real estate investments’ use and eventual disposal. The projected undiscounted cash flows of each asset reflected that the carrying value of each real estate investment would be recovered. However, as a result of the assets’ meeting the “held for sale” criteria in 2010, such assets were written down to their estimated fair value as described above. It is the Company’s current plan to dispose of these assets during 2011.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The following is a summary of the results of operations from discontinued operations for 2010, 2009 and 2008:
                         
    Year ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2008  
Revenues:
                       
Rents
  $ 9,152,000     $ 12,881,000     $ 14,192,000  
Expense recoveries
    2,717,000       3,814,000       4,015,000  
Other
          56,000       59,000  
 
                 
Total revenues
    11,869,000       16,751,000       18,266,000  
 
                 
Expenses:
                       
Operating, maintenance and management
    3,929,000       4,774,000       4,382,000  
Real estate and other property-related taxes
    2,083,000       2,795,000       2,250,000  
Depreciation and amortization
    4,165,000       5,264,000       5,151,000  
Interest expense
    2,083,000       3,020,000       2,936,000  
 
                 
 
    12,260,000       15,853,000       14,719,000  
 
                 
(Loss) income from discontinued operations before impairment charges
    (391,000 )     898,000       3,547,000  
Impairment charges
    39,527,000       3,559,000        
 
                 
(Loss) income from discontinued operations
  $ (39,918,000 )   $ (2,661,000 )   $ 3,547,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Gains on sale of discontinued operations
  $ 170,000     $ 557,000     $  
 
                 
Joint Venture Activities
RioCan. The Company and RioCan have entered into an 80% (RioCan) and 20% (Cedar) joint venture (i) initially for the purchase of seven supermarket-anchored properties previously owned by the Company, and (ii) then to acquire additional primarily supermarket-anchored properties in the Company’s primary market areas, in the same joint venture format. The transfers of the initial seven properties, which commenced in December 2009, were completed in May 2010. The 2010 property transfers resulted in net proceeds to the Company of approximately $31.0 million, all of which were used to repay/reduce the outstanding balances under the Company’s secured revolving credit facilities. The 2009 property transfers resulted in net proceeds to the Company of approximately $32.1 million, of which a repayment of $25.9 million was required under the Company’s secured revolving development property credit facility. Five of the initial seven properties were subject to mortgage loans payable aggregating approximately $94.0 million. In connection with the transfers of the seven properties to the joint venture and the RioCan private placement transactions, the Company

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
has received aggregate net proceeds of approximately $102 million, after closing and transaction costs, which have been used to repay/reduce the outstanding balances under the Company’s secured revolving credit facilities. In connection with these transactions, the Company incurred costs and fees of approximately $6.0 million, including fees to the Company’s investment advisor ($3.5 million), the value assigned to the warrants issued to RioCan (approximately $1.6 million), and other costs and expenses aggregating $0.9 million. At December 31, 2010, the Company was owed approximately $6.0 million ($3.5 million related to contingent consideration) relating to post-closing adjustments applicable to properties transferred to or acquired by the joint venture. In connection with the formation of the joint venture and the agreement to transfer the seven properties which were reclassified to “held for sale”, the Company recorded impairment charges of $2.5 million and $23.6 million in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Such charges were based on a comparison of the arms-length negotiated transfer amounts set forth in the contract with the carrying values of the properties transferred.
During 2010 and 2009, respectively, the Company earned approximately $3.6 million and $8,000 in fees from the joint venture, comprised of accounting fees, property management fees, acquisition fees and financing fees. Such fees are included in other revenues in the accompanying statements of operations. In addition, the Company paid fees to its investment advisor of approximately $2.7 million representing 1% of the gross cost of certain acquisitions made by the joint venture, which are included in transaction costs in the accompanying statements of operations.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The following table summarizes information relating to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture properties as of December 31, 2010:
                                         
            Date of     Transfer              
            transfer     or     Mortgage        
            or     purchase     Loans     Int.  
Property Description   State     acquisition     price     Payable (b)     rate  
 
                                       
Blue Mountain Commons
  PA     12/10/2009 (a)   $ 32,150,000     $ 17,500,000       5.0 %
Columbus Crossing
  PA     2/23/2010 (a)     24,538,000       16,880,000       6.8 %
Creekview Plaza
  PA     9/29/2010       26,240,000       14,432,000       4.8 %
Cross Keys Place
  NJ     10/13/2010       26,336,000       14,600,000       5.1 %
Exeter Commons
  PA     8/3/2010       53,000,000       30,000,000       5.3 %
Franklin Village Plaza
  MA     2/4/2010 (a)     54,656,000       43,500,000       4.8 %
Gettysburg Marketplace
  PA     10/21/2010       19,850,000       10,918,000       5.0 %
Loyal Plaza
  PA     5/26/2010 (a)     26,950,000       12,615,000       7.2 %
Marlboro Crossroads
  MD     10/21/2010       12,500,000       6,875,000       5.1 %
Monroe Marketplace
  PA     9/29/2010       41,990,000       23,095,000       4.8 %
Montville Commons
  CT     9/29/2010 (c)     18,900,000              
New River Valley
  VA     9/29/2010       27,970,000       15,163,000       4.8 %
Northland Center
  PA     10/21/2010       10,248,000       6,298,000       5.0 %
Pitney Road Plaza
  PA     9/29/2010       11,060,000       6,083,000       4.8 %
Shaw’s Plaza
  MA     4/27/2010 (a)     20,363,000       14,200,000       6.0 %
Stop & Shop Plaza
  CT     4/27/2010 (a)     8,974,000       7,000,000       6.2 %
Sunset Crossing
  PA     12/10/2009 (a)     9,850,000       4,500,000       5.0 %
Sunrise Plaza
  NJ     9/29/2010       26,460,000       13,728,000       4.8 %
Town Square Plaza
  PA     1/26/2010       18,854,000       11,000,000       5.0 %
Towne Crossings
  VA     10/21/2010       19,000,000       10,450,000       5.0 %
York Marketplace
  PA     10/21/2010       29,200,000       16,060,000       5.0 %
 
                                   
 
                                       
 
                  $ 519,089,000     $ 294,897,000          
 
                                   
     
(a)  
Initial seven properties previously owned by the Company that were transferred to the Cedar/RioCan joint venture.
 
(b)  
Mortgage loans payable represent either (i) the outstanding balance at the date of transfer or (ii) the loan amount on the date of borrowing, excluding any mortgage discount.
 
(c)  
Subsequent to year end the Company obtained a $10.5 million mortgage loan payable

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The following summarizes certain financial information related to the Company’s investment in the Cedar/RioCan unconsolidated joint venture at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009:
                 
    Cedar/RioCan Joint Venture  
    December 31,  
    2010     2009  
 
               
Assets:
               
Real estate, net
  $ 524,447,000     $ 41,158,000  
Cash and cash equivalents
    5,934,000       404,000  
Restricted cash
    4,464,000       812,000  
Rent and other receivables
    2,074,000       274,000  
Straight-line rent
    1,000,000       17,000  
Deferred charges, net
    13,269,000       800,000  
Other assets
    8,514,000       70,000  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 559,702,000     $ 43,535,000  
 
           
 
               
Liabilities and partners’ capital:
               
Mortgage loans payable
  $ 293,400,000     $  
Due to the Company
    6,036,000       2,322,000  
Unamortized lease liability
    24,573,000       1,000  
Other liabilities
    7,738,000       344,000  
 
               
Preferred stock
    97,000        
 
               
Partners’ capital:
               
RioCan
    181,239,000       32,230,000  
The Company
    46,619,000       8,638,000  
 
           
Total partners’ capital
    227,858,000       40,868,000  
 
           
Total liabilties and partners’ capital
  $ 559,702,000     $ 43,535,000  
 
           

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
                 
    Year ended December 31,  
    2010     2009  
   
Statements of operations:
               
Revenues
  $ 30,194,000     $ 282,000  
Property operating and other expenses
    2,636,000       57,000  
Management fees to the Company
    973,000       8,000  
Real estate taxes
    3,286,000       10,000  
Acquisition transaction costs (a)
    7,119,000        
General and administrative
    622,000        
Depreciation and amortization
    9,523,000       71,000  
Interest and other non-operating expenses, net
    7,903,000        
 
           
Net (loss) income
  $ (1,868,000 )   $ 136,000  
 
           
RioCan
    (1,493,000 )     109,000  
The Company
    (375,000 )     27,000  
 
           
 
  $ (1,868,000 )   $ 136,000  
 
           
     
(a)  
Includes $2.8 million paid to former owners of certain acquired properties representing the values assigned for the post-closing leasing of vacant spaces in excess of the fair value amounts estimated at closing.
Cedar/RioCan Joint Venture Mortgage loans payable
The joint venture’s property-specific mortgage loans payable aggregated $293.4 million at December 31, 2010, are collateralized by substantially all of the joint venture’s real estate, and bear interest at rates ranging from 4.8% to 7.2% per annum.
Scheduled principal payments on mortgage loans payable at December 31, 2010, due on various dates ranging from June 2011 to August 2020, are as follows:
         
2011
  $ 58,746,000  
2012
    3,442,000  
2013
    3,648,000  
2014
    33,351,000  
2015
    100,095,000  
Thereafter
    94,118,000  
 
