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Organization and Principles of Consolidation | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Organization and Principles of Consolidation |
1. | Organization and Significant Accounting Policies
General Regency Centers Corporation (the “Parent Company”) began its operations as a Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) in 1993 and is the general partner of Regency Centers, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”). The Parent Company primarily engages in the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition, and development and redevelopment of shopping centers through the Operating Partnership, and has no other assets other than through its investment in the Operating Partnership, and its only liabilities are $500 million of unsecured public and private placement notes, which are co-issued and guaranteed by the Operating Partnership. The Parent Company guarantees all of the unsecured debt of the Operating Partnership. As of September 30, 2019, the Parent Company, the Operating Partnership, and their controlled subsidiaries on a consolidated basis owned 305 properties and held partial interests in an additional 117 properties through unconsolidated investments in real estate partnerships (also referred to as "joint ventures" or "investment partnerships"). The consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to fairly state the results for the interim periods presented. These adjustments are considered to be of a normal recurring nature. Consolidation The Company consolidates properties that are wholly-owned and properties where it owns less than 100%, but which it has control over the activities most important to the overall success of the partnership. Control is determined using an evaluation based on accounting standards related to the consolidation of Variable Interest Entities ("VIEs") and voting interest entities. Ownership of the Operating Partnership The Operating Partnership’s capital includes general and limited common Partnership Units. As of September 30, 2019, the Parent Company owned approximately 99.6% of the outstanding common Partnership Units of the Operating Partnership with the remaining limited common Partnership Units held by third parties (“Exchangeable operating partnership units” or “EOP units”). The EOP units are exchangeable for cash or one share of common stock of the Parent Company, at the discretion of the Parent Company, and the unit holder cannot require redemption in cash or other assets. The Parent Company has evaluated the conditions as specified under ASC Topic 480 as it relates to exchangeable operating partnership units outstanding and concluded that it has the right to satisfy the redemption requirements of the units by delivering unregistered common stock. Accordingly, the Parent Company classifies EOP units as permanent equity in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets and Consolidated Statements of Equity and Comprehensive Income. The Parent Company serves as general partner of the Operating Partnership. The EOP unit holders have limited rights over the Operating Partnership such that they do not have the power to direct the activities of the Operating Partnership. As such, the Operating Partnership is considered a VIE, and the Parent Company, which consolidates it, is the primary beneficiary. The Parent Company’s only investment is the Operating Partnership. Net income and distributions of the Operating Partnership are allocable to the general and limited common Partnership Units in accordance with their ownership percentages. Real Estate Partnerships As of September 30, 2019, Regency had a partial ownership interest in 128 properties through partnerships, of which 11 are consolidated. Regency's partners include institutional investors, other real estate developers and/or operators, and individual parties who had a role in Regency sourcing transactions for development and investment (the "Partners" or "limited partners"). Regency has a variable interest in these entities through its equity interests, with Regency the primary beneficiary in certain of these real estate partnerships. As such, Regency consolidates the partnerships for which it is the primary beneficiary and reports the limited partners’ interests as noncontrolling interests. For those partnerships which Regency is not the primary beneficiary and does not control, but has significant influence, Regency recognizes its investment in them using the equity method of accounting. The assets of these partnerships are restricted to the use of the partnerships and cannot be used by general creditors of the Company. And similarly, the obligations of the partnerships can only be settled by the assets of these partnerships or additional contributions by the partners. The major classes of assets, liabilities, and non-controlling equity interests held by the Company's consolidated VIEs, exclusive of the Operating Partnership, are as follows:
(in thousands) |  | September 30, 2019 |  |  | December 31, 2018 |
Assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net real estate investments |  | $ | 319,290 |  |  |  | 112,085 |
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash |  |  | 18,270 |  |  |  | 7,309 |
Liabilities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Notes payable |  |  | 18,373 |  |  |  | 18,432 |
