Basis of Presentation and Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

The Company has made certain reclassifications to the condensed consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 to conform to the 2018 presentation, including a $1,019 and $2,846 reclassification, respectively, of certain payroll costs from general and administrative expenses to property operating expenses based on the determination by the Company that certain functions' activities were more directly associated with the operations of the retail properties than corporate-level activities.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted, continued

Any other recently issued accounting standards or pronouncements not disclosed above have been excluded as they are either not relevant to the Company, or are not expected to have a material effect on the condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company.

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Date of adoption

Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters

ASU No. 2016-02, Leases, (Topic 842) and related updates

ASU No. 2016-02 amends the existing guidance for lease accounting for both parties to a lease contract (i.e. lessees and lessors). ASU No. 2016-02 will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and early adoption is permitted. The new standard requires a modified retrospective transition method for all leases existing at the date of initial application, with an option to use certain practical expedients available.

January 2019

The Company will adopt the new standard and related updates on a modified retrospective basis on January 1, 2019 and will apply the effective date method in which the elected practical expedients will be applied consistently to all leases commenced before the effective date of January 1, 2019. The Company's comparative periods will not be restated.

The Company will elect the accounting policy, among others, to not separate lease and non-lease components for all qualifying leases. In effect, this will generally relieve the Company from the requirement to account for certain consideration under the new revenue standard.

Due to the new standard’s narrowed definition of initial direct costs, the Company expects to expense as incurred certain lease origination costs currently capitalized and amortized to expense over the lease term. Any costs no longer qualifying as initial direct costs will result in an increase to general and administrative expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income in the period of adoption and prospectively. However, the Company does not believe this change will have a material impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements.

As a lessee, the most significant impact to the Company will be the recognition of a new right-of-use asset and lease liability on the condensed consolidated balance sheet of approximately $3,000, which was estimated by utilizing an average discount rate of approximately 4.4%, reflecting the Company's incremental borrowing rate. These initial estimates are based on the Company’s corporate office and ground lease arrangements as of September 30, 2018 and may change prior to the adoption date.

As a lessor, the Company believes that substantially all of the Company's leases will continue to be classified as operating leases under the new standard and will continue to record revenues from rental properties on a straight-line basis. However, certain ground, anchor, and other long-term leases entered into or acquired subsequent to the adoption date have an increased likelihood of being classified as either sales-type or finance-type leases.