Investments

and Advances

Real Estate Joint Ventures

The Company and its subsidiaries have investments in and advances to various real estate joint ventures. These joint ventures are engaged primarily in the operation of shopping centers which are either owned or held under long-term operating leases. The Company and the joint venture partners have joint approval rights for major decisions, including those regarding property operations. As such, the Company holds noncontrolling interests in these joint ventures and accounts for them under the equity method of accounting.

The table below presents joint venture investments for which the Company held an ownership interest at

March 31, 2018

and

December 31, 2017 (

in millions, except number of properties):

			March 31, 2018		December 31, 2017
Joint Venture	Ownership Interest		The Company's Investment		The Company's Investment
Prudential Investment Program (“KimPru” and “KimPru II”) (1) (2) (3)		15.0%	$	185.6	$	179.5
Kimco Income Opportunity Portfolio (“KIR”) (2)		48.6%		156.7		154.1
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPP”) (2)		55.0%		109.0		105.0
Other Joint Venture Programs (3) (4)	Various			108.8		45.3
Total*			$	560.1	$	483.9

* Representing

118

property interests and

24.1

million square feet of GLA, as of

March 31, 2018,

and

118

property interests and

23.5

million square feet of GLA, as of

December 31, 2017.

(

)

Represents

four

separate joint ventures, with

four

separate accounts managed by Prudential Global Investment Management (“PGIM”),

three

of these ventures are collectively referred to as KimPru and the remaining venture is referred to as KimPru II.

(

)

The Company manages these joint venture investments and, where applicable, earns property management fees, construction management fees, property acquisition and disposition fees, leasing management fees and asset management fees.

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)

As of

December 31, 2017,

the Company had aggregate net deferred gains of

$6.9

million relating to the disposal of operating properties prior to the adoption of ASU

2017

05.

These deferred gains were included in the Company’s investment above, of which

$5.1

million relates to KimPru II and

$1.8

million relates to Other Joint Venture Programs. Upon adoption, the Company recorded a cumulative-effect adjustment of

$6.9

million to its beginning retained earnings as of

January 1, 2018

on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity. See Footnote

to the Notes to the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail and discussion.

(

)

During

March 2018,

the Company sold a portion of its investment in a consolidated operating property to its partner and amended the partnership agreement to provide for joint control of the entity. As a result of the amendment, the Company

longer consolidates the entity. The Company now has an investment in this unconsolidated property of

$62.4

million. See Footnotes

and

to the Notes to the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail and discussion.

The table below presents the Company’s share of net income for the above investments which is included in Equity in income of joint ventures, net on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for the

three

months ended

March 31, 2018

and

2017

(in millions):

	Three Months Ended March 31,
Joint Venture	201 8		2017
KimPru and KimPru II	$	2.9	$	3.3
KIR		9.0		9.4
CPP		1.2		1.7
Other Joint Venture Programs		3.8		0.3
Total	$	16.9	$	14.7

During the

three

months ended

March 31, 2018,

certain of the Company’s real estate joint ventures disposed of

two

operating properties, in separate transactions, for an aggregate sales price of

$17.1

million. These transactions resulted in an aggregate gain to the Company of

$2.1

million for the

three

months ended

March 31, 2018.

During the

three

months ended

March 31, 2017,

certain of the Company’s real estate joint ventures disposed of

five

operating properties, in separate transactions, for an aggregate sales price of

$47.7

million. These transactions resulted in an aggregate net gain to the Company of

$0.9

million, before income taxes, for the

three

months ended

March 31, 2017.

In addition, during the

three

months ended

March 31, 2017,

the Company acquired a controlling interest in

two

operating properties from certain joint ventures, in separate transactions, for a gross purchase price of

$15.4

million.

The table below presents debt balances within the Company’s unconsolidated joint venture investments for which the Company held noncontrolling ownership interests at

March 31, 2018

and

December 31, 2017 (

dollars in millions):

	As of March 31, 2018							As of December 31, 2017
Joint Venture	Mortgages and Notes Payable , Net		Weighted Average Interest Rate			Weighted Average Remaining Term (months)*		Mortgages and Notes Payable , Net		Weighted Average Interest Rate			Weighted Average Remaining Term (months)*
KimPru and KimPru II	$	624.4		3.77	%		56.8	$	625.7		3.59	%		59.8
KIR		698.3		4.62	%		44.6		702.0		4.60	%		47.5
CPP		85.0		3.22	%		1.0		84.9		2.91	%		4.0
Other Joint Venture Programs		481.1		4.33	%		77.7		287.6		4.41	%		27.2
Total	$	1,888.8						$	1,700.2

* Includes extension options