     
 
  $ 293,400,000  
 
     

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Cedar/RioCan Joint Venture Secured Revolving Credit Facility
On November 15, 2010, the joint venture closed a secured revolving credit facility with TD Bank, National Association as administrative agent and Royal Bank of Canada as syndication agent, with total commitments aggregating $50.0 million. The principal terms of the facility include (i) an availability based primarily on appraisals with a 50% advance rate, (ii) an interest rate based on (a) LIBOR plus 300 basis points (“bps”) with a 100 bps floor, or (b) the prime rate, as defined, plus 200 bps, (iii) an unused portion fee of 50 bps, and (iv) a leverage ratio limited to 65%. The facility will expire on November 15, 2012, subject to a one-year extension option. In connection with the closing of the facility, the joint venture paid participating lender fees of approximately $0.6 million.
As the joint venture has not pledged any properties as collateral under the facility, there were no amounts outstanding and no amounts available for borrowing at December 31, 2010. The facility may be used to fund acquisitions, capital expenditures, mortgage repayments, partnership distributions, working capital and other general partnership purposes. The facility is subject to customary financial covenants, including limits on leverage, and other financial statement ratios. As of December 31, 2010, the joint venture was in compliance with the financial covenants and financial statement ratios required by the terms of the facility.
Other 2009 Transactions
PCP. On January 30, 2009, a newly-formed 40% Company-owned joint venture acquired the New London Mall in New London, Connecticut, a supermarket-anchored shopping center, for a purchase price of approximately $40.7 million. The purchase price included the assumption of an existing $27.4 million first mortgage bearing interest at 4.9% per annum and maturing in 2015. The total joint venture partnership contribution was approximately $14.0 million, of which the Company’s 40% share ($5.6 million) was funded from its secured revolving stabilized property credit facility. The Company is the managing partner of the venture and receives certain acquisition, property management, construction management and leasing fees. In addition, the Company will be entitled to a “promote” fee structure, pursuant to which its profits participation would be increased to 44% if the venture reaches certain income targets. The Company’s joint venture partners are affiliates of Prime Commercial Properties PLC (“PCP”), a London-based real estate/development company.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
On February 10, 2009, a second newly-formed (also with affiliates of PCP) 40% Company-owned joint venture acquired San Souci Plaza in California, Maryland, a supermarket-anchored shopping center, for a purchase price of approximately $31.8 million. The purchase price included the assumption of an existing $27.2 million first mortgage bearing interest at 6.2% per annum and maturing in 2016. The total joint venture partnership contribution was approximately $5.8 million, of which the Company’s 40% share ($2.3 million) was funded from its secured revolving stabilized property credit facility. The Company is the managing partner of the venture and receives certain acquisition, property management, construction management and leasing fees. In addition, the Company will be entitled to a “promote” fee structure, pursuant to which its profits participation would be increased to 44% if the venture reaches certain income targets.
Pro Forma Financial Information (unaudited)
During the period January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010, the Company acquired two shopping centers aggregating approximately 522,000 square foot of GLA, and acquired a single-tenant office property aggregating approximately 206,000 square foot of GLA. In addition, the Company placed into service four ground-up developments having an aggregate cost of approximately $152.8 million. The Company sold or held for sale 28 properties (including a number of drug store/convenience centers) aggregating approximately 1.5 million square foot of GLA for aggregate sales prices of approximately $99.6 million. The following table summarizes, on an unaudited pro forma basis, the combined results of operations of the Company for 2010 and 2009, respectively, as if all of these property acquisitions and sales were completed as of January 1, 2009. This unaudited pro forma information does not purport to represent what the actual results of operations of the Company would have been had all the above occurred as of January 1, 2009, nor does it purport to predict the results of operations for future periods.
                 
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009  
 
               
Revenues
  $ 158,692,000     $ 171,632,000  
Net loss attributable to common shareholders
  $ (12,918,000 )   $ (20,538,000 )
 
               
Per common share
  $ (0.20 )   $ (0.44 )
 
               
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding
    63,843,000       46,234,000  

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Note 4. Rentals Under Operating Leases
Annual future base rents due to be received under non-cancelable operating leases in effect at December 31, 2010 are approximately as follows (excluding those base rents applicable to properties treated as discontinued operations):
         
2011
  $ 129,596,000  
2012
    121,371,000  
2013
    113,294,000  
2014
    101,064,000  
2015
    87,977,000  
Thereafter
    490,204,000  
 
     
 
  $ 1,043,506,000  
 
     
Total future minimum rents do not include expense recoveries for real estate taxes and operating costs, or percentage rents based upon tenants’ sales volume. Such additional revenue amounts aggregated approximately $31.3 million, $33.2 million and $30.0 million for 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively. In addition, such amounts do not include amortization of intangible lease liabilities.
Note 5. Mortgage Loans Payable and Secured Revolving Credit Facilities
Secured debt is comprised of the following at December 31, 2010 and 2009:
                                         
    December 31, 2010   December 31, 2009
            Interest rates           Interest rates
    Balance     Weighted         Balance     Weighted      
Description   outstanding     average     Range   outstanding     average     Range
Fixed-rate mortgages (a)
  $ 591,162,000       5.8 %   5.0% - 7.6%   $ 572,730,000       5.8 %   5.0% - 8.5%
Variable-rate mortgages
    83,568,000       4.1 %   2.5% and 5.9%     82,181,000       3.4 %   2.5% and 5.9%
 
                               
Total property-specific mortgages
    674,730,000       5.6 %         654,911,000       5.6 %    
Stabilized property credit facility
    29,535,000       5.5 %         187,985,000       5.5 %    
Development property credit facility
    103,062,000       2.5 %         69,700,000       2.5 %    
 
                               
 
  $ 807,327,000       5.2 %       $ 912,596,000       5.3 %    
 
                               
 
                                       
Fixed-rate mortgages related to:
                                       
Real estate transferred or to be transferred to a joint venture
  $           n/a   $ 94,018,000       5.8 %   4.8% - 7.2%
 
                               
Real estate held for sale — discontinued operations
  $ 32,786,000       5.3 %   5.0% - 5.8%   $ 45,833,000       5.3 %   5.0% - 5.8%
 
                               
     
(a)  
Restated to reflect the reclassifications of properties treated as discontinued operations.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Mortgage loans payable
Mortgage loan activity for 2010 and 2009 is summarized as follows:
                 
    Years ended December 31,  
    2010     2009  
Balance, beginning of year (a)
  $ 654,911,000     $ 575,002,000  
New mortgage borrowings
    26,984,000       43,950,000  
Acquisition debt assumed (b)
    12,967,000       52,963,000  
Repayments
    (20,132,000 )     (17,004,000 )
 
           
Balance, end of the year
  $ 674,730,000     $ 654,911,000  
 
           
     
(a)  
Restated to reflect the reclassifications of properties treated as discontinued operations
 
