UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q
 
x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1934
 
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2011

Commission file number 1-10093

RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

MARYLAND
 
13-6908486
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)


31500 Northwestern Highway
Farmington Hills, Michigan
 
48334
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)
 
 
248-350-9900
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant:  (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes    x       No  o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).
 
Yes    x        No  o
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a “smaller reporting company”. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
 
Large accelerated filer  o Accelerated filer   x Non-accelerated filer  o
Smaller reporting company  o

 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
 
Yes    o        No  x

Number of common shares of beneficial interest ($0.01 par value) of the registrant outstanding as of October 31 , 2011:   38,978,409
 


 
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INDEX

   
Page No.
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 
     
Item 1.
Unaudited Condensed Financial Statements
 
 
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets – September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010
3
     
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income -
 
 
Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 and 2010
4
     
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity –
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011
5
     
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows – Nine Months Ended
 
 
September 30, 2011 and 2010
6
     
 
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
7
     
Item 2.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
 
 
Results of Operations
23
     
Item 3.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
38
     
Item 4.
Controls and Procedures
38
     
     
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
 
     
Item 1.
Legal Proceedings
39
     
Item 1A.
Risk Factors
39
     
Item 6.
Exhibits
39


 
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PART 1 - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 
Item 1.    Unaudited Condensed Financial Statements
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
September 30, 2011 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2010
(In thousands, except per share data)
 
 
   
September 30,
   
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
ASSETS
           
Income producing properties, at cost:
           
    Land
  $ 125,789     $ 114,814  
    Buildings and improvements
    864,706       863,225  
        Less accumulated depreciation and amortization
    (222,740 )     (213,915 )
Income producing properties, net
    767,755       764,124  
    Construction in progress and land held for development or sale
               
    (including $0 and $25,812 of consolidated variable interest entities,
         
     respectively)
    97,278       96,056  
Net real estate
  $ 865,033     $ 860,180  
Equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures
    111,940       105,189  
Cash and cash equivalents
    21,802       10,175  
Restricted cash
    6,635       5,726  
Accounts receivable, net
    9,945       10,534  
Notes receivable
    3,000       3,000  
Other assets, net
    56,731       58,025  
TOTAL ASSETS
  $ 1,075,086     $ 1,052,829  
                 
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
               
Mortgages and notes payable:
               
    Mortgages payable (including $0 and $4,605 of consolidated variable
      interest entities, respectively)
  $ 336,245     $ 363,819  
    Unsecured/secured revolving credit facility
    -       119,750  
    Unsecured/secured term loan facilities, including secured bridge loan
    135,000       60,000  
    Junior subordinated notes
    28,125       28,125  
    Total mortgages and notes payable
  $ 499,370     $ 571,694  
Capital lease obligation
    6,417       6,641  
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
    28,193       24,986  
Other liabilities
    2,508       3,462  
Distributions payable
    8,612       6,680  
TOTAL LIABILITIES
  $ 545,100     $ 613,463  
                 
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust shareholders' equity:
               
    Preferred shares, $0.01 par, 2,000 shares authorized: 7.25% Series D
         
        Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Shares, (stated at liquidation
         
        preference $50 per share), 2,000 and 0 shares issued and outstanding at
         
         September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively
  $ 100,000     $ -  
    Common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par, 60,000 shares authorized,
         
        38,732 and 37,947 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2011
         
        and December 31, 2010, respectively
    387       379  
    Additional paid-in capital
    569,759       563,370  
    Accumulated distributions in excess of net income
    (173,602 )     (161,476 )
    Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (1,895 )     -  
TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY ATTRIBUTABLE TO RPT
    494,649       402,273  
Noncontrolling interest
    35,337       37,093  
TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
    529,986       439,366  
                 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
  $ 1,075,086     $ 1,052,829  
                 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
 
 
 
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RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
 
 
                         
   
Three Months Ended September 30,
   
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2011
   
2010
 
REVENUE
                       
    Minimum rent
  $ 21,382     $ 19,370     $ 62,736     $ 58,461  
    Percentage rent
    105       137       227       330  
    Recovery income from tenants
    7,587       6,630       22,617       21,369  
    Other property income
    1,637       322       3,771       2,574  
    Management and other fee income
    1,306       902       3,093       3,157  
TOTAL REVENUE
    32,017       27,361       92,444       85,891  
                                 
EXPENSES
                               
    Real estate taxes
    3,976       3,794       13,121       12,688  
    Recoverable operating expense
    3,817       3,172       11,223       9,877  
    Other non-recoverable operating expense
    1,003       743       2,476       2,582  
    Depreciation and amortization
    8,817       7,319       27,207       22,165  
    General and administrative
    5,346       4,512       15,268       13,462  
TOTAL EXPENSES
    22,959       19,540       69,295       60,774  
                                 
INCOME BEFORE OTHER INCOME AND EXPENSE, TAX AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    9,058       7,821       23,149       25,117  
                                 
OTHER INCOME AND EXPENSES
                               
    Other income (expense)
    192       (388 )     (219 )     (1,021 )
    Gain on sale of real estate
    45       1,633       2,441       2,132  
    Earnings (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures
    3,703       (1,362 )     5,336       (662 )
    Interest expense
    (6,740 )     (7,657 )     (21,838 )     (23,405 )
    Amortization of deferred financing fees
    (389 )     (596 )     (1,493 )     (1,812 )
    Provision for impairment
    -       (28,787 )     -       (28,787 )
    Impairment charge on unconsolidated joint ventures
    -       -       -       (2,653 )
    Loss on early extinguishment of debt
    -       -       (1,968 )     -  
INCOME (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS BEFORE TAX
    5,869       (29,336 )     5,408       (31,091 )
    Income tax (provision) benefit
    (95 )     (40 )     (985 )     312  
INCOME (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS
    5,774       (29,376 )     4,423       (30,779 )
                                 
DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
                               
    Gain (loss) on sale of real estate
    (33 )     -       6,177       (2,050 )
    Income (loss) from discontinued operations
    61       (66 )     478       232  
INCOME (LOSS) FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
    28       (66 )     6,655       (1,818 )
                                 
NET INCOME (LOSS)
    5,802       (29,442 )     11,078       (32,597 )
    Net (income) loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (389 )     2,701       (739 )     4,131  
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
    5,413       (26,741 )     10,339       (28,466 )
    Preferred share dividends
    (1,813 )     -       (3,432 )     -  
NET INCOME (LOSS) AVAILABLE TO COMMON SHAREHOLDERS
  $ 3,600     $ (26,741 )   $ 6,907     $ (28,466 )
                                 
EARNINGS (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE, BASIC
                               
    Continuing operations
  $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.02     $ (0.77 )
    Discontinued operations
    -       -       0.16       (0.06 )
 
  $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.18     $ (0.83 )
EARNINGS (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE, DILUTED
                               
    Continuing operations
  $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.02     $ (0.77 )
    Discontinued operations
    -       -       0.16       (0.06 )
    $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.18     $ (0.83 )
WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING
                               
    Basic
    38,596       38,020       38,351       34,497  
    Diluted
    38,739       38,020       38,513       34,497  
                                 
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
                               
Net income (loss)
  $ 5,802     $ (29,442 )   $ 11,078     $ (32,597 )
Other comprehensive income:
                               
    Gain (loss) on interest rate swaps
    (2,023 )     577       (2,023 )     1,913  
Comprehensive income (loss)
    3,779       (28,865 )     9,055       (30,684 )
    Comprehensive (income) loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (517 )     2,659       (867 )     3,987  
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
  $ 3,262     $ (26,206 )   $ 8,188     $ (26,697 )
                                 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
                 
 
 
 
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RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Shareholders' Equity
For the nine months ended September 30, 2011
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
                                           
                                           
   
Shareholders' Equity of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
       
             
   
Preferred
Shares
   
Common
Shares
   
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
   
Accumulated Distributions in Excess of Net
Income
   
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss
   
Noncontrolling Interest
   
Total
Shareholders'
Equity
 
                                           
                                           
BALANCE, DECEMBER 31, 2010
  $ -     $ 379     $ 563,370     $ (161,476 )   $ -     $ 37,093     $ 439,366  
                                                         
Issuance of common stock
    -       8       8,329       -       -       -       8,337  
Issuance of preferred shares
    100,000       -       (3,353 )     -       -       -       96,647  
Share-based compensation and other expense
    -       -       1,413       -       -       -       1,413  
Dividends declared to common shareholders
    -       -       -       (18,879 )     -       -       (18,879 )
Dividends declared to preferred shareholders
    -       -       -       (3,432 )     -       -       (3,432 )
Distributions declared to noncontrolling interests
-       -       -       -       -       (1,371 )     (1,371 )
Dividends paid on restricted shares
    -       -       -       (154 )     -       -       (154 )
Purchase of partner's interest in consolidated variable interest entity
    -       -       -       -       -       (993 )     (993 )
Conversion of OP units
    -       -       -       -       -       (3 )     (3 )
Other comprehensive loss adjustment
    -       -       -       -       (1,895 )     (128 )     (2,023 )
Net income
    -       -       -       10,339       -       739       11,078  
BALANCE, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
  $ 100,000     $ 387     $ 569,759     $ (173,602 )   $ (1,895 )   $ 35,337     $ 529,986  
                                                         
                                                         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
 
 
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RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
 Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
 For the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010
 (In thousands)
 (Unaudited)
 
             
   
Nine months ended September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
 OPERATING ACTIVITIES
           
 Net income (loss)
  $ 11,078     $ (32,597 )
     Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
               
           Depreciation and amortization
    27,207       22,165  
          Amortization of deferred financing fees
    1,493       1,812  
          (Earnings) loss from unconsolidated joint ventures
    (5,336 )     662  
          Distributions received from operations of unconsolidated joint ventures
    3,143       1,859  
          Provision for impairment
    -       28,787  
          Impairment charge on unconsolidated joint ventures
    -       2,653  
          Loss on early extinguishment of debt
    1,968       -  
          Discontinued operations
    (478 )     (232 )
          Gain on sale of real estate
    (2,441 )     (2,132 )
          Amoritization of premium on mortgages and notes payable, net
    (27 )     (193 )
          Share-based compensation expense
    1,384       765  
Changes in assets and liabilities:
               
          Accounts and other receivables
    516       2,257  
          Other assets
    2,239       3,301  
          Accounts payable and accrued expenses
    (2,305 )     (3,040 )
          Other liabilities
    (954 )     -  
Net cash provided by continuing operating activities
    37,487       26,067  
Operating cash from discontinued operations
    868       999  
(Gain) loss on sale of discontinued operations
    (6,177 )     2,050  
Net cash provided by operating activities
    32,178       29,116  
                 
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
               
     Additions to real estate, net
  $ (55,905 )   $ (36,108 )
     Proceeds from sale of real estate
    3,775       3,226  
     Distributions from sale of joint venture property
    3,709       -  
     Increase in restricted cash
    (909 )     (3,763 )
     Investment in unconsolidated joint ventures
    (9,279 )     (13,208 )
     Notes receivable from unconsolidated joint ventures
    -       (16,824 )
     Purchase of partner's equity in consolidated joint ventures
    (1,000 )     -  
Net cash used in continuing investing activities
    (59,609 )     (66,677 )
     Net investing cash provided by discontinued operations
    21,203       797  
Net cash used in investing activities
    (38,406 )     (65,880 )
                 
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
               
     Proceeds of mortgages and notes payable
  $ 212,650     $ 99,200  
     Repayments of mortgages and notes payable
    (275,411 )     (122,079 )
     Payment of deferred financing costs
    (2,721 )     (1,058 )
     Proceeds from issuance of preferred shares
    96,647       -  
     Proceeds from issuance of common stock
    8,811       75,693  
     Repayment of capital lease obligation
    (224 )     (211
     Dividends paid to preferred shareholders
    (1,619 )     -  
     Dividends paid to common shareholders
    (18,831 )     (16,305 )
     Distributions or conversions paid to operating partnership unit holders
    (1,447 )     (1,427 )
Net cash provided by financing activities
    17,855       33,813  
                 
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
    11,627       (2,951 )
     Cash from consolidated variable interest entity
    -       44  
     Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the period
    10,175       8,432  
     Cash and cash equivalents at end of the period
  $ 21,802     $ 5,525  
                 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
               
     Cash paid for interest (net of capitalized interest of $359 and $1,059 in 2011 and 2010, respectively)
  $ 21,420     $ 22,138  
     Cash paid for federal income taxes
    63       3  
     (Decrease) increase in fair value of interest rate swaps
    (2,023 )     1,913  
                 
The Company acquired income producing property as follows:
               
     Fair value of income producing property
  $ 39,410     $ 15,200  
     Cash paid for income producing property
  $ 39,410     $ 15,200  
                 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
         
                 

 
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RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)

1. Organization and Basis of Presentation

Organization

Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, together with its subsidiaries (the “Company”), is a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) engaged in the business of owning, developing, acquiring, managing and leasing community shopping centers located in the Eastern and Midwestern regions of the United States.  At September 30, 2011, we owned and managed, either directly or through our interest in real estate joint ventures, a portfolio of 84 shopping centers and one office building, with approximately 15.3 million square feet of gross leaseable area (“GLA) owned directly by us and our real estate joint ventures.  We also owned interests in four parcels of land held for development or sale and four parcels of land adjacent to certain of our existing developed properties.  Our land is located in Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Tennessee and Virginia.  Most of our properties are anchored by supermarkets and/or national chain stores. The Company’s credit risk, therefore, is concentrated in the retail industry.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and our majority owned subsidiary, the Operating Partnership, Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. (93.7% and 92.9% owned by the Company at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively), and all wholly-owned subsidiaries, including entities in which we have a controlling financial interest or have been determined to be a primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity (“VIE”).  We have elected to be a REIT for federal income tax purposes.  All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The information furnished is unaudited and reflects all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to reflect a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented, and all such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with our 2010 Annual Report on Form 10−K.
 
The preparation of our unaudited financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) requires management of the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and reported amounts that are not readily apparent from other sources.  Actual results could differ from those estimates. 
 
Reclassifications

Certain reclassifications of prior period amounts have been made in the condensed consolidated financial statements in order to conform to the current presentation.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In July 2010, the FASB updated ASC 310 “Receivables” with ASU 2010-20 “Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses”, which requires enhanced disclosures about financing receivables, including the allowance for credit losses, credit quality, and impaired loans.  This standard is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2010.  We adopted the standard in the fourth quarter of 2010 and it did not have a material impact to our consolidated financial statements.

In May 2011, the FASB updated ASC 820 “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” with ASU 2011-04 “Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRS”.  The amendments change the wording used to describe many of the requirements in U.S. GAAP for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements . This standard is to be applied prospectively and is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011.  We do not expect this update to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In June 2011, the FASB updated ASC 220 “Comprehensive Income” with ASU 2011-05 “Presentation of Comprehensive Income”, which requires an entity to present the total of comprehensive income, the components of net income, and the components of other comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements.  This standard is to be applied retrospectively and is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011.  We do not expect this update to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
 
 
 
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In September 2011, the FASB updated ASC 350 “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other” with ASU 2011-08 “Testing Goodwill for Impairment”.  Under this update, an entity has the option to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances leads to a determination that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount.  If, after assessing the totality of events or circumstances, an entity determines it is not more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then performing the two-step impairment test is unnecessary.  This standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011.  Early adoption of this standard is permitted.  We do not expect this update to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

2.   Accounts Receivable, Net

We provide for bad debt expense based upon the allowance method of accounting. We continuously monitor the collectability of our accounts receivable from specific tenants, analyze historical bad debts, customer credit worthiness, current economic trends and changes in tenant payment terms when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for bad debts.  Allowances are taken for those balances that we have reason to believe will be uncollectible.  When tenants are in bankruptcy, we make estimates of the expected recovery of pre-petition and post-petition claims.  The period to resolve these claims can exceed one year.  Management believes the allowance for doubtful accounts is adequate to absorb currently estimated bad debts.  However, if we experience bad debts in excess of the allowance we have established, our operating income would be reduced.  At September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, our allowance for doubtful accounts was approximately $3.2 million and $3.8 million, respectively.

3 .    Real Estate

Included in our net real estate is income producing shopping center properties that are recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization.

We review our investment in real estate, including any related intangible assets, for impairment on a property-by-property basis whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the remaining estimated useful lives of those assets may warrant revision or the applicable holding period changes and that the carrying value of the property may not be recoverable.  There was no impairment loss for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011.  We recorded a provision for impairment of $28.8 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010.

Land held for development or sale represents projects where vertical construction has yet to commence, but which have been identified by us as available for future development if and when market conditions dictate the demand for a new shopping center.  Land held for development or sale was $93.6 million and $93.4 million at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively.

Construction in progress represents existing development and redevelopment projects. When projects are substantially complete and ready for their intended use, balances are transferred to land or buildings and improvements as appropriate.  Construction in progress was $3.7 million and $2.7 million at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively.
 
 
 
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4.   Property Acquisitions and Dispositions
 
Acquisitions

The following table provides a summary of our acquisition activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010:
 
                       
             
Purchase
   
Mortgage
 
 Date Purchased
Property Name
Property Location
 
Square Feet
   
Price
   
Assumed
 
             
(In thousands)
       
                       
05/19/11
Heritage Place
Creve Coeur (St. Louis), Missouri
    269,254     $ 39,410     $ -  
      Total 2011 acquisitions   $ 39,410     $ -  
                             
08/10/10
Liberty Square
Wauconda (Chicago), Illinois
    107,369     $ 15,200     $ -  
      Total 2010 acquisitions   $ 15,200     $ -  
                             
                             
 
The total aggregate fair value of our 2011 acquisitions through September 30, 2011, was allocated and is reflected in the following table in accordance with accounting guidance for business combinations.   At the time of acquisition, these assets and liabilities were considered Level 2 fair value measurements:
 
             
             
   
Allocated
Fair Value
   
Weighted Average
Remaining Useful
Life of Intangibles
 
   
(In thousands)
   
(In years)
 
             
Land
  $ 13,899        
Buildings and improvements
    22,506        
Above market leases
    660       5.9  
Lease origination costs
    4,269       16.4  
Other assets
    1,015          
Below market leases
    (2,939 )     37.0  
Total purchase price allocated
  $ 39,410          
                 
                 

 
 
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Dispositions

The following table provides a summary of our disposition activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010:
 
                       
                       
Date Sold
Property Name
Property Location
 
Center GLA /
Outparcel Acreage
   
Gross Sales
Price
   
Gain (Loss)
on Sale
 
             
(In thousands)
 
                       
07/11/11
Sunshine Plaza Shopping Center
Tamarac, Florida
    237,026     $ 15,000     $ (33 )
04/29/11
Lantana Shopping Center
Lantana, Florida
    123,014       16,942       6,210  
      Total 2011 income producing dispositions   $ 31,942     $ 6,177  
                             
06/29/11
Southbay Shopping Center - outparcel
Osprey, Florida
    1.31     $ 2,625     $ 2,255  
03/02/11
River City Shopping Center - outparcel
Jacksonville, Florida
    0.95       678       80  
01/21/11
River City Shopping Center - outparcel
Jacksonville, Florida
    1.02       663       106  
      Total 2011 land / outparcel dispositions   $ 3,966     $ 2,441  
                             
                             
05/12/10
Ridgeview Crossing Shopping Center
Elkin, North Carolina
    211,524     $ 900     $ (2,050 )
      Total 2010 income producing dispositions   $ 900     $ (2,050 )
                             
09/30/10
Promenade at Pleasant Hill - outparcel
Duluth, Georgia
    2.55     $ 1,900     $ 1,608  
09/23/10
Ramco Hartland - outparcel
Hartland, Michigan
    0.93       435       25  
06/30/10
River City Shopping Center - outparcel
Jacksonville, Florida
    1.29       1,069       499  
      Total 2010 land / outparcel dispositions   $ 3,404     $ 2,132  
                             
                             
 
As of September 30, 2011, we did not have any income producing properties held for sale.  The following table provides a summary of selected operating results for those properties sold during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010:
 
                         
                         
   
Three Months Ended
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
   
September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands)
 
Revenue
  $ 104     $ 932     $ 1,896     $ 3,363  
Expenses:
                               
    Recoverable operating expenses
    66       377       663       1,232  
    Other non-recoverable property operating expenses
    (23 )     66       215       173  
    Depreciation and amortization
    0       227       386       736  
    Interest expense
    0       328       154       990  
Operating income (loss) of properties sold
    61       (66 )     478       232  
Gain (loss) on sale of properties
    (33 )     -       6,177       (2,050 )
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
  $ 28     $ (66 )   $ 6,655     $ (1,818 )
                                 
                                 
                                 
 
 
 
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5.    Equity Investments in Unconsolidated Joint Ventures

The combined condensed financial information for our unconsolidated joint ventures is summarized as follows (unaudited):
 
             
             
   
September 30,
   
December 31,
 
Balance Sheets
 
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands)
 
ASSETS
           
Net real estate
  $ 887,491     $ 902,289  
Other assets
    66,018       62,596  
   Total Assets
  $ 953,509     $ 964,885  
LIABILITIES AND OWNERS' EQUITY
               
Mortgage notes payable
  $ 398,326     $ 437,757  
Other liabilities
    17,786       15,329  
Owners' equity
    537,397       511,799  
   Total Liabilities and Owners' Equity
  $ 953,509     $ 964,885  
                 
   RPT's equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures
  $ 111,940     $ 105,189  
                 
                 
 
 
                                   
                                   
   
Three Months Ended
     
Nine Months Ended
     
Statements of Operations
 
September 30,
     
September 30,
     
   
2011
     
2010
     
2011
     
2010
     
   
(In thousands)
     
Total Revenue
  $ 21,966       $ 22,924       $ 67,156       $ 71,204      
Total Expenses
    18,877         20,900         58,919         66,423      
      3,089         2,024         8,237         4,781      
Impairment of long-lived assets
    -         (9,102 ) (1)     (125 ) (2)     (9,102 ) (1)  
Gain on sale of shopping center
    6,796   (3)     -         6,796   (3)     -      
Net income
  $ 9,885       $ (7,078 )     $ 14,908       $ (4,321 )    
Company's share of earnings from
                                         
    unconsolidated joint ventures
  $ 3,703       $ (1,362 )     $ 5,336       $ (662 )    
                                           
                                           
                                           
 
(1)
The impairment of long-lived assets relates to the Merchants' Square shopping center and was based on the joint venture's assessment of fair value.  Our share of the impairment, which represents the entire equity investment in the shopping center, was $1.8 million for the three and  nine months ended September 30, 2010.
 
(2)
The Ramco/West Acres LLC joint venture recorded a $0.1 million impairment of long-lived assets in the first quarter of 2011.
 
(3)
The Ramco/Shenandoah LLC joint venture sold its only shopping center in August of 2011 resulting in a gain of $6.8 million for the three  and nine months ended September 30, 2011.  Our proportionate share of the gain was $2.7 million.
 
In the first quarter 2010, we recorded an impairment charge of $2.7 million resulting from other-than-temporary declines in the fair market value of various equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures.  There was no similar impairment loss recorded in the first nine months of 2011.
 
 
 
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As of September 30, 2011, we had investments in the following unconsolidated joint ventures:

                   
         
Total Assets
   
Total Assets
 
   
Ownership as of
   
as of
   
as of
 
Entity Name
 
September 30, 2011
   
September 30, 2011
   
December 31, 2010
 
    (In thousands)  
S-12 Associates
    50%     $ 582     $ 628  
Ramco/West Acres LLC
    40%       9,668       9,504  
Ramco/Shenandoah LLC (1)
    40%       1,151       14,990  
Ramco/Lion Venture LP
    30%       525,677       524,160  
Ramco 450 Venture LLC
    20%       316,087       313,596  
Ramco 191 LLC
    20%       23,529       24,243  
Ramco HHF KL LLC
    7%       50,589       51,224  
Ramco HHF NP LLC
    7%       26,226       26,540  
            $ 953,509     $ 964,885  
                         
(1) The joint venture owned one shopping center, Shenandoah Square, which was sold to a third party in the third quarter of 2011.  The total assets of the joint venture of $1.2 miilion at September 30, 2011 was mostly comprised of cash.
 
 
There were no acquisitions of shopping centers in the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 by any of our unconsolidated joint ventures.

In August 2011, a joint venture in which we have a 40% ownership interest sold its sole property, the Shenandoah Square shopping center located in Davie Florida, to a third party for $22.0 million. The sale generated a net gain of approximately $6.8 million.  As a result of the sale, we also earned promote income of $0.1 million, which is included in earnings from unconsolidated joint ventures in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011.

Debt

Our unconsolidated joint ventures had the following debt outstanding at September 30, 2011 (unaudited):
 
               
               
   
Balance
   
Interest
   
Entity Name
 
Outstanding
   
Rate
 
Maturity Date
   
(In thousands)
         
Ramco/West Acres LLC (1)
  $ 8,401       13.1%    
Ramco 191 LLC (2)
    8,313       1.7%  
June 2012
Ramco/Lion Venture LP (3)
    209,064       5.0% - 8.2%  
Various
Ramco 450 Venture LLC (4)
    171,349       5.3% - 6.0%  
Various
S-12 Associates (5)
    625       5.6%  
May 2016
    $ 397,752            
   Unamortized premium
    574            
Total mortgage debt
  $ 398,326            
                   
                   
                   
(1)
Default interest rate (reflected above), effective July 1, 2010.  Original maturity was April 2030.  Lender accelerated the maturity of the note in February 2011.  See below for addition information.
(2)
Interest rate is variable based on LIBOR plus 1.45%.
(3)
Interest rates range from 5.0% to 8.2% with maturities ranging from October 2012 to June 2020.
(4)
Interest rates range from 5.3% to 6.0% with maturities ranging from January 2013 to January 2017.
(5)
Interest rate resets annually each June 1.

At September 30, 2011, the Ramco/West Acres LLC joint venture, in which we own a 40% interest, was in default on its $8.4 million non-recourse mortgage loan.  On February 10, 2011, the lender accelerated the maturity of the loan.  Accordingly, the joint venture has been in discussions with the lender to transfer the property ownership to the lender in consideration for the repayment of the loan.  The joint venture recorded an impairment loss of $0.1 million which was the extent of the joint venture’s equity balance as of March 31, 2011.  The joint venture is currently accruing interest at a default rate of 13.1%.  Based upon our 40% ownership interest in the joint venture, our share of the debt was $3.4 million at September 30, 2011.
 
 
 
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In May 2011, the Ramco/Lion Venture LP joint venture, in which we own a 30% interest, repaid one property mortgage in the amount of $12.2 million.  Our proportionate share of the debt repayment was approximately $3.7 million.

In February 2011, the Ramco 450 Venture LLC joint venture, in which we own a 20% interest, repaid one property mortgage in the amount of $11.0 million.  Our proportionate share of the debt repayment was approximately $2.2 million.

Joint Venture Management and Other Fee Income

We are engaged by certain of our joint ventures to provide asset management, property management, leasing and investing services for such venture’s respective properties.  We receive fees for our services, including a property management fee calculated as a percentage of gross revenues received and recognize these fees as the services are rendered.

The following table provides information for our fees earned which are reported in our consolidated statements of operations:

 
                         
                         
   
Three Months Ended
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
   
September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands)
 
Management fees
  $ 647     $ 702     $ 1,970     $ 2,126  
Leasing fees
    458       287       743       707  
Construction fees
    106       44       204       205  
Other fees
    66       29       66       29  
Total
  $ 1,277     $ 1,062     $ 2,983     $ 3,067  
                                 
                                 
                                 

 
6.   Consolidated Variable Interest Entity

At December 31, 2010, the Ramco Hartland SC, LLC joint venture was reported as a consolidated VIE.  In January 2011, we purchased our partner’s interest in the Ramco Hartland SC, LLC joint venture for $1.0 million, which approximated the partner’s equity interest in the joint venture at October 1, 2010.  As a result, we now own and control 100% of this project.

The total project, including the portion we purchased, is comprised of land held for development or sale and construction in progress of approximately $31.6 million at September 30, 2011.
 
 
 
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  7.   Other Assets, Net

Other assets consisted of the following:
 
             
             
   
September 30,
   
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands)
 
Deferred leasing costs, net
  $ 14,202     $ 14,575  
Deferred financing costs, net
    5,928       6,703  
Lease intangible assets, net
    10,671       7,969  
Prepaid expenses and other deferred expenses, net
    2,803       2,672  
Straight-line rent receivable, net
    17,349       17,864  
Other, net
    5,778       8,242  
Other assets, net
  $ 56,731     $ 58,025  
                 
                 
                 

Total accumulated amortization of other assets was $46.0 million and $42.0 million at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively.

Other assets included $17.3 million and $17.9 million of unbilled straight-line rent receivables, net of an allowance of $0.8 million and $0.7 million at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively.
 
Included in accounts payable and accrued expenses at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010 were intangible liabilities related to below market leases of $6.4 million and $3.5 million, respectively.
 
  8.  Mortgages and Notes Payable

The following table summarizes our mortgages and notes payable as of September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010:
 
             
             
   
September 30,
   
December 31,
 
Mortgages and Notes Payable
 
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands)
 
Fixed rate mortgages (1)
  $ 336,245     $ 341,341  
Variable rate mortgages
    -       22,478  
Unsecured/secured revolving credit facility
    -       119,750  
Unsecured/secured term loan facilities
    135,000       30,000  
Secured bridge loan
    -       30,000  
Junior subordinated notes, 7.9%, unsecured (2)
    28,125       28,125  
    $ 499,370     $ 571,694  
                 
 
(1)
Included in fixed rate mortgages at September 30, 2011 is $9.1 million note related to Madison Center.
We conveyed title to and our interest in the property to the lender in exchange for release from the debt
obligation subsequent to quarter end on October 19, 2011.
 
(2)
Fixed interest rate until January 2013, and then at LIBOR plus 3.30%.
 
Our fixed rate mortgages have interest rates ranging from 5.1% to 7.6%, and are due at various maturity dates from August 2012 through April 2020.  Included in fixed rate mortgages at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010 were unamortized premium balances related to the fair market value of debt of $0.1 million.  The fixed rate mortgage notes are secured by mortgages on properties that have an approximate net book value of $319.3 million as of September 30, 2011.
 
 
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On September 30, 2011, we closed on a new seven-year $60.0 million unsecured term loan.  The new loan is due in 2018 and bears a LIBOR interest rate of 2.25%.  Also during the quarter, we entered into several interest rate swap agreements whereby we swapped one-month LIBOR to an average fixed rate of 1.95%.  At the loan’s current spread over LIBOR of 2.25%, the interest rate on the new loan is 4.20%.  The loan also includes an accordion feature allowing up to $150.0 million in total borrowings, subject to lenders' approval. Proceeds from the loan were used to pay off approximately $22.2 million of mortgage loans due in 2011 and 2012 and the outstanding balance of $33.0 million under our $175.0 million unsecured revolving line of credit as well as for general corporate purposes.
 
On April 29, 2011, we closed on a new $250.0 million unsecured bank facility (the “Credit Facility”) comprised of a $175.0 million revolving line of credit and a $75.0 million term loan.  The Credit Facility replaces our prior secured line and secured term loan.  The new revolving line of credit and term loan are due in April 2014 and April 2015, respectively.  Subject to customary conditions, both the revolving line and the term loan can be extended for one year at our option.   Borrowings under the facility are priced at LIBOR plus 200 to 275 basis points depending on our leverage ratio.  It is anticipated that funds borrowed under the aforementioned Credit Facility will be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures, repayment of indebtedness or other corporate activities.  As of September 30, 2011, the entire outstanding balance of the revolving line of credit had been repaid.
 
In connection with closing the new $250.0 million Credit Facility, we recorded a one-time write-off of unamortized deferred financing costs related to the prior secured revolving line of credit and term loan of approximately $2.0 million.  This amount is included in loss on early extinguishment of debt on our condensed consolidated statements of operations.  The remaining $1.5 million in unamortized deferred financing costs related to the prior credit facility will be amortized over the term of the new facility.
 
To reduce the impact of changes in interest rates on our floating rate debt, we entered into interest rate swap agreements with an aggregate notional amount of $135.0 million as of September 30, 2011.  Based on LIBOR interest rates in effect at September 30, 2011, the agreements provided for fixed rates ranging from 3.5% to 4.3% on our $75.0 million unsecured term loan facility and new $60.0 million seven-year unsecured term loan.  The interest rate swaps had expirations ranging from April 2016 to October 2018.
 
At September 30, 2011, outstanding letters of credit issued under the Credit Facility, not reflected in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets, were $0.3 million.  These letters of credit reduce the availability under the Credit Facility.
 
The Credit Facility contains financial covenants relating to total leverage, fixed charge coverage ratio, tangible net worth and various other calculations.  As of September 30, 2011, we were in compliance with these covenants.
 
