Mortgage

6 Months Ended

Jul. 05, 2014

7. Mortgage

We have a ten-year mortgage loan with the German American Capital Corporation. The mortgage matures July 1, 2016, and is secured by 49 distribution facilities. The stated interest rate on the mortgage is fixed at 6.35%. German American Capital Corporation assigned half of its interest in the mortgage loan to Wells Fargo Bank and both lenders securitized their Notes in separate commercial mortgage backed securities pools in 2006. In connection with the mortgage loan, we capitalized $3.4 million of financing costs. The costs will be amortized as additional interest expense over the term of the mortgage. As of July 5, 2014, the unamortized debt discount balance was $1.5 million. The debt discount is netted against the $178.7 million mortgage loan, resulting in a net mortgage loan of $177.2 million. As of January 4, 2014, the unamortized debt discount balance was $1.6 million. The debt discount is netted against the $186.9 million mortgage loan, resulting in a net mortgage loan of $185.3 million.

The mortgage loan required interest-only payments through June 2011, at which time we began making payments on the outstanding principal balance. The balance of the loan outstanding at the end of the ten year term will then become due and payable. The principal will be paid in the following increments (in thousands):


2014	$	1,142
2015		2,496
2016		175,044
Thereafter		—
Total	$	178,682

Under the terms of our mortgage, we are required to transfer certain funds to be held as collateral. On September 19, 2012, we entered into an amendment to our mortgage agreement, which provided for the immediate prepayment of approximately $11.8 million of the indebtedness under the mortgage agreement without incurring a prepayment premium from cash currently held as collateral under the mortgage agreement. In addition, on the last business day of each calendar quarter, starting with the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, additional funds held as collateral under the mortgage agreement will be used to prepay indebtedness under the mortgage agreement, without prepayment premium, up to an aggregate additional prepayment of $10.0 million. Thereafter, any cash remaining in the collateral account under the mortgage agreement, up to an aggregate of $10.0 million, will be released to the Company on the last business day of each calendar quarter, ending no later than the third quarter of fiscal 2014. All funds released pursuant to these provisions may only be used by the Company to pay for usual and customary operating expenses. During the periods described above in which cash in the collateral account is used to either prepay indebtedness under the mortgage agreement or released to the Company, the lenders will not release any of the cash collateral to the Company for specified capital expenditures as previously provided under the mortgage agreement. Approximately $3.1 million of cash held in collateral were released to the Company during the first quarter of fiscal 2014 to pay for usual and customary operating expenses. The final release of $3.0 million was completed during the second quarter of fiscal 2014. The Company will not receive any additional releases. We expect to transfer approximately $12.2 million into the mortgage escrow as collateral during the next twelve month period.

During the second quarter of fiscal 2014, we sold our closed facility in Portland, Oregon. We used the $6.9 million received, which represents the required release price related to the property, to pay down the outstanding principal of the mortgage in the second quarter of fiscal 2014, without penalty.

During the third quarter of fiscal 2013, we sold our former sales center in Denver, Colorado and increased the restricted cash related to our mortgage by $8.4 million, which represents the required release price related to the property, without penalty. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, we sold our Sioux Falls, South Dakota facility and increased the restricted cash related to our mortgage by $1.9 million, which represents the allocated mortgage related to the property. This restricted cash for both locations was used to pay down the outstanding principal of the mortgage in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.