(b)  
Includes net reductions of $0.0 million and $1.6 million, respectively, relating to purchase accounting allocations.
During October 2010, the Company assumed a $13.0 million fixed-rate mortgage loan payable in connection with an acquisition, with an interest rate of 6.5% per annum. The principal amount and rate of interest represent the fair value at the date of acquisition. The Company also completed a $10.6 million fixed-rate mortgage loan payable on a previously unencumbered property, with an interest rate of 5.5% per annum. The property was previously included in the collateral pool for the Company’s secured revolving stabilized property credit facility. In addition, the Company refinanced three properties in 2010. The new fixed-rate mortgage loans payable, aggregated $15.0 million, and bear interest at a weighted average of 6.2% per annum.
During 2009, the Company assumed $53.0 million of fixed-rate mortgage loans payable in connection with acquisitions, with interest rates of 6.1% and 6.2% per annum, with an average of 6.2% per annum. These principal amounts and rates of interest represent the fair values at the respective dates of acquisition. The stated contract amounts were $27.4 million and $27.2 million at the respective dates of acquisition, bearing interest at rates of 4.9% and 6.2% per annum, with an average of 5.5% per annum. In addition, the Company refinanced one property that had collateralized the secured revolving stabilized property credit facility. The new fixed-rate mortgage, aggregating $17.0 million, bears interest at 6.8% per annum. The Company used the mortgage proceeds to reduce the balance outstanding under the secured revolving stabilized property credit facility.
Included in variable-rate mortgages is the Company’s $70.7 million construction facility (as amended on November 3, 2010) with Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (as agent) and several other banks, pursuant to which the Company has pledged its joint venture development property in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania as collateral for borrowings thereunder. The facility is guaranteed by the Company and will expire in September 2011, subject to a one-year extension option. Borrowings under the facility bear interest at the Company’s option at either LIBOR plus a spread of 325 bps, or the agent bank’s prime rate. Borrowings outstanding under the facility aggregated $62.6 million at December 31, 2010, and such borrowings bore interest at an average rate of 3.5% per annum. As of December 31, 2010, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants and financial statement ratios required by the terms of the construction facility.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Secured Revolving Stabilized Property Credit Facility
In November 2009, the Company closed an amended and restated secured revolving stabilized property credit facility with Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, together with three other lead lenders and other participating banks. On September 13, 2010, the Company elected to reduce the total commitments under the facility from $285.0 million to $185.0 million. In connection with the reduction of the total commitments under the facility, the Company accelerated the write-off of deferred financing costs of approximately $2.6 million. The facility is expandable to $400 million, subject principally to acceptable collateral and the availability of additional lender commitments, and will expire on January 31, 2012, subject to a one-year extension option. The principal terms of the facility include (i) an availability based primarily on appraisals, with a 67.5% advance rate, (ii) an interest rate based on LIBOR plus 350 bps, with a 200 bps LIBOR floor, (iii) a leverage ratio limited to 67.5%, and (iv) an unused portion fee of 50 bps.
Borrowings outstanding under the facility aggregated $29.5 million at December 31, 2010. Such borrowings bore interest at 5.5% per annum, and the Company had pledged 31 of its shopping center properties as collateral for such borrowings, including six properties which are being treated as “real estate held for sale” during 2010.
The secured revolving stabilized property credit facility has been, and will be, used to fund acquisitions, certain development and redevelopment activities, capital expenditures, mortgage repayments, dividend distributions, working capital and other general corporate purposes. The facility is subject to customary financial covenants, including limits on leverage and distributions (limited to 95% of funds from operations, as defined), and other financial statement ratios. Based on covenant measurements and collateral in place as of December 31, 2010, the Company was permitted to draw up to approximately $140.2 million, of which approximately $110.7 million remained available as of that date. As of December 31, 2010, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants and financial statement ratios required by the terms of the secured revolving stabilized property credit facility.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Secured Revolving Development Property Credit Facility
The Company has a $150 million secured revolving development property credit facility with KeyBank, National Association (as agent) and several other banks, pursuant to which the Company has pledged certain of its development projects and redevelopment properties as collateral for borrowings thereunder. The facility, as amended, is expandable to $250 million, subject principally to acceptable collateral and the availability of additional lender commitments, and will expire in June 2011, subject to a one-year extension option. Borrowings under the facility bear interest at the Company’s option at either LIBOR or the agent bank’s prime rate, plus a spread of 225 bps or 75 bps, respectively. Advances under the facility are calculated at the least of 70% of aggregate project costs, 70% of “as stabilized” appraised values, or costs incurred in excess of a 30% equity requirement on the part of the Company. The facility also requires an unused portion fee of 15 bps. This facility has been, and will be, used to fund in part the Company’s and certain consolidated joint ventures’ development activities. In order to draw funds under this construction facility, the Company must meet certain pre-leasing and other conditions. Borrowings outstanding under the facility aggregated $103.1 million at December 31, 2010; such borrowings bore interest at an average rate of 2.5% per annum. As of December 31, 2010, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants and financial statement ratios required by the terms of the secured revolving development property credit facility.
Scheduled Principal Payments
Scheduled principal payments on mortgage loans payable and secured revolving credit facilities at December 31, 2010, due on various dates from 2011 to 2029, are as follows:
         
2011
    195,352,000 (a)
2012
    81,581,000 (b)
2013
    63,830,000  
2014
    119,189,000  
2015
    103,786,000  
Thereafter
    243,589,000  
 
     
 
  $ 807,327,000  
 
     
     
(a)  
Include $103.1 million and $62.6 million subject to one-year extension options.
 
(b)  
Includes $29.5 million subject to a one-year extension option.
Note 6. Preferred and Common Stock
The Company in October 2009 (1) sold to RioCan 6,666,666 shares of the Company’s common stock at $6.00 per share in a private placement for an aggregate of $40 million (RioCan agreeing that it would not sell any of such shares for a period of one year), (2) issued to RioCan warrants to purchase 1,428,570 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $7.00 per share (RioCan exercised its warrant on April 27, 2010 and the Company realized net proceeds of $10.0 million), and (3) entered into a “standstill” agreement with respect to increases in RioCan’s ownership of the Company’s common stock for a three-year period. In addition, subject to certain exceptions, the Company agreed that it would not issue any new shares of common stock unless RioCan is offered the right to purchase that additional number of shares that would maintain its pro rata percentage ownership, on a fully diluted basis.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
The Company has a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA Agreement”) with an investment company for sales of its shares of common stock aggregating up to $45 million over a commitment period ending in September 2011. Under the terms of the SEPA Agreement, the Company may sell, from time to time, shares of its common stock at a discount to market of 1.75%. The amount of these daily sales is generally limited to the lesser of 20% of the average daily trading volume or $1.0 million. In connection with these sales transactions, the Company agreed to pay an investment advisor a 0.75% placement agent fee. In addition, the Company may require the investment company to advance from time to time up to $5.0 million; provided, however, that the Company may only request these larger advances approximately once a month. With respect to such advances, the common stock sales are at a discount to market of 2.75% and the placement agent fee is 1.25%. As the Company has a conditional obligation to issue a variable number of shares of its common stock, advances are initially recorded as a liability, and as shares are sold on a daily basis and the advance is settled, such liability is reflected in equity. At December 31, 2009, there was an unsettled advance liability of $5.0 million, which was included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet. Such advance was settled in January and February 2010 by the sale of 718,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an average selling price of $6.97 per share. Through December 31, 2010, an additional 667,000 shares had been sold pursuant to the SEPA Agreement, at an average price of $7.52 per share, and the Company realized net proceeds, after allocation of issuance expenses, of approximately $4.9 million.
On February 5, 2010, the Company concluded a public offering of 7,500,000 shares of its common stock at $6.60 per share, and realized net proceeds, after offering expenses, of approximately $47.0 million. On March 3, 2010, the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option to the extent of 698,000 shares, and the Company realized additional net proceeds of $4.4 million. In connection with the offering, RioCan purchased 1,350,000 shares of the Company’s common stock and the Company realized additional net proceeds of $8.9 million.
On February 5, 2010, the Company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for up to 5,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock under the Company’s Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan (“DRIP”). The DRIP offers a convenient method for shareholders to invest cash dividends and/or make optional cash payments to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at 98% of their market value. The Board of Directors of the Company has approved an amendment to the DRIP to have all stock purchased at 100% of their market value. This amendment is expected to become effective promptly after the filing of this Form 10-K. Through December 31, 2010, the Company issued approximately 1,451,000 shares of its common stock at an average price of $5.79 per share and realized proceeds after expenses of approximately $8.2 million. During January, February and March 2011, the Company issued an additional approximate 471,000 shares of its common stock at an average of $6.02 per share and realized net proceeds of approximately $2.8 million.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
In connection with a litigation settlement in April 2010 in the Company’s favor, the Company received a cash payment of $750,000. In addition, the defendants acquired 94,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an average price of $8.01 per share from which the Company realized net proceeds of an additional $750,000.
On August 25, 2010, the Company concluded a public offering of 2,850,000 shares of its 8-7/8% Series A Cumulative Redeemable preferred stock at $24.50 per share, and realized net proceeds, after offering expenses, of approximately $67.4 million. In connection with the sale, the Company’s investment advisor received an underwriter’s discount of approximately $2.4 million. The Company’s 8-7/8% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock has no stated maturity, is not convertible into any other security of the Company, and is redeemable at the Company’s option at a price of $25.00 per share, plus accrued and unpaid distributions.
During 2010, the Company, at its option, elected to redeem approximately 552,000 OP Units that had been offered for conversion by the holders thereof, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $3.4 million. Such OP Units had been issued to certain members of the group from which the Company had acquired the major portion of its Ohio drug store/convenience center properties.
During 2001, pursuant to the 1998 Stock Option Plan (the “Option Plan”), the Company granted to the then directors options to purchase an aggregate of approximately 13,000 shares of common stock at $10.50 per share, the market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of the grant. The options are fully exercisable and will expire on July 11, 2011. In connection with the adoption of the Incentive Plan, the Company agreed that it would not grant any more options under the Option Plan.
In connection with an acquisition of a shopping center in 2002, the Operating Partnership issued warrants to purchase approximately 83,000 OP Units to a then minority interest partner in the property. Such warrants have an exercise price of $13.50 per unit, subject to certain anti-dilution adjustments, are fully vested, and will expire on May 31, 2012.
Note 7. Commitments and Contingencies
With respect to the Company’s 20% joint-venture interest in nine properties in partnership with affiliates of Homburg Invest Inc. (“HII”), the terms of the partnership agreements include buy/sell provisions with respect to equity ownership interests which can be exercised by either party. The buy/sell provisions allow either party to provide notice that it intends to purchase the non-initiating party’s interest at a specific price premised on a value for the entire venture. The non-initiating party may either accept that offer or instead may reject that offer and become the purchaser of the initiating party’s interest at the initially offered price. On February 15, 2011, HII exercised its buy/sell option (see “Subsequent Events” below).

