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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

In connection with the separation, the Company and Vornado Realty Trust (“Vornado”) entered into a transition services agreement under which Vornado provided transition services to the Company including human resources, information technology, risk management, tax services and office space and support. The fees charged to us by Vornado for those transition services approximated the actual cost incurred by Vornado in providing such services. On June 28, 2016, the Company executed an amendment to the transition services agreement, extending Vornado’s provision of information technology, risk management services and the portion of the human resources service related to health and benefits through July 31, 2018, unless terminated earlier. Fees for these services remain the same except that they may be adjusted for inflation. As of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, there were no amounts due to Vornado related to such services.

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, there were $0.3 million and $1.2 million, respectively, of costs paid to Vornado included in general and administrative expenses, which consisted of $0.2 million and $0.7 million, respectively, of rent expense for two of our office locations and $0.1 million and $0.5 million, respectively, of transition services fees. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, there were $0.4 million and $1.3 million, respectively, of costs paid to Vornado included in general and administrative expenses, which consisted of $0.2 million and $0.7 million, respectively, of rent expense for two of our office locations and $0.2 million and $0.6 million of transition services fees, respectively.




Management and Development Fees
 
In connection with the separation, the Company and Vornado entered into property management agreements under which the Company provides management, development, leasing and other services to certain properties owned by Vornado and its affiliates, including Interstate Properties (“Interstate”) and Alexander’s, Inc. (NYSE:ALX). Interstate is a general partnership that owns retail properties in which Steven Roth, Chairman of Vornado’s Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vornado, and a member of our Board of Trustees, is the managing general partner. Interstate and its partners beneficially owned an aggregate of approximately 7.1% of the common shares of beneficial interest of Vornado as of December 31, 2016. As of September 30, 2017, Vornado owned 32.4% of Alexander’s, Inc. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, we recognized management and development fee income of $0.4 million and $1.2 million, respectively, and $0.4 million and $1.4 million for the same periods in 2016. As of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively, there were $0.3 million of fees due from Vornado included in tenant and other receivables in our consolidated balance sheets.