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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

NOTE 17 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

Cash Management Agreement

 

In connection with the March 28, 2025 refinancing of the Hotel’s senior mortgage, Justice Operating Company, LLC (“Operating”) entered into a Cash Management Agreement with Prime Finance (lender) and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (cash management bank). Under this agreement, all Hotel receipts are deposited into a lender-controlled lockbox pursuant to a deposit account control agreement and swept to a cash management account maintained for the benefit of the lender. The cash management bank maintains subaccounts (including debt service, property tax, insurance, capital expenditure/FF&E, PIP, carry reserve, cash collateral, casualty/condemnation and security deposit subaccounts). On each monthly payment date, funds are applied in a set priority: (i) tax reserve, (ii) insurance reserve, (iii) bank fees, (iv) amounts due under the senior loan (interest and any other amounts due thereunder), (v) capital expenditure/FF&E reserve, (vi) approved operating expenses and custodial funds, and (vii) all remaining “available cash” to the carry reserve during the initial cash-management period or, thereafter, to the cash collateral subaccount, all in accordance with the loan documents. The account must maintain a minimum balance of $5,000. While no event of default exists, interest on balances (other than tax and insurance subaccounts) accrues to Operating; upon an event of default, the lender may direct application of all funds in any order to the debt. The agreement contains customary subordination of bank set-off rights, indemnities, New York governing-law and jury-trial-waiver provisions. See also Note 10—Mortgage Notes Payable. The Cash Management Agreement referenced above is incorporated by reference to the Annual Report of Form 10-K of Portsmouth Square, Inc. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (see Item 15(a)(3) – Exhibits).

 

 

Franchise Agreements

 

Justice Investors Limited Partnership (now dissolved) entered into a Franchise License Agreement with HLT Existing Franchise Holding LLC (“Hilton”) on December 10, 2004. The agreement provided an initial 15-year term from the Hotel’s conversion to the Hilton brand and included an option to extend, subject to conditions. On June 26, 2015, Operating and Hilton executed an amended franchise agreement that, among other things, extended the franchise term through January 31, 2030 and provided key-money incentives, subject to the applicable terms.

 

Since the opening of the Hotel as a full brand Hilton in January 2006, it has incurred monthly royalties, marketing/program fees, and information-technology charges equal to a percentage of the Hotel’s gross room revenue. Fees for such services during fiscal year 2025 and 2024 totaled approximately $3,529,000 and $2,967,000, respectively, and are included in Hotel operating expenses.

 

Employees

 

The Company’s corporate office and multifamily operations had 30 employees as of June 30, 2025 and the Hotel operations had 187 employees as of June 30, 2025. On February 3, 2017, Aimbridge assumed all labor union agreements as agent for the Hotel under the management agreement; Operating provides all funding for all payroll and related costs. As of June 30, 2025, approximately 90% of Hotel employees were represented by one of three labor unions, and their terms of employment were determined under various collective bargaining agreements (“CBAs”) to which Aimbridge is a party as agent for the Hotel. CBA for Local 2 (Hotel and Restaurant Employees) expires August 13, 2028. CBA for Local 856 (International Brotherhood of Teamsters) expires December 31, 2028. CBA for Local 39 (Stationary Engineers) expires July 2030.

 

Negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, which includes not just terms and conditions of employment, but scope and coverage of employees, is a regular and expected course of business operations for Portsmouth and Aimbridge. Portsmouth anticipates that CBA terms will affect wage and benefits, operating expenses, and certain Hotel operations over the life of each CBA and reflects there factors in operating and budgeting processes.

 

Legal Matters

 

Portsmouth, through Operating, owns the real property located at 750 Kearny Street, San Francisco, which is improved with the Hotel and five-level parking garage.. The Property was purchased and improved pursuant to the terms of a series of agreements with the City and County of San Francisco (the “City”) in the early 1970’s. The terms of the agreements and subsequent approvals and permits included a condition by which the owner was required to construct an ornamental overhead pedestrian bridge across Kearny Street, connecting the Property to a nearby City park and underground parking garage known as Portsmouth Square (the “Bridge”). Included in the approval process was the City’s issuance of a Major Encroachment Permit (“Permit”) allowing the Bridge to span over Kearny Street. As of May 24, 2022, the City purported to revoke the Permit and on June 13, 2022, directed Operating to submit a general bridge removal and restoration plan (the “Plan”) at owner’s expense. Portsmouth and Operating dispute the legality of the purported revocation of the Permit. They further dispute the existence of any legal or contractual obligation to remove the Bridge at owner’s expense. In particular, representatives from the owner participated in meetings with the City on and at various times after August 1, 2019, to discuss a collaborative process for the possible removal of the Bridge. Until the purported revocation of the Permit in 2022, the City representatives repeatedly and consistently promised and agreed that the City would pay for the associated costs of any Bridge removal and restoration of the front of the Hotel’s back to its current condition. Nevertheless, without waiving any rights, in an effort to understand all of the available options, and to provide a response to the City’s directives, Operating has engaged a Project Manager, a structural engineering firm and an architect to advise on the development of a Plan for the Bridge removal, as well as the reconstruction of the front of the Hilton Hotel. Operating has been working cooperatively with the City on the process of the removal of the Bridge and its related physical encroachments, including obtaining regulatory approvals and permits. Discussions are ongoing with the City regarding both the process and financial responsibility for the implementation of the Plan and reconstruction of the portions impacted of the Hotel. Those discussions are expected to continue at least through the third calendar quarter of 2025. A final Plan is currently expected to be completed and submitted for approval in late 2025; permits for demolition are unlikely to be obtained before early 2026, with demolition not anticipated before March 2026 at the earliest.

 

At this time, the Company cannot reasonably estimate the probability or amount of any loss, contribution, or recovery related to this matter; accordingly, no accrual has been recorded under ASC 450. From time to time, InterGroup and its subsidiaries may be involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. Management intends to defend such matters vigorously. Based on information currently available, management does not believe the ultimate resolution of such matters will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.