Equity |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Limited partners’ interests in consolidated partnerships |  |  | 30,941 |  |  |  | 30,280 |
Leases Lease Income and Tenant Receivables The Company leases space to tenants under agreements with varying terms that generally provide for fixed payments of base rent, with designated increases over the term of the lease. Some of the lease agreements contain provisions that provide for additional rents based on tenants' sales volume ("percentage rent"). Percentage rents are recognized when the tenants achieve the specified targets as defined in their lease agreements. Additionally, most lease agreements contain provisions for reimbursement of the tenants' share of actual real estate taxes, insurance and common area maintenance (“CAM”) costs (collectively "Recoverable Costs") incurred. Lease terms generally range from three to seven years for tenant space under 10,000 square feet (“Shop Space”) and in excess of five years for spaces greater than 10,000 square feet (“Anchor Tenants”). Many leases also provide the option for the tenants to extend their lease beyond the initial term of the lease. If a tenant does not exercise its option or otherwise negotiate to renew, the lease expires and the lease contains an obligation for the tenant to relinquish its space so it can be leased to a new tenant. This generally involves some level of cost to prepare the space for re-leasing, which is capitalized and depreciated over the shorter of the life of the subsequent lease or the life of the improvement. On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the new accounting guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 842, Leases, including all related Accounting Standard Updates (“ASU”). The Company elected to use the alternative modified retrospective transition method provided in ASU 2018-11 (the "effective date method"). Under this method, the effective date of January 1, 2019 is the date of initial application. In connection with the adoption of Topic 842, the Company elected a package of practical expedients, transition options, and accounting policy elections as follows:
| • | Package of practical expedients - applied to all leases, allowing the Company not to reassess (i) whether expired or existing contracts contain leases under the new definition of a lease, (ii) lease classification for expired or existing leases, and (iii) whether previously capitalized initial direct costs would qualify for capitalization under Topic 842;
| • | For land easements, the Company elected not to assess at transition whether any expired or existing land easements are, or contain, leases if they were not previously accounted for as leases under the previous lease accounting standard ("Topic 840");
| • | Lessor separation and allocation practical expedient - Regency elected, as lessor, to aggregate non-lease components with the related lease component if certain conditions are met, and account for the combined component based on its predominant characteristic, which generally results in combining lease and non-lease components of its tenant lease contracts to a single line shown as Lease income in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations; and
| • | The Company made an accounting policy election to continue to exclude, from contract consideration, sales tax (and similar taxes) collected from lessees.
The Company's existing leases were not re-evaluated and continue to be classified as operating leases, as per the practical expedient package elected above. New and modified leases will now require evaluation of specific classification criteria, which, based on the customary terms of the Company's leases, should continue to be classified as operating leases. However, certain longer-term leases (both lessee and lessor leases) may be classified as direct financing or sales type leases, which may result in selling profit and an accelerated pattern of earnings recognition. On September 30, 2019, all of the Company’s leases were classified as operating leases. CAM is a non-lease component of the lease contract under Topic 842, and therefore would be accounted for under Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, and presented separate from Lease income in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, based on an allocation of the overall consideration in the lease contract, which is not necessarily the amount that would be billable to the tenants for CAM reimbursements per the terms of the lease contract. As the timing and pattern of providing the CAM service to the tenant is the same as the timing and pattern of the tenants' use of the underlying lease asset, the Company elected, as part of a practical expedient referred to above, to combine CAM with the remaining lease components, along with tenants' reimbursement of real estate taxes and insurance, and recognize them together as Lease income in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. Lease income for operating leases with fixed payment terms is recognized on a straight-line basis over the expected term of the lease for all leases for which collectibility is considered probable at the commencement date. At lease commencement, the Company generally expects that collectibility is probable due to the Company’s credit checks on tenants and other creditworthiness analysis undertaken before entering into a new lease; therefore, income from most operating leases is initially recognized on a straight-line basis. For operating leases in which