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
With respect to the Company’s 20% joint-venture interest in the properties transferred to the RioCan joint venture, the terms of the partnership agreements include buy/sell provisions with respect to equity ownership interests which can be exercised by either party during the period ending in December 2012 or upon certain change-of-control circumstances. The buy/sell provisions allow either party to provide notice that it intends to purchase the non-initiating party’s interest at a specific price premised on a value for the entire venture. The non-initiating party may either accept that offer or instead may reject that offer and become the purchaser of the initiating party’s interest at the initially offered price.
The Company is a party to certain legal actions arising in the normal course of business. Management does not expect there to be adverse consequences from these actions that would be material to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Under various federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and regulations, an owner or operator of real estate may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous or toxic substances, or petroleum product releases, at its properties. The owner may be liable to governmental entities or to third parties for property damage, and for investigation and cleanup costs incurred by such parties in connection with any contamination. Management is unaware of any environmental matters that would have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
The Company’s executive offices are located at 44 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York, which it leased from a partnership owned 43.6% by the Company’s Chairman. The terms of the lease, as amended, will expire in February 2020. Future minimum rents payable under the terms of the lease, as amended, amount to $545,000, $560,000, $575,000, $591,000, $608,000 and $2.7 million during the years 2011 through 2015, and thereafter, respectively. In addition, several of the Company’s properties and portions of several others are owned subject to ground leases which provide for annual payments subject, in certain cases, to cost-of-living or fair market value adjustments, through 2015, as follows: 2011 - $668,000, 2012 — $659,000, 2013 — $659,000, 2014 — $659,000, 2015 — $661,000 and thereafter — $17.6 million.
Rent expense was $1.0 million, $0.8 million and $0.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
Note 8. Selected Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)
                                 
    Quarter ended  
Year   March 31     June 30     September 30     December 31  
2010
                               
Revenues as previously reported
  $ 44,930,000     $ 40,703,000     $ 40,378,000     $ 39,230,000  
Revenues from discontinued operations (a)
    (2,968,000 )     (2,546,000 )     (2,563,000 )      
 
                       
Revenues
  $ 41,962,000     $ 38,157,000     $ 37,815,000     $ 39,230,000  
 
                               
Net loss
  $ (1,160,000 )   $ (2,547,000 )   $ (4,491,000 )   $ (35,986,000 )
 
                               
Net loss attributable to common shareholders
  $ (3,490,000 )   $ (4,251,000 )   $ (6,780,000 )   $ (36,964,000 )
 
                               
Per common share (basic and diluted) (b)
  $ (0.06 )   $ (0.07 )     (0.10 )   $ (0.56 )
 
                               
2009
                               
Revenues as previously reported
  $ 45,461,000     $ 43,551,000     $ 44,712,000     $ 46,391,000  
Revenues from discontinued operations (a)
    (3,138,000 )     (3,001,000 )     (2,841,000 )     (2,794,000 )
 
                       
Revenues
  $ 42,323,000     $ 40,550,000     $ 41,871,000     $ 43,597,000  
 
                               
Net income (loss)
  $ 5,726,000     $ 1,911,000     $ 3,761,000     $ (28,409,000 )
 
                               
Net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders
  $ 3,948,000     $ (367,000 )   $ 1,396,000     $ (29,724,000 )
 
                               
Per common share (basic and diluted) (b)
  $ 0.09     $ (0.01 )   $ 0.03     $ (0.60 )
     
(a)  
Represents revenues from discontinued operations which were previously included in revenues as previously reported.
 
(b)  
Differences between the sum of the four quarterly per share amounts and the annual per share amount are attributable to the effect of the weighted average outstanding share calculations for the respective periods.
Note 9. Subsequent Events
In determining subsequent events, management reviewed all activity from January 1, 2011 through the date of filing this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
On January 14, 2011, the Company acquired Colonial Commons, a shopping center located in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania. The purchase price for the property was approximately $49.1 million. At closing, the Company entered into a first mortgage in the amount of $28.1 million, which bears interest at 5.55% per annum.
On January 18, 2011, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.09 per share with respect to its common stock as well as an equal distribution per unit on its outstanding OP Units. At the same time, the Board declared a dividend of $0.5546875 per share with respect to the Company’s 8-7/8% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock. The distributions are payable on February 22, 2011 to shareholders of record on February 12, 2011.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2010
On February 8, 2011 the Cedar/RioCan joint venture entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Northwoods Crossings, a shopping center located in Taunton, Massachusetts.
On February 15, 2011, HII, one of the Company’s joint venture partners, exercised its buy/sell option pursuant to the terms of the nine-property joint venture agreements. The offered values for the nine properties, in the aggregate, amounted to approximately $55.0 million over existing property-specific financing of approximately $102.3 million at December 31, 2010.
The Company has elected to purchase HII’s 80% interest in one of the nine properties, Meadows Marketplace, located in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The offered purchase price for the 80% interest will be approximately $5.3 million, and the outstanding balance of the mortgage loan payable on the property was approximately $10.2 million at December 31, 2010. Meadows Marketplace, a shopping center anchored by a Giant Foods supermarket, and is a ground-up development completed by the Company in 2006. It is 97% leased with a lease pending for the remaining sole vacancy. The Company has also entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire from a third party an outparcel at the entrance to the property for a purchase price of approximately $1.1 million.
The Company has also elected to sell to HII its 20% interest in the remaining eight properties and, at closing, the Company will receive proceeds of approximately $9.7 million. The outstanding balances of the mortgage loans payable on the eight properties was approximately $92.1 million at December 31, 2010. The Company’s property management agreements for the eight properties will terminate upon the closing of the sale. Details of the eight properties are summarized as follows:
                 
Property Description   Location   Anchor tenant   2010 Revenues  
 
               
Aston Center
  Aston, PA   Giant Food Stores   $ 1,604,000  
Ayr Town Center
  McConnellsburg, PA   Giant Food Stores     1,078,000  
Scott Town Center
  Bloomsburg, PA   Giant Food Stores     1,377,000  
Stonehedge Square
  Carlisle, PA   Nell’s Shurfine     1,327,000  
Pennsboro Commons
  Enola, PA   Giant Food Stores     1,763,000  
Parkway Plaza
  Mechanicsburg, PA   Giant Food Stores     2,414,000  
Spring Meadow Shopping Center
  West Lawn, PA   Giant Food Stores     1,792,000  
Fieldstone Marketplace
  New Bedford, MA   Shaw’s     3,047,000  
 
             
 
          $ 14,402,000  
 
             
On February 14, 2011, the Company completed the sale of a development land parcel, located near Ephrata, Pennsylvania for approximately $1.9 million, which approximated its carrying value at December 31, 2010.

 

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Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
Schedule III
Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
Year ended December 31, 2010
                                                 
                        Year built/   Gross     Initial cost to the Company  
        Year     Percent     Year last   leasable             Building and  
Property   State   acquired     owned     renovated   area     Land     Improvements  
Wholly-Owned Stabilized Properties:
                                               
Academy Plaza
  PA     2001       100 %   1965/1998     152,727     $ 2,406,000     $ 9,623,000  
Annie Land Plaza
  VA     2006       100 %   1999     42,500       809,000       4,015,000  
Camp Hill
  PA     2002       100 %   1958/2005     472,432       4,460,000       17,857,000  
Carbondale Plaza
  PA     2004       100 %   1972/2005     129,915       1,586,000       7,289,000  
Carll’s Corner
  NJ     2007       100 %   1960’s-1999/     129,582       3,034,000       15,293,000  
Carmans Plaza
  NY     2007       100 %   1954/2007     194,481       8,539,000       35,804,000  
Circle Plaza
  PA     2007       100 %   1979/1991     92,171       561,000       2,884,000  
Coliseum Marketplace
  VA     2005       100 %   1987/2005     98,359       2,924,000       14,416,000  
CVS at Bradford
  PA     2005       100 %   1996     10,722       291,000       1,466,000  
CVS at Celina
  OH     2005       100 %   1998     10,195       418,000       1,967,000  
CVS at Erie
  PA     2005       100 %   1997     10,125       399,000       1,783,000  
CVS at Kinderhook
  NY     2007       100 %   2007     13,225       1,678,000        
CVS at Portage Trail
  OH     2005       100 %   1996     10,722       341,000       1,603,000  
Dunmore Shopping Center
  PA     2005       100 %   1962/1997     101,000       565,000       2,203,000  
East Chestnut
  PA     2005       100 %   1996     21,180       800,000       3,699,000  
Elmhurst Square
  VA     2006       100 %   1961-1983     66,250       1,371,000       5,994,000  
Fairview Plaza
  PA     2003       100 %   1992     69,579       2,128,000       8,483,000  
Fairview Commons
  PA     2007       100 %   1976/2003     59,578       858,000       3,568,000  
FirstMerit Bank at Akron
  OH     2005       100 %   1996     3,200       169,000       734,000  
General Booth Plaza
  VA     2005       100 %   1985     73,320       1,935,000       9,493,000  
Gold Star Plaza
  PA     2006       100 %   1988     71,720       1,644,000       6,519,000  
Golden Triangle
  PA     2003       100 %   1960/2005     202,943       2,320,000       9,713,000  
Groton Shopping Center
  CT     2007       100 %   1969     117,986       3,070,000       12,320,000  
Halifax Plaza
  PA     2003       100 %   1994     51,510       1,412,000       5,799,000  
Hamburg Commons
  PA     2004       100 %   1988-1993     99,580       1,153,000       4,678,000  
Hannaford Plaza
  MA     2006       100 %   1965/2006     102,459       1,874,000       8,453,000  
Huntingdon Plaza
  PA     2004       100 %   1972 - 2003     147,355       933,000       4,129,000  
Jordan Lane
  CT     2005       100 %   1969/1991     181,730       4,291,000       21,176,000  
Kempsville Crossing
  VA     2005       100 %   1985     94,477       2,207,000       11,000,000  
Kenley Village
  MD     2005       100 %   1988     51,894       726,000       3,512,000  
Kings Plaza
  MA     2007       100 %   1970/1994     168,243       2,413,000       12,604,000  
Kingston Plaza
  NY     2006       100 %   2006     18,337       2,891,000        
LA Fitness Facility
  PA     2002       100 %   2003     41,000       2,462,000        
Lake Raystown Plaza
  PA     2004       100 %   1995     145,727       2,231,000       6,735,000  
Liberty Marketplace
  PA     2005       100 %   2003     68,200       2,665,000       12,639,000  
Martins’s at Glen Allen
  VA     2005       100 %   2000     43,000       6,769,000       683,000  
McCormick Place
  OH     2005       100 %   1995     46,000       847,000       4,022,000  
Mechanicsburg Giant
  PA     2005       100 %   2003     51,500       2,709,000       12,159,000  
Metro Square
  MD     2008       100 %   1999     71,896       3,121,000       12,341,000  
Newport Plaza
  PA     2003       100 %   1996     64,489       1,721,000       7,758,000  
Oak Ridge
  VA     2006       100 %   2000     38,700       960,000       4,254,000  
Oakland Commons
  CT     2007       100 %   1962/1995     89,850       2,504,000       15,662,000  
Oakland Mills
  MD     2005       100 %   1960’s/2004     58,224       1,611,000       6,292,000  
Palmyra Shopping Center
  PA     2005       100 %   1960/1995     112,108       1,488,000       6,566,000  
Pine Grove Plaza
  NJ     2003       100 %   2001/2002     86,089       2,010,000       6,489,000  