In July 2011, we repaid a land loan in the amount of $2.2 million related to land held for development in Jacksonville, Florida.  The land loan bore interest at a fixed rate of 6.0%.
 
In May 2011, we repaid one wholly-owned property mortgage in the amount of $14.3 million.  The mortgage bore interest at a fixed rate of 7.6%.

A $9.1 million non-recourse mortgage note that is secured by our wholly-owned Madison Center property located in Madison Heights, Michigan, was due May 1, 2011.  The note entered default status in May when we did not repay the note at maturity.  Subsequent to quarter end, on October 19, 2011 we conveyed title to and our interest in the Madison Center property to the lender and were released of our obligation.

In March 2011, the $30.0 million secured term loan facility was repaid in full from borrowings under our secured Credit Facility. Additionally, in April 2011, we used net proceeds from our cumulative convertible perpetual preferred share offering to repay our $30.0 million secured bridge loan and reduce borrowings on our Credit Facility.

On March 31, 2011, we closed on a new $24.7 million mortgage secured by the Jackson Crossing shopping center in Jackson, Michigan that has an approximate net book value of $27.6 million.  The mortgage bears interest at a fixed rate of 5.8% and matures in April 2018.

The mortgage loans encumbering our properties, including properties held by our unconsolidated joint ventures, are generally non-recourse, subject to certain exceptions for which we would be liable for any resulting losses incurred by the lender.  These exceptions vary from loan to loan but generally include fraud or a material misrepresentation, misstatement or omission by the borrower, intentional or grossly negligent conduct by the borrower that harms the property or results in a loss to the lender, filing of a bankruptcy petition by the borrower, either directly or indirectly, and certain environmental liabilities.  In addition, upon the occurrence of certain events, such as fraud or filing of a bankruptcy petition by the borrower, we or our joint ventures would be liable for the entire outstanding balance of the loan, all interest accrued thereon and certain other costs, including penalties and expenses.

We have entered into mortgage loans which are secured by multiple properties and contain cross-collateralization and cross-default provisions. Cross-collateralization provisions allow a lender to foreclose on multiple properties in the event that we default under the loan. Cross-default provisions allow a lender to foreclose on the related property in the event a default is declared under another loan.
 
 
 
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The following table presents scheduled principal payments on mortgages and notes payable as of September 30, 2011:
 
           
           
Year Ending December 31,
 
           
     2011 (October 1 - December 31)
  $ 10,363   (1)  
     2012
    15,632      
     2013
    25,843      
     2014
    33,670      
     2015
    151,967   (2)  
     Thereafter
    261,840      
Subtotal Mortgage Debt
  $ 499,315      
Unamortized premium
    55      
Total mortgage debt (including unamortized premium)
  $ 499,370      
             
             
 
(1)
Scheduled maturities include $9.1 million note related to Madison Center. We conveyed title to and our interest in the property to the lender in exchange for release from the debt obligation subsequent to quarter end on October 19, 2011.
 
(2)
Scheduled maturities include $75.0 million of unsecured term loan that includes a one-year extension option through April 2016.
 

With respect to the various mortgages due in 2012, it is our intent to refinance or repay these mortgages and notes payable.  However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to refinance our debt on commercially reasonable or any other terms.

9.   Other Liabilities

Other liabilities were $2.5 million and $3.5 million at September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively.  In December 2010, we acquired The Shoppes at Fox River in Waukesha, Wisconsin.  As part of the transaction, we recorded a $1.8 million deferred liability related to the fair value of an earn-out provision if certain spaces that were vacant at acquisition were to become leased in the future.  In 2011, several of the vacant spaces included in the earn-out provision were leased, reducing the $1.8 million deferred liability by $1.1 million, to $0.7 million remaining at September 30, 2011.

Also in the fourth quarter of 2010, we recorded a deferred liability of $1.5 million related to a tax increment financing agreement with the City of West Allis, Wisconsin (“City”) for the redevelopment of the West Allis Towne Centre.  The City reimbursed us for certain costs incurred to improve the shopping center which will be repaid to the City over ten years in the form of increased property tax assessments, not to exceed $0.2 million per year until 2020.

10.  Fair Value

We utilize fair value measurements to record fair value adjustments to certain assets and liabilities and to determine fair value disclosures.  Derivative instruments (interest rate swaps) are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. Additionally, we, from time to time, may be required to record other assets at fair value on a nonrecurring basis.  As a basis for considering market participant assumptions in fair value measurements, GAAP establishes three fair value levels, based on the markets in which the assets and liabilities are traded and the reliability of the assumptions used to determine fair value.  The assessed inputs used in determining any fair value measurement could result in incorrect valuations that could be material to our consolidated financial statements. These levels are:
 
 
 
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Level 1
Valuation is based upon quoted prices for identical instruments traded in active markets.
   
Level 2
Valuation is based upon quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active, and model-based valuation techniques for which all significant assumptions are observable in the market.
   
Level 3
Valuation is generated from model-based techniques that use at least one significant assumption not observable in the market. These unobservable assumptions reflect estimates of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
 
The following is a description of valuation methodologies used for our assets and liabilities recorded at fair value.

Derivative Assets and Liabilities

All of our derivative instruments are interest rate swaps for which quoted market prices are not readily available.  For those derivatives, we measure fair value on a recurring basis using valuation models that use primarily market observable inputs, such as yield curves.  We classify derivative instruments as Level 2.  Refer to Note 11 for additional information on our derivative financial instruments.

The table below presents the recorded amount of liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2011.  We did not have any material assets that were required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis at September 30, 2011.

                         
                         
   
Total
                   
   
Fair Value
   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
 
   
(In thousands)
 
Liabilities
                       
Derivative liabilities (1)
  $ (2,023 )   $ -     $ (2,023 )   $ -  
                                 
(1) Interest rate swaps.
                               

The carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, receivables and accounts payable and accrued liabilities are reasonable estimates of their fair values because of the short maturity of these financial instruments.

We estimated the fair value of our debt based on our incremental borrowing rates for similar types of borrowing arrangements with the same remaining maturity and on the discounted estimated future cash payments to be made for other debt. The discount rates used approximate current lending rates for loans or groups of loans with similar maturities and credit quality, assumes the debt is outstanding through maturity and considers the debt's collateral (if applicable), Since such amounts are estimates that are based on limited available market information for similar transactions, there can be no assurance that the disclosed value of any financial instrument could be realized by immediate settlement of the instrument. Fixed rate debt with carrying values of $336.2 million and $341.3 million as of September 30, 2011 and December 30, 2010, respectively, has fair values of approximately $318.0 million and $361.2 million, respectively. Variable rate debt's fair value is estimated to be the carrying values of $163.1 million and $230.4 million as of September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively.
 

The following is a description of valuation methodologies used for our assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on a nonrecurring basis:
 
 
 
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Net Real Estate

Our net investment in real estate, including any identifiable intangible assets, is subject to impairment testing on a nonrecurring basis.  To estimate fair value, we use discounted cash flow models that include assumptions of the discount rates that market participants would use in pricing the asset. To the extent impairment has occurred, we charge to expense the excess of the carrying value of the property over its estimated fair value.  We classify impaired real estate assets as nonrecurring Level 3.  As of September 30, 2011, we did not have any material real estate required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

Equity Investments in Unconsolidated Joint Ventures
 
Our equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures are subject to impairment testing on a nonrecurring basis if a decline in the fair value of the investment below the carrying amount is determined to be a decline that is other-than-temporary.  To estimate the fair value of properties held by unconsolidated entities, we use cash flow models, discount rates, and capitalization rates based upon assumptions of the rates that market participants would use in pricing the asset.  To the extent other-than-temporary impairment has occurred, we charge to expense the excess of the carrying value of the equity investment over its estimated fair value.  We classify other-than-temporarily impaired equity investments in unconsolidated entities as nonrecurring Level 3.  We did not have any material equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures that were required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis at September 30, 2011.

11.  Derivative Financial Instruments

We utilize interest rate swap agreements for risk management purposes to reduce the impact of changes in interest rates on our variable rate debt.  On the date we enter into an interest rate swap, the derivative is designated as a hedge against the variability of cash flows that are to be paid in connection with a recognized liability.  Subsequent changes in the fair value of a derivative designated as a cash flow hedge that is determined to be highly effective are recorded in other comprehensive income (“OCI”) until earnings are affected by the variability of cash flows of the hedged transaction. The differential between fixed and variable rates to be paid or received is accrued, as interest rates change, and recognized currently as interest expense in the consolidated statement of income.
 
At September 30, 2011, we had four interest rate swap agreements with an aggregate notional amount of $135.0 million that were designated as cash flow hedges.  The agreements provided for swapping one month LIBOR interest rates ranging from 1.2% to 2.0% on our $75.0 million unsecured term loan facility and new $60.0 million seven-year unsecured term loan.  The interest rate swaps have expirations ranging from April 2016 to October 2018.

The following table summarizes the notional values and fair values of our derivative financial instruments as of September 30, 2011:
 
                           
                           
   
Hedge
 
Notional
 
Swap
   
Fair
   
Expiration
 
Underlying Debt
 
Type
 
Value
 
Rate
   
Value
   
Date
 
(In thousands)  
Unsecured term loan facility
 
Cash Flow
  $ 75,000     1.2175 %   $ (615 )     04/2016  
Unsecured term loan facility
 
Cash Flow
    30,000     2.0480 %     (921 )     10/2018  
Unsecured term loan facility
 
Cash Flow
    25,000     1.8500 %     (405 )     10/2018  
Unsecured term loan facility
 
Cash Flow
    5,000     1.8400 %     (82 )     10/2018  
        $ 135,000           $ (2,023 )        
                                   
                                   

The following table presents the fair values of derivative financial instruments in our condensed consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively:
 
                   
                   
   
Liability Derivatives
 
   
September 30, 2011
 
December 31, 2010
 
Derivatives Designated
 
Balance Sheet
 
Fair
 
Balance Sheet
 
Fair
 
as Hedging Instruments
 
Location
 
Value
 
Location
 
Value
 
   
(In thousands)
 
    Interest rate contracts
 
Accounts payable and
     
Accounts payable and
     
   
accrued expenses
  $ (2,023 )
accrued expenses
  $ -  
                       
          Total
      $ (2,023 )     $ -  
                       
                       
 
 
 
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The effect of derivative financial instruments on our condensed consolidated statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 is summarized as follows:
 
                           
                           
             
Location of
 
Amount of Gain (Loss)
 
   
Amount of Gain (Loss)
 
Gain (Loss)
 
Reclassified from
 
   
Recognized in OCI on Derivative
 
Reclassified from
 
Accumulated OCI into
 
Derivatives in
 
(Effective Portion)
 
Accumulated OCI
 
Income (Effective Portion)
 
Cash Flow Hedging
 
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
into Income
 
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
Relationship
 
2011
   
2010
 
(Effective Portion)
 
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands)
     
(In thousands)
 
Interest rate contracts
  $ (2,023 )   $ 1,913  
Interest Expense
  $ (111 )   $ (2,181 )
                                   
    Total
  $ (2,023 )   $ 1,913       $ (111 )   $ (2,181 )
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
 
12.   Earnings Per Common Share

The following table sets forth the computation of basic earnings per share (“EPS”):
 
                         
                         
   
Three Months Ended
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
   
September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands, except per share data)
       
                         
Income (loss) from continuing operations
  $ 5,774     $ (29,376 )     4,423       (30,779 )
Net (income) loss from continuing operations attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (388 )     2,696       (316 )     4,002  
Preferred share dividends
    (1,813 )     -       (3,432 )     -  
Allocation of continuing (income) loss to restricted share awards
    (35 )     248       7       257  
Income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to common shareholders
  $ 3,538     $ (26,432 )     682       (26,520 )
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
    28       (66 )     6,655       (1,818 )
Net (income) loss from discontinued operations attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (2 )     5       (423 )     129  
Allocation of discontinued (income) loss to restricted share awards
    -       -       (58 )     14  
Income (loss) from discontinued operations attributable to common shareholders
    26       (61 )     6,174       (1,675 )
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders
  $ 3,564     $ (26,493 )     6,856       (28,195 )
                                 
Weighted average shares outstanding — basic
    38,596       38,020       38,351       34,497  
Basic earnings per share attributable to the common shareholders
                         
Income (loss) from continuing operations
  $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.02     $ (0.77 )
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
    -       -       0.16       (0.06 )
Net income (loss)
  $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.18     $ (0.83 )
                                 
                                 
 
 
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The following table sets forth the computation of diluted EPS:
 
             
   
Three Months Ended
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
   
September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands, except per share date)
 
                         
Income (loss) from continuing operations
  $ 5,774     $ (29,376 )     4,423       (30.779 )
Net (Income) loss from continuing operations attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (388 )     2,696       (316 )     4,002  
Income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to RPT
    5,386       (26,680 )     4,107       (26,777 )
Prefered share dividends
    (1,813 )     -       (3,432 )     -  
Allocation of (income) less to restricted share awards
    (35 )     248       7       256  
Allocation of continuing loss to restricted share awards
    -       (7 )     (11 )     (10 )
lncome (loss) from continuing operatìons attributable to common shareholders
  $ 3.538     $ (26,439 )   $ 671     $ (26,531 )
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
    28       (66 )     6,655       (1,818 )
Net (income) loss from discontinued operations attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (2 )     5       (423 )     129  
Allocation of discontinued income (loss) to restricted share awards
    -       -       (4 )     1  
Income (loss) from discontinued operations attributable to common shareholders
    26       (61 )     6,228       (1,688 )
Net Income (loss) available to common shareholders
  $ 3,564     $ (26.500 )     6,899       (28,219 )
                                 
Weighted average shares outstanding - basic
    38,596       38,020       38,351       34,497  
Dilutive effect of securities (1)
    143       -       162       -  
Weighted average shares - diluted
    38,739       38,020       38,513       34,497  
                                 
Diluted earnings per share attributable to common shareholders:
                               
Income (loss) from continuing operations
  $ 0.09     $ (0,70 )   $ 0,02     $ (0.77 )
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
    -       -       0.16       (0.06 )
Net income (loss)
  $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.18     $ (0.83 )
   
   
(1)
None of the Series D convertible preferred shares were included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share for the three and nine months ended September 30. 2011 they were antidilutive.
 
13.  Shareholders’ Equity

On April 6, 2011, we completed an $80.0 million (1,600,000 shares) offering of 7.25% Series D Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Shares of beneficial interest (the “Series D Preferred Shares”). The annual dividend on each Series D Preferred Share is $3.625 per share and is payable quarterly as declared by our board of trustees.  Each preferred share has a liquidation preference of $50.00 per share and is convertible, at the holder’s option at any time.  The Series D Preferred Shares are not redeemable by us.  On April 29, 2011, we closed on an additional $20.0 million, or 400,000 preferred shares, relating to a re-opening of the same security.  Net proceeds from the transactions of $96.7 million were used to repay our $30.0 million secured bridge loan and reduce borrowings on our secured revolving credit facility.

Additionally, during the nine months ended September 30, 2011, we issued 683,000 common shares through a controlled equity offering generating $8.8 million in net proceeds.

14.  Share-based Compensation Plans

As of September 30, 2011, we have two share-based compensation plans in effect;  1) The 2009 Omnibus Long-Term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”) under which our compensation committee may grant, subject to the Company’s performance conditions as specified by the compensation committee, restricted shares, restricted share units, options and other awards to trustees, officers and other key employees.  The LTIP allows us to issue up to 0.9 million shares of our common stock or stock options, of which 0.3 million remain available for issuance; and 2) the 2008 Restricted Share Plan for Non-Employee Trustees (the “Trustees’ Plan”) which provides for granting up to 160,000 restricted shares awards to non-employee trustees of the Company, of which 114,000 shares remain available for issuance .
 
 
 
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For the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, we recognized total share-based compensation expense of $1.4 million and $0.8 million (net of a $0.5 million adjustment for performance shares not issued), respectively.  Of these amounts, approximately $39 thousand and $59 thousand, respectively, related to options.   For the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, we recognized expense related to restricted share grants of approximately $1.4 million and $0.7 million (net of $0.5 million adjustment for performance shares not issued), respectively.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2011, we granted 111,886 shares of service-based restricted stock that vest over five years and the expense is recognized on a graded vesting basis.  Additionally, we granted 28,273 shares to non-employee trustees that vest over one year.  Also during the nine months ended September 30, 2011, we granted 102,686 of performance-based awards that are earned subject to a future performance measurement based on a three-year total shareholder return peer comparison (“TSR Grant”).  Once the performance criterion is met and the actual number of shares earned is determined, certain shares will vest immediately while others will vest over an additional service period.  We determine the grant date fair value of TSR Grants based upon a Monte Carlo Simulation model and will recognize the compensation expense ratably over the requisite service period.

As of September 30, 2011, we had $3.6 million of total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested restricted shares and options granted under our plans. This expense is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 4.5 years.

15.  Income Taxes

We conduct our operations with the intent of meeting the requirements applicable to a REIT under sections 856 through 860 of the Internal Revenue Code.  In order to maintain our qualification as a REIT, we are required to distribute annually at least 90% of our REIT taxable income, excluding net capital gain, to our shareholders. As long as we qualify as a REIT, we will generally not be liable for federal corporate income taxes.

Certain of our operations, including property management and asset management, as well as ownership of certain land, are conducted through our Taxable REIT Subsidiaries (“TRSs”) which allows us to provide certain services and conduct certain activities that are not generally considered as qualifying REIT activities.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities reflect the impact of temporary differences between the amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the bases of such assets and liabilities as measured by tax laws. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance to the amount where realization is more likely than not assured after considering all available evidence, including expected taxable earnings and potential tax planning strategies. Our temporary differences primarily relate to deferred compensation, depreciation and net operating loss carryforwards.

In May 2011, the State of Michigan signed bills into law that replaced the Michigan Business Tax (“MBT”) with a six percent Corporate Income Tax that will be effective beginning January 1, 2012.  The repeal of the MBT resulted in the de-recognition of the related deferred tax assets and liabilities.  Therefore, we recorded additional income tax expense of approximately $0.8 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2011 as a result of this tax law change.  These amounts are included in income tax provision (benefit) on the condensed consolidated statements of operations.
 
As of September 30, 2011, we had a federal and state deferred tax asset and liability of $0.2 million and $0, respectively, net of valuation allowances.  We believe that it is more likely than not that the results of future operations will generate sufficient taxable income to recognize the net deferred tax assets. These future operations are primarily dependent upon the profitability of our TRSs, the timing and amounts of gains on land sales, and other factors affecting the results of operations of the TRSs.  The valuation allowances relate to net operating loss carryforwards and tax basis differences where there is uncertainty regarding their realizability.

During the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, we recorded an income tax (provision) benefit of approximately ($0.1) million for both periods.  For the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, the income tax (provision) benefit was approximately ($1.0) million and $0.3 million, respectively.

16. Commitments and Contingencies

Construction Costs

In connection with the development and expansion of various shopping centers as of September 30, 2011, we had entered into agreements for construction costs of approximately $4.5 million.
 
 
 
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Deferred Liabilities

At September 30, 2011, we had certain deferred liability arrangements totaling $2.5 million.  See Note 9 for further information.

Litigation

We are currently involved in certain litigation arising in the ordinary course of business.

Leases

We have an operating lease for our corporate office space in Michigan for a term expiring in 2014. We also have operating leases for office space in Florida and land at one of our shopping centers.  Total amounts expensed relating to these leases were $1.1 million and $1.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

17. Subsequent Events

We have evaluated subsequent events through the date that the condensed consolidated financial statements were issued.

On October 19, 2011 we conveyed titled to and our interest in the Madison Center property to the lender and were released of our $9.1 million mortgage note obligation.
 
 
 
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Item 2.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the condensed consolidated financial statements, including the respective notes thereto, which are included in this Form 10-Q.

Overview

We are a fully integrated, self-administered, publicly-traded REIT which owns, develops, acquires, manages and leases community shopping centers in the Eastern and Midwestern regions of the United States.  At September 30, 2011, we owned and managed, either directly or through our interest in real estate joint ventures, a portfolio of 84 shopping centers and one office building, with 15.3 million of GLA owned directly by us and our real estate joint ventures. We also owned interests in four parcels of land held for development or sale and four parcels of land adjacent to certain of our existing developed properties.  Our land is located in Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Tennessee and Virginia.  Our core portfolio, which includes joint venture properties was 92.8% leased at September 30, 2011.  Including properties slated for redevelopment, our overall portfolio was 90.9% leased.
 
 
Economic Outlook

The retail shopping center sector has been negatively affected by general economic conditions that have impacted our tenants’ retail operations.  These conditions have forced weaker retailers, in some cases, to declare bankruptcy and/or close stores. Certain retailers have sought rent relief from us as and/or announced store closings even though they have not filed for bankruptcy protection. Any reduction in our tenants’ abilities to pay base rent, percentage rent or other charges, may adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Further, our ability to re-lease vacant spaces may be negatively impacted by the slow economic recovery. While we believe the locations of our centers and diverse tenant base should mitigate the negative impact of the economic environment, we may continue to see an increase in vacancy that will have a negative impact on our revenue and bad debt expense. We continue to monitor our tenants’ operating performances as well as trends in the retail industry to evaluate any future impact.

Business Strategy

We intend to maximize shareholder value through a well-defined business strategy that incorporates the following elements:

·
Leasing and managing our shopping centers to increase occupancy, maximize rental income, and control operating expenses and capital expenditures;
·
Redeveloping our centers to increase gross leasable area, reconfigure space for credit tenants, create outparcels, sell excess land, and generally make the centers more desirable for our tenants and their shoppers;
·
Acquiring new shopping centers that are located in targeted metropolitan markets and that provide opportunities to add value through intensive leasing, management, or redevelopment;
·
Developing our land held for development into income-producing investment property, subject to market demand, availability of capital and adequate returns on our incremental capital;
·
Selling available-for-sale land parcels and using the proceeds to pay down debt or reinvest in our business;
·
Maintaining a strong and flexible balance sheet by capitalizing our Company with a moderate ratio of debt to equity and by financing our investment activities with various forms and sources of capital; and
·
Managing our overall enterprise to create an efficient organization with a strong corporate culture and transparent disclosure for all stakeholders.

We periodically review our performance on these endeavors and adjust our operational and financial tactics accordingly.

Although the current retail real estate environment remains challenging, we have been able to execute upon our strategy by continuing to de-leverage our balance sheet and recycle capital through strategic acquisitions and dispositions of our shopping center portfolio.  We accomplished the following activity during the three months ended September 30, 2011:

Significant Transactions

Activity generated in the third quarter of 2011:

·
Closed on new seven-year $60.0 million unsecured term loan that is due in October 2018.  Proceeds from the new term loan were used to pay off approximately $22.2 million of mortgage loans due in 2011 and 2012 and the outstanding balance under our $175.0 million unsecured revolving line of credit;
 
 
 
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·
Sold a shopping center located in Tamarac, Florida for $15.0 million resulting in a nominal loss while generating approximately $14.3 million in net cash proceeds;
·
Sold a shopping center located in Davie, Florida that was part of a joint venture in which we have a 40% ownership interest.  Our proportionate share of the gain on sale was $2.7 million, and the sale generated approximately $3.6 million in net cash proceeds; and
·
Repaid a $2.2 million land loan related to land held for development in Jacksonville, Florida.

Activity during the first half of 2011:

·
Closed on new $250.0 million unsecured credit facility, consisting of a $175.0 million unsecured revolving line of credit and a $75.0 million unsecured term loan, replacing our prior secured credit facility.  The new unsecured line and term loan mature in April 2014 and April 2015, respectively;
·
Issued 2.0 million 7.25% Series D cumulative convertible perpetual preferred shares generating $96.7 million in net proceeds that were used to repay our $30.0 million secured bridge loan and reduce borrowings on our credit facility;
·
Acquired Heritage Place, a 269,254 square foot grocery-anchored shopping center located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri for $39.4 million;
·
Sold a shopping center located in Lantana, Florida and an outparcel located in Osprey, Florida for an aggregate $19.6 million, generating a combined net gain of $8.5 million;
·
Repaid one wholly-owned property mortgage totaling $14.3 million and one mortgage for a joint venture property for which our proportionate share was $3.7 million;
·
Closed on a new $24.7 million CMBS loan secured by our Jackson Crossing shopping center in Jackson, Michigan;
·
Repaid our $30.0 million secured term loan early using proceeds from the transaction listed above;
·
Issued 650,000 common shares through a controlled equity offering generating $8.4 million in net proceeds; and
·
Sold two land outparcels located in Jacksonville, Florida for aggregate net sales proceeds of $1.2 million generating a combined net gain of $0.2 million.

Leasing Activity

For the combined portfolio, including wholly-owned and joint venture properties activity generated in the third quarter of 2011:

·
Executed 43 new leases comprised of 221,581 square feet of which 35 new leases had comparable average rental rate of $15.13 per square foot, or 2.3% decrease over the average expiring rate; and
·
Executed 48 renewal leases totaling 213,511 square feet with an average rental rate of $13.78 per square foot, a 3.1% increase over the average expiring rate.

Activity during the first half of 2011:

·
Executed 66 new leases comprised of 496,351 square feet that included 54 new leases with comparable average rental rate of $10.67 per square foot, an 16.2% decrease over the average expiring rate; and
·
Executed 124 renewal leases totaling 602,840 square feet with an average rental rate of $12.48 per square foot, a 1.5% increase over the average expiring rate.

Redevelopment Activity

During the third quarter of 2011, we continued a redevelopment project at the Shops on Lane Avenue in Columbus, Ohio.  The project is owned by a joint venture in which we own a 20% interest and includes the construction of a Whole Foods Market in a new 35,000 square foot space.  The total projected cost of the project is approximately $6.5 million, of which $1.3 million is our proportionate share.  The project is expected to stabilize in the second half of 2012.

During the first quarter of 2011, we completed two redevelopment projects.  One redevelopment project of a wholly-owned property was located in West Allis, Wisconsin for a total investment of approximately $12.7 million.  We also completed a redevelopment project in a joint venture in which we have a 30% ownership interest located in West Bloomfield, Michigan for a total investment of approximately $9.6 million, of which $2.9 million was our proportionate share.
 
 
 
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Land Held for Development or Sale

At September 30, 2011, we had four projects under pre-development and various smaller parcels of land held for development or sale.  The following table summarizes the cost as of September 30, 2011:
 
       
Property Name
City, State
Cost to
Date as of
9/30/11
 
   
(In millions)
 
Hartland Towne Square (1)
Hartland Twp., MI
$ 31.6  
The Town Center at Aquia
Stafford Co., VA
  18.8  
Gateway Commons
Lakeland, FL
  21.7  
Parkway Shops
Jacksonville, FL
  14.2  
Other
Various
  7.3  
    $ 93.6  
         
         

 
(1) We acquired our partner’s 80% interest in the Ramco RM Hartland SC LLC joint venture that owns a portion of Hartland Towne Square for $1.0 million during the first quarter of 2011.

Our development policy is to start vertical construction on new development projects only after the project has received entitlements, significant anchor commitments, construction financing and joint venture partner commitments, if appropriate.  We are in the entitlement and pre-leasing phases at the development projects listed above.  We do not expect to secure financing and to identify joint venture partners until the entitlement and pre-leasing phases are complete.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K contains a description of our critical accounting policies, including initial adoption of accounting policies, revenue recognition and accounts receivable, real estate investment, off balance sheet arrangements, fair value measurements and deferred charges.  For the nine months ended September 30, 2011, there were no material changes to these policies.

Comparison of three months ended September 30, 2011 to 2010

The following summarizes certain line items from our unaudited condensed statements of operations which we believe are important in understanding our operations and/or those items which have significantly changed in the three months ended September 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010:
 
 
 
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Three Months Ended
       
   
September 30,
       
   
2011
   
2010
   
Change
 
   
(In thousands)
 
Total revenue
  $ 32,017     $ 27,361     $ 4,656  
Recoverable property operating expense
    7,793       6,966       827  
Other non-recoverable operating expense
    1,003       743       260  
Depreciation and amortization
    8,817       7,319       1,498  
General and administrative expense
    5,346       4,512       834  
Other income (expense)
    192       (388 )     580  
Gain on sale of real estate
    45       1,633       (1,588 )
Earnings (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures
    3,703       (1,362 )     5,065  
Interest expense
    (6,740 )     (7,657 )     917  
Amortization of deferred financing fees
    (389 )     (596 )     207  
Provision for impairment
    -       (28,787 )     28,787  
Income tax (provision) benefit
    (95 )     (40 )     (55 )
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
    28       (66 )     94  
Net (income) loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (389 )     2,701       (3,090 )
Net income (loss) attributable to RPT
    5,413       (26,741 )     32,154  
Preferred share dividends
    (1,813 )     -       (1,813 )
Net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders
  $ 3,600     $ (26,741 )   $ 30,341  
                         
                         

Total revenue increased $4.6 million, or 17.0%, to $32.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2011 from $27.4 million in 2010, primarily due to increases in minimum rent of $2.0 million and recoveries from tenants of $1.0 primarily related to our acquisitions in 2011 and the second half of 2010.  In addition, other property income increased $1.3 million due to a lease termination fee earned in the third quarter of 2011.  Management and other fee income increased $0.4 million mostly due to higher construction fee income in 2011.

Recoverable property operating expense increased $0.8 million, or 11.9%, to $7.8 million in 2011 from $7.0 million in 2010. The increase was primarily related to our acquisitions in 2011 and the second half of 2010.

Other non-recoverable operating expense increased $0.3 million, or 35.0%, to $1.0 million in 2011 from $0.7 million in 2010. The increase was primarily related to our acquisitions.

Depreciation and amortization expense increased $1.5 million or 20.5%, to $8.8 million in 2011 from $7.3 million in 2010. The increase was primarily due to our acquisitions in 2011 and the second half of 2010.

General and administrative expenses increased $0.8 million, or 18.5%, to $5.3 million in 2011 from $4.5 million in 2010. The increase in 2011 was due primarily to an increase in severance expense of $0.7 million from the September 2011 reduction in force and other severance-related costs.

Other expense decreased $0.6 million, to income of $0.2 million in 2011 from expense of $0.4 million in 2010. The decrease was primarily related to $0.5 million easement fee earned in 2011 at one of our development projects located in Jacksonville, Florida and lower real estate tax expense in 2011 on development projects that were placed on hold in 2010.

Gain on sale of real estate decreased $1.6 million in 2011. The decrease was attributable to the sale of an outparcel in Duluth, Georgia in 2010 that generated a net gain of $1.6 million.
 
 
 
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Earnings from unconsolidated joint ventures increased $5.0 million to $3.7 million in 2011 from a loss of $1.3 million in 2010.  The increase in earnings was primarily the result of the third quarter 2011 gain on the sale of the Shenandoah Square shopping center, which was owned by a joint venture in which we have a 40% ownership interest.  Our proportionate share of the gain on sale was $2.7 million.  Additionally, 2010 included $1.8 million of our share of an impairment of a joint venture property.

Interest expense decreased $0.9 million, or 12.0%, to $6.7 million in 2011 from $7.6 million in 2010 due primarily to the payoff of several mortgages and a lower revolving line of credit balance.

Amortization of deferred financing fees decreased $0.2 million to $0.4 million in 2011 from $0.6 million in 2010.

In the third quarter of 2010, a non-cash provision for impairment was recorded related to the marketing of certain undeveloped land parcels for sale with no similar charge in 2011.

The income tax provision was $0.1 million in the third quarter of 2011 as compared to a provision of $45 thousand in 2010.

Income from discontinued operations was $28 thousand in 2011 compared to a loss from discontinued operations of $0.1 million.  In the third quarter of 2011, we sold the Sunshine Plaza shopping center located in Tamarac, Florida at a nominal loss.

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest increased $3.1 million primarily due to the acquisition of our partner’s 80% interest in the Ramco RM Hartland SC LLC joint venture in the first quarter 2011 and higher net income in 2011.

In the third quarter of 2011, we declared dividends of $1.8 million to preferred shareholders resulting from the April 2011 preferred equity offering.
 
