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Cedar Realty Trust

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Type
  
Public

Founded
  
1984

Founder
  
Leo S Ullman

Number of employees
  
71

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Traded as
  
NYSE: CDR S&P 600 Component

Number of locations
  
65 operating properties

Area served
  
Northeast megalopolis, United States

Website
  
www.cedarrealtytrust.com

Stock price
  
CDR (NYSE) US$ 5.36 -0.11 (-2.01%)6 Mar, 4:02 PM GMT-5 - Disclaimer

Headquarters
  
Port Washington, Town of North Hempstead, New York, United States

Subsidiaries
  
Cedar-Bristol, LLC, Virginia Little Creek LLC

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Cedar Realty Trust is a publicly traded, American real estate investment trust (REIT) which specifically manages and owns supermarket anchored shopping centers. The company is headquartered in Port Washington, New York and incorporated in Maryland. As of December 2013, the company's primary property footprint was in the Washington, D.C. to Boston metropolitan corridor, where it owned 65 "operating properties" amounting to ~9.4 million sq. ft. of gross leasable area (GLA), and occupied by 899 tenants. Cedar's properties are found in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

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Cedar Realty Trust was formerly known as "Cedar Shopping Centers".

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Business model

As noted in the opening, Cedar has set itself up as a REIT which is an IRS-recognized taxable structure under which most of its assets must be in and revenue from real estate or related sources. Essentially all of Cedar's revenue comes from rents and payments on long-term leases from tenants of their various properties. As of December 2013, >90% of Cedar's gross leasable area was occupied. Cedar's focus on "grocery-anchored community shopping centers" is predicated on the notion that people need to eat and purchase staples and will continue to need to do so into the future, thus providing a long term stable base for revenues.

Cedar operates under a structure where substantially all of its assets have been contributed to a limited partnership, Cedar Realty Trust Partnership, L.P., which itself is a Delaware corporation. As of December 2013, Cedar was the only partner in the Partnership and owned >99% of the contributed assets.

As of December 2013, the top two tenants in terms of number of occupied locations were Dollar Tree and Giant Foods, with 22 and 13 locations, respectively. Giant Foods also occupied the largest sq. footage overall and generated the most revenue for Cedar, accounting for ~12% of 2013 revenue.

Acquisitions

Among the properties acquired by the company are:

In 2014
  • Quartermaster Plaza, 456,000 sq. ft. on 46 acres located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for US$92,300,000, purchased from Forest City Ratnor Companies of Cleveland, Ohio
  • Before 2014
  • South Philadelphia Shopping Center, 283,000 sq. ft. located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Quartermaster Plaza acquired in 2014.
  • In 2006
  • Harbor Square (known as "Shore Mall" at the time of purchase), ~344,800 sq. ft. on 124.6 acres located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey for US$36,500,000. The property was originally constructed in 1968.
  • Divestments

    Among the properties sold by the company are:

    In 2014
  • Harbor Square, to Aetna Realty of New York, for US$25,000,000; the property was originally acquired for $36 million.
  • References

    Cedar Realty Trust Wikipedia