 

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Schedule III
Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
Year ended December 31, 2010
                                                 
            Gross amount at which carried at              
    Subsequent     December 31, 2010              
(continued)   cost             Building and             Accumulated     Amount of  
Property   capitalized     Land     improvements     Total     depreciation (4)     Encumbrance  
Wholly-Owned Stabilized Properties:
                                               
Academy Plaza
  $ 1,678,000     $ 2,406,000     $ 11,301,000     $ 13,707,000     $ 2,655,000     $ 9,139,000  
Annie Land Plaza
    53,000       809,000       4,068,000       4,877,000       651,000       (2 )
Camp Hill
    43,065,000       4,424,000       60,958,000       65,382,000       9,663,000       65,000,000  
Carbondale Plaza
    4,882,000       1,586,000       12,171,000       13,757,000       2,311,000       4,951,000  
Carll’s Corner
    (1,438,000 )     2,941,000       13,948,000       16,889,000       1,716,000       5,786,000  
Carmans Plaza
    (716,000 )     8,421,000       35,206,000       43,627,000       4,065,000       33,368,000  
Circle Plaza
    31,000       546,000       2,930,000       3,476,000       271,000       (2 )
Coliseum Marketplace
    3,413,000       3,586,000       17,167,000       20,753,000       3,367,000       11,970,000  
CVS at Bradford
    16,000       291,000       1,482,000       1,773,000       313,000       684,000  
CVS at Celina
          418,000       1,967,000       2,385,000       350,000       1,322,000  
CVS at Erie
          399,000       1,783,000       2,182,000       302,000       1,013,000  
CVS at Kinderhook
    1,930,000       1,702,000       1,906,000       3,608,000       167,000       2,429,000  
CVS at Portage Trail
    8,000       341,000       1,611,000       1,952,000       300,000       750,000  
Dunmore Shopping Center
    42,000       565,000       2,245,000       2,810,000       513,000       (3 )
East Chestnut
    3,000       800,000       3,702,000       4,502,000       815,000       1,882,000  
Elmhurst Square
    246,000       1,371,000       6,240,000       7,611,000       1,048,000       3,970,000  
Fairview Plaza
    234,000       2,129,000       8,716,000       10,845,000       1,806,000       5,370,000  
Fairview Commons
          858,000       3,568,000       4,426,000       604,000       (2 )
FirstMerit Bank at Akron
    1,000       168,000       736,000       904,000       146,000       (2 )
General Booth Plaza
    203,000       1,935,000       9,696,000       11,631,000       2,108,000       5,275,000  
Gold Star Plaza
    175,000       1,644,000       6,694,000       8,338,000       1,160,000       2,219,000  
Golden Triangle
    9,750,000       2,320,000       19,463,000       21,783,000       4,267,000       20,702,000  
Groton Shopping Center
    114,000       3,073,000       12,431,000       15,504,000       1,822,000       11,522,000  
Halifax Plaza
    223,000       1,347,000       6,087,000       7,434,000       1,149,000       4,252,000  
Hamburg Commons
    5,218,000       1,153,000       9,896,000       11,049,000       1,523,000       5,101,000  
Hannaford Plaza
    457,000       1,874,000       8,910,000       10,784,000       1,418,000       (2 )
Huntingdon Plaza
    1,810,000       933,000       5,939,000       6,872,000       884,000       (3 )
Jordan Lane
    961,000       4,291,000       22,137,000       26,428,000       4,018,000       12,860,000  
Kempsville Crossing
    140,000       2,207,000       11,140,000       13,347,000       2,548,000       5,964,000  
Kenley Village
    45,000       726,000       3,557,000       4,283,000       1,031,000       (2 )
Kings Plaza
    314,000       2,408,000       12,923,000       15,331,000       1,703,000       7,678,000  
Kingston Plaza
    2,344,000       2,891,000       2,344,000       5,235,000       244,000       3,650,000  
LA Fitness Facility
    5,176,000       2,462,000       5,176,000       7,638,000       1,022,000       5,666,000  
Lake Raystown Plaza
    6,493,000       2,231,000       13,228,000       15,459,000       2,457,000       (3 )
Liberty Marketplace
    274,000       2,695,000       12,883,000       15,578,000       2,103,000       9,112,000  
Martins’s at Glen Allen
    3,000       5,367,000       2,088,000       7,455,000       447,000       (2 )
McCormick Place
    44,000       849,000       4,064,000       4,913,000       1,037,000       2,587,000  
Mechanicsburg Giant
          2,709,000       12,159,000       14,868,000       1,804,000       9,378,000  
Metro Square
    (301,000 )     5,250,000       9,911,000       15,161,000       727,000       8,964,000  
Newport Plaza
    337,000       1,682,000       8,134,000       9,816,000       1,428,000       5,583,000  
Oak Ridge
    27,000       960,000       4,281,000       5,241,000       566,000       3,406,000  
Oakland Commons
    (525,000 )     2,504,000       15,137,000       17,641,000       1,796,000       (2 )
Oakland Mills
    32,000       1,611,000       6,324,000       7,935,000       1,337,000       4,835,000  
Palmyra Shopping Center
    523,000       1,488,000       7,089,000       8,577,000       1,467,000       (2 )
Pine Grove Plaza
    124,000       2,010,000       6,613,000       8,623,000       1,276,000       5,688,000  

 

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Schedule III
Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
Year ended December 31, 2010
                                                 
                        Year built/   Gross     Initial cost to the Company  
(continued)       Year     Percent     Year last   leasable             Building and  
Property   State   acquired     owned     renovated   area     Land     Improvements  
Wholly-Owned Stabilized Properties:
                                               
Port Richmond Village
  PA     2001       100 %   1988     154,908     $ 2,942,000     $ 11,769,000  
Price Chopper Plaza
  MA     2007       100 %   1960’s-2004     101,824       3,551,000       18,412,000  
Rite Aid at Massillon
  OH     2005       100 %   1999     10,125       442,000       2,014,000  
River View Plaza I, II and III
  PA     2003       100 %   1991/1998     244,225       9,718,000       40,356,000  
Shoppes at Salem Run
  VA     2005       100 %   2005     15,100       1,076,000       4,253,000  
Smithfield Plaza
  VA     2005-2008       100 %   1987/1996     134,664       2,947,000       12,737,000  
South Philadelphia
  PA     2003       100 %   1950/2003     283,415       8,222,000       36,314,000  
St. James Square
  MD     2005       100 %   2000     39,903       688,000       3,838,000  
Stadium Plaza
  MI     2005       100 %   1960’s/2003     77,688       2,341,000       9,175,000  
Suffolk Plaza
  VA     2005       100 %   1984     67,216       1,402,000       7,236,000  
Swede Square
  PA     2003       100 %   1980/2004     98,792       2,268,000       6,232,000  
The Commons
  PA     2004       100 %   2003     175,121       3,098,000       14,047,000  
The Point
  PA     2000       100 %   1972/2001     250,697       2,700,000       10,800,000  
The Point at Carlisle Plaza
  PA     2005       100 %   1965/2005     182,859       2,233,000       11,190,000  
The Shops at Suffolk Downs
  MA     2005       100 %   2005     121,829       7,580,000       11,089,000  
Timpany Plaza
  MA     2007       100 %   1970’s-1989     183,775       3,412,000       19,240,000  
Trexler Mall
  PA     2005       100 %   1973/2004     339,363       6,932,000       32,815,000  
Ukrop’s at Fredericksburg
  VA     2005       100 %   1997     63,000       3,213,000       12,758,000  
Valley Plaza
  MD     2003       100 %   1975/1994     190,939       1,950,000       7,766,000  
Virginia Center Commons
  VA     2005       100 %   2002     9,763       992,000       3,860,000  
Virginia Little Creek
  VA     2005       100 %   1996/2001     69,620       1,650,000       8,350,000  
Wal-Mart Center
  CT     2003       100 %   1972/2000     155,842             11,834,000  
Washington Center Shoppes
  NJ     2001       100 %   1979/1995     157,290       2,061,000       7,314,000  
West Bridgewater Plaza
  MA     2007       100 %   1970/2007     133,039       2,823,000       14,901,000  
Yorktowne Plaza
  MD     2007       100 %   1970/2000     158,982       5,940,000       25,505,000  
 