Comparison of nine months ended September 30, 2011 to 2010

The following summarizes certain line items from our unaudited condensed statements of operations which we believe are important in understanding our operations and/or those items which have significantly changed in the nine months ended September 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010:

 
 
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Nine Months Ended
       
   
September 30,
       
   
2011
   
2010
   
Change
 
   
(In thousands)
 
Total revenue
  $ 92,444     $ 85,891     $ 6,553  
Recoverable property operating expense
    24,344       22,565       1,779  
Other non-recoverable operating expense
    2,476       2,582       (106 )
Depreciation and amortization
    27,207       22,165       5,042  
General and administrative expense
    15,268       13,462       1,806  
Other income (expense)
    (219 )     (1,021 )     802  
Gain on sale of real estate
    2,441       2,132       309  
Earnings (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures
    5,336       (662 )     5,998  
Interest expense
    (21,838 )     (23,405 )     1,567  
Amortization of deferred financing fees
    (1,493 )     (1,812 )     319  
Provision for impairment
    -       (28,787 )     28,787  
Impairment charge on unconsolidated joint ventures
    -       (2,653 )     2,653  
Loss on early extinguishment of debt
    (1,968 )     -       (1,968 )
Income tax (provision) benefit
    (985 )     312       (1,297 )
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
    6,655       (1,818 )     8,473  
Net (income) loss attributable to noncontrolling interest
    (739 )     4,131       (4,870 )
Net income (loss) attributable to RPT
    10,339       (28,466 )     38,805  
Preferred share dividends
    (3,432 )     -       (3,432 )
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders
  $ 6,907     $ (28,466 )   $ 35,373  
                         
                         

 
Total revenue increased $6.5 million, or 7.6%, to $92.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 from $85.9 million in 2010, primarily due to increases in minimum rent of $4.3 million and recoveries from tenants of $1.2 million primarily related to our acquisitions in 2011 and 2010.  In addition, other property income increased $1.2 million due to a lease termination fee earned in the third quarter of 2011.

Recoverable property operating expense increased $1.8 million, or 7.9%, to $24.3 million in 2011 from $22.5 million in 2010. The increase was primarily related to our acquisitions in 2011 and 2010.

Other non-recoverable operating expense decreased $0.1 million, or 4.1%, to $2.5 million in 2011 from $2.6 million in 2010. The decrease was primarily due to lower bad debt expense, partially offset by our acquisitions in 2010 and 2011.

Depreciation and amortization expense increased $5.0 million or 22.7%, to $27.2 million in 2011 from $22.2 million. The increase was primarily due to our acquisitions in 2011 and 2010.

General and administrative expenses increased $1.8 million, or 13.4%, to $15.3 million in 2011 from $13.5 million in 2010. The increase in 2011 was primarily related to the following:

·
an increase of $2.1 million in net compensation expense due primarily to higher severance expense, annual pay increases in 2011, lower capitalization of development and leasing salary and related costs in 2011, and a $0.5 million adjustment to long-term incentive expense in 2010 for not meeting performance measures; partially offset by
·
a decrease in legal fees of approximately $0.3 million related to our defense against a lawsuit with a subcontractor in 2010.
 
 
 
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Other expense decreased $0.8 million, or 78.6%, to $0.2 million in 2011 from $1.0 million in 2010. The decrease was primarily related to $0.5 million easement fee earned in 2011 at one our development projects located in Jacksonville, Florida and to lower real estate tax expense in 2011 on development projects that were placed on hold in 2010.

Gain on sale of real estate increased slightly in 2011 to $2.4 million from $2.1 million in 2010.
 
Earnings from unconsolidated joint ventures increased $6.0 million to $5.3 million in 2011 from a loss of $0.7 million in 2010.  The increase in earnings was primarily the result of the third quarter 2011 sale of the Shenandoah Square shopping center by a joint venture in which we have a 40% ownership interest.  Our proportionate share of the gain on sale was $2.7 million.  Additionally, 2010 included $1.8 million of our share of an impairment of a joint venture property.

Interest expense decreased $1.6 million, or 6.7%, to $21.8 million in 2011 from $23.4 million in 2010 due primarily to the payoff of several mortgages and a lower revolving line of credit balance.

Amortization of deferred financing fees decreased $0.3 million, or 17.6%, to $1.5 million in 2011 from $1.8 million in 2010.

In the third quarter of 2010, a non-cash provision for impairment was recorded related to the marketing of certain undeveloped land parcels for sale with no similar charge in 2011.

In the first quarter of 2010, the Company recorded a non-cash impairment charge of $2.7 million resulting from other–than-temporary declines in the fair market value of various equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures.

Loss on early extinguishment of debt was $2.0 million and $0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively.  In the second quarter of 2011, we recorded a one-time write-off of unamortized deferred financing costs related to the prior secured revolving line of credit and term.  No similar charges were incurred in 2010.

The income tax provision was $1.0 million in 2011 as compared to a tax benefit of $0.3 million in 2010.  The increase in income tax expense was primarily due to the repeal of the Michigan Business Tax that resulted in a one-time write-off of net deferred tax assets of $0.8 million in the second quarter of 2011.  Refer to Note 15 of the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements for further information.

Income from discontinued operations was $6.7 million in 2011 compared to a loss from discontinued operations of $1.8 million in 2010.  In 2011, we sold the Lantana Shopping Center located in Lantana, Florida and the Sunshine Plaza Shopping Center located in Tamarac, Florida for a combined net gain of $6.2 million.  In 2010, we sold the Ridgeview Crossing shopping center located in Elkin, North Carolina for a net loss of $2.1 million.

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest increased $4.9 million primarily due to the acquisition of our partner’s 80% interest in the Ramco RM Hartland SC LLC joint venture in the first quarter 2011 and higher net income in 2011.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2011, we declared dividends of $3.4 million to preferred shareholders resulting from the April 2011 preferred equity offering.
 
 
 
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
 
The majority of our cash is generated from operations and is dependent on the rents that we are able to charge and collect from our tenants. The principal uses of our liquidity and capital resources are for operations, developments, redevelopments, including expansion and renovation programs, acquisitions, and debt repayment.  In addition, we make dividend payments in accordance with REIT requirements for distributing the substantial majority of our taxable income on an annual basis.  We anticipate that the combination of cash on hand, cash from operations, availability under our credit facilities, additional financings, equity offerings, and the sale of existing properties will satisfy our expected working capital requirements through at least the next 12 months.  Although we believe that the combination of factors discussed above will provide sufficient liquidity, no such assurance can be given.

At September 30, 2011, we had $21.8 million and $6.6 million in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, respectively.  Restricted cash was comprised primarily of funds held in escrow to pay real estate taxes, insurance premiums, and certain capital expenditures.

Short-Term Liquidity Requirements

Our short-term liquidity needs consist primarily of funds necessary to pay operating expenses associated with our operating properties, interest and scheduled principal payments on our debt, expected dividend payments (including distributions to preferred shareholders and Operating Partnership unit holders) and capital expenditures related to tenant improvements and redevelopment activities.

We have no debt maturities in the fourth quarter of 2011 or the first half of 2012, excluding the non-recourse mortgage loan at Madison Center, which is in default (Refer to Note 8 of the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements).   In the third quarter of 2011, we repaid a $2.2 million land loan.  As opportunities arise and market conditions permit, we will continue to pursue the strategy of selling mature properties or non-core assets that no longer meet our investment criteria.  Our ability to obtain acceptable selling prices and satisfactory terms and financing will impact the timing of future sales.  We anticipate using net proceeds from the sale of properties to reduce outstanding debt.

Long-Term Liquidity Requirements
 
Our long-term liquidity needs consist primarily of funds necessary to pay indebtedness at maturity, potential acquisitions of properties, redevelopment of existing properties, the development of land held and non-recurring capital expenditures.
 
On September 30, 2011, we closed on a new seven-year $60.0 million unsecured term loan.  The new seven-year unsecured term loan is due in October 2018.  The loan also includes an accordion feature allowing up to $150.0 million in total borrowings, subject to lenders' approval. Proceeds from the loan were used to pay off approximately $22.2 million of mortgage loans due in 2011 and 2012 and the outstanding balance under our $175.0 million unsecured revolving line of credit as well as for general corporate purposes.

On April 29, 2011, we closed on a new $250.0 million unsecured bank facility comprised of a $175.0 million revolving line of credit and a $75.0 million term loan.  The facility replaces our prior secured line which was scheduled to mature in December 2012 and bore interest at LIBOR plus 350 basis points with a 2% LIBOR floor.  The new revolving line of credit and term loan have terms of three and four years, respectively.  Subject to customary conditions, both the revolving line and the term loan can be extended for one year at our option.   Borrowings under the facility are priced at LIBOR plus 200 to 275 basis points depending on our leverage ratio.  As of September 30, 2011, $174.7 million was available to be drawn on our unsecured revolving credit facility subject to certain covenants that may affect availability.

As a result of closing the new $60.0 million unsecured term loan in the third quarter of 2011, and both our sale of $100.0 million of convertible perpetual preferred stock and our new $250.0 million unsecured bank facility in the second quarter of 2011, we have paid off a substantial portion of our debt maturities in 2011 and 2012.  In addition, we have reduced our borrowings under our $175.0 million line of credit to zero.  We have also extended the maturity of our bank debt to 2014 and 2015, obtained an option for a further one-year extension at our option, released the mortgages that secured our prior bank facility, and added a new $60.0 million term loan that matures in 2018.  The replacement of our prior secured bank facility with our new unsecured bank facility enhances our financial flexibility by providing for additions to and removals from the pool of unencumbered properties that comprise a borrowing base, subject to certain criteria.  Our financing strategy is to maintain ample liquidity, financial strength, and financial flexibility by sourcing equity and debt capital in appropriate balance, managing our debt maturity schedule, and monitoring our exposure to interest rate risk.
 
 
 
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For the nine months ended September 30, 2011, our cash flows were as follows compared to the same period in 2010:
 
             
             
 
 
Nine Months Ended
 
 
 
September 30,
 
 
 
2011
   
2010
 
             
Cash provided from operations
  $ 32,178     $ 29,116  
Cash used in investing activities
    (38,406 )     (65,880 )
Cash provided by financing activities
    17,855       33,813  
                 
                 

We generated $32.2 million in cash flows from operating activities as compared to $29.1 million in 2010.  Cash flows from operating activities were higher mainly due to higher net cash distributions received from unconsolidated joint ventures in 2011.  Investing activities used $38.4 million of cash flows as compared to $65.9 million in 2010. Cash flows used in investing activities were lower in 2011 because higher additions to real estate were offset by higher proceeds from sales of real estate in 2011 by $21.0 million.  Cash flows provided by financing activities were $17.9 million as compared to $33.8 million.  We received net proceeds of $96.6 million from the issuance of preferred shares in 2011.  In 2011, we received net proceeds from the issuance of common shares of $8.8 million as compared to $75.7 million in 2010.  Additionally, we repaid a net of $62.8 million of mortgages and notes payable in 2011 as compared to repaying a net of $22.9 million in 2010.  In 2011, we paid cash dividends to common shareholders of $18.8 million as compared to $16.3 million in 2010 due to the increase in number of common shares outstanding from equity offerings.

Dividends and Equity

Under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“the Code”), as a REIT we must distribute annually to our shareholders at least 90% of our REIT taxable income, excluding net capital gain.  Distributions paid are at the discretion of our Board of Trustees and depend on our actual net income available to common shareholders, cash flow, financial condition, capital requirements, restrictions in financing arrangements, the annual distribution requirements under REIT provisions of the Code and such other factors as our Board of Trustees deems relevant.

We declared a quarterly cash dividend distribution of $0.16325 per common share paid to common shareholders of record on September 20, 2011, unchanged from the dividend paid of $0.16325 per share in the comparable quarter of 2010.  Our dividend policy has not changed in that we expect to continue making distributions to shareholders of at least 90% of our REIT taxable income, excluding net capital gain, in order to maintain qualification as a REIT. On an annualized basis, our current dividend is above our estimated minimum required distribution.

Additionally, we declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.90625 per preferred share to preferred shareholders of record on September 20, 2011.

Distributions paid by us are funded from cash flows from operating activities.  To the extent that cash flows from operating activities were insufficient to pay total distributions for any period, alternative funding sources are used as shown in the following table.  Examples of alternative funding sources may include proceeds from sales of real estate and bank borrowings.  Although we may use alternative sources of cash to fund distributions in a given period, we expect that distribution requirements for an entire year will be met with cash flows from operating activities.
 
 
 
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Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Cash provided by operating activities
  $ 32,178     $ 29,116  
                 
Cash distributions to common shareholders
    (18,831 )     (16,305 )
Cash distributions to preferred shareholders
    (1,619 )     -  
Cash distributions to operating partnership unit holders
    (1,447 )     (1,427 )
    Total distributions
    (21,897 )     (17,732 )
                 
Surplus (deficiency)
  $ 10,281     $ 11,384  
Alternative sources of funding for distributions:
               
  Net borrowings on mortgages and notes payable
    n/a       n/a  
    Total sources of alternative funding for distributions
    n/a       n/a  
                 
                 
 
In the first three quarters of 2011, we issued 0.683 million common shares through a controlled equity offering generating $8.8 million in net proceeds.  Additionally, in the second quarter of 2011, we issued 2.0 million convertible cumulative perpetual preferred shares generating $96.7 million in net proceeds.

Debt
 
In September 2011, we used net proceeds from our new seven-year $60.0 million unsecured term loan to repay four property mortgages aggregating approximately $22.0 million and to repay the $33.0 million outstanding balance on our unsecured revolving line of credit.
 
In July 2011, we repaid a land loan in the amount of $2.2 million related to land held for development in Jacksonville, Florida.  The land loan bore interest at a fixed rate of 6.0%.

In May 2011, we repaid one wholly-owned property mortgage in the amount of $14.3 million.  The mortgage bore interest at a fixed rate of 7.6%.

A $9.1 million non-recourse mortgage note that is secured by our wholly-owned Madison Center property located in Madison Heights, Michigan, was due May 1, 2011.  The note entered default status in May when we did not repay the note at maturity.  Subsequent to quarter end, on October 19, 2011 we conveyed titled to and our interest in the Madison Center property to the lender and were released of our obligation.

In March 2011, the $30.0 million secured term loan facility was repaid in full from borrowings under our secured Credit Facility. Additionally, in April 2011, we used net proceeds from our cumulative convertible perpetual preferred share offering to repay our $30.0 million secured bridge loan and reduce borrowings on our Credit Facility.

On March 31, 2011, we closed on a new $24.7 million mortgage secured by the Jackson Crossing shopping center in Jackson, Michigan.  The mortgage bears a fixed rate of 5.8% and matures in April 2018.

It is anticipated that funds borrowed under our credit facilities will be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures, the repayment of indebtedness or other corporate activities.  For further information on the credit facilities and other debt refer to Note 8 of the condensed consolidated financial statements.

At September 30, 2011, we had four interest rate swap agreements in effect for an aggregate notional amount of $135.0 million converting our floating rate corporate debt to fixed rate debt.  After taking into account the impact of converting our variable rate debt to fixed rate debt by use of the interest rate swap agreements, at September 30, 2011, we had no variable rate debt outstanding.

At September 30, 2011, we had $336.2 million of fixed rate mortgage loans encumbering certain consolidated properties.  Such mortgage loans are non-recourse, subject to certain exceptions for which we would be liable for any resulting losses incurred by the lender.  These exceptions vary from loan to loan but generally include fraud or a material misrepresentation, misstatement or omission by the borrower, intentional or grossly negligent conduct by the borrower that harms the property or results in a loss to the lender, filing of a bankruptcy petition by the borrower, either directly or indirectly, and certain environmental liabilities.  In addition, upon the occurrence of certain of such events, such as fraud or filing of a bankruptcy petition by the borrower, we would be liable for the entire outstanding balance of the loan, all interest accrued thereon and certain other costs, penalties and expenses.
 
 
 
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Off Balance Sheet Debt

Real Estate Joint Ventures

We consolidate entities in which we own less than a 100% equity interest if we have a controlling interest or are the primary beneficiary in a variable interest entity, as defined in the Consolidation Topic of FASB ASC 810.  From time to time, we enter into joint venture arrangements from which we believe we can benefit by owning a partial interest in a property.

As of September 30, 2011, we had eight equity investments in unconsolidated joint venture entities in which we owned 50% or less of the total ownership interest.  Refer to Note 5 of the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.  We review our equity investments in unconsolidated entities for impairment on a venture-by-venture basis whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the equity investment may not be recoverable.  In the first quarter of 2010, we recorded an impairment charge of $2.7 million resulting from other-than-temporary declines in the fair market value of various equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures.  We had no impairment loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2011.

We have a 30% ownership interest in our Ramco Lion joint venture which owns a portfolio of 16 properties totaling 3.2 million square feet of GLA.  As of September 30, 2011, the properties had consolidated equity of $307.7 million.  Our total investment in the venture at September 30, 2011 was $86.2 million.  The Ramco Lion joint venture has total debt obligations, which other than customary carve-outs are nonrecourse to us, of approximately $209.1 million with maturity dates ranging from 2012 through 2020.  Our proportionate share of the total debt is $62.7 million.

We have a 20% ownership interest in our Ramco 450 joint venture which is a portfolio of eight properties totaling 1.7 million square feet of GLA.  As of September 30, 2011, the properties in the portfolio had consolidated equity of $138.8 million.  Our total investment in the venture at September 30, 2011 was $17.5 million.  The Ramco 450 venture total debt obligations, which other than customary carve-outs are nonrecourse to us, of approximately $171.3 million with maturity dates range from 2013 through 2017.  Our proportionate share of the total debt is $34.3 million.

We also have ownership interests ranging from 7% - 50% in six smaller joint ventures that each own one or two properties.  As of September 30, 2011, our total investment in these ventures was $8.3 million and our proportionate share of the total non-recourse debt was $5.3 million with maturity dates ranging from 2012 through 2016.  One of these joint ventures owned a single shopping center in Davie, Florida that was sold to a third party in the third quarter of 2011.  Refer to Note 5 of the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements for more information related to our real estate joint ventures.
 
 
 
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Contractual Obligations

The following are our contractual cash obligations as of September 30, 2011:
 
 
                                 
   
Payments due by period
 
                                 
Contractual Obligations
 
Total
   
Less than 1 year (1)
   
1-3 years
   
3-5 years
     
More than
5 years
 
   
(In thousands)
 
                                 
Mortgages and notes payable:
                               
Scheduled amortization
  $ 25,869     $ 1,256     $ 9,801     $ 7,771       $ 7,041  
Payments due at maturity
    473,501       9,107       31,729       177,866   (2)     254,799  
  Total mortgages and notes payable
    499,370       10,363       41,530       185,637         261,840  
                                           
Employment contracts
    1,212       211       1,001       -         -  
Capital lease
    7,482       173       1,354       5,955         -  
Operating leases
    3,680       265       1,898       762         755  
Construction commitments
    4,471       4,471       -       -         -  
Total contractual obligations
  $ 516,215     $ 15,483     $ 45,783     $ 192,354       $ 262,595  
                                           
 
(1)
Amounts represent balance of obligation for the remainder of 2011.
 
(2)
Scheduled maturities include $75.0 million of unsecured term loan that includes a one-year extension option through April 2016.

At September 30, 2011, we did not have any contractual obligations that required or allowed settlement, in whole or in part, with consideration other than cash.

We anticipate that the combination of cash on hand, cash provided from operating activities, the availability under the Credit Facility ($174.7 million at September 30, 2011 subject to covenants), our access to the capital markets and the sale of existing properties will satisfy our expected working capital requirements through at least the next 12 months. Although we believe that the combination of factors discussed above will provide sufficient liquidity, no assurance can be given.

Mortgages and notes payable

See the analysis of our debt included in “Liquidity and Capital Resources” above.

Employment Contracts

At September 30, 2011, we had employment contracts with our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer that contain minimum guaranteed compensation.  All other employees are subject to at-will employment.

Operating and Capital Leases

We lease office space for our corporate headquarters and our Florida office under operating leases.  We also have an operating lease at our Taylors Square shopping center and a capital ground lease at our Gaines Marketplace shopping center under which we may be obligated to purchase the land parcel.

Construction Costs

In connection with the development and expansion of various shopping centers as of September 30, 2011, we have entered into agreements for construction activities with an aggregate cost of approximately $4.5 million.
 
 
 
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Planned Capital Spending

We are focused on our core strengths of enhancing the value of our existing portfolio of shopping centers through successful leasing efforts and the completion of our redevelopment projects currently in process.

For the remainder of 2011, we anticipate spending approximately $2.1 million for approved capital expenditures.  Estimates for future spending will change as new projects are approved. 
 
Disclosures regarding planned capital spending, including estimates regarding timing of tenant openings, capital expenditures and occupancy are forward-looking statements and certain significant factors discussed elsewhere in this document and our other filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K could cause the actual results to differ materially.

Capitalization

At September 30, 2011, our total market capitalization was $901.8 million.  Our market capitalization consisted of $483.9 million of net debt (including property-specific mortgages, an unsecured credit facility consisting of a revolving line of credit and term loan, a new unsecured term loan, junior subordinated notes, a capital lease obligation, and net cash of $21.8 million), $341.8 million of common shares and OP Units (including dilutive securities), and $76.1 million of convertible perpetual preferred shares (based on a market price of $38.05 per share at September 30, 2011).  Our net debt to total market capitalization was 53.7% at September 30, 2011, as compared to 55.2% at September 30, 2010.  The decrease in total net debt to market capitalization was due primarily to the impact of the April 2011 preferred equity offering and the repayment of various property mortgages in 2011.  Our outstanding debt at September 30, 2011 had a weighted average interest rate of 5.4%, and consisted of $499.3 million of fixed rate debt, including the impact of interest rate swap agreements.  Outstanding letters of credit issued under the credit facility totaled approximately $0.3 million at September 30, 2011.

At September 30, 2011, the noncontrolling interest in the Operating Partnership represented a 6.3% ownership in the Operating Partnership.  The OP Units may, under certain circumstances, be exchanged for our common shares of beneficial interest on a one-for-one basis.  We, as sole general partner of the Operating Partnership, have the option, but not the obligation, to settle exchanged OP Units held by others in cash based on the current trading price of our common shares of beneficial interest.  Assuming the exchange of all OP Units, there would have been 41,516,327 of our common shares of beneficial interest outstanding at September 30, 2011, with a market value of approximately $340.4 million.

Inflation

Inflation has been relatively low in recent years and has not had a significant detrimental impact on the results of our operations.  Should inflation rates increase in the future, substantially all of our tenant leases contain provisions designed to partially mitigate the negative impact of inflation in the near term.  Such lease provisions include clauses that require our tenants to reimburse us for real estate taxes and many of the operating expenses we incur.  Also, many of our leases provide for periodic increases in base rent which are either of a fixed amount or based on changes in the consumer price index and/or percentage rents (where the tenant pays us rent based on a percentage of its sales).  Significant inflation rate increases over a prolonged period of time may have a material adverse impact on our business.

Funds from Operations

We consider funds from operations, also known as “FFO,” an appropriate supplemental measure of the financial performance of an equity REIT. Under the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) definition, FFO represents net income attributable to common shareholders, excluding extraordinary items (as defined under GAAP) and gains (losses) on sales of depreciable property, plus real estate related depreciation and amortization (excluding amortization of financing costs), and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures.  FFO is intended to exclude GAAP historical cost depreciation and amortization of real estate investments, which assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes ratably over time.  Historically, however, real estate values have risen or fallen with market conditions and many companies utilize different depreciable lives and methods.  Because FFO adds back depreciation and amortization unique to real estate, and excludes gains and losses from depreciable property dispositions and extraordinary items, it provides a performance measure that, when compared year over year, reflects the impact on operations from trends in occupancy rates, rental rates, operating costs, acquisition and development activities and interest costs, which provides a perspective of our financial performance not immediately apparent from net income attributable to common shareholders determined in accordance with GAAP.  In addition, FFO does not include the cost of capital improvements, including capitalized interest.

For the reasons described above we believe that FFO provides us and our investors with an important indicator of our operating performance.  This measure of performance is used by us and other REITS for several business purposes, and it provides a recognized measure of performance other than GAAP net income attributable to common shareholders, which may include non-cash items.  Other real estate companies may calculate FFO in a different manner.
 
 
 
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We recognize FFO’s limitations when compared to GAAP net income attributable to common shareholders.  FFO does not represent amounts available for needed capital replacement or expansion, debt service obligations, or other commitments and uncertainties.  In addition, FFO does not represent cash generated from operating activities in accordance with GAAP and is not necessarily indicative of cash available to fund cash needs, including the payment of dividends.  FFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income attributable to common shareholders (computed in accordance with GAAP) or as an alternative to cash flow as a measure of liquidity.  FFO is simply used as an additional indicator of our operating performance.

The following table illustrates the calculations of FFO:
 
                         
                         
   
Three Months Ended
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
   
September 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2011
   
2010
 
   
(In thousands, except per share data)
 
                         
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders (1)
  $ 3,600     $ (26,741 )   $ 6,907     $ (28,466 )
Adjustments:
                               
  Rental property depreciation and amortization expense
    8,657       7,342       27,011       22,293  
  Pro rata share of real estate depreciation from unconsolidated joint ventures
    1,658       1,702       4,944       5,081  
  Preferred share dividends (2)
    1,813       -       -       -  
  (Gain) loss on sale of depreciable real estate
    33       -       (6,177 )     2,050  
  (Gain) on sale of joint venture property
    (2,718 )     -       (2,718 )     -  
  Noncontrolling interest in Operating Partnership
    387       (2,041 )     744       (2,215 )
                                 
Funds from operations
  $ 13,430     $ (19,738 )   $ 30,711     $ (1,257 )
                                 
Weighted average common shares
    38,596       38,020       38,351       34,497  
Shares issuable upon conversion of Operating Partnership Units
    2,784       2,902       2,837       2,902  
Shares issuable upon conversion of preferred shares (2)
    6,940       -       -       -  
Dilutive effect of securities
    143       -       162       -  
Weighted average equivalent shares outstanding, diluted
    48,463       40,922       41,350       37,399  
                                 
Net income per diluted share to FFO per diluted
                               
  share reconciliation:
                               
  Net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders per diluted share
  $ 0.09     $ (0.70 )   $ 0.18     $ (0.83 )
Adjustments:
                               
  Rental property depreciation and amortization expense
    0.18       0.18       0.65       0.60  
  Pro rata share of real estate depreciation from unconsolidated joint ventures
    0.03       0.04       0.12       0.14  
  Preferred share dividends (2)
    0.04       -       -       -  
  (Gain) loss on sale of depreciable real estate
    -       -       (0.15 )     0.05  
  (Gain) on sale of joint venture property
    (0.06 )     -       (0.07 )     -  
  Noncontrolling interest in Operating Partnership
    0.01       (0.05 )     0.02       (0.06 )
  Assuming conversion of OP Units
    (0.01 )     0.05       (0.01 )     0.07  
Funds from operations per diluted share
  $ 0.28     $ (0.48 )   $ 0.74     $ (0.03 )
                                 
                                 
(1)   Includes: Gain on sale of nondepreciable real estate
  $ 45     $ 1,633     $ 2,144     $ 2,132  
                                 
                     Impairment charges
  $ -     $ 28,787     $ -     $ 31,440  
                                 
                     Loss on early extinguishment of debt
  $ -     $ -     $ 1,968     $ -  
                                 
(2)  Series D convertible preferred shares were dilutive for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and antidilutive for the nine months ended  September 30, 2011.
 
                                 
                                 
 
 
 
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Forward Looking Statements

This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.  These forward-looking statements represent our expectations, plans or beliefs concerning future events and may be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “believe,” “expect,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “continue,” “predict” or similar terms. Although the forward-looking statements made in this document are based on our good faith beliefs, reasonable assumptions and our best judgment based upon current information, certain factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including: our success or failure in implementing our business strategy; economic conditions generally and in the commercial real estate and finance markets specifically; our cost of capital, which depends in part on our asset quality, our relationships with lenders and other capital providers; our business prospects and outlook; changes in governmental regulations, tax rates and similar matters; our continuing to qualify as a REIT; and other factors discussed elsewhere in this document and our other filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010.  Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.  Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
 
 
 
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Item 3.  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

We have exposure to interest rate risk on our variable rate debt obligations.  Based on market conditions, we may manage our exposure to interest rate risk by entering into interest rate swap agreements to hedge our variable rate debt.  We are not subject to any foreign currency exchange rate risk or commodity price risk, or other material rate or price risks.  Based on our debt and interest rates and interest rate swap agreements in effect at September 30, 2011, a 100 basis point change in interest rates would have no impact on our future earnings and cash flows as all debt is fixed rate debt.  We believe that a 100 basis point change in interest rates would impact the fair value of our total outstanding debt at September 30, 2011 by approximately $13.0 million.
 
We had interest rate swap agreements with an aggregate notional amount of $135.0 million as of September 30, 2011.  Based on rates in effect at September 30, 2011, the agreements provided for fixed rates ranging from 3.5% to 4.3% and had expirations ranging from April 2016 to October 2018.  The following table sets forth information as of September 30, 2011 concerning our long-term debt obligations, including principal cash flows by scheduled maturity, weighted average interest rates of maturing amounts and fair market:
 
                                                   
   
(In thousands, except for interest rates)
 
                                               
Estimated
 
   
2011
   
2012
   
2013
   
2014
   
2015
     
Thereafter
   
Total
   
Fair Value
 
                                                   
Fixed-rate debt
  $ 10,363     $ 15,632     $ 25,843     $ 33,670     $ 151,967   (1)   $ 261,840     $ 499,315     $ 481,077  
Average interest
                                                                 
  rate
    11.7 %     6.4 %     5.9 %     5.5 %     4.4 %       5.6 %     5.4 %     6.2 %
Variable-rate
                                                                 
  debt
  $ -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ -       $ -     $ -     $ -  
Average interest
                                                                 
  rate
    0.0 %     0.0 %     0.0     0.0 %     0.0 %       0.0     0.0 %     0.0
                                                                   
                                                                   
(1) Scheduled maturities include $75.0 million of unsecured term loan that includes a one-year extension option through April 2016.
 
 
We estimated the fair value of our fixed rate mortgages using a discounted cash flow analysis, based on our incremental borrowing rates for similar types of borrowing arrangements with the same remaining maturity.  Considerable judgment is required to develop estimated fair values of financial instruments.  The table incorporates only those exposures that exist at September 30, 2011 and does not consider those exposures or positions which could arise after that date or firm commitments as of such date.  Therefore, the information presented therein has limited predictive value.  Our actual interest rate fluctuations will depend on the exposures that arise during the period and on market interest rates at that time.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), such as this report on Form 10-Q,  is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.  In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the designed control objectives, and therefore management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.

We carried out an assessment as of September 30, 2011 of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. This assessment was done under the supervision and with the participation of management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.  Based on such evaluation, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, concluded that such disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level as of September 30, 2011.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

During the quarter ended September 30, 2011, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
 
 
 
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PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1.    Legal Proceedings

For a description of the litigation with a subcontractor, see Note 16 of the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.  There are no material pending governmental proceedings.

Item 1A.  Risk Factors

You should review our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 which contains a detailed description of risk factors that may materially affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Item 6.  Exhibits

 
Exhibit No.
Description
     
 
  3.1
Articles of Amendment, as filed with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland on April 5, 2011, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K dated April 6, 2011.
     
 
  3.2
Articles Supplementary, as filed with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland on April 5, 2011, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Form 8-K dated April 6, 2011.
     
 
  3.3
Articles Supplementary, as filed with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland on April 28, 2011, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K dated April 28, 2011.
     
 
10.1*
Unsecured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2011 among Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P., as Borrower, Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, as Guarantor, KeyBank National Association, The Huntington National Bank, PNC Bank, National Association, KeyBank National Association, as Agent, and KeyBanc Capital Markets, as Sole Lead Manager and Arranger.
     
 
10.2*
Unconditional Guaranty of Payment and Performance, dated as of September 30, 2011, by Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, in favor of KeyBank National Association and the other lenders under the Unsecured Term Loan Agreement.
     
 
12.1*
Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends.
     
 
31.1*
Certification of CEO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
 
31.2*
Certification of CFO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
 
32.1**
Certification of CEO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
 
32.2**
Certification of CFO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
 
101.INS (1)
XBRL Instance Document.
     
 
101.SCH (1)
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema.
     
 
101.CAL (1)
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation.
     
 
101.DEF (1)
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition.
 
 
 
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101.LAB (1)
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label.
     
 
101.PRE (1)
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation.
 
_______________
 
 
*
 
filed herewith
 
**
 
furnished herewith
 
(1)
 
Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, are deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and otherwise are not subject to liability thereunder.
 
 
 
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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 thereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
   
   
Date:  November 4, 2011
By: /s/ Dennis E. Gershenson                  
 
Dennis E. Gershenson
 
President and Chief Executive Officer
 
(Principal Executive Officer)
   
Date:  November 4, 2011
By: /s/ Gregory R. Andrews                   
 
Gregory R. Andrews
 
Chief Financial Officer
 
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)


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Exhibit 10.1
 
 
UNSECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
 
DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
 
among
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P.,
 
as Borrower,
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST,
 
as a Guarantor,
 
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
as a Bank,
 
THE OTHER BANKS WHICH ARE A PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT,
 
THE OTHER BANKS WHICH MAY BECOME PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT,
 
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
as Agent,
 
and
 
KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS,
 
as Sole Lead Manager and Arranger
 
 
 

 
 
UNSECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
 
This UNSECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT is made as of the 30th day of September, 2011 (this “Agreement”) by and among RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P. (the “Borrower”), a Delaware limited partnership, RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST (the “Trust”), a Maryland real estate investment trust, KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , a national banking association (“KeyBank”), and the other lending institutions that are a party hereto, and the other lending institutions which may become parties hereto pursuant to §18 (the “Banks”), and KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , a national banking association, as Administrative Agent for the Banks (the “Agent”).
 
