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Transactions with Related Parties
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Transactions with Related Parties

14.    Transactions with Related Parties

In 2012, the Company sold its interest in a consolidated joint venture which owned property in East Gwillimbury, Canada, to its joint venture partner (Note 12). In 2011, the Company sold its interest in a consolidated joint venture which owned property in Brampton, Canada, to its joint venture partner (Note 12). In 2011, the Company sold its interest in an unconsolidated joint venture which owned property in Wisconsin to its joint venture partner.

The Investor (Note 10) is the Chief Executive Officer of ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG (“ECE”), which is a fully integrated international developer, owner and manager of shopping centers. In 2007, DDR and ECE formed a joint venture to fund investments in new retail developments to be constructed in western Russia and Ukraine (“ECE Joint Venture”). DDR contributed 75% of the equity of the joint venture, and ECE contributed the remaining 25% of the equity. The Company consolidates the ECE Joint Venture. ECE, through its wholly-owned affiliates, was to provide development, property management, leasing and asset management services to the ECE Joint Venture and be paid fees, pursuant to service agreements. In addition, two of the Company’s directors hold various positions with affiliates of ECE, the Otto Family and/or the ECE Joint Venture’s general partner. In 2011, the ECE Joint Venture entered into an agreement to sell the Yaroslavl Project (Note 10 and 12), which was sold in 2012. In connection with the sale, an affiliate of the Company’s joint venture partner entered into certain leasing and management agreements with the buyer of the Yaroslavl Project and will receive fees in exchange for its services.

In 2010, the Company funded a $31.7 million mezzanine loan to a subsidiary of EDT Retail Trust (“EDT”) collateralized by equity interests in six shopping center assets managed by the Company. Although the Company’s interest in EDT was redeemed in 2009, the Company retained two positions on EDT’s board of directors through June 2012. The mezzanine loan bore interest at a fixed rate of 10%. For the first six months of 2012, the period in which EDT owned the assets, the Company recorded $1.5 million of interest income, and for the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company recorded $3.2 million in interest income. The loan was assumed by the Company’s unconsolidated joint venture BRE DDR Retail Holdings, LLC and reclassified into Investments in and Advances to Joint Ventures in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2012 (Note 2). In 2013, this loan was repaid in its entirety and applied to fund the Blackstone Acquisition (Notes 2 and 3).

Transactions with the Company’s equity affiliates are described in Note 2.