                                         
Total Wholly-Owned Stabilized Properties
                            7,406,259       171,485,000       687,482,000  
 
                                               
Properties Owned in Joint Venture:
                                               
Homburg Joint Venture:
                                               
Aston Center
  PA     2007       20 %   2005     55,000       4,319,000       17,070,000  
Ayr Town Center
  PA     2007       20 %   2005     55,600       2,442,000       9,748,000  
Fieldstone Marketplace
  MA     2005       20 %   1988/2003     193,970       5,229,000       21,440,000  
Meadows Marketplace
  PA     2004       20 %   2005     91,538       1,914,000        
Parkway Plaza
  PA     2007       20 %   1998-2002     106,628       4,647,000       19,420,000  
Pennsboro Commons
  PA     2005       20 %   1999     107,384       3,608,000       14,254,000  
Scott Town Center
  PA     2007       20 %   2004     67,933       2,959,000       11,800,000  
Spring Meadow Shopping Center
  PA     2007       20 %   2004     67,950       4,111,000       16,410,000  
Stonehedge Square
  PA     2006       20 %   1990/2006     88,677       2,732,000       11,614,000  
 
                                         
 
                            834,680       31,961,000       121,756,000  
PCP Joint Venture:
                                               
New London Mall
  CT     2009       40 %   1967/1997     257,814       14,891,000       24,967,000  
San Souci Plaza
  MD     2009       40 %   1985 - 1997     264,134       14,849,000       18,445,000  
 
                                         
 
                            521,948       29,740,000       43,412,000  
Joint Ventures (other):
                                               
CVS at Naugatuck
  CT     2008       50 %   2008     13,225              
 
                                         
 
                                               
Total Consolidated Joint Ventures
                            1,369,853       61,701,000       165,168,000  
 
                                         
 
                                               
Total Stabilized Portfiolio
                            8,776,112       233,186,000       852,650,000  

 

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Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
Year ended December 31, 2010
                                                 
            Gross amount at which carried at              
    Subsequent     December 31, 2010              
(continued)   cost             Building and             Accumulated     Amount of  
Property   capitalized     Land     improvements     Total     depreciation (4)     Encumbrance  
Wholly-Owned Stabilized Properties:
                                               
Port Richmond Village
    697,000       2,843,000       12,565,000       15,408,000       2,957,000       14,428,000  
Price Chopper Plaza
    (571,000 )     4,082,000       17,310,000       21,392,000       1,833,000       (3 )
Rite Aid at Massillon
    6,000       442,000       2,020,000       2,462,000       342,000       1,329,000  
River View Plaza I, II and III
    3,975,000       9,718,000       44,331,000       54,049,000       8,756,000       (2 )
Shoppes at Salem Run
    12,000       1,076,000       4,265,000       5,341,000       620,000       (2 )
Smithfield Plaza
    252,000       2,919,000       13,017,000       15,936,000       1,872,000       10,264,000  
South Philadelphia
    2,532,000       8,222,000       38,846,000       47,068,000       9,067,000       (2 )
St. James Square
    608,000       688,000       4,446,000       5,134,000       984,000       (2 )
Stadium Plaza
    740,000       2,443,000       9,813,000       12,256,000       1,609,000       (2 )
Suffolk Plaza
          1,402,000       7,236,000       8,638,000       1,644,000       4,488,000  
Swede Square
    4,717,000       2,272,000       10,945,000       13,217,000       2,696,000       10,588,000  
The Commons
    1,131,000       3,098,000       15,178,000       18,276,000       3,432,000       (2 )
The Point
    13,354,000       2,996,000       23,858,000       26,854,000       5,212,000       16,807,000  
The Point at Carlisle Plaza
    258,000       2,233,000       11,448,000       13,681,000       2,580,000       (2 )
The Shops at Suffolk Downs
    8,548,000       7,580,000       19,637,000       27,217,000       2,002,000       (2)(3 )
Timpany Plaza
    49,000       3,368,000       19,333,000       22,701,000       2,423,000       8,190,000  
Trexler Mall
    3,898,000       6,932,000       36,713,000       43,645,000       5,681,000       21,093,000  
Ukrop’s at Fredericksburg
          3,213,000       12,758,000       15,971,000       1,895,000       (2 )
Valley Plaza
    758,000       1,950,000       8,524,000       10,474,000       1,595,000       (2 )
Virginia Center Commons
    3,000       992,000       3,863,000       4,855,000       677,000       (2 )
Virginia Little Creek
    (11,000 )     1,639,000       8,350,000       9,989,000       1,746,000       5,195,000  
Wal-Mart Center
    28,000             11,862,000       11,862,000       2,183,000       5,690,000  
Washington Center Shoppes
    3,728,000       2,000,000       11,103,000       13,103,000       2,650,000       8,452,000  
West Bridgewater Plaza
    (820,000 )     2,669,000       14,235,000       16,904,000       1,544,000       10,776,000  
Yorktowne Plaza
    221,000       5,874,000       25,792,000       31,666,000       3,395,000       20,073,000  
 
                                   
Total Wholly-Owned Stabilized Properties
    131,522,000       173,032,000       817,457,000       990,489,000       141,800,000       419,449,000  
 
                                               
Properties Owned in Joint Venture:
                                               
Homburg Joint Venture:
                                               
Aston Center
    12,000       4,319,000       17,082,000       21,401,000       1,776,000       12,561,000  
Ayr Town Center
    2,000       2,442,000       9,750,000       12,192,000       1,138,000       7,093,000  
Fieldstone Marketplace
    554,000       5,167,000       22,056,000       27,223,000       3,840,000       18,281,000  
Meadows Marketplace
    11,390,000       1,914,000       11,390,000       13,304,000       1,388,000       10,172,000  
Parkway Plaza
    470,000       4,647,000       19,890,000       24,537,000       2,436,000       14,300,000  
Pennsboro Commons
    44,000       3,608,000       14,298,000       17,906,000       2,558,000       10,769,000  
Scott Town Center
    1,000       2,959,000       11,801,000       14,760,000       1,415,000       8,538,000  
Spring Meadow Shopping Center
    20,000       4,112,000       16,429,000       20,541,000       1,798,000       12,441,000  
Stonehedge Square
    126,000       2,698,000       11,774,000       14,472,000       1,864,000       8,700,000  
 
                                   
 
    12,619,000       31,866,000       134,470,000       166,336,000       18,213,000       102,855,000  
 
                                               
PCP Joint Venture:
                                               
New London Mall
    903,000       8,827,000       31,934,000       40,761,000       2,900,000       26,087,000  
San Souci Plaza
    1,326,000       13,374,000       21,246,000       34,620,000       2,888,000       27,200,000  
 
                                   
 
    2,229,000       22,201,000       53,180,000       75,381,000       5,788,000       53,287,000  
 
                                               
Joint Ventures (other):
                                               
CVS at Naugatuck
    2,825,000             2,825,000       2,825,000       152,000       2,402,000  
 
                                   
 
                                               
Total Consolidated Joint Ventures
    17,673,000       54,067,000       190,475,000       244,542,000       24,153,000       158,544,000  
 
                                               
Total Stabilized Portfiolio
    149,195,000       227,099,000       1,007,932,000       1,235,031,000       165,953,000       577,993,000  

 

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Schedule III
Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
Year ended December 31, 2010
                                                 
                        Year built/   Gross     Initial cost to the Company  
(continued)       Year     Percent     Year last   leasable             Building and  
Property   State   acquired     owned     renovated   area     Land     Improvements  
Redevelopment and Major Retenanting Properties:
                                               
Oakhurst Plaza
  VA     2006       100 %   1980/2001     107,869     $ 4,539,000     $ 18,177,000  
Shore Mall
  NJ     2006       100 %   1960/1980     459,098       7,179,000       37,868,000  
The Brickyard
  CT     2004       100 %   1990     274,553       6,465,000       29,308,000  
Roosevelt II
  PA     2010       100 %   1969/1986     206,000       2,675,000       10,700,000  
Townfair Center
  PA     2004       100 %   2002     218,662       3,022,000       13,786,000  
Trexlertown Plaza
  PA     2006       100 %   1990/2005     241,381       5,262,000       23,867,000  
 
                                         
Total Redevelopment Properties
                            1,507,563       29,142,000       133,706,000  
 
                                               
Total Operating Portfolio
                            10,283,675       262,328,000       986,356,000  
 
                                         
 
                                               
Ground-Up Developments:
                                               