RECITALS
 
WHEREAS , The Borrower has requested that the Banks provide a term loan facility, and the Banks are willing to do so on the terms and conditions set forth herein;
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the terms and conditions herein, and of any loans, advances, or extensions of credit heretofore, now or hereafter made to or for the benefit of the Borrower by the Banks, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
 
§1.          DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF INTERPRETATION .
 
§1.1.                  Definitions .   The following terms shall have the meanings set forth in this §1 or elsewhere in the provisions of this Agreement referred to below:
 
Affiliate .  An Affiliate, as applied to any Person, shall mean any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that Person.  For purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as applied to any Person, means (a) the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to vote ten percent (10%) or more of the stock, shares, voting trust certificates, beneficial interest, partnership interests, member interests or other interests having voting power for the election of directors of such Person or otherwise to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise, or (b) the ownership of (i) a general partnership interest, (ii) a managing member’s interest in a limited liability company or (iii) a limited partnership interest or preferred stock (or other ownership interest) representing ten percent (10%) or more of the outstanding limited partnership interests, preferred stock or other ownership interests of such Person.
 
Agent .  KeyBank National Association, acting as Administrative Agent for the Banks, its successors and assigns.
 
Agent’s Head Office .  The Agent’s head office located at 127 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio  44114-1306, or at such other location as the Agent may designate from time to time by notice to the Borrower and the Banks.
 
 
 

 
 
Agent’s Special Counsel .  McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP or such other counsel as may be approved by the Agent.
 
Agreement .  This Unsecured Term Loan Agreement, including the Schedules and Exhibits hereto.
 
Applicable Margin .  As of any date of determination prior to such time as Agent receives written notice that Trust has first obtained an Investment Grade Rating from at least two Rating Agencies, the following percentages per annum:
 
Term LIBOR Rate Loans
Term Base Rate Loans
2.25%
1.25%
 
From and after the time that Agent first receives written notice that Trust has first obtained an Investment Grade Rating from at least two Rating Agencies, “ Applicable Margin ” shall mean, as of any date of determination, a percentage per annum determined by reference to the Credit Rating Level as set forth below (provided that any accrued interest payable at the Applicable Margin determined above shall be payable as provided in Section 2.4):
 
Pricing
Level
 
Credit Rating Level
Term
LIBOR Rate Loans
Term
Base Rate Loans
I
Credit Rating Level 1
1.25%
0.25%
II
Credit Rating Level 2
1.35%
0.35%
III
Credit Rating Level 3
1.50%
0.50%
IV
Credit Rating Level 4
1.80%
0.80%
V
Credit Rating Level 5
2.25%
1.25%

The Applicable Margin for the Base Rate Loans shall be determined by reference to the Credit Rating Level in effect from time to time, and the Applicable Margin for any Interest Period for the LIBOR Rate Loans having such Interest Period shall be determined by reference to the Credit Rating Level in effect on the first day of such Interest Period; provided , however that no change in the Applicable Margin resulting from the application of the Credit Rating Levels or a change in the Credit Rating Level shall be effective until three Business Days after the date on which the Agent receives written notice of the application of the Credit Rating Levels or a change in such Credit Rating Level.  From and after the first time that the Applicable Margin is based on Trust’s Investment Grade Rating, the Applicable Margin shall only be calculated by reference to the pricing levels for the Credit Rating Levels set forth above.
 
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the determination of the Applicable Margin based on the Investment Grade Rating shall not commence prior to the  second (2 nd ) anniversary of the Closing Date.
 
Arranger .  KeyBanc Capital Markets.
 
 
2

 
 
Assignment and Acceptance Agreement .  See §18.1.
 
Balance Sheet Date .  June 30, 2011.
 
Banks .  KeyBank, the other Banks a party hereto, and any other Person who becomes an assignee of any rights of a Bank pursuant to §18.
 
Base Rate .  The greater of (a) the variable annual rate of interest announced from time to time by Agent at Agent’s Head Office as its “prime rate”, (b) one-half of one percent (0.5%) above the Federal Funds Effective Rate, or (c) the LIBOR Rate determined as of any date of determination for an Interest Period of one month plus one percent (1%) (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next one-eighth of one percent).  The Base Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate being charged to any customer.  Any change in the rate of interest payable hereunder resulting from a change in the Base Rate shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change in the Base Rate becomes effective, without notice or demand of any kind.
 
Base Rate Loans .  The Term Base Rate Loans.
 
Board .  See the definition of Change of Control.
 
Borrower .  As defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Borrowing Base Availability .  At any date of determination, the Borrowing Base Availability for Eligible Real Estate owned by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor included in the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property shall be the amount which is the lesser of (a) sixty percent (60%) of the Unencumbered Pool Value; and (b) the Debt Service Coverage Amount for the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties.
 
Borrowing Base Property Certificate .  See §7.4(e).
 
Building .  With respect to each parcel of Real Estate, all of the buildings, structures and improvements now or hereafter located thereon.
 
Business Day .  Any day on which banking institutions located in the same city and state as the Agent’s Head Office and in New York are open for the transaction of banking business and, in the case of LIBOR Rate Loans, which also is a LIBOR Business Day.
 
Capital Expenditure Reserve Amount .  With respect to any Person or property, a reserve for replacements and capital expenditures equal to $.10 per square foot of building space located on all Real Estate owned by such Person, other than Real Estate subject to leases which provide that the tenant is responsible for all building maintenance.
 
Capital Improvement Project .  With respect to any Real Estate now or hereafter owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which is utilized principally for shopping centers, capital improvements consisting of rehabilitation, refurbishment, replacement, expansions and improvements (including related amenities) to the existing Buildings on such Real Estate and capital additions, repairs, resurfacing and replacements in the common areas of such Real Estate all of which may be properly capitalized under GAAP.
 
 
3

 
 
Capitalization Rate .  Eight percent (8%).
 
Capitalized Lease .  A lease under which a Person is the lessee or obligor, the discounted future rental payment obligations under which are required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of the lessee or obligor in accordance with GAAP.
 
Cash Equivalents .  As of any date, (i) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than one year from such date, (ii) time deposits and certificates of deposits having maturities of not more than one year from such date and issued by any domestic commercial bank having, (A) senior long term unsecured debt rated at least A or the equivalent thereof by S&P or A2 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s and (B) capital and surplus in excess of $100,000,000.00; (iii) commercial paper rated at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or P-1 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s and in either case maturing within one hundred twenty (120) days from such date, and (iv) shares of any money market mutual fund rated at least AAA or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least Aaa or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s.
 
CERCLA .  See §6.18.
 
Change of Control .  The occurrence of any one of the following events:
 
(a)           during any twelve month period on or after the date of this Agreement, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors or Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”) (together with any new directors whose election by the Board or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Trust was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the members of the Board then in office who either were members of the Board at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the members of the Board then in office;
 
(b)           any Person or group (as that term is understood under Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and the rules and regulations thereunder) shall have acquired beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of a percentage (based on voting power, in the event different classes of stock shall have different voting powers) of the voting stock of the Trust equal to at least thirty percent (30%);
 
(c)           the Borrower or Trust consolidates with, is acquired by, or merges into or with any Person (other than a merger permitted by Section 8.4); or
 
(d)           the Borrower fails to own, free of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim, at least one hundred percent (100%) of the economic interest in the Voting Interest of each Subsidiary Guarantor.
 
 
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Closing Date .  The first date on which all of the conditions set forth in §10 and §11 have been satisfied.
 
Code .  The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and all regulations and formal guidance issued thereunder.
 
Commitment .  With respect to each Bank, the Term Loan Commitment of such Bank.
 
Commitment Increase Date .  The effective date of the Term Loan Commitment increases specified in §2.8.
 
Commitment Percentage .  With respect to each Bank, the percentage set forth on Schedule 1.1 hereto as such Bank’s percentage of the aggregate Commitments of all of the Banks, as the same may be changed from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
 
Compliance Certificate .  See §7.4(e).
 
Consolidated or combined .  With reference to any term defined herein, that term as applied to the accounts of a Person and its Subsidiaries, consolidated or combined in accordance with GAAP.
 
Consolidated Operating Cash Flow .  With respect to any period of a Person, an amount equal to the Operating Cash Flow of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period consolidated in accordance with GAAP.
 
Consolidated Tangible Net Worth .  The amount by which Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value exceeds Consolidated Total Liabilities, and less the sum of:
 
(a)           the total book value of all assets of a Person and its Subsidiaries properly classified as intangible assets under GAAP, including such items as good will, the purchase price of acquired assets in excess of the fair market value thereof, trademarks, trade names, service marks, brand names, copyrights, patents and licenses, and rights with respect to the foregoing; and
 
(b)           all amounts representing any write-up in the book value of any assets of such Person or its Subsidiaries resulting from a revaluation thereof subsequent to the Balance Sheet Date; and
 
(c)           all amounts representing minority interests as of such date which are applicable to third parties in Investments of the Borrower.
 
 
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Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value .  With respect to any Person, the sum of all assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, provided that all Real Estate that is improved and not Under Development shall be valued at an amount equal to (A) the Operating Cash Flow of such Person and its Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates described in §8.3(i) from such Real Estate for the period covered by the four previous consecutive fiscal quarters (treated as a single accounting period) divided by (B) the Capitalization Rate, provided that (i) prior to such time as the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or such Unconsolidated Affiliates has owned and operated any parcel of Real Estate for four full fiscal quarters, such Real Estate shall be valued at acquisition cost determined in accordance with GAAP, and provided further that (ii)(A) with respect to any Redevelopment Property that has been valued at cost as permitted below and has recommenced operations for less than four full fiscal quarters, the Operating Cash Flow for such Redevelopment Property for the number of full fiscal quarters which the Borrower or its Subsidiary or such Unconsolidated Affiliate has recommenced operations as annualized shall be utilized, and (B) the Operating Cash Flow for any Redevelopment Property that has recommenced operations without a full quarter of performance shall be annualized in such manner as the Agent shall approve, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, and (iii) to the extent that the capitalized Operating Cash Flow with respect to any parcel of Real Estate owned by an Unconsolidated Affiliate of such Person is included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value for such Person, such Person’s interest in the Unconsolidated Affiliate shall not be included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value for such Person.  Real Estate that is Under Development and undeveloped Land shall be valued at its capitalized cost in accordance with GAAP.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Borrower may elect to value a Redevelopment Property at cost as determined in accordance with GAAP, as set forth in the first sentence of this definition, for a period of up to twenty-four (24) months which twenty-four (24) month period shall commence upon the date which Agent receives written notice from Borrower of such election (including any notice provided prior to the date of this Agreement pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement).  The assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be adjusted to reflect the Borrower’s allocable share of such asset (including Borrower’s interest in any Unconsolidated Affiliate whose asset value is determined by application of the capitalization rate above), for the relevant period or as of the date of determination, taking into account (a) the relative proportion of each such item derived from assets directly owned by the Borrower and from assets owned by its respective Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates, and (b) the Borrower’s respective ownership interest in its Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates.
 
Consolidated Total Liabilities .  All liabilities of a Person and its Subsidiaries determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and all Indebtedness of such Person and its Subsidiaries, whether or not so classified, including any liabilities arising in connection with sale and leaseback transactions, and shall include such Person’s pro rata share of the foregoing items of its Unconsolidated Affiliates.  Consolidated Total Liabilities shall not include Trust Preferred Equity or Subordinated Debt.  Amounts undrawn under this Agreement shall not be included in Indebtedness for purposes of this definition.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (a) Indebtedness (i) of Borrower and its Subsidiaries consisting of environmental indemnities and guarantees with respect to customary exceptions to exculpatory language with respect to Non-recourse Indebtedness and (ii) of Borrower with respect to the TIF Guaranty shall not be included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Liabilities of Borrower and its Subsidiaries unless a claim shall have been made against Borrower or a Subsidiary of Borrower on account of any such guaranty or indemnity, and (b) Indebtedness of Borrower, the Trust and their Subsidiaries under completion guarantees shall equal the remaining costs to complete the applicable construction project in excess of construction loan or mezzanine loan proceeds available therefor and any equity deposited or invested for the payment of such costs.
 
 
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Contribution Agreement .  That certain Contribution Agreement dated of even date herewith among the Borrower, the Trust and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
 
Conversion Request .  A notice given by the Borrower to the Agent of its election to convert or continue a Loan in accordance with §4.1.
 
Credit Rating .  As of any date of determination, the higher of the credit ratings (or their equivalents) then assigned to Trust’s long-term senior unsecured non-credit enhanced debt by any of the Rating Agencies.  A credit rating of BBB- from S&P or Fitch is equivalent to a credit rating of Baa3 from Moody’s and vice versa.  A credit rating of BBB from S&P or Fitch is equivalent to a credit rating of Baa2 from Moody’s and vice versa.  It is the intention of the parties that if Trust shall only obtain a credit rating from two of the Rating Agencies without seeking a credit rating from the third Rating Agency, the Borrower shall be entitled to the benefit of the Credit Rating Level for such credit rating.  If Trust shall have obtained a credit rating from at least two of the Rating Agencies, the highest of the obtained ratings shall control, provided that the next highest rating is only one level below that of the highest rating.  If the next highest rating is more than one level below that of the highest credit rating, the operative rating would be deemed to be one rating level higher than the lower of the two ratings.  In the event that Trust shall have obtained a credit rating from at least two of the Rating Agencies and shall thereafter lose any of such ratings (whether as a result of a withdrawal, suspension, election to not obtain a rating, or otherwise) from the Rating Agencies such that Trust does not have a credit rating from at least two Rating Agencies, the Trust shall be deemed for the purposes hereof not to have a credit rating.  If at any time any of the Rating Agencies shall no longer perform the functions of a securities rating agency, then the Borrower and the Agent shall promptly negotiate in good faith to agree upon a substitute rating agency or agencies (and to correlate the system of ratings of each substitute rating agency with that of the rating agency being replaced), and pending such amendment, the Credit Rating of the other of the Rating Agencies, if one has been provided, shall continue to apply.
 
Credit Rating Level .  One of the following five pricing levels, as applicable, and provided, further, that, from and after the time that Agent receives written notice that Trust has first obtained an Investment Grade Rating from at least two Rating Agencies, during any period that the Trust has no Credit Rating Level, Credit Rating Level 5 shall be the applicable Credit Rating Level:
 
Credit Rating Level 1 ” means the Credit Rating Level which would be applicable for so long as the Credit Rating is greater than or equal to A- by S&P or Fitch, or A3 by Moody’s;
 
Credit Rating Level 2 ” means the Credit Rating Level which would be applicable for so long as the Credit Rating is greater than or equal to BBB+ by S&P or Fitch, or Baa1 by Moody’s and Credit Rating Level 1 is not applicable;
 
Credit Rating Level 3 ” means the Credit Rating Level which would be applicable for so long as the Credit Rating is greater than or equal to BBB by S&P or Fitch, or Baa2 by Moody’s and Credit Rating Levels 1 and 2 are not applicable;
 
 
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Credit Rating Level 4 ” means the Credit Rating Level which would be applicable for so long as the Credit Rating is greater than or equal to BBB- by S&P or Fitch, or Baa3 by Moody’s and Credit Rating Levels 1, 2 and 3 are not applicable; and
 
Credit Rating Level 5 ” means the Credit Rating Level which would be applicable for so long as the Credit Rating is less than BBB- by S&P or Fitch, or Baa3 by Moody’s or there is no Credit Rating.
 
Debt Offering .  The issuance and sale by the Borrower or any Guarantor of any debt securities of the Borrower or such Guarantor.
 
Debt Service .  For any period, the sum of all interest, including capitalized interest not paid in cash, bond related expenses, and mandatory principal/sinking fund payments due and payable during such period excluding any balloon payments due upon maturity of any Indebtedness.  Any of the foregoing payable with respect to Subordinated Debt shall be included in the calculation of Debt Service.
 
Debt Service Coverage Amount .  At any time determined by the Agent, an amount equal to the maximum principal amount of all Unsecured Indebtedness of the Trust, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Loans) which, when bearing interest at a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the then-current annual yield on seven (7) year obligations issued by the United States Treasury most recently prior to the date of determination plus 2.50% payable based on a 25 year mortgage style amortization schedule (expressed as a mortgage constant percentage) and (b) 7.5%, would be payable by the monthly principal and interest payment amount resulting from dividing (a) the Operating Cash Flow from the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties for the preceding four fiscal quarters divided by 1.5 by (b) 12.  With respect to any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property which has not been owned by Borrower or a Subsidiary thereof for four (4) full fiscal quarters, then for the purposes of determining the Debt Service Coverage Amount, the historic Operating Cash Flow from such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property shall be used, or if such information is not available, then the Operating Cash Flow shall be the Borrower’s pro forma underwritten Operating Cash Flow for such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property for the next succeeding four (4) fiscal quarters as reasonably approved by Agent (provided, that the pro forma underwritten Operating Cash Flow for each of such four (4) fiscal quarters shall be replaced by the actual Operating Cash Flow for each fiscal quarter thereafter until such time as there are four (4) full fiscal quarters of operating results for the Borrower, and the pro forma underwritten Operating Cash Flow approved by Agent shall continue to be used for the fiscal quarters not yet occurred).  The determination of the Debt Service Coverage Amount and the components thereof by the Agent shall, so long as the same shall be determined in good faith, be conclusive and binding absent manifest error.
 
Default .  See §12.1.
 
Defaulting Bank .  See §14.5(c).
 
 
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Derivatives Contract .  Any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement.  Not in limitation of the foregoing, the term “Derivatives Contract” includes any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement of similar type, including any such obligations or liabilities under any such master agreement.
 
Directions .  See §14.12.
 
Distribution .  With respect to any Person, the declaration or payment of any cash, cash flow, dividend or distribution on or in respect of any shares of any class of capital stock, partnership interest, membership interest or other beneficial interest of such Person other than that portion of any dividends or distributions payable in equity securities of such Person; the purchase, redemption, exchange or other retirement of any shares of any class of capital stock, partnership interest, membership interest or other beneficial interest of such Person, directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary of such Person or otherwise; the return of capital by such Person to its shareholders, partners, members or other owners as such; or any other distribution on or in respect of any shares of any class of capital stock or other beneficial interest of such Person.
 
Dollars or $ . Dollars in lawful currency of the United States of America.
 
Domestic Lending Office .  Initially, the office of each Bank designated as such in Schedule 1.1 hereto; thereafter, such other office of such Bank, if any, located within the United States that will be making or maintaining Base Rate Loans.
 
Drawdown Date .  The date on which any Loan is made or is to be made, and the date on which any Loan which is made prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date is converted or combined in accordance with §4.1.
 
Eligible Real Estate .  Real Estate which meets the conditions set forth in § 7.19(a).
 
Employee Benefit Plan .  Any employee benefit plan within the meaning of §3(3) of ERISA maintained or contributed to by the Borrower, a Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate, other than a Multiemployer Plan.
 
Environmental Laws .  See §6.18(a).
 
Equity Offering .  The issuance and sale by the Borrower or any Guarantor of any equity securities of the Borrower or such Guarantor.
 
ERISA .  The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended and in effect from time to time, and all regulations and formal guidance issued thereunder.
 
 
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ERISA Affiliate .  Any Person which is treated as a single employer with the Borrower or any Guarantor under §414 of the Code or §4001 of ERISA, or any predecessor entities of any of them.
 
ERISA Reportable Event .  A reportable event with respect to a Guaranteed Pension Plan within the meaning of §4043 of ERISA as to which the requirement of notice has not been waived or any other event with respect to which Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate could have liability under ERISA §§4062(e) or 4063.
 
Event of Default .  See §12.1.
 
Existing Credit Agreement .  The Second Amended and Restated Unsecured Master Loan Agreement dated April 29, 2011.
 
Federal Funds Effective Rate .  For any day, the rate per annum (rounded to the nearest one hundredth of one percent (1/100 of 1%)) announced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on such day as being the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous trading day, as computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank in substantially the same manner as such Federal Reserve Bank computes and announces the weighted average it refers to as the “Federal Funds Effective Rate”, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by the Agent from three (3) Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the Agent.
 
Fitch .  Fitch, Inc. and any successor thereto.
 
Fixed Charges .  With respect to the Trust and its Subsidiaries for any fiscal period, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the Debt Service of the Trust and its Subsidiaries, plus (b) the Preferred Distributions of the Trust and its Subsidiaries, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
 
Funds from Operations .  With respect to any Person for any fiscal period, the Net Income (or Deficit) of such Person computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding losses from sales of property and impairment charges, plus depreciation and amortization, and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures.  Adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures will be calculated to reflect funds from operations on the same basis.
 
GAAP .  Principles that are (a) consistent with the principles promulgated or adopted by the Financial Accounting Standards Board and its predecessors, as in effect from time to time and (b) consistently applied with past financial statements of the Person adopting the same principles; provided that a certified public accountant would, insofar as the use of such accounting principles is pertinent, be in a position to deliver an unqualified opinion (other than a qualification regarding changes in GAAP) as to financial statements in which such principles have been properly applied.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purposes of the financial calculations hereunder, any amount otherwise included therein from a mark-up or mark-down of a derivative product of a Person shall be excluded.
 
 
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Ground Lease .  A ground lease which is not subordinate to any mortgage, deed of trust or security deed as to which no default or event of default has occurred and containing the following terms and conditions:  (a) a remaining term (exclusive of any unexercised extension options) of forty (40) years or more from the Closing Date; (b) the right of the lessee to mortgage and encumber its interest in the leased property without the consent of the lessor; (c) the obligation of the lessor to give the holder of any mortgage lien on such leased property written notice of any defaults on the part of the lessee and agreement of such lessor that such lease will not be terminated until such holder has had a reasonable opportunity to cure or complete foreclosure, and fails to do so; (d) reasonable transferability of the lessee’s interest under such lease, including the ability to sublease; and (e) such other rights customarily required by mortgagees making a loan secured by the interest of the holder of the leasehold estate demised pursuant to a ground lease.
 
Guaranteed Pension Plan .  Any employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of §3(2) of ERISA maintained or contributed to by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate the benefits of which are guaranteed on termination in full or in part by the PBGC pursuant to Title IV of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan.
 
Guarantors .  Collectively, the Trust and each Subsidiary Guarantor, and individually, any one such Guarantor.
 
Guaranty .  The Unconditional Guaranty of Payment and Performance dated of even date herewith made by the Guarantors in favor of the Agent and the Banks, as the same may be modified or amended, such Guaranty to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
 
Hazardous Substances .  See §6.18(b).
 
Indebtedness .  All obligations, contingent and otherwise, that in accordance with GAAP should be classified upon the obligor’s balance sheet as liabilities, or to which reference should be made by footnotes thereto, but without any double counting, including in any event and whether or not so classified: (a) all debt and similar monetary obligations, whether direct or indirect (including, without limitation, any obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar debt instruments); (b) all liabilities secured by any mortgage, pledge, security interest, lien, charge or other encumbrance existing on property owned or acquired subject thereto, whether or not the liability secured thereby shall have been assumed; (c) all guarantees, endorsements and other contingent obligations whether direct or indirect in respect of indebtedness of others, including any obligation to supply funds to or in any manner to invest directly or indirectly in a Person, to purchase indebtedness, or to assure the owner of indebtedness against loss through an agreement to purchase goods, supplies or services for the purpose of enabling the debtor to make payment of the indebtedness held by such owner or otherwise; (d) any obligation as a lessee or obligor under a Capitalized Lease; (e) all subordinated debt, including, without limitation, Subordinated Debt (but excluding Trust Preferred Equity); (f) all obligations to purchase under agreements to acquire (but excluding agreements which provide that the seller’s remedies thereunder are limited to market liquidated damages in the event the purchaser defaults thereunder), or otherwise to contribute money with respect to, properties under “development” within the meaning of §8.9; and (g) all obligations, contingent or deferred or otherwise, of any Person, including, without limitation, any such obligations as an account party under acceptance, letter of credit or similar facilities including, without limitation, obligations to reimburse the issuer in respect of a letter of credit except for contingent obligations (but excluding any guarantees or similar obligations) that are not material and are incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the acquisition or obtaining commitments for financing of Real Estate.
 
 
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Interest Payment Date .  As to each Base Rate Loan, the first day of each calendar month during the term of such Base Rate Loan and as to each LIBOR Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan.
 
Interest Period .  With respect to each LIBOR Rate Loan (a) initially, the period commencing on the Drawdown Date of such Loan and ending one, two or three months (or, with the consent of the Banks, a period of less than one (1) month) thereafter and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the day following the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Loan and ending on the last day of one of the periods set forth above, as selected by the Borrower in a Conversion Request; provided that all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:
 
(i)           if any Interest Period with respect to a LIBOR Rate Loan would otherwise end on a day that is not a LIBOR Business Day, that Interest Period shall end and the next Interest Period shall commence on the next preceding or succeeding LIBOR Business Day as determined conclusively by the Agent in accordance with the then current bank practice in the London Interbank Market;
 
(ii)           if the Borrower shall fail to give notice as provided in §4.1, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a conversion of the affected LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base Rate Loan on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto; and
 
(iii)           no Interest Period relating to any LIBOR Rate Loan shall extend beyond the Term Loan Maturity Date.
 
Interest Rate Contracts .  Interest rate swap, collar, cap or similar agreements providing interest rate protection.
 
Investment Grade Rating .  A Credit Rating of BBB- or better by S&P or Fitch, or Baa3 or better by Moody’s.
 
Investments .  With respect to any Person, all shares of capital stock, evidences of Indebtedness and other securities issued by any other Person, all loans, advances, or extensions of credit to, or contributions to the capital of, any other Person, all purchases of the securities or business or integral part of the business of any other Person and commitments and options to make such purchases, all interests in real property, and all other investments; provided , however , that the term “Investment” shall not include (i) equipment, inventory and other tangible personal property acquired in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) current trade and customer accounts receivable for services rendered in the ordinary course of business and payable in accordance with customary trade terms.  In determining the aggregate amount of Investments outstanding at any particular time: (a) the amount of any Investment represented as a guaranty shall be taken at not less than the principal amount of the obligations guaranteed and still outstanding; (b) there shall be included as an Investment all interest accrued with respect to Indebtedness constituting an Investment unless and until such interest is paid; (c) there shall be deducted in respect of each such Investment any amount received as a return of capital (but only by repurchase, redemption, retirement, repayment, liquidating dividend or liquidating distribution); (d) there shall not be deducted in respect of any Investment any amounts received as earnings on such Investment, whether as dividends, interest or otherwise, except that accrued interest included as provided in the foregoing clause (b) may be deducted when paid; and (e) there shall not be deducted from the aggregate amount of Investments any decrease in the value thereof.
 
 
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Joinder Agreement .  The joinder agreement with respect to the Guaranty and the Contribution Agreement to be executed and delivered pursuant to §5.5 by any additional Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto.
 
KeyBank .  As defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Leases .  Leases, licenses and agreements whether written or oral, relating to the use or occupation of space in or on any Building or on any Real Estate by persons other than the Borrower.
 
LIBOR Business Day .  Any day on which commercial banks are open for international business (including dealings in Dollar deposits) in London.
 
LIBOR Lending Office .  Initially, the office of each Bank designated as such in Schedule 1.1 hereto; thereafter, such other office of such Bank, if any, that shall be making or maintaining LIBOR Rate Loans.
 
LIBOR Rate .  For any LIBOR Rate Loan for any Interest Period, the average rate (rounded to the nearest 1/100th) as shown in Reuters Screen LIBOR 01 Page at which deposits in U.S. dollars are offered by first class banks in the London Interbank Market at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two (2) LIBOR Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period with a maturity approximately equal to such Interest Period and in an amount approximately equal to the amount to which such Interest Period relates, adjusted for reserves and taxes if required by future regulations.  If such service no longer reports such rate or Agent determines in good faith that the rate so reported no longer accurately reflects the rate available to Agent in the London Interbank Market, Agent may select a replacement index.  For any period during which a Reserve Percentage shall apply, the LIBOR Rate with respect to LIBOR Rate Loans shall be equal to the amount determined above divided by an amount equal to 1 minus the Reserve Percentage.
 
LIBOR Rate Loans .  The Term LIBOR Rate Loans.
 
Lien .  See §8.2.
 
Loan Documents .  This Agreement, the Notes (if any), the Guaranty and all other documents, instruments or agreements now or  hereafter executed or delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower or the Guarantors in connection with the Loans.
 
Loans .  The Term Loans.
 
 
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Majority Banks .  As of any date, any Bank or collection of Banks whose aggregate Commitment Percentage is more than fifty percent (50%); provided, that, in determining said percentage at any given time, all then existing Defaulting Banks will be disregarded and excluded and the Commitment Percentages of the Banks shall be redetermined for voting purposes only, to exclude the Commitment Percentages of such Defaulting Banks.
 
Moody’s .  Moody’s Investors Services, Inc. and any successor thereto.
 
Multiemployer Plan .  Any multiemployer plan within the meaning of §3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA or §414(f) of the Code maintained or contributed to by the Borrower, a Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate.
 
Net Income (or Deficit) .  With respect to any Person (or any asset of any Person) for any fiscal period, the net income (or deficit) of such Person (or attributable to such asset), after deduction of all expenses, taxes and other proper charges, determined in accordance with GAAP.
 
Net Offering Proceeds .  The gross cash proceeds received by the Borrower or any Guarantor as a result of a Debt Offering or an Equity Offering less the customary and reasonable costs, fees, expenses, underwriting commissions and discounts incurred by the Borrower or such Guarantor in connection therewith.
 
Net Rentable Area .  With respect to any Real Estate, the floor area of any buildings, structures or improvements available (or to be available upon completion) for leasing to tenants determined in accordance with the Rent Roll for such Real Estate, the manner of such determination to be consistent for all Real Estate unless otherwise approved by the Agent.
 
Non-recourse Indebtedness .  Indebtedness of a Person which is secured solely by one or more parcels of Real Estate and related personal property and is not a general obligation of such Person, the holder of such Indebtedness having recourse solely to the parcels of Real Estate securing such Indebtedness, the Building and any leases thereon and the rents and profits thereof.
 
Non-Consenting Bank .  See §18.9.
 
Notes .  The Term Loan Notes.
 
Notice .  See §19.
 
Obligations .  All indebtedness, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower and the Guarantors to any of the Banks and the Agent, individually or collectively, under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or in respect of any of the Loans or the Notes, or other instruments at any time evidencing any of the foregoing, whether existing on the date of this Agreement or arising or incurred hereafter, direct or indirect, joint or several, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, arising by contract, operation of law or otherwise.
 
OFAC .  Office of Foreign Asset Control of the Department of the Treasury of the United States of America.
 
 
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Operating Cash Flow .  With respect to any Person (or any asset of any Person) for any period, for the four (4) most recently completed consecutive fiscal quarters of such Person an amount equal to the sum of (a) the Net Income of such Person (or attributable to such asset) for such period (excluding from Net Income any base rents from tenants leasing 10,000 square feet or more (1) that are subject to any bankruptcy proceeding and that have not affirmed or assumed their respective lease or other occupancy agreement or (2) as to which a payment default has occurred under the applicable Lease for sixty (60) days or more beyond any applicable grace and cure period) plus (b) depreciation and amortization, interest expense, and any extraordinary or nonrecurring losses deducted in calculating such Net Income, minus (c) any extraordinary or nonrecurring gains included in calculating such Net Income, minus (d) the Capital Expenditure Reserve Amount, minus (e) to the extent not already deducted in calculating Net Income, a management fee of 3% of minimum rents attributable to any Real Estate of such Person , all as determined in accordance with GAAP, minus (f) any lease termination payments not received in the ordinary course of business.  Payments from Borrower or its Affiliates under leases shall be excluded from Operating Cash Flow.
 
Outstanding .  With respect to the Loans, the aggregate unpaid principal thereof as of any date of determination.
 
Patriot Act .  The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, as the same may be amended from time to time, and corresponding provisions of future laws.
 
PBGC .  The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation created by §4002 of ERISA and any successor entity or entities having similar responsibilities.
 
Permitted Liens .  Liens, security interests and other encumbrances permitted by §8.2.
 
Person .  Any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, business, or other legal entity, and any government or any governmental agency or political subdivision thereof.
 
Preferred Distributions .  For any period, the amount of any and all Distributions (but excluding any repurchase of Preferred Equity) paid, declared but not yet paid or otherwise due and payable to the holders of Preferred Equity.
 
Preferred Equity .  Any form of preferred stock or partnership interest (whether perpetual, convertible or otherwise) or other ownership or beneficial interest in the Trust or any Subsidiary of the Trust (including any Trust Preferred Equity) that entitles the holders thereof to preferential payment or distribution priority with respect to dividends, distributions, assets or other payments over the holders of any other stock, partnership interest or other ownership or beneficial interest in such Person.
 
