SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
UNITED STATES
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13
or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of
earliest event reported) March 28, 2005
REGENCY CENTERS CORPORATION |
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) |
Florida |
001-12298 |
59--3191743 |
(State or other jurisdiction |
(Commission |
(IRS Employer |
of incorporation) |
File Number) |
Identification No.) |
121 West Forsyth Street, Suite 200 |
32202 |
Jacksonville, Florida |
(Address of principal executive offices) |
(Zip Code) |
Registrants
telephone number including area code: (904)-598-7000
Not Applicable |
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report) |
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Item 1.01 Entry into a
Material Definitive Agreement
On
March 28, 2005, Regency Centers Corporation (Regency) entered into a First
Amendment (the First Amendment) to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement by
and among Regency Centers, L.P., as Borrower, Regency, each of the Lenders signatory
thereto, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Agent.
The
Borrower, Regency, the Lenders, Agent and others are parties to an Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of March 26, 2004 (the Agreement) relating to
Regencys revolving line of credit. In connection with the proposed acquisition by
Regencys affiliate, Macquarie CountryWide-Regency II, LLC, of 101 retail shopping
centers located throughout 17 states and the District of Columbia from a joint venture
between the California Public Employees Retirement System and an affiliate of First
Washington Realty, Inc. (the Acquisition), the parties agreed to modify
certain of the financial covenants in the Agreement.
The
First Amendment makes the following modifications to the financial covenants of the
Agreement:
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Increased
the maximum permissible ratio of total liabilities to gross asset value of Regency and
its consolidated subsidiaries from 0.55-to-1.00 to 0.60-to-1.00, except that for the nine
month period following the Acquisition date, this ratio may exceed 0.60-to-1.00 but may
not exceed 0.625-to-1.00. |
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Added
a new covenant with respect to indebtedness of unconsolidated subsidiaries that limits
the aggregate outstanding principal balance of recourse indebtedness of unconsolidated
affiliates of Regency to not more than 25% of the sum of (i) their capitalized EBITDA
from completed properties for the fiscal quarter most recently ended and (ii) the
aggregate book value of their properties under construction as of the end of such fiscal
quarter. For purposes of determining compliance with this subsection, if the Acquisition
occurs, the indebtedness of Macquarie CountryWide-Regency II, LLC and its subsidiaries
under a proposed $1.415 billion CMBS bridge facility will be disregarded from the
Acquisition date to but excluding the date one year after the Acquisition date but must
be included thereafter to the extent then outstanding. |
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Changed
the cap rate used to calculate capitalized EBITDA (one of the components used to
determine gross asset value) from 8.5% to 8.25%. |
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Modified
the covenant in Section 8.23 of the Agreement, which provides that at no time shall the
aggregate asset value of the non-guarantor entities with recourse debt exceed 10% of the
gross asset value of Regency and its consolidated subsidiaries, to exclude unconsolidated
subsidiaries from the test. |
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Changed
the Borrowing Base definition, including allowing modified calculations from
the Acquisition date through the nine-month anniversary of the Acquisition date. |
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Item 9.01 Financial
Statements and Exhibits
10.1 |
First
Amendment dated as of March 28, 2005 to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement by and
among Regency Centers, L.P., as Borrower, Regency, each of the
Lenders signatory thereto, and Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, as Agent |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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REGENCY CENTERS CORPORATION |
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(registrant) |
Date: April 1, 2005 |
By: /s/ J. Christian Leavitt |
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J. Christian Leavitt, Senior Vice President, |
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Finance and Principal Accounting Officer |
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