Crossroads II
  PA     2008       60 %   2009     133,618       15,383,000        
Heritage Crossing
  PA     2008       60 %   2009     59,396       5,080,000        
Northside Commons
  PA     2008       100 %   2009     85,300       3,332,000        
Upland Square
  PA     2007       60 %   2009     452,304       28,187,000        
 
                                         
Total Ground-Up Developments
                            730,618       51,982,000        
 
                                         
Total Portfolio
                            11,014,293       314,310,000       986,356,000  
 
                                               
Projects Under Development and Land Held For Future Expansion and Development:
                                               
Halifax Commons
  PA             100 %         4.37       858,000        
Halifax Plaza
  PA             100 %         12.83       1,107,000        
Liberty Marketplace
  PA             100 %         15.51       1,564,000        
Oregon Pike
  PA             100 %         11.20       2,283,000        
Shore Mall
  NJ             100 %         50.00       2,018,000        
The Brickyard
  CT             100 %         1.95       1,167,000        
Trexlertown Plaza
  PA             100 %         37.28       8,087,000        
Trindle Spring
  NY             100 %         2.10       1,028,000        
Wyoming
  MI             100 %         12.32       360,000        
Various projects in progress
  N/A             100 %                      
 
                                         
Total Projects Under Development and Land Held For Future Expansion and Development:
                            147.55       18,472,000        
 
                                               
Total Carrying Value
                                    332,782,000       986,356,000  
 
                                           

 

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Schedule III
Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
Year ended December 31, 2010
                                                 
            Gross amount at which carried at              
    Subsequent     December 31, 2010              
(continued)   cost             Building and             Accumulated     Amount of  
Property   capitalized     Land     improvements     Total     depreciation (4)     Encumbrance  
Redevelopment and Major Retenanting Properties:
                                               
Oakhurst Plaza
  $ 18,000     $ 4,539,000     $ 18,195,000     $ 22,734,000     $ 2,571,000       (2 )
Shore Mall
    5,029,000       7,179,000       42,897,000       50,076,000       6,538,000       21,220,000  
Brickyard
    (761,000 )     6,465,000       28,547,000       35,012,000       5,672,000       (2 )
Roosevelt II
          2,675,000       10,700,000       13,375,000       45,000       12,940,000  
Townfair Center
    7,081,000       3,022,000       20,867,000       23,889,000       2,568,000       (3 )
Trexlertown Plaza
    3,756,000       5,262,000       27,623,000       32,885,000       3,126,000       (3 )
 
                                   
Total Redevelopment Properties
    15,123,000       29,142,000       148,829,000       177,971,000       20,520,000       34,160,000  
 
                                               
Total Operating Portfolio
    164,318,000       256,241,000       1,156,761,000       1,413,002,000       186,473,000       612,153,000  
 
                                               
Ground-Up Developments:
                                               
Crossroads II
    27,203,000       17,671,000       24,915,000       42,586,000       730,000       (2 )
Heritage Crossing
    6,040,000       5,066,000       6,054,000       11,120,000       240,000       (3 )
Northside Commons
    9,989,000       3,379,000       9,942,000       13,321,000       297,000       (3 )
Upland Square
    57,632,000       27,454,000       58,365,000       85,819,000       1,721,000       62,577,000  
 
                                   
Total Ground-Up Developments
    100,864,000       53,570,000       99,276,000       152,846,000       2,988,000       62,577,000  
 
                                   
Total Portfolio
    265,182,000       309,811,000       1,256,037,000       1,565,848,000       189,461,000       674,730,000  
 
                                   
 
                                               
Projects Under Development and Land Held For Future Expansion and Development:
                                               
Halifax Commons
    381,000       872,000       367,000       1,239,000                
Halifax Plaza
    1,622,000       1,503,000       1,226,000       2,729,000                
Liberty Marketplace
    35,000       1,564,000       35,000       1,599,000                
Oregon Pike
    80,000       2,283,000       80,000       2,363,000                
Shore Mall
    276,000       2,018,000       276,000       2,294,000             (6 )
The Brickyard
    197,000       1,183,000       181,000       1,364,000                
Trexlertown Plaza
    2,279,000       8,089,000       2,277,000       10,366,000             (3 )
Trindle Spring
    392,000       1,148,000       272,000       1,420,000                
Wyoming
          360,000             360,000                
Various projects in progress
    1,728,000             1,728,000       1,728,000                
 
                                     
Total Projects Under Development and Land Held For Future Expansion and Development
    6,990,000       19,020,000       6,442,000       25,462,000              
 
                                   
 
                                               
Total Carrying Value
  $ 272,172,000     $ 328,831,000     $ 1,262,479,000     $ 1,591,310,000     $ 189,461,000       674,730,000  
 
                                   
 
                                               
Real estate held for sale — discontinued operations (1)
                                  $ 69,959,000          
 
                                             
Unconsolidated joint ventures (5)
                                  $ 52,466,000          
 
                                             

 

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Schedule III
Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
Year ended December 31, 2010
(continued)
The changes in real estate and accumulated depreciation for the three years ended December 31, 2010 are as follows (1):
                         
    2010     2009     2008  
Cost
                       
Balance, beginning of the year
  $ 1,555,638,000     $ 1,422,563,000     $ 1,281,340,000  
Properties acquired
    13,375,000       73,152,000       90,700,000  
Improvements and betterments
    23,207,000       66,070,000       52,830,000  
Write-off fully-depreciated assets
    (910,000 )     (6,147,000 )     (2,307,000 )
 
                 
Balance, end of the year
  $ 1,591,310,000     $ 1,555,638,000     $ 1,422,563,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Accumulated depreciation
                       
 
                       
Balance, beginning of the year
  $ 151,144,000     $ 114,516,000     $ 80,160,000  
Depreciation expense
    39,227,000       42,775,000       36,663,000  
Write-off fully-depreciated assets
    (910,000 )     (6,147,000 )     (2,307,000 )
 
                 
Balance, end of the year
  $ 189,461,000     $ 151,144,000     $ 114,516,000  
 
                 
 
                       
Net book value
  $ 1,401,849,000     $ 1,404,494,000     $ 1,308,047,000  
 
                 
The aggregate cost of the properties is approximately $22.4 million lower for federal income tax purposes at December 31, 2010.
 
     
(1)  
Restated to reflect the reclassifications of properties to “real estate held for sale” during 2010.
 
(2)  
Properties pledged as collateral under the Company’s stabilized property credit facility. The total net book value of such properties was $345,523,000 at December 31, 2010 (including $18,467,000 relating to a property treated as “real estate held for sale”); the total amount outstanding under the secured revolving credit facility at that date was $29,535,000.
 
(3)  
Properties pledged as collateral under the Company’s development property credit facility. The total net book value of all such properties was $151,411,000 at December 31, 2010; the total amount outstanding the secured development revolving credit facility at that date was $103,062,000.
 
(4)  
Depreciation is provided over the estimated useful lives of the buildings and improvements, which range from 3 to 40 years.
 
(5)  
The Company has a 76.3% interest in an unconsolidated joint venture, which owns a single-tenant office property located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a 20% interest in an unconsolidated joint venture that owns 21 supermarket shopping centers located in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
 
(6)  
The Shore Mall land parcel also collateralizes the mortgage loan payable relating to the Shore Mall shopping center.

 

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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in its filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is reported within the time periods specified in the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In this regard, the Company has formed a Disclosure Committee currently comprised of several of the Company’s executive officers as well as certain other employees with knowledge of information that may be considered in the SEC reporting process. The Committee has responsibility for the development and assessment of the financial and non-financial information to be included in the reports filed with the SEC, and assists the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer in connection with their certifications contained in the Company’s SEC filings. The Committee meets regularly and reports to the Audit Committee on a quarterly or more frequent basis. The Company’s principal executive and financial officers have evaluated its disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2010, and have determined that such disclosure controls and procedures are effective.
There have been no changes in the internal controls over financial reporting or in other factors that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, these internal controls over financial reporting during the last quarter of 2010.
Management Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. The Company’s internal control system was designed to provide reasonable assurance to the Company’s management and Board of Directors regarding the preparation and fair presentation of published financial statements.
All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation.
The Company’s management assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010. In making this assessment, it used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) in “Internal Control — Integrated Framework”. Based on such assessment, management believes that, as of December 31, 2010, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective based on those criteria.
Ernst & Young LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, which appears elsewhere in this report.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.
We have audited Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.’s (the “Company”) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the COSO criteria). Cedar Shopping Center, Inc.’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Item 9A. Controls and Procedures —“Management Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the 2010 consolidated financial statements of Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and our report dated March 15, 2011 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
         
 
  /s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP
 
   
New York, New York
March 15, 2011

 

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Item 9B. Other Information
None.
Part III.
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
This item is incorporated by reference to the definitive proxy statement for the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.
Item 11. Executive Compensation
This item is incorporated by reference to the definitive proxy statement for the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
This item is incorporated by reference to the definitive proxy statement for the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence
This item is incorporated by reference to the definitive proxy statement for the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
This item is incorporated by reference to the definitive proxy statement for the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.
Part IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
  (a)   1.  
Financial Statements
     
The response to this portion of Item 15 is included in Item 8 of this report
 
  2.  
Financial Statement Schedules
 
     
The response to this portion of Item 15 is included in Item 8 of this report.