Prepayment Consideration .  See §3.3.
 
Rating Agencies .  S&P, Fitch and Moody’s, collectively, and “Rating Agency” means either S&P, Moody’s or Fitch.
 
 
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Real Estate .  All real property at any time owned or leased (as lessee or sublessee) by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
 
Record .  The grid attached to any Note, or the continuation of such grid, or any other similar record, including computer records, maintained by Agent with respect to any Loan referred to in such Note.
 
Recourse Indebtedness .  Any Indebtedness (whether secured or unsecured) that is recourse to the Borrower or the Trust.  Guaranties with respect to customary exceptions to Non-recourse Indebtedness of Borrower’s Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates shall not be deemed to be Recourse Indebtedness; provided that if a claim is made against Borrower or the Trust with respect thereto, the amount so claimed shall be considered Recourse Indebtedness.
 
Redevelopment Property .  Any Real Estate which is not Under Development and (1) is undergoing a significant Capital Improvement Project and (2) is designated as a Redevelopment Property by Borrower and approved by Agent, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.
 
Register .  See §18.2.
 
REIT Status .  With respect to the Trust, its status as a real estate investment trust as defined in §856(a) of the Code.
 
Related Fund .  With respect to any Bank which is a fund that invests in loans, any Affiliate of such Bank or any other fund that invests in loans that is managed by the same investment advisor as such Bank or by an Affiliate of such Bank or such investment advisor.
 
Release .  See §6.18(c)(iii).
 
Required Banks .  As of any date, any Bank or collection of Banks whose aggregate Commitment Percentage is equal to or greater than sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66.66%); provided that in determining said percentage at any given time, all then existing Defaulting Banks will be disregarded and excluded and the Commitment Percentages of the Banks shall be redetermined for voting purposes only to exclude the Commitment Percentages of such Defaulting Banks.
 
Reserve Percentage .  For any day with respect to a LIBOR Rate Loan, the maximum rate (expressed as a decimal) at which any lender subject thereto would be required to maintain reserves (including, without limitation, all base, supplemental, marginal and other reserves) under Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor or similar regulations relating to such reserve requirements) against “Eurocurrency Liabilities” (as that term is used in Regulation D or any successor or similar regulation), if such liabilities were outstanding.  The Reserve Percentage shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in the Reserve Percentage.
 
S&P .  Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and any successor thereto.
 
SEC .  The federal Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
 
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Secured Indebtedness .  Indebtedness of a Person that is pursuant to a Capitalized Lease or is directly or indirectly secured by a Lien.
 
Secured Recourse Indebtedness .  Secured Indebtedness of a Person that is also Recourse Indebtedness.
 
Short-term Investments .  Investments described in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of §8.3.
 
State .  A state of the United States of America.
 
Subordinated Debt .  Any subordinated debt which is not Trust Preferred Equity issued by the Trust or the Borrower (or a subsidiary trust created to issue such subordinated debt) (a) which has a minimum remaining term of not less than five (5) years, (b) which is unsecured and which is not guaranteed by any other Person, (c) which imposes no financial tests or covenants or negative covenants of the type set forth in §8 or §9 of this Agreement or the Guaranty or §12.1(p) or (q) of this Agreement (or other covenants, representations or defaults which have the same practical effect thereof) on the Trust, the Borrower or their respective Subsidiaries other than those approved by Agent, (d) pursuant to which all claims and liabilities of the Trust, Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries with respect to the principal and any premium and interest thereon are subordinate to the payment of the principal and any premium and interest thereon of the Borrower, the Trust and their respective Subsidiaries under this Agreement and other Indebtedness which by its terms is not subordinate to or pari passu with such Subordinated Debt on terms acceptable to the Agent, and as to which subordination provisions the Agent and the Banks shall be third party beneficiaries, and (e) which does not violate the terms of §8.11.
 
Subsidiary .  Any corporation, association, partnership, trust, or other business entity of which the designated parent shall at any time own directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries at least a majority (by number of votes or controlling interests) of the outstanding Voting Interests, and shall include all Persons the accounts of which are consolidated with those of such Person in accordance with GAAP.
 
Subsidiary Guarantor .  Collectively, Ramco Fox River LLC, Ramco Liberty Square LLC, Merchants 450 LLC, Ramco Gaines LLC, Beacon Square Development LLC, and each Subsidiary of Borrower or the Trust which becomes a Guarantor pursuant to §5.5.
 
Tax Indemnity Agreement .  That certain Tax Agreement dated as of May 10, 1996 between Atlantic Realty Trust and RPS Realty Trust (now known as the Trust).
 
Term Base Rate Loans .  The Term Loans bearing interest by reference to the Base Rate.
 
Term LIBOR Rate Loans .  The Term Loans bearing interest by reference to the LIBOR Rate.
 
Term Loan or Term Loans .  An individual term loan or the aggregate term loans, as the case may be, in the maximum principal amount of $60,000,000.00 made by the Term Loan Banks hereunder pursuant to §2.2, as the same may be increased as provided in this Agreement.
 
 
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Term Loan Banks .  Collectively, the Banks which have a Term Loan Commitment, the initial Term Loan Banks being identified on Schedule 1.1 hereto.
 
Term Loan Commitment .  As to each Term Loan Bank, the amount equal to such Term Loan Bank’s Commitment Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans from time to time outstanding to Borrower.
 
Term Loan Maturity Date .  September 30, 2018, or such earlier date on which the Loans shall become due and payable pursuant to the terms hereof.
 
Term Loan Note .  A promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Term Loan Bank in the principal face amount equal to such Term Loan Bank’s Term Loan Commitment, in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto.
 
TIF Guaranty .  That certain Guaranty dated as of March 11, 2005 made by Borrower and the Trust in favor of the City of Jacksonville relating to the development by Ramco Jacksonville LLC.
 
Titled Agents .  The Arranger.
 
Total Commitment .  The sum of the Commitments of the Banks, as in effect from time to time.  As of the date of this Agreement, the Total Commitment is Sixty Million and No/100 Dollars ($60,000,000.00).  The Total Commitment may increase in accordance with §2.8.
 
Total Leverage Ratio .  The ratio as of any determination date of Consolidated Total Liabilities to Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value.
 
Trust .  Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust.
 
Trust Preferred Equity .  Any preferred equity interest (and related note) issued by the Trust (or a subsidiary trust created to issue such securities) (a) which has a minimum remaining term of not less than five (5) years (b) which is unsecured and which is not guaranteed by any other Person, (c) which imposes no financial or negative covenants (or other covenants, representations or defaults which have the same practical effect thereof) on the Trust, the Borrower or their respective Subsidiaries, (d) pursuant to which all claims and liabilities of the Trust, Borrower and its Subsidiary with respect thereto are subordinate to the payment of the Obligations of the Borrower, the Trust and their respective Subsidiaries on terms acceptable to the Agent, and as to which subordination provisions the Agent and the Banks shall be third party beneficiaries, (e) which provides that, upon the non-payment of the note and any dividends or other distributions that are required to be paid or made with respect thereto, the only available remedies to the holders thereof or any trustee or agent acting on their behalf are (x) the assumption of one or more seats on the Board of the Trust and/or (y) the blockage of (A) payments of any dividends or other distributions to the holders of the common shares of the Trust or other securities ranking on a parity with or subordinate to such Trust Preferred Equity, or (B) payments of amounts in redemption of or to repurchase common shares of the Trust or other securities ranking on a parity with or subordinate to such Trust Preferred Equity, and (f) which does not violate the terms of §8.11.
 
 
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Type .  As to any Loan, its nature as a Base Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan.
 
Unconsolidated Affiliate .  As to any Person, any other Person in which it owns an interest which is not a Subsidiary.
 
Under Development .  Any Real Estate or phase of a development shall be considered under development until such time as (i) certificates of occupancy permitting occupancy have been obtained for all tenants open for business and in any event for not less than fifty percent (50%) of the gross leasable area of such development or phase (excluding outlots) (it being agreed that Borrower shall receive a credit against such occupancy requirement for any space to be occupied by an anchor that has been conveyed to such anchor) or the Borrower has delivered to the Agent other evidence satisfactory to the Agent indicating that such occupancy of such development is lawful, and (ii) the gross income from the operation of such Real Estate or phase on an accrual basis shall have equaled or exceeded operating costs on an accrual basis for three (3) months.
 
Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties .  Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall mean Eligible Real Estate which satisfies all of the conditions set forth in §7.19.  The initial properties designated by Borrower to be Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties are described on Schedule 6.31 hereto.
 
Unencumbered Pool Value .  The Unencumbered Pool Value shall be with respect to any Eligible Real Estate included in the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, the sum of (i) with respect to each Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property owned by Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries for at least the previous four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters, the aggregate Operating Cash Flow from Eligible Real Estate included in the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property divided by the Capitalization Rate and (ii) with respect to each Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property owned by Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries and acquired during the prior four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters, the acquisition cost of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property determined in accordance with GAAP.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Unencumbered Pool Value for an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property that is a Redevelopment Property shall be the cost incurred for such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property as determined in accordance with GAAP for a period of up to twenty-four (24) months, which period shall commence upon the date which Agent approves such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property as a Redevelopment Property.
 
Unsecured Indebtedness .  As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Trust and their respective Subsidiaries outstanding at any time which is not Secured Indebtedness plus (b) the amount by which the portion of the aggregate Secured Recourse Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Trust and their Subsidiaries exceeds the lesser of (i) $150,000,000.00 and (ii) ten percent (10%) of Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value.  For the purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent obligation of the type described in clause (c) of the definition of Indebtedness shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder), as determined by Borrower in good faith and reasonably approved by Agent.  Guaranties with respect to customary exceptions to Non-recourse Indebtedness of Borrower’s Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates shall not be deemed to be Unsecured Indebtedness; provided that if a claim is made against Borrower or the Trust with respect thereto, the amount so claimed shall be considered Unsecured Indebtedness.  Unsecured Indebtedness shall not include Subordinated Debt or accounts payable paid in the ordinary course of business.
 
 
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Variable Rate Debt .  Indebtedness that is payable by reference to a rate of interest that may vary, float or change during the term of such Indebtedness (that is, a rate of interest that is not fixed for the entire term of such Indebtedness).
 
Voting Interests .  Stock or similar ownership interests, of any class or classes (however designated), the holders of which are at the time entitled, as such holders, (a) to vote for the election of a majority of the directors (or persons performing similar functions) of the corporation, association, partnership, trust or other business entity involved, or (b) to control, manage, or conduct the business of the corporation, partnership, association, trust or other business entity involved.
 
Wholly Owned Subsidiary .  Any Subsidiary of Borrower or the Trust in which all of the equity interests (other than in the case of a corporation, director’s qualifying shares) are at the time directly or indirectly owned by Borrower or the Trust.
 
§1.2.                 Rules of Interpretation .
 
(a)           A reference to any document or agreement shall include such document or agreement as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms and the terms of this Agreement.
 
(b)           The singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.
 
(c)           A reference to any law includes any amendment or modification to such law.
 
(d)           A reference to any Person includes its permitted successors and permitted assigns.
 
(e)           Accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them by GAAP applied on a consistent basis by the accounting entity to which they refer.
 
(f)           The words “include”, “includes” and “including” are not limiting.
 
(g)           The words “approval” and “approved”, as the context so determines, means an approval in writing given to the party seeking approval after full and fair disclosure to the party giving approval of all material facts necessary in order to determine whether approval should be granted.
 
(h)           All terms not specifically defined herein or by GAAP, which terms are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of  Michigan, have the meanings assigned to them therein.
 
 
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(i)           Reference to a particular “§”, refers to that section of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated.
 
(j)           The words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder” and words of like import shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular section or subdivision of this Agreement.
 
(k)           In the event of any change in GAAP after the date hereof or any other change in accounting procedures pursuant to §7.3 which would affect the computation of any financial covenant, ratio or other requirement set forth in any Loan Document, then upon the request of the Borrower or Agent, the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Agent and the Banks shall negotiate promptly, diligently and in good faith in order to amend the provisions of the Loan Documents such that such financial covenant, ratio or other requirement shall continue to provide substantially the same financial tests or restrictions of the Borrower and the Guarantors as in effect prior to such accounting change, as determined by the Required Banks in their good faith judgment.  Until such time as such amendment shall have been executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Agent and the Required Banks, such financial covenants, ratio and other requirements, and all financial statements and other documents required to be delivered under the Loan Documents, shall be calculated and reported as if such change had not occurred.
 
§2.          THE CREDIT FACILITY .
 
§2.1.                 Intentionally Deleted .
 
§2.2.                  Commitment to Lend Term Loan .  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each of the Term Loan Banks severally agrees to lend to Borrower on the Closing Date such Term Loan Bank’s Term Loan Commitment.  Any additional Term Loans made as a result of any increase in the Total Commitment pursuant to §2.8 shall be made on the applicable Commitment Increase Date and each Bank which elects to increase its Term Loan Commitment pursuant to §2.8 severally and not jointly agrees to make a Term Loan to the Borrower in an amount equal to (a) with respect to any existing Bank, the amount by which such Term Loan Bank’s Commitment increases on the applicable Commitment Increase Date and (b) with respect to any new Banks, the amount of such new Bank’s Term Loan Commitment.
 
§2.3.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
§2.4.                  Interest on Loans .
 
(a)           Each Term Base Rate Loan shall bear interest for the period commencing with the Drawdown Date thereof and ending on the date on which such Term Base Rate Loan is repaid or is converted to a Term LIBOR Rate Loan at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin for Term Base Rate Loans plus the Base Rate.
 
(b)           Each Term LIBOR Rate Loan shall bear interest for the period commencing with the Drawdown Date thereof and ending on the date on which such Term LIBOR Rate Loan is repaid or is converted to a Term Base Rate Loan at the rate per annum equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin for Term LIBOR Rate Loans plus the LIBOR Rate determined for such Interest Period.
 
 
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(c)           The Borrower promises to pay interest on each Loan to it in arrears on each Interest Payment Date with respect thereto.
 
(d)           Base Rate Loans and LIBOR Rate Loans may be converted to Loans of the other Type as provided in §4.1.
 
§2.5.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
§2.6.                  Funds for Loans .
 
(a)           Not later than 11:00 a.m. (Cleveland time) on the proposed Drawdown Date of the Term Loans, each of the Term Loan Banks, as applicable, will make available to the Agent, at the Agent’s Head Office, in immediately available funds, the amount of such Bank’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of the requested Loans which may be disbursed pursuant to §2.2.  Upon receipt from each such Bank of such amount, and upon receipt of the documents required by §10 and §11 and the satisfaction of the other conditions set forth therein, to the extent applicable, the Agent will make available to the Borrower the aggregate amount of Term Loans, made available to the Agent by the Term Loan Banks, by crediting such amount to the account of the Borrower maintained at the Agent’s Head Office or by transferring such amount to an account designated by Borrower.  The failure or refusal of any Term Loan Bank to make available to the Agent at the aforesaid time and place on any Drawdown Date the amount of its Commitment Percentage of the requested Loans shall not relieve any other Term Loan Bank from its several obligation hereunder to make available to the Agent the amount of such other Bank’s Commitment Percentage of any requested Loans.  Agent shall notify each of the Term Loan Banks no later than 2:00 p.m. (Cleveland time) one (1) Business Day prior to the proposed Drawdown Date of such Bank’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of the requested Loans which will be made available by such Bank to the Agent on the Drawdown Date.
 
(b)           Unless the Agent shall have been notified by any Bank prior to the applicable Drawdown Date that such Bank will not make available to the Agent such Bank’s pro rata share of a proposed Loan, the Agent may in its discretion assume that such Bank has made such share of the proposed Loan available to Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Agent may, if it chooses, in reliance upon such assumption make such Loan available to Borrower, and such Bank shall be liable to the Agent for the amount of such advance.  If such Bank does not pay such corresponding amount upon the Agent’s demand therefor, the Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, and the Borrower shall promptly pay such corresponding amount to the Agent.  The Agent shall also be entitled to recover from the Bank or the Borrower, as the case may be, interest on such corresponding amount in respect of each day from the date such corresponding amount was made available by the Agent to the Borrower to the date such corresponding amount is recovered by the Agent at a per annum rate equal to (i) from the Borrower at the applicable rate for such Loan or (ii) from a Bank at the Federal Funds Effective Rate.
 
 
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§2.7.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
§2.8.                  Increase of Term Loan Commitment .
 
(a)           Provided that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower shall have the option, by giving written notice to the Agent (the “Increase Notice”), subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, to increase the Total Commitment, each in increments of $10,000,000.00 by an aggregate amount of increases to the Total Commitment of up to $90,000,000 (the amount of the requested increase to be set forth in the Increase Notice) (which would result in a maximum Total Commitment of $150,000,000).  The execution and delivery of the Increase Notice by Borrower shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that all the conditions set forth in this §2.8 shall have been satisfied on the date of such Increase Notice.  Each advance of the additional Commitment may, with the approval of Agent and Borrower, bear interest at a different interest rate (including, without limitation, by reference to a different Applicable Margin) agreed to by Borrower, Agent and the Banks making such additional Commitment.
 
(b)           The obligation of the Agent and the Term Loan Banks to increase the Total Commitment pursuant to this §2.8 shall be conditioned upon satisfaction of the following conditions precedent which must be satisfied prior to the effectiveness of any increase of the Total Commitment.
 
(i)            Payment of Activation Fee .  The Borrower shall pay to the Agent those fees described in and contemplated by the Agreement Regarding Fees referred to in §4.2 with respect to the applicable increase and to the Agent such fees as Agent and the Term Loan Banks, acquiring such increase may require to increase the aggregate Term Loan Commitment, which fees shall, when paid, be fully earned and non-refundable under any circumstances.  The Agent shall pay to the Banks acquiring the increased Term Loan Commitment certain fees pursuant to their separate agreement; and
 
(ii)            No Default .  On the date such Increase Notice is given and on the date such increase becomes effective, both immediately before and after the Term Loan Commitment is increased, there shall exist no Default or Event of Default; and
 
(iii)            Representations and Warranties .  The representations and warranties made by the Borrower or Guarantors in the Loan Documents or otherwise made by or on behalf of the Borrower, Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection therewith or after the date thereof shall have been true and correct in all material respects, when made and shall also be true and correct in all material respects on the date of such Increase Notice and on the date the Term Loan Commitment is increased, both immediately before and after the Total Commitment is increased; and
 
(iv)            Additional Documents and Fees .  The Borrower shall also execute and deliver to Agent and the Banks such additional documents, instruments, certifications and opinions as the Agent may require in its sole and absolute discretion, including, without limitation, replacement Notes, any amendments to the Loan Documents as Agent may reasonably deem necessary or appropriate, and a Compliance Certificate, demonstrating compliance with all covenants, representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Documents after giving effect to the increase, as Agent may request (including demonstrating compliance with all covenants, representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Documents after giving effect to the increase).  The Banks authorize Agent to enter into on behalf of the Banks such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as Agent deems necessary or appropriate to document any increase in the Total Commitment (including, without limitation, such changes as may be necessary or appropriate to reflect the interest rate applicable to such increased portion of the Commitment); and
 
 
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(v)            Assignments .  One or more Term Loan Banks, or potential assignees reasonably acceptable to Agent shall have agreed to acquire the portion of the Term Loan Commitment that Borrower desires to activate, provided, however, no Bank (including, specifically, but without limitation, KeyBank) shall be obligated to acquire such increase without the express written consent of such Bank, which consent may be withheld in such Bank’s sole and absolute discretion.  The allocation of any such increase shall be reasonably acceptable to the Agent; and
 
(vi)            Other .  The Borrower shall satisfy such other conditions to such increase as Agent may require in its reasonable discretion.
 
(c)           Upon satisfaction of the terms and conditions set forth above, the amount set forth in the Increase Notice shall become part of the Term Loan Commitment and shall be funded by the Term Loan Bank or Banks acquiring such Term Loan Commitment to the Agent for disbursement to the Borrower.  The Agent may unilaterally amend Schedule 1.1 to reflect any such increase in the Total Commitment.
 
§2.9.                 Intentionally Deleted.
 
§2.10.                 Intentionally Deleted.
 
§2.11.                  Evidence of Debt .  The indebtedness of the Borrower resulting from the Loans made by each Bank from time to time shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Bank and the Agent in the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Bank from time to time hereunder.  The Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes Agent and the Banks to make, or cause to be made, at or about the time of the Drawdown Date of any Loan or at the time of receipt of any payment thereof, an appropriate notation on Agent’s and the Bank’s records reflecting the making of such Loan or (as the case may be) the receipt of such payment.  The Agent shall maintain accounts or records in accordance with its usual practice in which it shall record:  (i) the date and the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type of Loan and, if appropriate, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Bank hereunder, and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Agent hereunder from the Borrower and each Bank’s share thereof.  The accounts or records maintained by the Agent and each Bank shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the Obligations recorded therein and shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Loans made by the Banks to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon.  Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under the Notes, if any, to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations.  In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Bank and the accounts and records of the Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.  The Borrower agrees that upon the request of any Bank made through the Agent (whether for purposes of pledge, enforcement or otherwise), the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Bank (through the Agent) a Term Loan Note payable to the order of such Bank, which shall evidence such Bank’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records.  Each Bank may attach schedules to its Notes and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.  All references to Notes in the Loan Documents shall mean Notes, if any, to the extent issued hereunder.
 
 
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§3.          REPAYMENT OF THE LOANS .
 
§3.1.                  Stated Maturity .  The Borrower promises to pay on the Term Loan Maturity Date and there shall become absolutely due and payable on the Term Loan Maturity Date all of the Term Loans Outstanding on such date, together with any and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon.
 
§3.2.                  Mandatory Prepayments .  If at any time the sum of the aggregate of the Outstanding Unsecured Indebtedness of the Trust, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Outstanding Loans) exceed the Borrowing Base Availability, the Borrower shall immediately upon demand pay the amount of such excess, at its choice, either to reduce such Unsecured Indebtedness or to the Agent for the account of the Term Loan Banks for application to the Term Loans.
 
§3.3.                  Optional Prepayments .  The Borrower shall have the right, at its election, to prepay the outstanding amount of the applicable Loans, as a whole or in part, at any time together with a prepayment premium in respect of the principal amount of such Loans so prepaid in an amount equal to (i) two percent (2%) of such principal amount for any prepayment made on or before September 30, 2013 and (ii) one percent (1%) of such principal amount of any prepayment made after September 30, 2013 and on or before September 30, 2014 (the “Prepayment Consideration”).  No prepayment premium shall be required pursuant to this paragraph in respect of any prepayment of such Loans made on or after September 30, 2014; provided , that if any full or partial prepayment of the outstanding amount of any LIBOR Rate Loan is made other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto, such prepayment shall be accompanied by the payment of any amounts due pursuant to §4.8.  The Borrower shall give the Agent, no later than 10:00 a.m., Cleveland time, at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of any prepayment pursuant to this §3.3, in each case specifying the proposed date of payment of Loans and the principal amount to be paid.  Borrower acknowledges that the Prepayment Consideration is bargained for consideration and is not a penalty.  Borrower recognizes that Banks would incur substantial additional costs and expense in the event of a prepayment of the Loans and that the Prepayment Consideration compensates Banks for such costs and expenses (including, without limitation, the loss of Banks’ investment opportunity during the period from the prepayment date until the Term Loan Maturity Date).  Borrower agrees that Banks shall not, as a condition to receiving the Prepayment Consideration, be obligated to actually reinvest the amount prepaid in any obligation or in any other manner whatsoever.  If, following the occurrence of any Event of Default, Borrower shall tender payment of an amount sufficient to satisfy the Loans on or before September 30, 2014, such tender by Borrower shall be deemed to be a voluntary prepayment in the amount tendered and in such case Borrower shall also pay to Banks, with respect to the amount tendered, the applicable Prepayment Consideration.  Agent shall not be obligated to accept any such tender unless it is accompanied by all Prepayment Consideration due in connection therewith.
 
 
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§3.4.                  Partial Prepayments .  Each prepayment under §3.2 shall be applied to the Loans and, in the absence of instruction by the Borrower, first to the principal of Base Rate Loans and then to the principal of LIBOR Rate Loans.  Each partial prepayment of the Loans under §3.3 shall be in a minimum amount of $100,000, shall be accompanied by the payment of accrued interest on the principal prepaid to the date of payment and, after payment of such interest, shall be applied, in the absence of instruction by the Borrower, first to the principal of the Base Rate Loans in accordance with each Bank’s Commitment Percentage of such Loans and then to the principal of the LIBOR Rate Loans in accordance with each Bank’s Commitment Percentage of such Loans.
 
§3.5.                  Effect of Prepayments .  Any portion of the Term Loans that is repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
 
§4.          CERTAIN GENERAL PROVISIONS .
 
§4.1.                  Conversion Options .
 
(a)           The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert any of its outstanding Term Loans from Base Rate Loans to LIBOR Rate Loans or vice versa and such Term Loan shall thereafter bear interest as a Base Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan, as applicable; provided that (i) with respect to any such conversion of a LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base Rate Loan, the Borrower shall give the Agent at least one (1) Business Day’s prior written notice of such election, and such conversion shall only be made on the last day of the Interest Period with respect to such LIBOR Rate Loan; (ii) with respect to any such conversion of a Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan the Borrower shall give the Agent at least three (3) LIBOR Business Days’ prior written notice of such election and the Interest Period requested for such Loan, the principal amount of the Loan so converted shall be in a minimum aggregate amount of $500,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and, after giving effect to the making of or conversion of such Loan there shall be no more than ten (10) Term LIBOR Rate Loans outstanding at any one time; and (iii) no Loan may be converted into a LIBOR Rate Loan when any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.  All or any part of the outstanding Term Loans of any Type may be converted as provided herein, provided that no partial conversion shall result in a Term Base Rate Loan in an aggregate principal amount of less than $500,000 or a Term LIBOR Rate Loan in an aggregate principal amount of less than $500,000 and that the aggregate principal amount of each Loan shall be in an integral multiple of $100,000.  On the date on which such conversion is being made, each Bank shall take such action as is necessary to transfer its Commitment Percentage of such Loans to its Domestic Lending Office or its LIBOR Lending Office, as the case may be.  Each Conversion Request relating to the conversion of a Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan shall be irrevocable by the Borrower.
 
 
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(b)           Any Term Loan may be continued as such Type upon the expiration of an Interest Period with respect thereto by compliance by the Borrower with the terms of §4.1(a); provided that no LIBOR Rate Loan may be continued as such when any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, but shall be automatically converted to a Base Rate Loan on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto ending during the continuance of any Default or Event of Default.
 
(c)           In the event that the Borrower does not notify the Agent of its election hereunder with respect to any Loan to it, such Loan shall be automatically converted to a Base Rate Loan at the end of the applicable Interest Period.
 
§4.2.                  Commitment and Syndication Fee .  The Borrower shall pay to KeyBank and Arranger certain fees for services rendered or to be rendered in connection with the Loan as provided pursuant to the Agreement Regarding Fees dated of even date herewith between the Borrower and KeyBank.
 
§4.3.                  Agent’s Fee .  The Borrower will pay to Agent, for the Agent’s own account, an annual Agent’s Fee calculated at the rate, and payable at such times as are, set forth in the Agreement Regarding Fees referred to in §4.2.
 
§4.4.                  Funds for Payments .
 
(a)           All payments of principal, interest, unused facility fees, Agent’s fees, closing fees and any other amounts due hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents shall be made to the Agent, for the respective accounts of the Banks and the Agent, as the case may be, at the Agent’s Head Office, not later than 1:00 p.m. (Cleveland time) on the day when due, in each case in lawful money of the United States in immediately available funds.  The Agent is hereby authorized to charge the accounts of the Borrower with KeyBank designated by the Borrower, on the dates when the amount thereof shall become due and payable, with the amounts of the principal of and interest on the Loans and all fees, charges, expenses and other amounts owing to the Agent and/or the Banks under the Loan Documents.
 
(b)           All payments by the Borrower hereunder and under any of the other Loan Documents shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and free and clear of and without deduction for any taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions, withholdings, compulsory loans, restrictions or conditions of any nature now or hereafter imposed or levied by any jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or taxing or other authority therein unless the Borrower is compelled by law to make such deduction or withholding.  If any such obligation is imposed upon the Borrower with respect to any amount payable by them hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, the Borrower will pay to the Agent, for the account of the Banks or (as the case may be) the Agent, on the date on which such amount is due and payable hereunder or under such other Loan Document, such additional amount in Dollars as shall be necessary to enable the Banks or the Agent to receive the same net amount which the Banks or the Agent would have received on such due date had no such obligation been imposed upon the Borrower.  The Borrower will deliver promptly to the Agent certificates or other valid vouchers for all taxes or other charges deducted from or paid with respect to payments made by the Borrower hereunder or under such other Loan Document.
 
 
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(c)           Each Bank organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States shall provide the Borrower with such duly executed form(s) or statement(s) which may, from time to time, be prescribed by law and, which, pursuant to applicable provisions of (i) an income tax treaty between the United States and the country of residence of such Bank, (ii) the Code, or (iii) any applicable rules or regulations in effect under (i) or (ii) above, indicates the withholding status of such Bank; provided that nothing herein (including without limitation the failure or inability to provide such form or statement) shall relieve the Borrower of its obligations under §4.4(b).  Each Bank shall deliver photocopies of such forms or other appropriate certifications on or before the date that any such form shall expire or become obsolete and after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form delivered to the Borrower for the Agent.  Any Bank which sells a participation in any of its Commitments shall be required to obtain such forms from any participant, and shall be required to withhold any amounts from such participant as required by the Code or Treasury Regulations issued pursuant thereto.
 
§4.5.                  Computations .  All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed.  All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year).  Except as otherwise provided in the definition of the term “Interest Period” with respect to LIBOR Rate Loans, whenever a payment hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents becomes due on a day that is not a Business Day, the due date for such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and interest shall accrue during such extension.  The outstanding amount of the Loans as reflected on the records of the Agent from time to time shall be considered prima facie evidence of such amount.  Each determination by the Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
 
§4.6.                  Suspension of LIBOR Rate Loans .  In the event that, prior to the commencement of any Interest Period relating to any LIBOR Rate Loan, the Agent shall reasonably determine that adequate and reasonable methods do not exist for ascertaining the LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period, or the Agent shall reasonably determine that the LIBOR Rate will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Banks of making or maintaining LIBOR Rate Loans for such Interest Period, the Agent shall forthwith give notice of such determination (which shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Banks) to the Borrower and the Banks.  In such event each LIBOR Rate Loan will automatically, on the last day of the then current Interest Period thereof, become a Base Rate Loan, and the obligations of the Banks to make LIBOR Rate Loans shall be suspended until the Agent determines that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, whereupon the Agent shall so notify the Borrower and the Banks.
 
§4.7.                  Illegality .  Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, if any present or future law, regulation, treaty or directive or the interpretation or application thereof shall make it unlawful, or any central bank or other governmental authority having jurisdiction over a Bank or its LIBOR Lending Office shall assert that it is unlawful, for any Bank to make or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans, such Bank shall forthwith give notice of such circumstances to the Agent and the Borrower and thereupon (a) the commitment of the Banks to make LIBOR Rate Loans or convert Loans of another type to LIBOR Rate Loans shall forthwith be suspended and (b) the LIBOR Rate Loans then outstanding shall be converted automatically to Base Rate Loans on the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loans or within such earlier period as may be required by law.
 
 
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§4.8.                  Additional Interest .  If any LIBOR Rate Loan or any portion thereof is repaid, or converted to a Base Rate Loan for any reason on a date which is prior to the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan, or if repayment of the Loans has been accelerated as provided in §12.1, the Borrower will pay to the Agent upon demand for the account of the Banks in accordance with their respective Commitment Percentages, in addition to any amounts of interest otherwise payable hereunder, any amounts required to compensate the Banks for any losses, costs or expenses which may reasonably be incurred as a result of such payment, reapportionment or conversion.
 