collectibility of Lease income is not considered probable, Lease income is recognized on a cash basis and all previously recognized uncollectible Lease income is reversed in the period in which the Lease income is determined not to be probable of collection. In addition to the lease-specific collectability assessment performed under Topic 842, the Company also recognizes a general reserve, as a reduction to Lease income, for its portfolio of operating lease receivables which are not expected to be fully collectible based on the Company’s historical collection experience. Topic 842 also changes the treatment of leasing costs, such that non-contingent internal leasing and legal costs associated with leasing activities can no longer be capitalized. The Company, as a lessor, may only defer as initial direct costs the incremental costs of a tenant’s operating lease that would not have been incurred if the lease had not been obtained. These costs generally include third party broker payments, which are capitalized to Deferred leasing costs in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets and amortized over the expected term of the lease to Depreciation and amortization expense in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. Lease Obligations The Company has certain properties within its consolidated real estate portfolio that are either partially or completely on land subject to ground leases with third parties, which are all classified as operating leases. Accordingly, the Company owns only a long-term leasehold or similar interest in these properties. The building and improvements constructed on the leased land are capitalized as Real estate assets in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets and depreciated over the shorter of the useful life of the improvements or the lease term. In addition, the Company has non-cancelable operating leases pertaining to office space from which it conducts its business. Leasehold improvements are capitalized as tenant improvements, included in Other assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, and depreciated over the shorter of the useful life of the improvements or the lease term. Upon the adoption of Topic 842, the Company recognized Lease liabilities on its Consolidated Balance Sheets for its ground and office leases of $225.4 million at January 1, 2019, and corresponding Right of use assets of $297.8 million, net of or including the opening balance for straight-line rent and above / below market ground lease intangibles related to these same ground and office leases. A key input in estimating the Lease liabilities and resulting Right of use assets is establishing the discount rate in the lease, which requires additional inputs for the longer-term ground leases, including interest rates that correspond with the remaining term of the lease, the Company's credit spread, and a securitization adjustment necessary to reflect the collateralized payment terms present in the lease. The ground and office lease expenses continue to be recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the leases, including management's estimate of expected option renewal periods. For ground leases, the Company generally assumes it will exercise options through the latest option date of that shopping center's anchor tenant lease. See Note 7, Leases, for additional disclosures. Revenues and Other Receivables Other property income includes incidental income from the properties and is generally recognized at the point in time that the performance obligation is met. All income from contracts with the Company's real estate partnerships is included within Management, transaction and other fees on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The primary components of these revenue streams, the timing of satisfying the performance obligations, and amounts recognized are as follows:
|  |  |  | Three months ended September 30, |  |  | Nine months ended September 30, |
(in thousands) |  | Timing of satisfaction of performance obligations |  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
Other property income |  | Point in time |  | $ | 2,780 |  |  |  | 2,408 |  |  | $ | 6,956 |  |  |  | 6,755 |
Management, transaction and other fees |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Property management services |  | Over time |  |  | 3,648 |  |  |  | 3,588 |  |  |  | 11,076 |  |  |  | 11,008 |
Asset management services |  | Over time |  |  | 1,803 |  |  |  | 1,840 |  |  |  | 5,341 |  |  |  | 5,347 |
Leasing services |  | Point in time |  |  | 1,239 |  |  |  | 969 |  |  |  | 2,702 |  |  |  | 2,726 |
Other transaction fees |  | Point in time |  |  | 663 |  |  |  | 557 |  |  |  | 2,649 |  |  |  | 1,918 |
Total management, transaction, and other fees |  |  |  | $ | 7,353 |  |  |  | 6,954 |  |  | $ | 21,768 |  |  |  | 20,999 |
The accounts receivable for the above Other property income and management services, which are included within Tenant and other receivables in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets, are $11.1 million and $12.5 million, as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. Reclassifications Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to current year presentation, including amounts in Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets, and in Lease income and Other property income in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. Recent Accounting Pronouncements The following table provides a brief description of recent accounting pronouncements and expected impact on our financial statements:
