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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies Commitments and Contingencies
Lease Commitments
The Company is a lessee under one ground lease agreement at June 30, 2025. As of June 30, 2025, the Company's remaining lease term is approximately 45.9 years, and the discount rate used to calculate the Company's lease liability is approximately 8.6%. Rent expense under the Company's ground lease agreements was approximately $0.1 million for each of the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.
Litigation
The Company is involved in various legal proceedings in the ordinary course of its business, including, but not limited to commercial disputes. The Company believes that such litigation, claims and administrative proceedings will not have a material adverse impact on its financial position or its results of operations. The Company records a liability when it considers the loss probable and the amount can be reasonably estimated.
Preferred stockholders of the Company have filed a putative class action suit against the directors of the Company prior to its August 2022 merger (the "Merger") with a WHLR subsidiary (collectively, the "Former Directors") in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland captioned Anthony Aquino, et al. v. Bruce Schanzer, et al., Case No.: C-15-CV-25-000731 (the "Aquino Action"). The Aquino Action alleges that the Former Directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company’s preferred stockholders through the Merger. The claims in the Aquino Action mirror the fiduciary duty breach claims that were a subject of the putative class action complaint entitled Kim, et al., v. Cedar Realty Trust, Inc., et al. (the "Kim Action"), which was dismissed with prejudice in 2023 by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The dismissal was affirmed on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2024. The Aquino Action alleges that the courts in the Kim Action misinterpreted Maryland law on fiduciary duties to preferred stockholders. Neither the Company nor WHLR have been sued in the Aquino Action. The Company has a contractual obligation to indemnify the Former Directors. The Former Directors have filed to dismiss the Aquino Action, which has been fully briefed. At this juncture, the outcome of the litigation remains uncertain.