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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Legal Matters
From time to time, we are a party to various legal proceedings, claims or regulatory inquiries and investigations arising out of, or incident to, our ordinary course of business. While we are unable to predict with certainty the outcome of any particular matter, management does not currently expect, when such matters are resolved, that our resulting exposure to loss contingencies, if any, will have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or consolidated financial position.

Redevelopment and Anchor Repositioning
The Company has 23 active development, redevelopment or anchor repositioning projects with total estimated costs of $156.4 million, of which $84.8 million remains to be funded as of March 31, 2025. We continue to monitor the stabilization dates of these projects, which can be impacted from economic conditions affecting our tenants, vendors and supply chains. We have identified future projects in our development pipeline, but we are under no obligation to execute and fund any of these projects and each of these projects is being further evaluated based on market conditions.

Insurance
On January 1, 2025, the Company established SC Risk Solutions LLC (“the Captive”), a wholly-owned captive insurance company, which provides excess flood and general liability insurance for our properties. The Captive establishes annual premiums based on projections derived from past loss experience, actuarial analysis of future projected claims and market rates. The actuarial analysis is also used to assist in projecting funding requirements for losses.
The Company also maintains numerous insurance policies including for property, pollution, acts of terrorism, trustees’ and officers’, cyber, workers’ compensation and automobile-related liabilities. However, all such policies are subject to terms, conditions, exclusions, deductibles and sub-limits, amongst other limiting factors. For example, the Company’s terrorism insurance excludes coverage for nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological terrorism events as defined by the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act.
Insurance premiums are typically charged directly to each of the properties but not all of the cost of such premiums are recovered. The Company is responsible for deductibles, losses in excess of insurance coverage, and the portion of premiums not reimbursable by tenants at our properties, which could be material.
We continue to monitor the state of the insurance market and the scope and costs of available coverage. Certain insurance premiums have increased significantly and may continue to do so in the future. We cannot anticipate what coverage will be
available on commercially reasonable terms and expect premiums across most coverage lines to continue to increase in light of recent events including hurricanes and flooding in our core markets. The incurrence of uninsured losses, costs or uncovered premiums could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and consolidated financial position.
Certain of our loans and other agreements contain customary covenants requiring the maintenance of insurance coverage. Although we believe that we currently have adequate insurance coverage for purposes of these agreements, we may not be able to obtain an equivalent amount of coverage at reasonable costs in the future. If lenders or other counterparties insist on greater coverage than we are able to obtain, such requirement could materially and adversely affect our ability to finance our properties and expand our portfolio.

Environmental Matters
Each of our properties has been subjected to varying degrees of environmental assessment at various times. Based on these assessments, we have accrued costs of $1.1 million and $1.3 million on our consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, for remediation costs for environmental contamination at certain properties. While this accrual reflects our best estimates of the potential costs of remediation at these properties, there can be no assurance that the actual costs will not exceed these amounts. Although we are not aware of any other material environmental contamination, there can be no assurance that the identification of new areas of contamination, changes in the extent or known scope of contamination, the discovery of additional sites, or changes in cleanup requirements would not result in significant costs to us.

Bankruptcies
Although our rental revenue is supported by long-term leases, leases may be rejected in a bankruptcy proceeding and the related tenant stores may permanently vacate prior to lease expiration. In the event a tenant with a significant number of leases or square footage in our shopping centers files for bankruptcy and rejects its leases with us, we could experience a reduction in our revenues. We monitor the operating performance and rent collections of all tenants in our shopping centers, especially those tenants in arrears or operating retail formats that are experiencing significant changes in competition, business practice, or store closings in other locations.
During the quarter ended March 31, 2025, the Company had five tenants in active bankruptcy litigation: Big Lots, Vitamin Shoppe, Party City, Sticky’s Finger Joint and Forever 21. As of January 1, 2025, we had four leases with Vitamin Shoppe, three leases with Party City, two leases with Big Lots, and one lease with each of Sticky’s Finger Joint and Forever 21 that were impacted by the bankruptcy filings. Two of the Company’s leases with Party City, one lease with Big Lots, and its sole lease with Forever 21 were rejected in the bankruptcy proceedings as of March 31, 2025. The seven remaining leases total 61,000 sf and generate $1.9 million in annual rental revenue. Given the recent bankruptcy filings, it is uncertain whether these stores will continue to operate, close permanently, or whether they will be sold to other operators as part of the bankruptcy proceedings.

Letters of Credit
As of March 31, 2025, the Company had seven letters of credit issued under our revolving credit agreement aggregating $32.1 million. These letters were provided to mortgage lenders and other entities to secure the Company’s obligations in relation to certain reserves and capital requirements. If a lender or other entity were to draw on a letter of credit, the Company would have the option to pay the capital commitment directly to the holder of the letter or to record the draw as a liability on its unsecured line of credit, bearing interest at SOFR plus an applicable margin per the revolving credit agreement. As of March 31, 2025, the letters remain undrawn and there is no separate liability recorded in connection with their issuance.