 

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Item   Title or Description
       
 
  3.1    
Articles of Incorporation of Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., including all amendments and articles supplementary previously filed, incorporated by reference to Exhibits 3.1.a and 3.1.b of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2007 and to Exhibit 3.1 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  3.2    
By-laws of Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., including all amendments previously filed, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Form 8-K filed on November 28, 2007.
  3.3.a    
Agreement of Limited Partnership of Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 of the Registration Statement on Form S-11 filed on August 20, 2003, as amended.
  3.3.b    
Amendment No. 1 to Agreement of Limited Partnership of Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.5 of the Registration Statement on Form S-11 filed on August 20, 2003, as amended.
  3.3.c    
Amendment No. 2 to Agreement of Limited Partnership of Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3.c of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
  3.3.d    
Amendment No. 3 to Agreement of Limited Partnership of Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3.d of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
  3.3.e    
Amendment No. 4 to Agreement of Limited Partnership of Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  10.1.a *  
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Senior Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of October 29, 2003, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.a of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
  10.1.b *  
Amendment No. 1 to the Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Senior Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of October 29, 2003, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.b of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
  10.1.c *  
Amendment No. 2 to the Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Senior Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of August 9, 2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.c of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
  10.1.d *  
Amendment No. 3 to the Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Senior Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of December 19, 2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed on December 22, 2005.
  10.1.e *  
Amendment No. 4 to the Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Senior Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of December 21, 2006, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1.e of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
  10.1.f *  
Amendment No. 5 to the Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Senior Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of December 11, 2007, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1.f of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007.
  10.2.a *  
2005 Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on December 22, 2005.

 

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Item   Title or Description
       
 
  10.2.b *  
Amendment No. 1 to the 2005 Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of December 21, 2006, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2.b of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
  10.2.c *  
Amendment No. 2 to the 2005 Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of December 11, 2007, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2.c of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007.
  10.2.d *  
Amendment No. 3 to the 2005 Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan, effective as of December 16, 2008, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2.d of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
  10.3.a.i *  
Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Leo S. Ullman, dated as of November 1, 2003, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.39 of the Registration Statement on Form S-11 filed on August 20, 2003, as amended.
  10.3.a.ii *  
First Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Leo S. Ullman, dated as of March 23, 2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.a.ii of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
  10.3.a.iii *  
Second Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Leo S. Ullman, dated as of October 19, 2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on October 20, 2005.
  10.3.a.iv *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Leo S. Ullman, dated as of May 1, 2007, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on May 3, 2007.
  10.3.b.i *  
Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Brenda J. Walker, dated as of November 1, 2003, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.40 of the Registration Statement on Form S-11 filed on August 20, 2003, as amended.
  10.3.b.ii *  
First Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Brenda J. Walker, dated as of March 23, 2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.b.ii of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
  10.3.b.iii *  
Second Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Brenda J. Walker, dated as of October 19, 2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed on October 20, 2005.
  10.3.b.iv *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Brenda J. Walker, dated as of December 29, 2006, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.b.iv of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
  10.3.b.v *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Brenda J. Walker, dated as of September 18, 2008, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.b.v of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
  10.3.b.vi *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Brenda J. Walker, dated as of April, 17, 2009, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009.
  10.3.b.vii *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Brenda J. Walker, dated as of June 1, 2010, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010.
  10.3.c.i *  
Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Thomas B. Richey, dated as of November 1, 2003, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.42 of the Registration Statement on Form S-11 field on August 20, 2003, as amended.
  10.3.c.ii *  
First Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Thomas B. Richey, dated as of March 23, 2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.d.ii of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.

 

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Item   Title or Description
       
 
  10.3.c.iii *  
Second Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Thomas B. Richey, dated as of October 19, 2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of Form 8-K filed on October 20, 2005.
  10.3.c.iv *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Thomas B. Richey, dated as of December 29, 2006, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.d.iv of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
  10.3.c.v *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Thomas B. Richey, dated as of September 18, 2008, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.c.v of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
  10.3.c.vi *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Thomas B. Richey, dated as of June 1, 2010, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010.
  10.3.d.i *  
Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Nancy H. Mozzachio, dated as of August 1, 2003, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.e.i of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
  10.3.d.ii *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Nancy H. Mozzachio, dated as of October 19, 2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed on April 6, 2007.
  10.3.d.iii *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Nancy H. Mozzachio, dated as of December 29, 2006, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.e.ii of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
  10.3.d.iv *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Nancy H. Mozzachio, dated as of September 18, 2008, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.d.iv of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
  10.3.d.v *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Nancy H. Mozzachio, dated as of April 17, 2009, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009.
  10.3.d.vi *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Nancy H. Mozzachio, dated as of June 1, 2010, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010.
  10.3.e *  
Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Lawrence E. Kreider, Jr., dated as of June 20, 2007, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on June 20, 2007.
  10.3.f.i *  
Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Frank C. Ullman, dated as of September 18, 2008, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3.f of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
  10.3.f.ii *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Frank C. Ullman, dated as of April 17, 2009, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009.
  10.3.f.iii *  
Amendment to Employment Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Frank C. Ullman, dated as of June 1, 2010, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010.
  10.3.f.iv *  
Consulting Agreement between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and Frank C. Ullman, dated as of January 13, 2011, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on January 20, 2011.
  10.4    
Loan Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) by and among Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P., Bank of America, N.A., KeyBank, National Association, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, Regions Bank, Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, Raymond James Bank, FSB, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, and the other lending institutions which are or may become parties to the Loan Agreement (the “Lenders”) and Bank of America, N.A. (as Administrative Agent), dated as of November 10, 2009, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.

 

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Item   Title or Description
       
 
  10.5    
Agreement Regarding Purchase of Partnership Interests By and Between Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P. and Homburg Holdings (U.S.) Inc. dated as of March 26, 2007, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  10.5.a    
First Amendment to Agreement Regarding Purchase of Partnership Interests dated as of June 29, 2007, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on December 12, 2007.
  10.5.b    
Second Amendment to Agreement Regarding Purchase of Partnership Interests dated as of October 31, 2007, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed on December 12, 2007.
  10.6    
Voting Agreement dated February 13, 2008 among Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., Inland American Real Estate Trust, Inc., Inland Investment Advisors, Inc. Inland Real Estate Investment Corporation and The Inland Group, Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007.
  10.7.a    
Amended and Restated Loan Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) by and among Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership, L.P., KeyBank, National Association, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, Raymond James Bank, FSB, Regions Bank, TD Bank, N.A., TriState Capital Bank and the other lending institutions which are or may become parties to the Loan Agreement (the “Lenders”) and KeyBank, National Association (as Administrative Agent), dated as of October 17, 2008, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.a of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  10.7.b    
First Amendment to Loan Agreement, dated as of April 9, 2010, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.b of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  10.8    
Standby Equity Purchase Agreement dated as of September 21, 2009 by and between YA Global Master SPV Ltd. and Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Form 8-K filed on September 22, 2009.
  10.9.a    
Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of October 26, 2009, by and among Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., Cedar Shopping Centers Partnership L.P., RioCan Holdings USA Inc. and RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.a of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  10.9.a.i    
Amendment to Securities Purchase Agreement dated February 5, 2010, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.b of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  10.9.a.ii    
Amendment to Securities Purchase Agreement dated February 26, 2010, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.c of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  10.9.b    
Agreement regarding purchase of Partnership Interests dated October 26, 2009 between Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. and RioCan Holdings USA Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 of Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.
  21.1    
List of Subsidiaries of the Registrant
  23.1    
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
  31.1    
Section 302 Chief Executive Officer Certification

 

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Item   Title or Description
       
 
  31.2    
Section 302 Chief Financial Officer Certification
  32.1    
Section 906 Chief Executive Officer Certification
  32.2    
Section 906 Chief Financial Officer Certification
 
     
*  
Management contracts or compensatory plans required to be filed pursuant to Rule 601 of Regulation S-K.
 
(b)  
Exhibits
 
   
The response to this portion of Item 15 is included in Item 15(a) (3) above.
 
(c)  
The following documents are filed as part of the report:
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
         
 
  CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS, INC.    
 
       
/s/ LEO S. ULLMAN
 
Leo S. Ullman
  /s/ LAWRENCE E. KREIDER, JR.
 
Lawrence E. Kreider, Jr.
   
President and Chairman
  Chief Financial Officer    
(principal executive officer)
  (principal financial officer)    
 
       
/s/ GASPARE J. SAITTA, II
 
Gaspare J. Saitta, II
       
Chief Accounting Officer
       
(principal accounting officer)
       
 
       
March 15, 2011
       
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and as of the date indicated.
       
/s/ JAMES J. BURNS
 
James J. Burns
  /s/ RAGHUNATH DAVLOOR
 
Raghunath Davloor
Director
  Director
 
   
/s/ RICHARD HOMBURG
 
Richard Homburg
  /s/ PAMELA N. HOOTKIN
 
Pamela N. Hootkin
Director
  Director
 
   
/s/ PAUL G. KIRK, JR
 
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
  /s/ EVERETT B. MILLER, III
 
Everett B. Miller, III
Director
  Director
 
   
/s/ LEO S. ULLMAN
 
Leo S. Ullman
  /s/ ROGER M. WIDMANN
 
Roger M. Widmann
Director
  Director
March 15, 2011

 

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