§4.9.                  Additional Costs, Etc .  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if any present or future applicable law, or any amendment or modification of present applicable law, which expression, as used herein, includes statutes, rules and regulations thereunder and legally binding interpretations thereof by any competent court or by any governmental or other regulatory body or official with appropriate jurisdiction charged with the administration or the interpretation thereof and requests, directives, instructions and notices at any time or from time to time hereafter made upon or otherwise issued to any Bank or the Agent by any central bank or other fiscal, monetary or other authority (whether or not having the force of law), shall:
 
(a)           subject any Bank or the Agent to any tax, levy, impost, duty, charge, fee, deduction or withholding of any nature with respect to this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, such Bank’s Commitment, or the Loans (other than taxes based upon or measured by the income or profits or gross receipts of such Bank or the Agent), or
 
(b)           materially change the basis of taxation (except for changes in taxes on income or profits) of payments to any Bank of the principal of or the interest on any Loans or any other amounts payable to any Bank under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, or
 
(c)           impose or increase or render applicable any special deposit, reserve, assessment, liquidity, capital adequacy or other similar requirements (whether or not having the force of law) against assets held by, or deposits in or for the account of, or loans by, or commitments of an office of any Bank, or
 
(d)           impose on any Bank or the Agent any other conditions or requirements with respect to this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Loans, such Bank’s Commitment, or any class of loans or commitments of which any of the Loans or such Bank’s Commitment forms a part; and the result of any of the foregoing is
 
(i)           to increase the cost to any Bank of making, funding, issuing, renewing, extending or maintaining any of the Loans or such Bank’s Commitment, or
 
(ii)           to reduce the amount of principal, interest or other amount payable to such Bank or the Agent hereunder on account of such Bank’s Commitment or any of the Loans, or
 
 
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(iii)           to require such Bank or the Agent to make any payment or to forego any interest or other sum payable hereunder, the amount of which payment or foregone interest or other sum is calculated by reference to the gross amount of any sum receivable or deemed received by such Bank or the Agent from the Borrower hereunder,
 
then, and in each such case, the Borrower will within fifteen (15) days after demand made by such Bank or (as the case may be) the Agent at any time and from time to time and as often as the occasion therefor may arise, pay to such Bank or the Agent such additional amounts as such Bank or the Agent shall determine in good faith to be sufficient to compensate such Bank or the Agent for such additional cost, reduction, payment or foregone interest or other sum.  Each Bank and the Agent in determining such amounts may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods, generally applied by such Bank or the Agent.  For purposes of §4.9 and §4.10, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, publications, orders, guidelines and directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall be deemed to have been adopted and gone into effect after the date hereof regardless of when adopted, enacted or issued.
 
§4.10.                  Capital Adequacy .  If after the date hereof any Bank determines that (a) the adoption of or change in any law, rule, regulation or guideline regarding capital requirements for banks or bank holding companies or any change in the interpretation or application thereof by any governmental authority charged with the administration thereof, or (b) compliance by such Bank or its parent bank holding company with any guideline, request or directive of any such entity regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law), has the effect of reducing the return on such Bank’s or such holding company’s capital as a consequence of such Bank’s commitment to make Loans hereunder to a level below that which such Bank or holding company could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Bank’s or such holding company’s then existing policies with respect to capital adequacy and assuming the full utilization of such entity’s capital) by any amount deemed by such Bank to be material, then such Bank may notify the Borrower thereof.  The Borrower agrees to pay to such Bank the amount of such reduction in the return on capital as and when such reduction is determined, upon presentation by such Bank of a statement of the amount and setting forth such Bank’s calculation thereof.  In determining such amount, such Bank may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.
 
§4.11.                  Indemnity of Borrower .  The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Bank and to hold each Bank harmless from and against any loss, cost or expense that such Bank may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the Borrower in payment of the principal amount of or any interest on any LIBOR Rate Loans as and when due and payable, including any such loss or expense arising from interest or fees payable by such Bank to lenders of funds obtained by it in order to maintain its LIBOR Rate Loans, or (b) default by the Borrower in making a borrowing or conversion after the Borrower has given (or is deemed to have given) a Conversion Request.
 
 
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§4.12.                  Interest on Overdue Amounts; Late Charge .  Overdue principal on the Loans and all other overdue amounts payable hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents (other than interest on the Loans) shall, following the expiration of any applicable cure period expressly provided for in this Agreement, bear interest payable on demand at a rate per annum equal to two percent (2.0%) above the rate that would otherwise be applicable at such time until such amount shall be paid in full (after as well as before judgment).  Overdue interest on the Loans shall, following the expiration of any applicable cure period expressly provided for in this Agreement, bear interest payable on demand at a rate equal to the lesser of (i) a per annum rate equal to two percent (2.0%) above the rate that would otherwise be applicable at such time or (ii) the maximum annual rate of interest permitted by applicable law until such amount shall be paid in full (after as well as before judgment), provided that in no event shall such rate exceed ten percent (10%) per annum.  In addition, the Borrower shall pay a late charge equal to four percent (4.0%) of any amount of interest and/or principal payable on the Loans or any other amounts payable hereunder or under the Loan Documents, which is not paid by the Borrower within fifteen (15) days after the same shall become due and payable.
 
§4.13.                  Certificate .  A certificate setting forth any amounts payable pursuant to §4.8, §4.9, §4.10, §4.11 or §4.12 and a brief explanation of such amounts which are due, submitted by any Bank or the Agent to the Borrower, shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
 
§4.14.                  Limitation on Interest .  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, all agreements between the Borrower and the Banks and the Agent, whether now existing or hereafter arising and whether written or oral, are hereby limited so that in no contingency, whether by reason of acceleration of the maturity of any of the Obligations or otherwise, shall the interest contracted for, charged or received by the Banks exceed the maximum amount permissible under applicable law.  If, from any circumstance whatsoever, interest would otherwise be payable to the Banks in excess of the maximum lawful amount, the interest payable to the Banks shall be reduced to the maximum amount permitted under applicable law; and if from any circumstance the Banks shall ever receive anything of value deemed interest by applicable law in excess of the maximum lawful amount, an amount equal to any excessive interest shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of the Obligations of the Borrower and to the payment of interest or, if such excessive interest exceeds the unpaid balance of principal of the Obligations of the Borrower, such excess shall be refunded to the Borrower.  All interest paid or agreed to be paid to the Banks shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be amortized, prorated, allocated and spread throughout the full period until payment in full of the principal of the Obligations of the Borrower (including the period of any renewal or extension thereof) so that the interest thereon for such full period shall not exceed the maximum amount permitted by applicable law.  This section shall control all agreements between the Borrower and the Banks and the Agent.
 
§4.15.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
§4.16.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
 
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§5.          UNSECURED OBLIGATIONS; GUARANTY .
 
§5.1.                  Unsecured Obligations .  The Banks have agreed to make the Loans to the Borrower for the account of the Borrower on an unsecured basis.  The Obligations shall be guaranteed pursuant to the terms of the Guaranty.
 
§5.2.                  New Guarantors .
 
(a)            Requirement to Become Guarantor .  In the event that any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Borrower or the Trust, whether presently existing or hereafter formed or acquired, which is not a Guarantor at such time, shall own or be the lessee under a Ground Lease of an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property or otherwise have a leasehold or other interest in an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, then Borrower shall cause such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Agent each of the following items, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent:  (i) a Joinder Agreement and (ii) the items that would have been delivered under §10.2 through §10.5 if such Subsidiary had been a Guarantor as of the date hereof.  The organizational agreements of each such Subsidiary created after the Closing Date shall specifically authorize each such Subsidiary to guarantee the Obligations.
 
(b)            Release of a Guarantor .  The Borrower may request in writing that the Agent release, and upon receipt of such request the Agent shall release (subject to the terms hereof), a Guarantor from the Guaranty so long as:  (i) no Default or Event of Default shall then be in existence or would occur as a result of such release; (ii) the Agent shall have received such written request at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the requested date of release; (iii) Borrower shall deliver to Agent evidence reasonably satisfactory to Agent either that (A) the Trust and/or the Borrower has disposed of or simultaneously with such release will dispose of its entire interest in such Guarantor or that all of the assets of such Guarantor will be disposed of in compliance with the terms of this Agreement, and if such transaction involves the disposition by such Guarantor of all of its assets, the net cash proceeds from such disposition are being distributed to the Trust and/or the Borrower in connection with such disposition, (B) such Guarantor will be the borrower with respect to Secured Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement, which Indebtedness will be secured by a Lien on the assets of such Guarantor, or (C) the Trust and/or the Borrower has contributed or simultaneously with such release will contribute its entire direct or indirect interest in such Guarantor to an Unconsolidated Affiliate or a Subsidiary which is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary or that such Guarantor will be contributing all of its assets to an Unconsolidated Affiliate or a Subsidiary which is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary in compliance with the terms of this Agreement. Delivery by the Borrower to the Agent of any such request for a release shall constitute a representation by the Borrower that the matters set forth in the preceding sentence (both as of the date of the giving of such request and as of the date of the effectiveness of such request) are true and correct with respect to such request.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the foregoing provisions shall not apply to the Trust, which may only be released upon the written approval of Agent and all of the Banks.
 
 
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§6.          REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER .
 
The Borrower and the Trust, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to the Agent and the Banks as follows.
 
§6.1.                  Corporate Authority, Etc .
 
(a)            Incorporation; Good Standing .  The Borrower is a Delaware limited partnership duly organized pursuant to its first amended and restated limited partnership agreement dated May 10, 1996, as amended by amendments one through [twenty-five] , and a Certificate of Limited Partnership and amendments thereto filed with the Secretary of the State of Delaware and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.  The Trust is a Maryland real estate investment trust duly organized pursuant to its trust declaration dated October 2, 1997, as amended and supplemented, and a Certificate of Trust filed with the Secretary of the State of Maryland and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Maryland.  Each Subsidiary Guarantor is a limited partnership, limited liability company or other entity duly organized and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its respective State of organization.  Each of the Borrower and the Guarantors (i) has all requisite power to own its respective property and conduct its respective business as now conducted and as presently contemplated, and (ii) as to the Borrower and the Guarantors are in good standing as a foreign entity and is duly authorized to do business in the jurisdictions where the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties are located and in each other jurisdiction where a failure to be so qualified in such other jurisdiction could have a materially adverse effect on the business, assets or financial condition of such Person.  The Trust is a real estate investment trust in full compliance with and entitled to the benefits of §856 of the Code, and has elected to be treated as a real estate investment trust pursuant to the Code.
 
(b)            Subsidiaries .  Each of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower and the Trust (i) is a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company or trust duly organized under the laws of its State of organization and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws thereof, (ii) has all requisite power to own its property and conduct its business as now conducted and as presently contemplated and (iii) is in good standing and is duly authorized to do business in each jurisdiction where Real Estate held by it is located and in each other jurisdiction where a failure to be so qualified could have a materially adverse effect on the business, assets or financial condition of the Borrower, the Trust, or such Subsidiary.
 
(c)            Authorization .  The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is or is to become a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (i) are within the authority of such Person, (ii) have been duly authorized by all necessary proceedings on the part of such Person, (iii) do not and will not conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of any provision of law, statute, rule or regulation to which such Person is subject or any judgment, order, writ, injunction, license or permit applicable to such Person, (iv) do not and will not conflict with or constitute a default (whether with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both) under any provision of the articles of incorporation, partnership agreement, declaration of trust or other charter documents or bylaws of, or any agreement or other instrument binding upon, such Person or any of its properties, and (v) do not and will not result in or require the imposition of any lien or other encumbrance on any of the properties, assets or rights of such Person.
 
 
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(d)            Enforceability .  The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is or is to become a party are valid and legally binding obligations of such Person enforceable in accordance with the respective terms and provisions hereof and thereof, except as enforceability is limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting generally the enforcement of creditors’ rights and except to the extent that availability of the remedy of specific performance or injunctive relief is subject to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.
 
§6.2.                  Governmental Approvals .  The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is or is to become a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not require the approval or consent of, or filing with, any governmental agency or authority other than those already obtained.
 
§6.3.                  Title to Properties; Lease .  The Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries own all of the assets reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Trust as of the Balance Sheet Date or acquired since that date (except property and assets sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business since that date), subject to no rights of others, including any mortgages, leases, conditional sales agreements, title retention agreements, liens or other encumbrances except Permitted Liens.
 
§6.4.                  Financial Statements .  The Borrower has delivered to each of the Banks: (a) the consolidated balance sheet of the Trust and its respective Subsidiaries as of the Balance Sheet Date, and (b) certain other financial information relating to the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties and the Real Estate.  Such balance sheet and other information have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and fairly present the financial condition of the Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries as of such dates and the results of the operations of the Borrower, the Guarantors, their respective Subsidiaries and the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties for such periods.  There are no liabilities, contingent or otherwise, of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries involving material amounts not disclosed in said financial statements and the related notes thereto.
 
§6.5.                  No Material Changes .  Since the Balance Sheet Date, there has occurred no materially adverse change in the financial condition or business of the Borrower, the Guarantors, and their respective Subsidiaries taken as a whole as shown on or reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Trust as of the Balance Sheet Date, or its consolidated statement of income or cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, other than changes in the ordinary course of business that have not had any materially adverse effect either individually or in the aggregate on the business or financial condition of such Person.  The Borrower hereby discloses that it is in the process of marketing the properties described on Schedule 6.5 hereto.
 
 
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§6.6.                  Franchises, Patents, Copyrights, Etc .  The Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries possess all franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, service marks, licenses and permits, and rights in respect of the foregoing, adequate for the conduct of their business substantially as now conducted without known conflict with any rights of others.  Except as stated on Schedule 6.6 hereto, none of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties is owned or operated by Borrower or its Subsidiaries under or by reference to any trademark, trade name, service mark or logo.
 
§6.7.                  Litigation .  Except as stated on Schedule 6.7 there are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations of any kind pending or to the knowledge of such person threatened against the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries before any court, tribunal, arbitrator, mediator or administrative agency or board that, if adversely determined, might, either in any case or in the aggregate, materially adversely affect the properties, assets, financial condition or business of such Person or materially impair the right of such Person to carry on business substantially as now conducted by it, or result in any liability not adequately covered by insurance, or for which adequate reserves are not maintained on the balance sheet of such Person, or which question the validity of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, any action taken or to be taken pursuant hereto or thereto or any lien or security interest created or intended to be created pursuant hereto or thereto, or which will adversely affect the ability of the Borrower or the Guarantors to pay and perform the Obligations in the manner contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  Except as set forth on Schedule 6.7 , as of the date of this Agreement, there are no judgments outstanding against or adversely affecting any of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
 
§6.8.                  No Materially Adverse Contracts, Etc .  None of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is subject to any charter, corporate or other legal restriction, or any judgment, decree, order, rule or regulation that has or is expected in the future to have a materially adverse effect on the business, assets or financial condition of such Person.  None of the Borrower, the Guarantors nor any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party to any contract or agreement that has or is expected, in the judgment of the partners or officers of such Person, to have any materially adverse effect on the business of any of them.
 
§6.9.                  Compliance with Other Instruments, Laws, Etc .  None of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is in violation of any provision of its charter or other organizational documents, bylaws, or any agreement or instrument to which it may be subject or by which it or any of its properties may be bound or any decree, order, judgment, statute, license, rule or regulation, in any of the foregoing cases in a manner that could result in the imposition of substantial penalties or materially and adversely affect the financial condition, properties or business of such Person.
 
§6.10.                Tax Status .  The Borrower, the Guarantors and each of their respective Subsidiaries (a) has made or filed all federal and state income and all other tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (b) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations, except those being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and (c) has set aside on its books provisions reasonably adequate for the payment of all taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply.  Except as noted in item 3 on Schedule 6.7 hereto, there are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the partners or officers of such Person know of no basis for any such claim.  There are no audits pending or to the knowledge of the Borrower threatened with respect to any tax returns filed by the Borrower, any Guarantor or their respective Subsidiaries.
 
 
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§6.11.                  No Event of Default .  No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
 
§6.12.                  Investment Company Acts .  None of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is or after giving effect to any Loan will be, subject to regulation under the Federal Power Act or the Investment Company Act of 1940 or to any federal or state statute or regulation limiting its ability to incur indebtedness for borrowed money.
 
§6.13.                  Absence of UCC Financing Statements, Etc .  Except with respect to Permitted Liens, there is no financing statement, security agreement, chattel mortgage, real estate mortgage or other document filed or recorded with any filing records, registry, or other public office, that purports to cover, affect or give notice of any present or possible future lien on, or security interest or security title in, any property of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries or rights thereunder.
 
§6.14.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
§6.15.                  Certain Transactions .  Except as set forth on Schedule 6.15 , none of the officers, trustees, directors, or employees of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party to any transaction with either or both of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, trustee, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, the Guarantor, or any corporation, partnership, trust or other entity in which any officer, trustee, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner.
 
§6.16.                  Employee Benefit Plans .  The Borrower, the Guarantors and each ERISA Affiliate have fulfilled their respective obligations under the minimum funding standards of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, Multiemployer Plan or Guaranteed Pension Plan and is in compliance in all material respects with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, Multiemployer Plan or Guaranteed Pension Plan.  Neither the Borrower, the Guarantors nor any ERISA Affiliate has (a) sought a waiver of the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan, Multiemployer Plan or Guaranteed Pension Plan, (b) failed to make any contribution or payment to any Employee Benefit Plan, Multiemployer Plan or Guaranteed Pension Plan, or made any amendment to any Employee Benefit Plan, Multiemployer Plan or Guaranteed Pension Plan, which has resulted or could result in the imposition of a lien or the posting of a bond or other security under ERISA or the Code, or (c) incurred any liability under Title IV of ERISA other than a liability to the PBGC for premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA.  None of the Real Estate constitutes a “plan asset” within the meaning of ERISA.
 
 
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§6.17.                  Regulations T, U and X .  No portion of any Loan is to be used for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any “margin security” or “margin stock” as such terms are used in Regulations T, U and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 C.F.R.  Parts 220, 221 and 224.  Neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor is engaged, and neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any “margin security” or “margin stock” as such terms are used in Regulations T, U and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 C.F.R. Parts 220, 221 and 224.
 
§6.18.                  Environmental Compliance .  The Borrower and the Trust each has taken all commercially reasonable steps to investigate the past and present conditions and usage of the Real Estate and the operations conducted thereon and, based upon such investigation makes the following representations and warranties except as specifically set forth in the written environmental reports provided to the Agent on or before the date hereof or as set forth on Schedule 6.18 hereto.
 
(a)           With respect to the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties, and to the best of the Borrower’s and the Trust’s knowledge with respect to any other Real Estate, none of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries or any operator of the Real Estate, or any operations thereon is in violation, or alleged violation, in any material respect of any judgment, decree, order, law, license, rule or regulation pertaining to environmental matters, including, without limitation, those arising under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 as amended (“CERCLA”), the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (“SARA”), the Federal Clean Water Act, the Federal Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or any state or local statute, regulation, ordinance, order or decree relating to the environment (hereinafter “Environmental Laws”), which violation involves (i) any of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties or (ii) other Real Estate and would have a material adverse effect on the business, assets or financial condition of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
 
(b)           None of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries has received notice from any third party including, without limitation, any federal, state or local governmental authority, (i) that it has been identified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) as a potentially responsible party under CERCLA with respect to a site listed on the National Priorities List, 40 C.F.R. Part 300 Appendix B (1986); (ii) that any hazardous waste, as defined by 42 U.S.C. §9601(5), any hazardous substances as defined by 42 U.S.C. §9601(14), any pollutant or contaminant as defined by 42 U.S.C. §9601(33) or any toxic substances, oil or hazardous materials or other chemicals or substances regulated by any Environmental Laws (“Hazardous Substances”) which it has generated, transported or disposed of have been found at any site at which a federal, state or local agency or other third party has conducted or has ordered that the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries conduct a remedial investigation, removal or other response action pursuant to any Environmental Law; or (iii) that it is or shall be a named party to any claim, action, cause of action, complaint, or legal or administrative proceeding (in each case, contingent or otherwise) arising out of any third party’s incurrence of costs, expenses, losses or damages of any kind whatsoever in connection with the release of Hazardous Substances.
 
 
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(c)           With respect to the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties, and to the best of the Borrower’s and the Trust’s knowledge with respect to any other Real Estate, (i) no portion of the Real Estate has been used for the handling, processing, storage or disposal of Hazardous Substances except in accordance with applicable Environmental Laws in all material respects, and no underground tank or other underground storage receptacle for Hazardous Substances is located on any portion of the Real Estate; (ii) in the course of any activities conducted by either the Borrower, the Guarantors, their Subsidiaries or the operators of its properties, no Hazardous Substances have been generated or are being used on the Real Estate except in the ordinary course of business and in accordance with applicable Environmental Laws in all material respects; (iii) there has been no past or present releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, disposing or dumping (a “Release”) or threatened Release of Hazardous Substances on, upon, into or from any of the Real Estate, or, to the best of the Borrower’s or the Trust’s knowledge, on, upon, into or from the other properties of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries, which Release would have a material adverse effect on the value of any of the Real Estate or adjacent properties or the environment; (iv) to the best of the Borrower’s or the Trust’s knowledge, there have been no Releases on, upon, from or into any real property in the vicinity of any of the Real Estate which through soil or groundwater contamination, may have come to be located on, and which would have a material adverse effect on the value of, the Real Estate; and (v) any Hazardous Substances that have been generated on any of the Real Estate have been transported off-site only by carriers having an identification number issued by the EPA or approved by a state or local environmental regulatory authority having jurisdiction regarding the transportation of such substance and treated or disposed of only by treatment or disposal facilities maintaining valid permits as required under all applicable Environmental Laws, which transporters and facilities have been and are, to the best of the Borrower’s or the Trust’s knowledge, operating in compliance with such permits and applicable Environmental Laws.
 
(d)           None of the Borrower, the Guarantors, their respective Subsidiaries, or the Real Estate is subject to any applicable Environmental Law requiring the performance of Hazardous Substances site assessments, or the removal or remediation of Hazardous Substances, or the giving of notice to any governmental agency or the recording or delivery to other Persons of an environmental disclosure document or statement by virtue of the transactions set forth herein and contemplated hereby.
 
§6.19.                  Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates .   Schedule 6.19 sets forth all of the Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates of the Borrower and the Trust.  The form and jurisdiction of organization of each of the Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates, and the Borrower’s and the Trust’s ownership interest therein, is set forth in said Schedule 6.19 .
 
§6.20.                  Loan Documents .  All of the representations and warranties made by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Guarantors, and their respective Subsidiaries in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any document or instrument delivered to the Agent or the Banks pursuant to or in connection with any of such Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects, and neither the Borrower, the Guarantors nor any of their respective Subsidiaries has failed to disclose such information as is necessary to make such representations and warranties not misleading.
 
 
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§6.21.                  Property .  All of the Borrower’s, the Guarantors’ and their respective Subsidiaries’ Real Estate is in good condition and working order subject to ordinary wear and tear, except where such failure would not individually or in the aggregate have any material adverse affect on the business or financial condition of the Borrower or any Guarantor.  There are no unpaid or outstanding real estate or other taxes or assessments on or against any property of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries which are payable by the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries (except only real estate or other taxes or assessments, that are not yet due and payable or are being protested as permitted by this Agreement).  There are no pending eminent domain proceedings against any property of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any part thereof, and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no such proceedings are presently threatened or contemplated by any taking authority which may individually or in the aggregate have any materially adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Borrower or any Guarantor.  None of the property of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is now damaged as a result of any fire, explosion, accident, flood or other casualty in any manner which individually or in the aggregate would have any materially adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Borrower or any Guarantor.
 
§6.22.                  Brokers .  None of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries has engaged or otherwise dealt with any broker, finder or similar entity in connection with this Agreement or the Loans contemplated hereunder.
 
§6.23.                  Other Debt .  Except as set forth on Schedule 6.23 hereto, none of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is in default of the payment of any Indebtedness or any other agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, financing agreement, indenture or lease to which any of them is a party.  Neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor is a party to or bound by any agreement, instrument or indenture that may require the subordination in right or time or payment of any of the Obligations to any other indebtedness or obligation of the Borrower or such Guarantor.  The Borrower, the Guarantor has provided to the Agent a schedule, and upon the request of the Agent will provide copies, of all agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, financing agreements or other material agreements binding upon the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective properties and entered into by the Borrower or any Guarantor as of the date of this Agreement with respect to any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Guarantor.
 
§6.24.                  Solvency .  As of the Closing Date and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including all Loans made or to be made hereunder, neither the Borrower, the Guarantors nor any of their Subsidiaries is insolvent on a balance sheet basis such that the sum of such Person’s assets exceeds the sum of such Person’s liabilities, such Person is able to pay its debts as they become due, and such Person has sufficient capital to carry on its business.
 
 
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§6.25.                  Contribution Agreement .  Borrower has delivered to the Agent a true, correct and complete copy of the Contribution Agreement.  The Contribution Agreement is in full force and effect in accordance with its terms, there are no material claims resulting from non-performance of the terms thereof or otherwise or any basis for a material claim by any party to the Contribution Agreement, nor has there been any waiver of any material terms thereunder.
 
§6.26.                  No Fraudulent Intent .  Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents nor the performance of any actions required hereunder or thereunder is being undertaken by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries with or as a result of any actual intent by any of such Persons to hinder, delay or defraud any entity to which any of such Persons is now or will hereafter become indebted.
 
§6.27.                  Transaction in Best Interests of Borrower; Consideration .  The transaction evidenced by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents is in the best interests of the Borrower, the Guarantors, each of their respective Subsidiaries and the creditors of such Persons.  The direct and indirect benefits to inure to the Borrower, the Guarantors and each of their respective Subsidiaries  pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute substantially more than “reasonably equivalent value” (as such term is used in Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code) and “valuable consideration,” “fair value,” and “fair consideration,” (as such terms are used in any applicable state fraudulent conveyance law), in exchange for the benefits to be provided by the Borrower, the Guarantors and each of their respective Subsidiaries pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and but for the willingness of the Guarantors to guaranty the Loan, Borrower would be unable to obtain the financing contemplated hereunder which financing will enable the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to have available financing to refinance existing indebtedness and to conduct and expand their business.
 
§6.28.                  Partners and the Trust .  The Trust is the sole general partner of the Borrower and owns a 1% general partnership interest and as of the Closing Date not less than a 90% limited partnership interest in the Borrower.  The Trust owns no assets other than its interest in the Borrower as a general partner and limited partner, cash, Short-term Investments and the property described in Schedule 6.29 hereto.
 
§6.29.                  Tax Indemnity Agreement .  The Tax Indemnity Agreement has not been voluntarily terminated by Borrower or the Trust and there has been no waiver of any material terms thereunder by Borrower or the Trust.
 
§6.30.                  Embargoed Persons .  None of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries, are (and none of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries will be) a Person named on OFAC’s Specially Designated and Blocked Persons list) or under any statute, executive order (including the September 24, 2001 Executive Order Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism), or other governmental action and is not and shall not engage in any dealings or transactions or otherwise be associated with such persons.  In addition, Borrower hereby agrees to provide to the Banks any additional information that a Bank deems reasonably necessary from time to time in order to ensure compliance with all applicable laws concerning money laundering and similar activities.
 
 
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§6.31.               Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties .   As of the Closing Date, Schedule 6.31 is a correct and complete list of all Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties.  Each of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties included by the Borrower in calculation of the compliance of the covenants set forth in §9 satisfies all of the requirements contained in this Agreement for the same to be included therein.
 
§7.          AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER .
 
The Trust (to the extent hereinafter provided) and the Borrower covenant and agree that, so long as any Loan or Note is outstanding or any Bank has any obligation to make any Loans:
 
§7.1.                  Punctual Payment .  The Borrower will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal and interest on the Loans and all interest and fees provided for in this Agreement, all in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Notes as well as all other sums owing pursuant to the Loan Documents.
 
§7.2.                  Maintenance of Office .  The Borrower will maintain its chief executive office at 31500 Northwestern Highway, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, Michigan, 48334, or at such other place in the United States of America as the Borrower shall designate upon prior written notice to the Agent and the Banks, where notices, presentations and demands to or upon the Borrower in respect of the Loan Documents may be given or made.
 
§7.3.                  Records and Accounts .  The Borrower and the Trust will (a) keep, and cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to keep, true and accurate records and books of account in which full, true and correct entries will be made in accordance with GAAP and (b) maintain adequate accounts and reserves for all taxes (including income taxes), depreciation and amortization of its properties and the properties of their respective Subsidiaries, contingencies and other reserves.  Neither the Borrower nor the Guarantors nor any of their respective Subsidiaries shall, without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks, (x) make any material changes to the accounting principles used by such Person in preparing the financial statements and other information described in §6.4 except as required by GAAP or (y) change its fiscal year.
 
§7.4.                  Financial Statements, Certificates and Information .  The Borrower and the Trust will deliver or cause to be delivered to each of the Banks:
 
(a)           as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than one hundred (100) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Trust, the audited Consolidated balance sheet of the Trust and its Subsidiaries at the end of such year, and the related audited Consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholder’s equity and cash flows for such year, each setting forth in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year and all such statements to be in reasonable detail, prepared in accordance with GAAP, and accompanied by an auditor’s report prepared without qualification by Grant Thornton LLP, or by another nationally recognized accounting firm, the Form 10-K of the Trust filed with the SEC (unless the SEC has approved an extension, in which event the Trust will deliver to the Agent and each of the Banks a copy of the Form 10-K simultaneously with delivery to the SEC), and any other information the Banks may need to complete a financial analysis of the Trust and its Subsidiaries;
 
 
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(b)           as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than fifty-five (55) days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of the Borrower and the Trust, respectively, copies of the unaudited Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the Trust and its Subsidiaries, respectively, as at the end of such quarter, and the related unaudited Consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholder’s equity and cash flows for the portion of the Borrower’s and the Trust’s, respectively, fiscal year then elapsed, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP (which, as to the Trust, may be provided by inclusion in the Form 10-Q of the Trust for such period provided pursuant to subsection (c) below), together with a certification by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Borrower and the Trust, respectively, that the information contained in such financial statements fairly presents the financial position of such Person and its Subsidiaries on the date thereof (subject to year-end adjustments); provided , however , that unless otherwise requested by the Agent or the Majority Banks, the Borrower shall not be required to deliver the balance sheets, statements or other matters required by this §7.4(b) to the extent the same are incorporated in the balance sheets, statements and other matters delivered to the Banks by the Trust;
 
(c)           as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than fifty-five (55) days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of the Trust in each year, copies of Form 10-Q filed with the SEC (unless the SEC has approved an extension in which event the Trust will deliver such copies of the Form 10-Q to the Agent and each of the Banks simultaneously with delivery to the SEC);
 
(d)           as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than fifty-five (55) days after the end of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of the Borrower, copies of a Consolidated statement of Operating Cash Flow for such fiscal quarter for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and a statement of Operating Cash Flow for such fiscal quarter for the Borrower and the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties, prepared on a basis consistent with the statement furnished pursuant to §6.4 together with a certification by the chief financial or chief accounting officer of the general partner of the Borrower, that the information contained in such statement fairly presents the Operating Cash Flow of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties for such period;
 
(e)           simultaneously with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in subsections (a) and (b) above, a statement (a “Compliance Certificate”) certified by the principal financial or accounting officer of Trust and of the general partner of the Borrower in the form of Exhibit I hereto (or in such other form as the Agent may approve from time to time) setting forth in reasonable detail computations evidencing compliance with the covenants contained in §8.1, §8.3, §8.7, §8.9, §9 and the other covenants described therein, and (if applicable) reconciliations to reflect changes in GAAP since the Balance Sheet Date.  With each Compliance Certificate, the Borrower shall also deliver a certificate (a “Borrowing Base Property Certificate”) executed by the chief financial officer of the general partner of the Borrower that lists each of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties, and certifies that all Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties so listed fully qualify as such under the applicable criteria in this Agreement, lists any additions or removals of Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties during such accounting period, as appropriate, and includes such information as Agent may reasonably require to determine the economic and physical occupancy of said Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties and the aggregate Borrowing Base Availability and the Operating Cash Flow from such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties during such period;
 
 
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(f)           contemporaneously with the filing or mailing thereof, copies of all material of a financial nature filed with the SEC or sent to the stockholders of the Trust or the partners of the Borrower;
 
(g)           [Intentionally Deleted];
 
(h)           [Intentionally Deleted];
 
(i)            [Intentionally Deleted];
 
(j)            [Intentionally Deleted];
 
(k)           promptly after they are filed with the Internal Revenue Service, copies of all annual federal income tax returns and amendments thereto of the Borrower and the Trust;
 
(l)            simultaneously with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in subsections (a) and (b) above, each of the following with respect to each acquisition of an interest in a Subsidiary: (i) the name and structure of the Subsidiary, (ii) a description of the property owned by such Subsidiary, and (iii) such other information as the Agent may reasonably request;
 
(m)           simultaneously with the delivery of the financial statement referred to in subsection (a) above, a statement (i) listing the Real Estate owned by the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates (or in which the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries owns an interest) and stating the location thereof, the date acquired and the acquisition cost, (ii) listing the Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates (excluding Indebtedness of the type described in §8.1(b)-(e)), which statement shall include, without limitation, a statement of the original principal amount of such Indebtedness and the current amount outstanding, the holder thereof, the maturity date and any extension options, the interest rate, the collateral provided for such Indebtedness and whether such Indebtedness is recourse or non-recourse, and (iii) listing the properties of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates which are under “development” (as used in §8.9) and providing a brief summary of the status of such development;
 
(n)           not later than thirty (30) days prior to the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower a budget and business plan for the next fiscal year and a budget for each Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property;
 
(o)           as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than one hundred (100) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, the unaudited Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at the end of such year, and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholder’s equity and cash flows for such year, each setting forth in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year and all such statements to be in reasonable detail, prepared in accordance with GAAP, and accompanied by a certification by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Borrower that the information contained in such financial statements fairly presents the financial position of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the date thereof ( provided, however , the Borrower shall not be required to provide such statements in the event that such statements would be substantially similar to the consolidated statements provided by the Trust); and
 
 
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(p)           from time to time such other financial data and information in the possession of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries (including without limitation auditors’ management letters, property inspection and environmental reports and other legal and regulatory changes affecting the Borrower or the Guarantors) as the Agent may reasonably request.
 
