Revenue Recognition

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

The Company engages in the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition, disposition and redevelopment of retail shopping centers. Revenue is primarily generated through lease agreements and classified as Rental income on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations. These agreements include retail shopping center unit leases; ground leases; ancillary leases or agreements, such as agreements with tenants for cellular towers, ATMs, and short-term or seasonal retail (e.g. Halloween or Christmas-related retail); and reciprocal easement agreements. The agreements range in term from less than one year to 25 or more years, with certain agreements containing renewal options. These renewal options range from as little as one month to five or more years. The Company’s retail shopping center leases generally require tenants to pay their proportionate share of property operating expenses such as common area expenses, utilities, insurance and real estate taxes, and certain capital expenditures related to the maintenance of the Company’s properties.

As of December 31, 2020, the fixed contractual lease payments to be received over the next five years pursuant to the terms of non-cancelable operating leases are included in the table below, assuming that no leases are renewed and no renewal options are exercised. The table below includes payments from tenants who have taken possession of their space and tenants who have been moved to the cash basis of accounting for revenue recognition purposes. The table does not include variable lease payments which may be received under certain leases for the reimbursement of property operating expenses, the reimbursement of certain capital expenditures related to the maintenance of the Company’s properties, or percentage rents. These variable lease payments are recognized, in the case of reimbursements, in the period when the applicable expenditures are incurred and/or contractually required to be repaid or, in the case of percentage rents, when the sales data is made available.


Year ending December 31,	Operating Leases
2021	$	820,956
2022	728,098
2023	627,664
2024	519,600
2025	412,324
Thereafter	1,372,125

The Company recognized $4.2 million, $7.5 million and $6.6 million of rental income based on percentage rents for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. These amounts are included in Rental income on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, receivables associated with the effects of recognizing rental income on a straight-line basis were $127.3 million and $140.2 million, respectively.

COVID-19

The global outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus (“COVID-19”) and the public health measures that have been undertaken in response have had a significant adverse impact on the Company’s business, the Company’s tenants, the real estate market, the global economy, and the financial markets. The effects of COVID-19, including related government restrictions, border closings, quarantines, “shelter-in-place” orders and “social distancing” guidelines, have forced many of the Company’s tenants to close stores, reduce hours or significantly limit service, and have resulted in a dramatic increase in national unemployment and a significant economic contraction. Certain tenants experiencing economic difficulties during this pandemic have sought rent relief, which has been provided on a case-by-case basis primarily in the form of rent deferrals, and, in more limited cases, in the form of rent abatements.

Under ASC 842, changes to the amount or timing of lease payments subsequent to the original lease execution are generally accounted for as lease modifications. Due to the number of lease contracts that would require analysis to

determine, on a lease by lease basis, whether such a concession is required to be accounted for as a lease modification, the FASB issued a Staff Q&A on accounting for leases during the COVID-19 pandemic, focused on the application of lease guidance in ASC 842. The Q&A states that it would be acceptable to make a policy election regarding rent concessions resulting from COVID-19, which would not require entities to account for the rent concessions as lease modifications or to determine whether rent concessions were contractually obligated in each original lease. Rent abatements would be recognized as reductions to revenue during the period in which they were granted. Rent deferrals would result in an increase to “Receivables, net” during the deferral period with no impact on rental revenue recognition. Any rent concession that is either unrelated to COVID-19 or substantially increases the total consideration due under the lease does not qualify for consideration under the Q&A. The Company has evaluated the impact of the Q&A and has made the following policy elections:

•The Company accounts for COVID-19 rent deferrals and abatements that significantly increase the consideration due under the lease as lease modifications in accordance with ASC 842. As a result, rental revenue recognition is reduced by the amount of the deferral or abatement in the period it was granted and straight-line rental income recognition is updated over the remaining lease term.

•The Company does not account for COVID-19 rent deferrals that do not significantly increase the consideration due under the lease as lease modifications. As a result, rental revenue recognition does not change, and Receivables, net increases for the deferred amount.

•The Company does not account for COVID-19 rent abatements that do not significantly increase the consideration due under the lease as lease modifications. As a result, rental revenue recognition is reduced by the amount of the abatement in the period it was granted and straight-line rental income recognition does not change over the remaining lease term.

The following table presents the COVID-19 related deferrals and abatements granted for lease payments due during the year ended December 31, 2020. Lease payments presented consist of fixed contractual base rent and may include the reimbursement of certain property operating expenses.


	Year Ended December 31, 2020
	Deferrals		Abatements
Lease payments (lease modifications)	$	3,544	$	2,103
Lease payments (not lease modifications)	42,080		2,096
	$	45,624	$	4,199

The following table presents the deferrals that were not lease modifications and were included in Receivables, net on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets:


	COVID-19 Deferred Receivable
Beginning balance, March 31, 2020	$	—
Deferred lease payments (not lease modifications)	42,080
Deferred lease payments deemed uncollectible	(17,928)
Deferred lease payments received	(8,793)
Ending balance, December 31, 2020	$	15,359