Standard |  | Description |  | Date of adoption |  | Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
Recently adopted: |  |  |  |  |  |
Leases (Topic 842) and related updates: ASU 2016-02, February 2016, Leases (Topic 842) ASU 2018-10, July 2018: Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases ASU 2018-11, July 2018, Leases (Topic 842): Targeted Improvements ASU 2018-20, December 2018, Leases (Topic 842) : Narrow-Scope Improvements for Lessors ASU 2019-01, March 2019, Leases (Topic 842) : Codification Improvements |  | Topic 842 amends the existing accounting standards for lease accounting, including requiring lessees to recognize most leases on their balance sheets. It also makes targeted changes to lessor accounting. The provisions of these ASUs were effective as of January 1, 2019, with early adoption permitted. Topic 842 provides a modified retrospective transition approach for all leases existing at, or entered into after, the date of initial application, with an option to use certain transition relief or an additional transition method, allowing for initial application at the date of adoption and a cumulative-effect adjustment to opening retained earnings. See the updated Leases accounting policy disclosed earlier in Note 1 and the added Leases disclosures in Note 7. |  | January 2019 |  | The Company has completed its evaluation and adoption of this standard, as discussed earlier in Note 1. The Company utilized the alternative modified retrospective transition method provided in ASU 2018-11 (the "effective date method"), under which the effective date of January 1, 2019 is also the date of initial application. See the updated Leases accounting policy disclosed earlier in Note 1 and the added disclosures in Note 7, Leases. Beyond the policy, presentation and disclosure changes discussed, the following changes had a direct impact to Net Income from the adoption of Topic 842: Capitalization of indirect internal non-contingent leasing costs and legal leasing costs are no longer permitted upon the adoption of this standard, which is resulting in an increase to Total operating expenses in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Previous capitalization of internal leasing costs was $6.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2018. Previous capitalization of legal costs was $1.6 million during the year ended December 31, 2018, including our pro rata share recognized through Equity in income of investments in real estate partnerships.
Standard |  | Description |  | Date of adoption |  | Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
Not yet adopted: |  |  |  |  |  |
ASU 2016-13, June 2016, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments |  | This ASU replaces the incurred loss impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. This ASU applies to how the Company evaluates impairments of any available-for-sale debt securities and any lease receivables arising from leases classified as sales-type or direct finance leases. |  | January 2020 |  | The Company is currently evaluating the accounting standard, but does not expect the adoption to have a material impact on its financial statements and related disclosures.
ASU 2018-19, November 2018: Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses |  | This ASU clarifies that receivables arising from operating leases are not within the scope of Subtopic 326-20. Instead, impairment of receivables arising from operating leases should be accounted for in accordance with Topic 842, Leases. |  | January 2020 |  | The Company currently does not expect the adoption of this ASU to have a material impact on its financial statements and related disclosures. See Leases section of Note 1 for disclosure of collectibility policy over lease receivables from operating leases.
ASU 2018-13, August 2018, Fair Value Measurements (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement |  | This ASU modifies the disclosure requirements for fair value measurements within the scope of Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements, including the removal and modification of certain existing disclosures, and the addition of new disclosures. |  | January 2020 |  | The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this new accounting standard, which is expected to only impact fair value measurement disclosures and therefore should have no impact on the Company's financial statements and related disclosures.
ASU 2018-15, August 2018, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer's Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That is a Service Contract. |  | The amendments in this ASU align the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software (and hosting arrangements that include an internal-use software license). The ASU provides further clarification of the appropriate presentation of capitalized costs, the period over which to recognize the expense, the presentation within the Statements of Operations and Statements of Cash Flows, and the disclosure requirements. Early adoption of the standard is permitted. |  | January 2020 |  | The Company is currently evaluating the accounting standard, but does not expect the adoption to have a material impact on its financial statements and related disclosures.

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