Any material to be delivered pursuant to this §7.4 may be delivered electronically directly to Agent and the Banks provided that such material is in a format reasonably acceptable to Agent, and such material shall be deemed to have been delivered to Agent and the Banks upon Agent’s receipt thereof.  Upon the request of Agent, Borrower and the Trust shall deliver paper copies thereof to Agent and the Banks.  Borrower and the Trust authorize Agent and Arranger to disseminate any such materials through the use of Intralinks, SyndTrak or any other electronic information dissemination system, and the Borrower and the Trust release Agent and the Banks from any liability in connection therewith.
 
§7.5.                  Notices .
 
(a)            Defaults .  The Borrower will promptly notify the Agent in writing of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default.  If any Person shall give any notice or take any other action in respect of a claimed default (whether or not constituting an Event of Default) under this Agreement or under any note, evidence of indebtedness, indenture or other obligation to which or with respect to which the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party or obligor, whether as principal or surety, and such default would permit the holder of such note or obligation or other evidence of indebtedness to accelerate the maturity thereof, which acceleration would either cause a Default or Event of Default or would have a material adverse effect on the Borrower or any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, the Borrower shall forthwith give written notice thereof to the Agent and each of the Banks, describing the notice or action and the nature of the claimed default.
 
(b)            Environmental Events .  The Borrower will promptly give notice to the Agent (i) upon the Borrower obtaining knowledge of any potential or known Release of any Hazardous Substances at or from any Real Estate; (ii) of any violation of any Environmental Law that the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries reports in writing or is reportable by such Person in writing (or for which any written report supplemental to any oral report is made) to any federal, state or local environmental agency and (iii) upon becoming aware thereof, of any inquiry, proceeding, investigation, or other action, including a notice from any agency of potential environmental liability, of any federal, state or local environmental agency or board, that in either case involves any Real Estate or has the potential to materially affect the assets, liabilities, financial conditions or operations of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any Subsidiary.
 
 
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(c)           [Intentionally Deleted];
 
(d)            Notice of Litigation and Judgments .  The Borrower will give notice to the Agent in writing within fifteen (15) days of becoming aware of any litigation or proceedings threatened in writing or any pending litigation and proceedings affecting the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries or to which the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries is or is to become a party involving an uninsured claim against the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Borrower or any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries and stating the nature and status of such litigation or proceedings.  The Borrower will give notice to the Agent, in writing, in form and detail satisfactory to the Agent and each of the Banks, within ten (10) days of any judgment not covered by insurance, whether final or otherwise, against the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries in an amount in excess of $10,000,000.
 
(e)            Notification of Banks .  Promptly after receiving any notice under this §7.5, the Agent will forward a copy thereof to each of the Banks, together with copies of any  certificates or other written information that accompanied such notice.
 
§7.6.                  Existence; Maintenance of Properties .
 
(a)           The Borrower will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence as a Delaware limited partnership.  The Trust will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence as a Maryland real estate investment trust.  The Borrower and the Trust will cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its legal existence.  The Borrower and the Guarantors will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force all of their respective rights and franchises and those of their Subsidiaries.  The Borrower and the Trust will, and will cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to, continue to engage primarily in the businesses now conducted by it and in related businesses.
 
(b)           The Borrower and the Trust (i) will cause all of their properties and those of their respective Subsidiaries used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of its Subsidiaries to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and supplied with all necessary equipment, and (ii) will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof in all cases in which the failure so to do the foregoing pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) would have a material adverse effect on the condition of the applicable Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property or on the financial condition, assets or operations of the Borrower, any Guarantor and their respective Subsidiaries.
 
(c)           The common stock of the Trust shall at all times be listed for trading and be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
 
 
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§7.7.                  Insurance .
 
(a)           The Borrower will procure and maintain or cause to be procured and maintained insurance covering the Borrower and the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries and their respective properties (the cost of such insurance to be borne by the insured thereunder) in such amounts and against such risks and casualties as are customary for properties of similar character and location, due regard being given to the type of improvements thereon, their construction, location, use and occupancy.
 
§7.8.                  Taxes .  The Borrower, the Guarantors and each of their respective Subsidiaries will duly pay and discharge, or cause to be paid and discharged, before the same shall become overdue, all taxes, assessments and other governmental charges imposed upon it and upon the Real Estate, sales and activities, or any part thereof, or upon the income or profits therefrom as well as all claims for labor, materials, or supplies that if unpaid might by law become a lien or charge upon any of its property; provided that any such tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim need not be paid if the validity or amount thereof shall currently be contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and if the Borrower, such Guarantor or such Subsidiary shall have set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto; and provided , further that forthwith upon the commencement of proceedings to foreclose any lien that may have attached as security therefor, the Borrower, the Guarantor or such Subsidiary either (i) will provide a bond issued by a surety reasonably acceptable to the Agent and sufficient to stay all such proceedings or (ii) if no such bond is provided, will pay each such tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim.
 
§7.9.                  Inspection of Properties and Books .  The Borrower and the Trust shall permit the Banks at such Bank’s expense to visit and inspect any of the properties of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries, and at the Borrower’s expense to examine the books of account of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries (and to make copies thereof and extracts therefrom) and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries with, and to be advised as to the same by, its officers, all at such reasonable times and intervals as the Agent or any Bank may reasonably request, provided that so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower shall not be required to pay for such examinations more often than once in any twelve (12) month period.  The Banks shall use good faith efforts to coordinate such visits and inspections so as to minimize the interference with and disruption to the Borrower’s normal business operations.
 
§7.10.                  Compliance with Laws, Contracts, Licenses, and Permits .  The Borrower and the Trust will comply with, and will cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to comply in all respects with, (i) all applicable laws and regulations now or hereafter in effect wherever its business is conducted, including all Environmental Laws, (ii) the provisions of its corporate charter, partnership agreement or declaration of trust, as the case may be, and other charter documents and bylaws, (iii) all agreements and instruments to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound, (iv) all applicable decrees, orders, and judgments, and (v) all licenses and permits required by applicable laws and regulations for the conduct of its business or the ownership, use or operation of its properties.  If at any time while any Loan or Note is outstanding or the Banks have any obligation to make Loans hereunder, any authorization, consent, approval, permit or license from any officer, agency or instrumentality of any government shall become necessary or required in order that the Borrower or the Guarantors may fulfill any of its obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, the Borrower will immediately take or cause to be taken all steps necessary to obtain or cause such Guarantor or Subsidiary to obtain such authorization, consent, approval, permit or license and furnish the Agent and the Banks with evidence thereof.
 
 
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§7.11.                  Use of Proceeds .  Subject to the terms, covenants and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower will use the proceeds of the Loans to the Borrower solely to (a) finance tenant improvements, acquisition, development and redevelopment of Real Estate as permitted in this Agreement, capital expenditures and leasing commissions, bridge debt financing and refinance “gap” funding, (b) provide financing for general corporate purposes including working capital, and (c) repay outstanding Indebtedness (but specifically excluding the payment, prepayment, purchase, redemption or other retirement of the principal of any Subordinated Debt).
 
§7.12.                  Further Assurances .  Each of the Borrower and the Trust will cooperate with, and will cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to cooperate with the Agent and the Banks and execute such further instruments and documents as the Banks or the Agent shall reasonably request to carry out to their satisfaction the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
 
§7.13.                  Compliance .  The Borrower and the Trust shall operate their respective businesses, and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to operate its business, in compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  The Trust shall at all times comply with all requirements of applicable laws necessary to maintain REIT Status, shall elect to be treated as a real estate investment trust and shall operate its business in compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
 
§7.14.                  Limiting Agreements .
 
(a)           Neither Borrower, the Guarantors nor any of their respective Subsidiaries shall enter into, any agreement, instrument or transaction which has or may have the effect of prohibiting or limiting Borrower’s, the Guarantors’ or any of their respective Subsidiaries’ ability to pledge to Agent any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties as security for the Loans.  Borrower shall take, and shall cause the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries to take, such actions as are necessary to preserve the right and ability of Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries to pledge such assets as security for the Loans without any such pledge after the date hereof causing or permitting the acceleration (after the giving of notice or the passage of time, or otherwise) of any other Indebtedness of Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
 
(b)           Borrower shall, upon demand, provide to the Agent such evidence as the Agent may reasonably require to evidence compliance with this §7.14, which evidence shall include, without limitation, copies of any agreements or instruments which would in any way restrict or limit the Borrower’s, any Guarantor’s or any Subsidiary’s ability to pledge Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties as security for Indebtedness, or which provide for the occurrence of a default (after the giving of notice or the passage of time, or otherwise) if Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties are pledged in the future as security for Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Guarantor.
 
 
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§7.15.                  Ownership of Real Estate .  Without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks, which consent may be withheld by the Majority Banks in their sole discretion, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Loan Documents, all interests (whether direct or indirect) of the Borrower or the Trust in real estate assets acquired after the date hereof shall be owned directly by the Borrower; provided, however, subject to the restrictions in §8.3, the Borrower shall be permitted to own Real Estate through Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates.
 
§7.16.                  More Restrictive Agreements .  Should the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries enter into or modify any agreements or documents pertaining to any existing or future Indebtedness, Debt Offering or Equity Offering, which agreements or documents include covenants, whether affirmative or negative (or any other provision which may have the same practical effect as any of the foregoing), which are individually or in the aggregate more restrictive against the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries than those set forth in §8 and §9 of this Agreement or the Guaranty, the Borrower shall promptly notify the Agent and, if requested by the Majority Banks, the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Agent and the Majority Banks shall promptly amend this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to include some or all of such more restrictive provisions as determined by the Majority Banks in their sole discretion.  Each of the Borrower and Guarantors agree to deliver to the Agent copies of any agreements or documents (or modifications thereof) pertaining to existing or future Indebtedness, Debt Offering or Equity Offering of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries as the Agent from time to time may request.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this §7.16 shall not apply to covenants contained in any agreements or documents evidencing or securing Non-recourse Indebtedness or covenants in agreements or documents relating to Recourse Indebtedness that relate only to specific Real Estate that is collateral for such Indebtedness.
 
§7.17.                  Trust Restrictions .  The Borrower and Trust covenant and agree that:  the Trust will at all times (a) be the sole general partner of the Borrower, (b) own not less than fifty-one percent (51%) of the partnership interests in the Borrower, and in any event the largest percentage interest of any partner in the Borrower and (c) be responsible for making all major and day-to-day operational and management decisions to be made by the Borrower in the conduct of its business.  Without the prior written consent of Agent, the Trust shall not own any assets other than its interest in the Borrower as a general partner and a limited partner, cash, Short-term Investments and the property described on Schedule 6.29 hereto.
 
§7.18.                  Interest Rate Contract(s) .  The Borrower shall at all times from and after the date of this Agreement maintain in full force and effect, an Interest Rate Contract(s) in form and substance satisfactory to Agent in an amount necessary to ensure that the outstanding “Debt” (as hereinafter defined) of Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries that is Variable Rate Debt does not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value of the Borrower.  The Interest Rate Contract(s) shall be provided by any Bank which is a party to this Agreement or a bank or other financial institution that has unsecured, uninsured and unguaranteed long-term debt which is rated at least A-3 by Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. or at least A- by Standard & Poor’s Corporation.  The Borrower shall upon the request of the Agent provide to the Agent evidence that the Interest Rate Contract(s) is in effect.  For the purposes of this §7.18, the term “Debt” shall mean any indebtedness of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any their respective Subsidiaries, whether or not contingent, and without duplication, in respect of (i) borrowed money evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or (ii) indebtedness secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance or any security interest existing on property owned by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, to the extent that any such items would appear as a liability on the balance sheet of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business), indebtedness of another Person (other than the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries) (it being understood that Debt shall be deemed to be incurred by the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries whenever the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries shall create, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable in respect thereof).
 
 
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§7.19.                  Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties .
 
(a)           The Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall at all times satisfy all of the following conditions:
 
(i)           each of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall be owned 100% in fee simple or leased under a Ground Lease by the Borrower or, subject to the terms of this Agreement, a Subsidiary Guarantor, free and clear of all Liens other than the Liens permitted in §8.2(ii) and (v), and such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property does not have applicable to it any restriction on the pledge, transfer, mortgage or assignment of such property (including any restrictions contained in any applicable organizational documents).  If such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property is owned or leased by a Subsidiary Guarantor, such Subsidiary Guarantor shall not be a borrower or guarantor with respect to any other Indebtedness other than the Obligations;
 
(ii)           none of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall have any material title, survey, environmental, structural or other defects that would give rise to a materially adverse effect as to the value, use of or ability to sell or refinance such property;
 
(iii)           such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property is managed by the Borrower or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, or a third party manager approved by the Agent, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld;
 
(iv)           prior to inclusion of Real Estate within the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties, Borrower shall have delivered to Agent a physical description of the Real Estate and current rent rolls, operating statements and an operating and capital expenditure budget for such Real Estate reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, and such information as Agent may reasonably require to determine the value attributable to such Real Estate for the purposes of §9.5 and compliance with this §7.19;
 
 
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(v)           each of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall consist solely of Real Estate (A) which is located within the contiguous 48 states of the continental United States, (B) which is utilized principally for a shopping center or a retail facility or a use ancillary thereto (including, with respect to Borrower’s Aquia development only, an office component) and is consistent with Borrower’s business strategy on the date of this Agreement, (C) which contains improvements that are in operating condition and available for occupancy, and (D) except with respect to properties temporarily removed from the occupancy calculation pursuant to §7.19(a)(ix), with respect to which valid certificates of occupancy or the equivalent for all buildings thereon have been issued and are in full force and effect;
 
(vi)           no Person other than Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor has any direct or indirect ownership of any equity interest or other Voting Interest in such Subsidiary Guarantor if such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property is owned or leased under a Ground Lease by a Subsidiary Guarantor (it being understood that no such Person shall be deemed to have any such ownership interest for purposes of this provision solely by virtue of owning any equity interest in the Trust or owning any limited partnership interest in the Borrower, and if such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property is owned (or leased) by a Subsidiary Guarantor, the Borrower’s direct and indirect interest in such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be free and clear of all Liens);
 
(vii)           such Real Estate has been designated as an “Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property” on Schedule 6.31 hereto or in a Borrowing Base Property Certificate in accordance with §7.4(e) or delivered pursuant to this §7.19, and in any event has not been removed as an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property pursuant to §7.19(d) or §7.19(e);
 
(viii)           the number of properties included within the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall not be less than ten (10) and shall provide Borrowing Base Availability of not less than $200,000,000.00 ;
 
(ix)           the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall consist solely of Real Estate which has (A) an aggregate occupancy level of tenants (excluding the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in possession (but not any tenant having under lease 25,000 square feet or more on a holdover or month-to-month basis), operating, paying rent and which are not otherwise in default of at least eighty percent (80%) of the Net Rentable Area within such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties for the previous fiscal quarter of the Borrower based on bona fide arms-length tenant leases requiring current rental payments and which are in full force and effect (provided, however, with respect to the calculations set forth in this §7.19(a)(ix)(A) the Net Rentable Area for any tenants which have more than 10,000 square feet under lease and which have vacated their space shall be excluded from the total Net Rentable Area of the applicable Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property when making such calculation), and (B) an aggregate level of tenants (excluding the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) under leases in such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties (but not any tenant having under lease 25,000 square feet or more on a holdover or month-to-month basis) which are paying rent and which are not in default of at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the Net Rentable Area within such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties for the previous fiscal quarter of the Borrower based on bona fide arms-length tenant leases requiring current rental payments and which are in full force and effect.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Borrower may temporarily remove an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property from the foregoing occupancy calculations with respect to an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property (x) that is a Redevelopment Property, (y) which is being voluntarily redeveloped by Borrower to reposition such property and (z) which Agent has approved in writing as a property that can be excluded from such calculation.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Agent shall not be required to approve the removal of such property from the foregoing calculation if redevelopment is as a result of a default, insolvency, lease termination or other act or circumstance affecting a tenant of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property.  Such property shall be excluded from the foregoing occupancy calculations until the date that is twenty-four (24) months following the initial approval of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property as a Redevelopment Property for the purposes of this §7.19;
 
 
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(x)           no more than ten percent (10%) of the Borrowing Base Availability of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall be properties leased by Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor as the lessee or tenant under a Ground Lease; and
 
(xi)           other than with respect to the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property commonly known as Tel-Twelve located in Southfield, Michigan, no Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property shall contribute more than ten percent (10%) of the Borrowing Base Availability of all of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties.
 
(b)           In the event that all or any material portion of any Real Estate within the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties shall be damaged or taken by condemnation, then such Real Estate shall no longer be a part of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties unless and until (i) any damage to such Real Estate is repaired or restored, such Real Estate becomes fully operational and the Agent shall receive evidence satisfactory to the Agent of the Operating Cash Flow of such Real Estate following such repair or restoration (both at such time and prospectively) or (ii) Agent shall receive evidence satisfactory to the Agent that the Operating Cash Flow of such Real Estate (both at such time and prospectively) shall not be materially adversely affected by such damage or condemnation.
 
(c)           In the event that any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Guarantor owns Real Estate which would otherwise qualify as an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property and the Borrower desires for the same to become an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, then such property may become an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property but only in the event that all of the terms and conditions of this §7.19(c) and §5.2 are satisfied:
 
(i)           Such Subsidiary shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor;
 
(ii)           The organizational agreements of such Subsidiary or such other resolutions or consents satisfactory to Agent shall specifically authorize such Subsidiary to guaranty the Obligations and to pledge the assets of such Subsidiary as security for the Obligations and the Borrower shall certify to the Agent that applicable law does not preclude such Subsidiary from executing such guaranty or pledging its assets to secure the Obligations;
 
 
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(iii)           All covenants, agreements, and representations in the Loan Documents herein of the Borrower and the Guarantors and their Subsidiaries shall be true and correct with respect to such Subsidiary Guarantor;
 
(iv)           No Default or Event of Default shall exist or might exist in the event that such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor or acquires such assets; and
 
(v)           The Real Estate assets acquired or owned by such Subsidiary Guarantor shall qualify as Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties hereunder.
 
(d)           Upon any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property ceasing to qualify as an Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property shall no longer be included in the calculation of the Borrowing Base Availability nor shall the Operating Cash Flow from such property be included for the purposes of §9.5.  Within five (5) Business Days after any such disqualification, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent a certificate reflecting such disqualification, together with the identity of the disqualified Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, a statement as to whether any Default or Event of Default arises as a result of such disqualification, and a calculation of the Borrowing Base Availability attributable to such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property.  Simultaneously with the delivery of the items required pursuant above, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent a pro forma Compliance Certificate demonstrating, after giving effect to such removal, replacement or disqualification, compliance with the covenants contained in §7.19 and §9.5.
 
(e)           In addition, the Borrower may voluntarily remove any Real Estate from the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties by delivering to the Agent, no later than five (5) Business Days prior to date on which such removal is to be effected, notice of such removal, together with a statement that no Default or Event of Default then exists or would, upon the occurrence of such event or with passage of time, result from such removal, and the identity of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property being removed, and a calculation of the Borrowing Base Availability attributable to such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property.  Simultaneously with the delivery of the items required above, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent a pro forma Compliance Certificate demonstrating, after giving effect to such removal, replacement or disqualification, compliance with the covenants contained in §7.19 and §9.5.
 
§8.          CERTAIN NEGATIVE COVENANTS OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER .
 
The Borrower and the Trust, jointly and severally, covenant and agree that, so long as any Loan or Note is outstanding or any of the Banks has any obligation to make any Loans:
 
§8.1.                  Restrictions on Indebtedness .  Except as permitted in §8.1(f) below, the Trust will not (other than solely as a result of its status as a general partner of the Borrower) create, incur, assume, guarantee or be or remain liable, contingently or otherwise with respect to any Indebtedness other than the Obligations and any Indebtedness of the Borrower permitted under the terms of this §8.1.  The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume, guarantee or be or remain liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to any Indebtedness other than:
 
 
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(a)           Indebtedness to the Banks arising under any of the Loan Documents, and Indebtedness and obligations in respect of the Interest Rate Contract(s) required pursuant to §7.18;
 
(b)           current liabilities of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business but not incurred through (i) the borrowing of money, or (ii) the obtaining of credit except for credit on an open account basis customarily extended and in fact extended in connection with normal purchases of goods and services;
 
(c)           Indebtedness in respect of taxes, assessments, governmental charges or levies and claims for labor, materials and supplies to the extent that payment therefor shall not at the time be required to be made in accordance with the provisions of §7.8;
 
(d)           Indebtedness in respect of judgments or awards the existence of which does not create an Event of Default;
 
(e)           endorsements for collection, deposit or negotiation and warranties of products or services, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
 
(f)           subject to the provisions of §9, (i) Non-recourse Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Subsidiary Guarantors), and (ii) Indebtedness of Borrower, the Trust or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries (other than Subsidiary Guarantors) under environmental indemnities and guarantees with respect to customary exceptions to exculpatory language with respect to Non-recourse Indebtedness of Borrower’s Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates permitted pursuant to §8.3(i) (it being agreed that any such indemnity or guaranty shall not cause such Non-recourse Indebtedness to be deemed to be Recourse Indebtedness and provided that in the event any claim is made against Borrower, the Trust or any of their respective Subsidiaries with respect to such indemnities, guarantees or exceptions, the amount so claimed shall be considered a recourse liability of such Person);
 
(g)           Indebtedness in respect of reverse repurchase agreements having a term of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days with respect to Investments described in §8.3(d) or (e);
 
(h)           subject to the provisions of §9, other Recourse Indebtedness (whether secured or unsecured) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries provided that in no event shall Secured Recourse Indebtedness of Borrower in the aggregate exceed fifteen percent (15%) of Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value (provided that the liability under any completion guaranty shall equal the remaining costs to complete the applicable construction project in excess of construction loan or mezzanine loan proceeds available therefor and any equity deposited or invested for the payment of such costs; and provided further that Indebtedness of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the TIF Guaranty and any other guaranty obligation which the Majority Banks may in their sole discretion approve in writing shall not be included for the purposes of §8.1(h) unless (i) a claim shall have been made against the Trust, Borrower or a Subsidiary of either of them on account of such guaranty or (ii) with respect to any other guaranty obligation which the Majority Banks may in their sole discretion approve in writing to not be included for the purposes of §8.1(h), the occurrence of such other events with respect thereto as the Majority Banks may require in connection with their approval of such obligation).  The Subsidiary Guarantors may be liable with respect to Unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower but not Secured Indebtedness; and
 
 
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(i)            Indebtedness in respect of purchase money financing for equipment, computers and vehicles acquired in the ordinary course of the Borrower’s business not exceeding $5,000,000.00.
 
§8.2.                  Restrictions on Liens Etc .  Neither the Trust nor the Borrower will, nor will either of them permit any of their respective Subsidiaries to, (a) create or incur or suffer to be created or incurred or to exist any lien, encumbrance, mortgage, pledge, charge, restriction or other security interest of any kind upon any of its property or assets of any character whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or upon the income or profits therefrom; (b) transfer any of its property or assets or the income or profits therefrom for the purpose of subjecting the same to the payment of Indebtedness or performance of any other obligation in priority to payment of its general creditors; (c) acquire, or agree or have an option to acquire, any property or assets upon conditional sale or other title retention or purchase money security agreement, device or arrangement; (d) suffer to exist for a period of more than thirty (30) days after the same shall have been incurred any Indebtedness or claim or demand against it that if unpaid might by law or upon bankruptcy or insolvency, or otherwise, be given any priority whatsoever over its general creditors; (e) sell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any accounts, contract rights, general intangibles, chattel paper or instruments, with or without recourse; or (f) incur or maintain any obligation which prohibits the creation or maintenance of any lien securing the Obligations (collectively, “Liens”); provided that the Borrower, the Guarantors and any Subsidiary of any of them may create or incur or suffer to be created or incurred or to exist:
 
(i)           liens in favor of the Borrower or the Trust on all or part of the assets of Subsidiaries of such Person (but excluding any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any direct or indirect interest therein) securing Indebtedness owing by Subsidiaries of such Person to such Person;
 
(ii)           liens on properties to secure taxes, assessments and other governmental charges or claims for labor, material or supplies in respect of obligations not overdue or which are being contested as permitted by §7.8;
 
(iii)           deposits or pledges made in connection with, or to secure payment of, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, old age pensions or other social security obligations;
 
(iv)           liens on properties or any interest therein (including the rents, issues and profits therefrom) (but excluding any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any direct or indirect interest therein) in respect of judgments or awards, the Indebtedness with respect to which is permitted by §8.1(d);
 
(v)           encumbrances on properties consisting of easements, rights of way, zoning restrictions, leases and other occupancy agreements, restrictions on the use of real property and defects and irregularities in the title thereto, landlord’s or lessor’s liens under leases to which the Borrower, a Guarantor or a Subsidiary of such Person is a party, and other minor non-monetary liens or encumbrances none of which interferes materially with the use of the property affected in the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their Subsidiaries, which defects do not individually or in the aggregate have a materially adverse effect on the business of the Borrower or any Guarantor individually or of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis;
 
 
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(vi)           liens on the specific personal property acquired by Indebtedness permitted by §8.1(i); and
 
(vii)           liens on properties or interests therein (but excluding any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any direct or indirect interest therein) to secure Indebtedness permitted by §8.1(f) and §8.1(h) (including purchase money debt).
 
Without limiting the foregoing, the Borrower and the Trust shall not, and shall not permit any other Guarantor or any other Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur, permit or suffer to exist any Lien on any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property or any direct or indirect ownership interest of the Borrower in any Subsidiary Guarantor other than the Liens permitted in §8.2(ii) and §8.2(v), or permit any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property or any direct or indirect ownership interest in the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor to be subject to any provision of a document or agreement (other than any Loan Document) which prohibits or purports to prohibit the creation or assumption of any Lien on such asset as security for Indebtedness of the Person owning such asset or any other Person.
 
§8.3.                  Restrictions on Investments .  Neither the Borrower nor the Trust will, nor will either of them permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make or permit to exist or to remain outstanding any Investment except Investments in:
 
(a)           marketable direct or guaranteed obligations of the United States of America that mature within one (1) year from the date of purchase by the Borrower or its Subsidiary;
 
(b)           marketable direct obligations of any of the following: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Student Loan Marketing Association, Federal Home Loan Banks, Federal National Mortgage Association, Government National Mortgage Association, Bank for Cooperatives, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, Federal Financing Banks, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Federal Land Banks, or any other agency or instrumentality of the United States of America;
 
(c)           demand deposits, certificates of deposit, bankers acceptances and time deposits of United States banks having total assets in excess of $100,000,000; provided , however , that the aggregate amount at any time so invested with any single bank having total assets of less than $1,000,000,000 will not exceed $200,000;
 
(d)           [Intentionally Deleted];
 
(e)           [Intentionally Deleted];
 
 
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(f)           repurchase agreements having a term not greater than ninety (90) days and fully secured by securities described in the foregoing subsection (a), (b) or (e) with banks described in the foregoing subsection (c) or with financial institutions or other corporations having total assets in excess of $500,000,000;
 
(g)           shares of so-called “money market funds” registered with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940 which maintain a level per-share value, invest principally in investments described in the foregoing subsections (a) through (f) and have total assets in excess of $50,000,000;
 
(h)           the acquisition of fee interests by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in Real Estate which is utilized principally for shopping centers, and, subject to the restrictions set forth in §8.3 and §8.9 for development of new shopping centers, the acquisition of undeveloped Real Estate;
 
(i)           Subsidiaries of the Borrower or the Trust that are not one hundred percent (100%) owned by the Borrower or the Trust or in Unconsolidated Affiliates, which Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates are engaged in the ownership of Real Estate or development activity pursuant to §8.3 or §8.9, provided that in no event shall such Investments exceed fifteen percent (15%) of Borrower’s Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value in the aggregate without the prior written consent of the Required Banks;
 
(j)           (i) in any preferred stock issued by Trust which has been repurchased solely with the proceeds of a new issue of common or preferred stock issued by Trust, or (ii) in any common stock issued by Trust which has been repurchased by the Trust, Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries, provided that in no event shall such Investments pursuant to clause (ii) exceed in the aggregate $50,000,000.00 (calculated based upon the consideration given for such stock);
 
(k)           subject to the restrictions set forth in §8.9, (i) in securities of real estate investment trusts which own real property which is used principally for fee interests in Real Estate utilized principally for shopping centers located within the United States, and (ii) in mortgages and notes receivables, provided that in no event shall the aggregate costs of all Investments pursuant to this §8.3(k) exceed five percent (5%) of Borrower’s Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value in the aggregate.  For the purposes of this §8.3(k)(ii) only, notes receivable shall be valued at the lesser of face value (subject to reduction as a result of payments thereon) or book value determined in accordance with GAAP;
 
(l)           whether directly or through a Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate, in development permitted by §8.9 which at any time has a total cost (including acquisition, construction and other costs), whether such total costs are incurred directly by the Borrower, the Trust or such Subsidiary or through an Investment in an Unconsolidated Affiliate permitted under this Agreement, individually for each development project that is not in excess of ten percent (10%) of the Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value of the Borrower, and in the aggregate for all development projects that is not in excess of fifteen percent (15%) of the Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value of the Borrower.  For the purposes of calculating the cost of developments by Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates, the cost of such developments shall be based upon the Borrower’s interest in such Subsidiaries or Unconsolidated Affiliates.  For purposes of this §8.3(l) and §8.9, the term “total cost” shall not include (i) costs specifically reimbursable by tenants or shadow anchors (other than through rent or a gross up of rent), (ii) capitalized general and administrative expenses, or (iii) operating expenses and interest to the extent of operating income received from the applicable development property;
 
 
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(m)           whether directly or through a Subsidiary or an Unconsolidated Affiliate, in undeveloped parcels of Real Estate which in the aggregate do not exceed five percent (5%) of the Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value of the Borrower, provided that the acquisition or holding of any outlots or property adjacent to any Real Estate owned by the Borrower (or any Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate thereof), the Trust or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be deemed to be an undeveloped parcel of Real Estate for this purpose and options and purchase agreements to acquire any property shall not be deemed an acquisition or holding of such property; and
 
(n)           Subsidiaries that are one hundred percent (100%) owned by the Borrower.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing or §8.9, in no event shall the aggregate Investments of the Borrower, the Trust and their Subsidiaries in the Investments described in §8.3(i), (k), (l) and (m) exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of Borrower’s Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value at any time.
 
§8.4.                  Merger, Consolidation .  Neither the Borrower nor the Trust will, nor will either of them permit any of its Subsidiaries to, become a party to any merger, consolidation or other business combination or disposition of all or substantially all of its assets except (a) the merger or consolidation of one or more of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower with and into the Borrower or (b) the merger or consolidation of two or more Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
 
§8.5.                  Conduct of Business .  Neither the Borrower nor the Trust will conduct any of its business operations other than through the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; provided , however , that subject to §8.3(i) and §8.9, ownership of Real Estate and development activities may be conducted through Unconsolidated Affiliates of the Borrower as provided therein.  No reorganizations, spin-offs or new business lines shall be established or occur without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks.
 
§8.6.                  Compliance with Environmental Laws .  Neither the Borrower nor the Trust will, nor will either of them permit any of its Subsidiaries, to do any of the following: (a) use any of the Real Estate or any portion thereof as a facility for the handling, processing, storage or disposal of Hazardous Substances, except for such quantities of Hazardous Substances as are appropriate for a retail shopping center and used in the ordinary course of business and in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws, (b) cause or permit to be located on any of the Real Estate any underground tank or other underground storage receptacle for Hazardous Substances except in material compliance with Environmental Laws, (c) generate any Hazardous Substances on any of the Real Estate except in material compliance with Environmental Laws, (d) conduct any activity at any Real Estate or use any Real Estate in any manner so as to cause a Release of Hazardous Substances on, upon or into the Real Estate or any surrounding properties or any threatened Release of Hazardous Substances in any material amount which might give rise to liability under CERCLA or any other Environmental Law, or (e) directly or indirectly transport or arrange for the transport of any Hazardous Substances (except in material compliance with all Environmental Laws); provided that with respect to the foregoing clauses (a)-(e), with respect to Real Estate other than the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties, the Borrower and the Trust shall comply with the foregoing except to the extent such failure could not individually or in the aggregate have any material adverse effect upon the business or financial condition of the Borrower or the Trust.
 
 
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The Borrower shall:
 
(i)           in the event of any change in Environmental Laws governing the assessment, release or removal of Hazardous Substances, which change would lead a prudent lender to require additional testing to avail itself of any statutory insurance or limited liability, take all action (including, without limitation, the conducting of engineering tests at the sole expense of the Borrower) to confirm that no Hazardous Substances are or ever were Released or disposed of on the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties; and
 
(ii)           if any Release or disposal of Hazardous Substances shall occur or shall have occurred on the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties (including without limitation any such Release or disposal occurring prior to the acquisition of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties by the Borrower), cause the prompt containment and removal of such Hazardous Substances and remediation of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties to the extent required by and in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Majority Banks; provided , that the Borrower shall be deemed to be in compliance with Environmental Laws for the purpose of this clause (ii) so long as it or a responsible third party with sufficient financial resources is taking reasonable action to remediate or manage any event of noncompliance to the reasonable satisfaction of the Majority Banks and no action shall have been commenced by any enforcement agency.  The Majority Banks may engage their own environmental consultant to review the environmental assessments and the Borrower’s compliance with the covenants contained herein.
 
At any time after an Event of Default shall have occurred hereunder, or, whether or not an Event of Default shall have occurred, at any time that the Agent or the Majority Banks shall have reasonable grounds to believe that a Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Substances may have occurred, relating to any Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property, or that any of the Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties is not in compliance with the Environmental Laws, the Agent may at its election (and will at the request of the Majority Banks) obtain such environmental assessments of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property prepared by an Environmental Engineer as may be necessary or advisable for the purpose of evaluating or confirming (i) whether any Hazardous Substances are present in the soil or water at or adjacent to such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property and (ii) whether the use and operation of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property comply with all Environmental Laws.  Environmental assessments may include detailed visual inspections of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property including, without limitation, any and all storage areas, storage tanks, drains, dry wells and leaching areas, and the taking of soil samples, as well as such other investigations or analyses as are necessary or appropriate for a complete determination of the compliance of such Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property and the use and operation thereof with all applicable Environmental Laws.  All such environmental assessments shall be at the sole cost and expense of the Borrower.
 
 
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§8.7.                  Distributions .  Neither the Borrower nor the Trust shall make any Distributions which would cause it to violate any of the following covenants:
 
(a)           [Intentionally Deleted];
 
(b)           The Borrower and the Trust shall not make any Distribution if such Distribution is in excess of the amount which, when added to the amount of all other Distributions paid in the same fiscal quarter and the preceding three (3) fiscal quarters would exceed ninety-five percent (95%) of their respective Funds from Operations for the four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the quarter in which such Distribution is paid; provided, however, notwithstanding the foregoing in this §8.7(b), Borrower and the Trust may, subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement (including specifically, but without limitation, those contained in §8.7(b)) (i) redeem existing Preferred Equity with proceeds from an issuance of common equity or Preferred Equity of the Borrower or the Trust and (ii) repurchase common stock issued by the Trust in an amount not exceeding the limit set forth in §8.3(j)(ii), so long as in either case (A) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of any such repurchase or redemption, (B) no Default or Event of Default shall occur as a result of any such repurchase or redemption, and (C)  with respect to any repurchase of common stock pursuant to §8.7(b)(ii), prior to any such repurchase Borrower shall have delivered to Agent pro forma evidence reasonably satisfactory to Agent that the ratio of Consolidated Total Liabilities to Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value (after giving effect to such repurchase) shall be less than fifty percent (50%).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may pay a Distribution to its partners of sums received by it pursuant to the Tax Indemnity Agreement;
 
(c)           In the event that an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, neither the Borrower nor the Trust shall make any Distributions other than the minimum Distributions by the Borrower to the Trust and by the Trust required under the Code to maintain the REIT Status of the Trust, as evidenced by a certification of the principal financial or accounting officer of the Trust containing calculations in reasonable detail satisfactory in form and substance to Agent; provided, however, that neither Borrower nor the Trust shall be entitled to make any Distributions in connection with the repurchase of common or preferred stock of the Trust at any time after an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and
 
(d)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and the maturity of the Obligations has been accelerated, neither the Borrower nor the Trust shall make any Distributions whatsoever, directly or indirectly.
 
§8.8.                  Asset Sales .  Neither the Borrower, the Trust nor any Subsidiary thereof shall sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any individual Real Estate having a sales price in excess of $75,000,000.00 unless there shall have been delivered to the Agent a statement that no Default or Event of Default exists immediately prior to such sale, transfer or other disposition or would exist  after giving effect to such sale, transfer or other disposition.
 
 
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§8.9.                  Development Activity .  Neither the Borrower, the Trust nor any of their respective Subsidiaries shall engage, directly or indirectly, in any development except as expressly provided in §8.3(l) and (m) and this §8.9.  The Borrower, the Trust or any of their respective Subsidiaries may engage, either directly or, in the case of the Borrower, through any Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate of the Borrower, an Investment in which is permitted under §8.3(l), in the development of property to be used principally for retail shopping centers or a use ancillary thereto(except for the development commonly referred to as Aquia) which at any time has a total cost in excess of the limit set forth in §8.3(l), without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks.  For purposes of this §8.9, the term “development” shall include the new construction of a shopping center complex or the substantial renovation of improvements to real property which materially change the character or size thereof, but shall not include the addition of amenities or other related facilities to existing Real Estate which is already used principally for shopping centers; provided , however , that the term “development” shall not include demolition of existing structures performed by Borrower or the addition of an anchor store to an existing shopping center project provided that the construction of such improvements is performed by the tenant, and the Borrower (or any Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate thereof), the Trust or its respective Subsidiary, as applicable, is only obligated to reimburse such tenant for a fixed amount with respect to the cost of such construction upon completion of such construction by such tenant.  The Borrower and the Trust each acknowledges that the decision of the Majority Banks to grant or withhold such consent shall be based on such factors as the Majority Banks deem relevant in their sole discretion, including without limitation, evidence of sufficient funds both from borrowings and equity to complete such development and evidence that the Borrower (or any Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate thereof), the Trust or either of its Subsidiaries has the resources and expertise necessary to complete such project.  Nothing herein shall prohibit the Borrower, the Trust or any of their respective Subsidiaries thereof from entering into an agreement to acquire Real Estate which has been developed and initially leased by another Person.  Neither the Borrower (or any Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate thereof), the Trust nor any Subsidiary thereof shall acquire or hold any number of undeveloped parcels of Real Estate which in the aggregate exceed the limit set forth in §8.3(m) without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks, provided that the acquisition or holding of any outlots or property adjacent to any Real Estate owned by the Borrower (or any Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate thereof), the Trust or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be deemed to be an undeveloped parcel of Real Estate for this purpose and options and purchase agreements to acquire any property shall not be deemed an acquisition or holding of such property.  The undeveloped projects of the Borrower, the Trust and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date are set forth on Schedule 8.9 hereto.  Further, any new development project permitted under the terms of this §8.9 engaged in by the Borrower (or any Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Affiliate thereof), the Trust or any Subsidiary thereof, before any vertical construction commences on any phase of such project, shall be either (i) at least fifty percent (50%) pre-leased (based on the gross leasable area of the improvements to the development, or the phase of the development project being developed if the Borrower submits and the Agent agrees that the development consists of more than one (1) phase, excluding outlots), including all anchors in such phase (it being agreed that Borrower shall receive a credit against such occupancy requirement for any space to be occupied by an anchor that has been conveyed to such anchor), or under a purchase agreement to sell and all construction bids shall be in place, and any such development shall continue to be deemed an undeveloped parcel until such time as construction commences, or (ii) sufficiently pre-leased such that based on such leases the gross income from such leases upon completion of such project shall equal or exceed projected operating expenses (including reserves for expenses not paid on a monthly basis).  For purposes of this §8.9, property shall be deemed to be in development at all times that it is Under Development.
 
 
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§8.10.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
§8.11.                  Trust Preferred Equity and Subordinated Debt .   The Borrower and the Trust shall not permit (a) the Trust Preferred Equity to exceed $50,000,000.00, or (b) the sum of the Trust Preferred Equity and Subordinated Debt to exceed in the aggregate $150,000,000 (provided that to the extent any such Trust Preferred Equity and Subordinated Debt exceeds such limits, such excess shall be considered Indebtedness for the purposes of this Agreement).  The Borrower and the Trust will not make or permit any amendment or modification to the indenture, note or other agreements evidencing or governing any Trust Preferred Equity or Subordinated Debt without Agent’s prior written approval, or directly or indirectly pay, prepay, defease or in substance defease, purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire any Trust Preferred Equity or Subordinated Debt.
 
§9.          FINANCIAL COVENANTS OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER .
 
The Borrower and the Trust, jointly and severally, covenant and agree that, so long as any Loan or Note is outstanding or any Bank has any obligation to make any Loans, each of them will comply with the following:
 
§9.1.                  Liabilities to Assets Ratio .  Each of the Borrower and the Trust will not permit the ratio of its Consolidated Total Liabilities to Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value to exceed 60%.
 
§9.2.                  Fixed Charges Coverage .  The Borrower will not permit the Borrower’s Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for the period covered by the four (4) previous consecutive fiscal quarters (treated as a single accounting period) to be less than 1.50 times the Fixed Charges of the Borrower and the Trust for such period; provided , however , that for purposes of determining compliance with this covenant, prior to such time as the Borrower has owned and operated a parcel of Real Estate for four (4) full fiscal quarters, the Operating Cash Flow with respect to such parcel of Real Estate for the number of full fiscal quarters which the Borrower has owned and operated such parcel of Real Estate as annualized shall be utilized.  Additionally, for the purposes of calculating Consolidated Operating Cash Flow under this §9.2, Operating Cash Flow attributable to any Redevelopment Property shall be included even if such Redevelopment Property is then being valued at cost for the purposes of calculating Borrower’s Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value.  For the purposes of this §9.2, the Operating Cash Flow and Debt Service attributable to any Real Estate and the principal indebtedness repaid as a part of such sale shall be excluded from the calculations when such Real Estate is sold.
 
§9.3.                  Consolidated Tangible Net Worth .  The Borrower will not permit its Consolidated Tangible Net Worth to be less than $550,000,000.00 plus seventy-five percent (75%) of any Net Offering Proceeds from Equity Offerings received by the Borrower or the Trust after December 31, 2010 (except to the extent of any of such Net Offering Proceeds from an issuance of common equity or Preferred Equity of the Borrower or the Trust which are used to retire an existing issue of preferred equity of Borrower or the Trust, respectively).
 
 
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§9.4.                  Secured Indebtedness .  The Borrower will not permit the Secured Indebtedness of the Borrower, Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries to exceed forty percent (40%) of the Consolidated Total Adjusted Asset Value of the Borrower.
 
§9.5.                  Borrowing Base Test .   The Borrower shall not at any time permit (i) the aggregate Unsecured Indebtedness of the Trust, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Outstanding Loans) to exceed (ii) the Borrowing Base Availability.
 
§10.        CLOSING CONDITIONS .
 
The obligations of the Agent and the Banks to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans shall be subject to the satisfaction of the following:
 
§10.1.                Loan Documents .  Each of the Loan Documents shall have been duly executed and delivered by the respective parties thereto, shall be in full force and effect and shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.  The Agent shall have received a fully executed copy of each such document, except that each Bank shall have received a fully executed counterpart of its Note, if any.
 
§10.2.                Certified Copies of Organizational Documents .  The Agent shall have received from the Borrower a copy, certified as of a recent date by the appropriate officer of each State in which the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries, as applicable, is organized or in which the Real Estate is located and a duly authorized partner, member or officer of such Person, as applicable, to be true and complete, of the partnership agreement, corporate charter, declaration of trust or other organizational documents of the Borrower, the Guarantors, or any Subsidiary, as applicable, or its qualification to do business, as applicable, as in effect on such date of certification.
 
§10.3.                Resolutions .  All action on the part of the Borrower, the Guarantors, or any of their respective Subsidiaries as applicable, necessary for the valid execution, delivery and performance by such Person of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Person is or is to become a party shall have been duly and effectively taken, and evidence thereof satisfactory to the Agent shall have been provided to the Agent.  The Agent shall have received from the Trust true copies of the resolutions adopted by its board of directors authorizing the transactions described herein, each certified by its secretary as of a recent date to be true and complete.
 
§10.4.                Incumbency Certificate; Authorized Signers .  The Agent shall have received incumbency certificates, dated as of the date of this Agreement, signed by a duly authorized officer of the Trust (with respect to the Borrower and the Guarantors) and giving the name and bearing a specimen signature of each individual who shall be authorized to sign, in the name and on behalf of the Borrower and the Guarantors, each of the Loan Documents to which such Person is or is to become a party.  The Agent shall have also received from the Borrower a certificate, dated as of the date of this Agreement, signed by a duly authorized officer of the Borrower and giving the name and specimen signature of each individual who shall be authorized to make Loan and Conversion Requests, and to give notices and to take other action on behalf of the Borrower under the Loan Documents.
 
 
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§10.5.                Opinion of Counsel .  The Agent shall have received a favorable opinion addressed to the Banks and the Agent and dated as of the date of this Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Banks and the Agent, from counsel of the Borrower and the Guarantors as to such matters as the Agent shall reasonably request.
 
§10.6.                Payment of Fees .  The Borrower shall have paid to KeyBank the fees required to be paid at closing pursuant to §4.2.
 
§10.7.                Performance; No Default .  The Borrower and Guarantors shall have performed and complied with all terms and conditions herein required to be performed or complied with by it on or prior to the Closing Date, and on the Closing Date there shall exist no Default or Event of Default.
 
§10.8.                Representations and Warranties .  The representations and warranties made by the Borrower, the Guarantors and their Subsidiaries in the Loan Documents or otherwise made by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection therewith or after the date thereof shall have been true and correct in all material respects when made and shall also be true and correct in all material respects on the Closing Date.
 
§10.9.                Proceedings and Documents .  All proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Agent’s Special Counsel in form and substance, and the Agent shall have received all information and such counterpart originals or certified copies of such documents and such other certificates, opinions or documents as the Agent and the Agent’s Special Counsel may reasonably require.
 
§10.10.              Stockholder and Partner Consents .  The Agent shall have received evidence satisfactory to the Agent that all necessary stockholder, member and partner consents required in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents have been obtained.
 
§10.11.              Compliance Certificate .  A Compliance Certificate dated as of the date of this Agreement demonstrating compliance with each of the covenants calculated therein as of the most recent fiscal quarter end for which the Borrower or the Trust has provided financial statements under §6.4, adjusted in the best good faith estimate of the Borrower or the Guarantor, as applicable, dated as of the date of this Agreement shall have been delivered to the Agent.
 
§10.12.              Contribution Agreement .  The Agent shall have received a fully executed counterpart of the Contribution Agreement.
 
§10.13.              No Legal Impediment .  No change shall have occurred in any law or regulations thereunder or interpretations thereof that in the reasonable opinion of any Bank would make it illegal for such Bank to make such Loan.
 
 
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§10.14.              Governmental Regulation .  Each Bank shall have received such statements in substance and form reasonably satisfactory to such Bank as such Bank shall require for the purpose of compliance with any applicable regulations of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
 
§10.15.              Intentionally Deleted .
 
§10.16.              Other .  The Agent shall have reviewed such other documents, instruments, certificates, opinions, assurances, consents and approvals as the Agent or the Agent’s Special Counsel may reasonably have requested.
 
§11.        CONDITIONS TO ALL BORROWINGS .
 
The obligations of the Banks to make any Loan, whether on or after the date of this Agreement, shall also be subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
 
§11.1.                Prior Conditions Satisfied .  All conditions set forth in §10 shall continue to be satisfied as of the date upon which any Loan is to be made.
 
§11.2.                Representations True; No Default .  Each of the representations and warranties made by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries contained in this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or in any document or instrument delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement shall be true as of the date as of which they were made and shall also be true at and as of the time of the making of such Loan with the same effect as if made at and as of that time (except to the extent of changes resulting from transactions contemplated or permitted by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and changes occurring in the ordinary course of business that singly or in the aggregate are not materially adverse, and except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate expressly to an earlier date) and no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.  The Agent shall have received a certificate of the Borrower and the Trust signed by an authorized officer of the Borrower and the Trust to such effect.
 
§11.3.               Intentionally Deleted .
 
§12.        EVENTS OF DEFAULT; ACCELERATION; ETC .
 
§12.1.                Events of Default and Acceleration .  If any of the following events (“Events of Default” or, if the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both is required, then, prior to such notice or lapse of time, “Defaults”) shall occur:
 
(a)           the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any of the Loans after the same shall become due and payable, whether at the stated date of maturity or any accelerated date of maturity or at any other date fixed for payment;
 
(b)           the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on the Loans, or any other fees or sums due hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, within ten (10) days after the same shall become due and payable, whether at the stated date of maturity or any accelerated date of maturity or at any other date fixed for payment;
 
 
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(c)           the Borrower or the Trust shall fail to comply with any covenant contained in §9, and such failure shall continue for thirty (30) days after written notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Agent; provided, however, that in the event that Borrower or the Trust shall fail to comply with §9.5, then the same shall not constitute a Default hereunder in the event that Borrower prepays the Loans or provides additional Unencumbered Borrowing Base Property in accordance with the terms of this Agreement in an amount sufficient such that Borrower and the Trust would be fully in compliance with the covenant set forth in §9.5 within five (5) days of the earlier to occur of (i) Borrower obtaining knowledge of such noncompliance, (ii) Borrower reporting any such noncompliance, or (iii) receipt by Borrower of written notice of such noncompliance from Agent; and provided further, that during any period in which Borrower or the Trust shall fail to be in compliance of any covenant in §9.5, then the Banks shall have no obligation to make Loans;
 
(d)           the Borrower or any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries shall fail to perform any other term, covenant or agreement contained herein or in any of the other Loan Documents (other than those specified in this §12), and such failure shall continue for thirty (30) days after written notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Agent; provided , however , that in the event that such failure shall be a failure to comply with the terms of §8.7(b), the Borrower shall be afforded a period of one (1) fiscal quarter to cure such failure provided that the Distribution which caused such failure was historically consistent with prior dividends; provided , further that no cure period shall be available with respect to a failure to comply with the terms of §7.5(a) or §8.4;
 
(e)           any representation or warranty made by or on behalf of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or in any report, certificate, financial statement, request for a Loan, or in any other document or instrument delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement, any advance of a Loan or any of the other Loan Documents shall prove to have been false in any material respect upon the date when made or deemed to have been made or repeated;
 
(f)           the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries shall fail to pay at maturity, or within any applicable period of grace, any obligation for borrowed money or credit received or other Indebtedness (including, without limitation, any Derivatives Contract), or fail to observe or perform any material term, covenant or agreement contained in any agreement by which it is bound, evidencing or securing any such borrowed money or credit received or other Indebtedness (including, without limitation, any Derivatives Contract)for such period of time as would permit (assuming the giving of appropriate notice if required) the holder or holders thereof or of any obligations issued thereunder to accelerate the maturity thereof or require the prepayment or purchase thereof, provided that the events described in this §12.1(f) shall not constitute an Event of Default unless such failure to perform, together with other failures to perform as described in this §12.1(f), involve singly or in the aggregate obligations for Recourse Indebtedness totaling in excess of $10,000,000.00 or Non-recourse Indebtedness totaling in excess of $30,000,000.00;
 
(g)           the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (i) shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or admit in writing its general inability to pay or generally fail to pay its debts as they mature or become due, or shall petition or apply for the appointment of a trustee or other custodian, liquidator or receiver of any such Person or of any substantial part of the assets of any thereof, (ii) shall commence any case or other proceeding relating to any such Person under any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, readjustment of debt, dissolution or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction, now or hereafter in effect, or (iii) shall take any action to authorize or in furtherance of any of the foregoing;
 
 
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(h)           a petition or application shall be filed for the appointment of a trustee or other  custodian, liquidator or receiver of any of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any substantial part of the assets of any thereof, or a case or other proceeding shall be commenced against any such Person under any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, readjustment of debt, dissolution or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction, now or hereafter in effect, and any such Person shall indicate its approval thereof, consent thereto or acquiescence therein or such petition, application, case or proceeding shall not have been dismissed within sixty (60) days following the filing or commencement thereof;
 
(i)           a decree or order is entered appointing any trustee, custodian, liquidator or receiver or adjudicating any of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries bankrupt or insolvent, or approving a petition in any such case or other proceeding, or a decree or order for relief is entered in respect of any such Person in an involuntary case under federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter constituted;
 
(j)           there shall remain in force, undischarged, unsatisfied and unstayed, for more than sixty (60) days, whether or not consecutive, any uninsured final judgment against any of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries that, with other outstanding uninsured final judgments, undischarged, against such Persons exceeds in the aggregate $10,000,000.00;
 
(k)           any of the Loan Documents or the Contribution Agreement shall be canceled, terminated, revoked or rescinded otherwise than in accordance with the terms thereof or with the express prior written agreement, consent or approval of the Banks, or any action at law, suit in equity or other legal proceeding to cancel, revoke or rescind any of the Loan Documents or the Contribution Agreement shall be commenced by or on behalf of the Borrower, any Guarantor, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their respective holders of Voting Interests, or any court or any other governmental or regulatory authority or agency of competent jurisdiction shall make a determination that, or issue a judgment, order, decree or ruling to the effect that, any one or more of the Loan Documents or the Contribution Agreement is illegal, invalid or unenforceable in accordance with the terms thereof;
 
(l)           any dissolution, termination, partial or complete liquidation, merger or consolidation of the Borrower or the Trust or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any sale, transfer or other disposition of the assets of the Borrower, the Trust or any of their respective Subsidiaries other than as permitted under the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;
 
 
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(m)           any suit or proceeding shall be filed against the Borrower or any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their respective assets which in the good faith business judgment of the Majority Banks after giving consideration to the likelihood of success of such suit or proceeding and the availability of insurance to cover any judgment with respect thereto and based on the information available to them if adversely determined, would have a materially adverse effect on the ability of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries to perform each and every one of its obligations under and by virtue of the Loan Documents and such suit or proceeding is not dismissed within sixty (60) days following the filing or commencement thereof;
 
(n)           the Borrower, any Guarantor, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any Person so connected with them shall be indicted for a federal crime, a punishment for which could include the forfeiture of any assets of Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, including the Real Estate;
 
(o)           with respect to any Guaranteed Pension Plan, an ERISA Reportable Event shall have occurred and the Majority Banks shall have determined in their reasonable discretion that such event reasonably could be expected to result in liability of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries to the PBGC or such Guaranteed Pension Plan in an aggregate amount exceeding $1,000,000 and such event in the circumstances occurring reasonably could constitute grounds for the termination of such Guaranteed Pension Plan by the PBGC or for the appointment by the appropriate United States District Court of a trustee to administer such Guaranteed Pension Plan; or a trustee shall have been appointed by the United States District Court to administer such Plan or the PBGC shall have instituted proceedings to terminate such Guaranteed Pension Plan;
 
(p)           a Change of Control shall occur;
 
(q)           Dennis Gershenson shall cease to be active on a daily basis in the management of the Trust and the Borrower and a competent and experienced successor for such Person shall not be approved by the Majority Banks within six (6) months of such event, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld;
 
(r)           any Event of Default (as defined in any of the other Loan Documents) shall occur; or
 
(s)           The Borrower and the Guarantor and any of their respective Subsidiaries shall fail to pay at maturity, or within any applicable period of grace, any Subordinated Debt, or fail to observe or perform any material term, covenant or agreement contained in any agreement by which it is bound, evidencing or securing any such Subordinated Debt for such period of time as would permit (assuming the giving of appropriate notice if required) the holder or holders thereof or of any obligations issued thereunder to accelerate the maturity thereof or require a redemption, retirement, prepayment, purchase or defeasance thereof;
 
then, and in any such event, the Agent may, and upon the request of the Majority Banks shall, by notice in writing to the Borrower (in addition to the rights afforded under §12.3) declare all amounts owing with respect to this Agreement, the Notes, and the other Loan Documents to be, and they shall thereupon forthwith become, immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.  In the event of any Event of Default specified in §12.1(g), §12.1(h) or §12.1(i), all such amounts shall become immediately due and payable automatically without any requirement of presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind from any of the Banks or the Agent.
 
 
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§12.2.                  Limitation of Cure Periods .  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (b), (c) and (d) of §12.1, the cure periods provided therein shall not be allowed and the occurrence of a Default thereunder immediately shall constitute an Event of Default for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents if, within the period of twelve (12) months immediately preceding the occurrence of such Default, there shall have occurred two (2) periods of cure or portions thereof under any one or more than one of said subsections.
 
§12.3.                  Intentionally Deleted .
 
§12.4.                  Remedies .  In case any one or more of the Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and whether or not the Banks shall have accelerated the maturity of the Loans pursuant to §12.1, the Agent on behalf of the Banks may, with the consent of the Majority Banks but not otherwise, and upon the direction of the Majority Banks shall, proceed to protect and enforce their rights and remedies under this Agreement, the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents by suit in equity, action at law or other appropriate proceeding, whether for the specific performance of any covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any instrument pursuant to which the Obligations are evidenced, including to the full extent permitted by applicable law the obtaining of the ex parte appointment of a receiver, and, if such amount shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, proceed to enforce the payment thereof or any other legal or equitable right.  No remedy herein conferred upon the Agent or the holder of any of the Obligations is intended to be exclusive of any other remedy and each and every remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or any other provision of law.  In the event that all or any portion of the Obligations is collected by or through an attorney-at-law, the Borrower shall pay all costs of collection including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees.
 
§12.5.                  Distribution of Proceeds .  In the event that, following the occurrence or during the continuance of any Event of Default, any monies are received in connection with the enforcement of any of the Loan Documents, or otherwise with respect to the realization upon any of the assets of the Borrower or the Guarantors, such monies shall be distributed for application as follows:
 
(a)           First, to the payment of, or (as the case may be) the reimbursement of, the Agent for or in respect of all reasonable costs, expenses, disbursements and losses which shall have been incurred or sustained by the Agent in connection with the collection of such monies by the Agent, for the exercise, protection or enforcement by the Agent of all or any of the rights, remedies, powers and privileges of the Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or in support of any provision of adequate indemnity to the Agent against any taxes or liens which by law shall have, or may have, priority over the rights of the Agent to such monies;
 
 
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(b)           Second, to all other Obligations in such order or preference as the Majority Banks shall determine; provided , however , that (i) distributions in respect of such Obligations shall be made pari passu among Obligations with respect to the Agent’s fee payable pursuant to §4.3 and all other Obligations, (ii) in the event that any Bank shall have wrongfully failed or refused to make an advance under §2.6 and such failure or refusal shall be continuing, advances made by other Banks during the pendency of such failure or refusal shall be entitled to be repaid as to principal and accrued interest in priority to the other Obligations described in this subsection (b), (iii) Obligations owing to the Banks with respect to each type of Obligation such as interest, principal, fees and expenses, shall be made among the Banks pro rata , and (iv) amounts received or realized from the Borrower shall be applied against the Obligations of the Borrower; and provided, further that the Majority Banks may in their discretion make proper allowance to take into account any Obligations not then due and payable; and
 
(c)           Third, the excess, if any, shall be returned to the Borrower or to such other Persons as are entitled thereto.
 
§13.        SETOFF .
 
Regardless of the adequacy of any collateral, during the continuance of any Event of Default, any deposits (general or specific, time or demand, provisional or final, regardless of currency, maturity, or the branch of where such deposits are held) or other sums credited by or due from any of the Banks to the Borrower or any Guarantor and any securities or other property of the Borrower or any Guarantor in the possession of such Bank may be applied to or set off against the payment of Obligations of such Person and any and all other liabilities, direct, or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, of such Person to such Bank; provided that no Bank shall exercise such right of setoff without the prior approval of the Agent.  Each of the Banks agrees with each other Bank that if such Bank shall receive from the Borrower or any Guarantor, whether by voluntary payment, exercise of the right of setoff, or otherwise, and shall retain and apply to the payment of the Obligations owed to such Bank any amount in excess of its ratable portion of the payments received by all of the Banks with respect to the Obligations held by all of the Banks, such Bank will make such disposition and arrangements with the other Banks with respect to such excess, either by way of distribution, pro tanto assignment of claims, subrogation or otherwise as shall result in each Bank receiving in respect of the Obligations held by it its proportionate payment as contemplated by this Agreement; provided that if all or any part of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such Bank, such disposition and arrangements shall be rescinded and the amount restored to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.
 
§14.        THE AGENT .
 
§14.1.                  Authorization .  The Agent is authorized to take such action on behalf of each of the Banks and to exercise all such powers as are hereunder and under any of the other Loan Documents and any related documents delegated to the Agent, together with such powers as are reasonably incident thereto, provided that no duties or responsibilities not expressly assumed herein or therein shall be implied to have been assumed by the Agent.  The obligations of the Agent hereunder are primarily administrative in nature, and nothing contained in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents shall be construed to constitute the Agent as a trustee for any Bank or to create any agency or fiduciary relationship.  Agent shall act as the contractual representative of the Banks hereunder, and notwithstanding the use of the term “Agent” it is understood and agreed that Agent shall not have any fiduciary duties or responsibilities to any Bank or by reason of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents and is acting as an independent contractor, the rights and duties of which are limited to those expressly set forth in this Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  The Borrower and any other Person shall be entitled to conclusively rely on a statement from the Agent that it has the authority to act for and bind the Banks pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
 
 
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§14.2.                  Employees and Agents .  The Agent may exercise its powers and execute its duties by or through employees or agents and shall be entitled to take, and to rely on, advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to its rights and duties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  The Agent may utilize the services of such Persons as the Agent may reasonably determine, and all reasonable fees and expenses of any such Persons shall be paid by the Borrower.
 
§14.3.                  No Liability .  Neither the Agent nor any of its shareholders, directors, officers or employees nor any other Person assisting them in their duties nor any agent, or employee thereof, shall be liable to any of the Banks for any waiver, consent or approval given or any action taken, or omitted to be taken, in good faith by it or them hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, or in connection herewith or therewith, or be responsible for the consequences of any oversight or error of judgment whatsoever, except that the Agent or such other Person, as the case may be, may be liable for losses due to its willful misconduct or gross negligence.  The Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, except with respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and fees required to be paid to the Agent for the account of the Banks, unless the Agent has received notice from a Bank or the Borrower referring to the Loan Documents and describing with reasonable specificity such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”.
 
§14.4.                  No Representations .  The Agent shall not be responsible for the execution or validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the Notes, any of the other Loan Documents or any instrument at any time constituting, or intended to constitute, collateral security for the Obligations, or for the value of any such collateral security or for the validity, enforceability or collectability of any such amounts owing with respect to the Obligations, or for any recitals or statements, warranties or representations made herein or any agreement, instrument or certificate delivered in connection therewith or in any of the other Loan Documents or in any certificate or instrument hereafter furnished to it by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, or be bound to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, conditions, covenants or agreements herein or in any other of the Loan Documents.  The Agent shall not be bound to ascertain whether any notice, consent, waiver or request delivered to it by the Borrower, the Guarantor, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any holder of any of the Obligations shall have been duly authorized or is true, accurate and complete.  The Agent has not made nor does it now make any representations or warranties, express or implied, nor does it assume any liability to the Banks, with respect to the creditworthiness or financial condition of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries or the value of any of the other assets of the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries.  Each Bank acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Bank, and based upon such information and documents as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement.  Each Bank also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Bank, based upon such information and documents as it deems appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  Agent’s Special Counsel has only represented Agent and KeyBank in connection with the Loan Documents and the only attorney-client relationship or duty of care is between Agent’s Special Counsel and Agent or KeyBank.  Each Bank has been independently represented by separate counsel on all matters regarding the Loan Documents.
 
 
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§14.5.                  Payments .
 
(a)           A payment by the Borrower or the Guarantors to the Agent hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents for the account of any Bank shall constitute a payment to such Bank.  The Agent agrees to distribute to each Bank not later than one Business Day after the Agent’s receipt of good funds, determined in accordance with the Agent’s customary practices, such Bank’s pro rata share of payments received by the Agent for the account of the Banks except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in any of the other Loan Documents.  In the event the Borrower makes payments to Agent in immediately available funds on or before the time required in this Agreement for such payment, and Agent fails to distribute such amounts on the same Business Day as received, the Agent shall pay interest on such amount at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect.
 
(b)           If in the opinion of the Agent the distribution of any amount received by it in such capacity hereunder, under the Notes or under any of the other Loan Documents might involve it in liability, it may refrain from making distribution until its right to make distribution shall have been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction.  If a court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge that any amount received and distributed by the Agent is to be repaid, each Person to whom any such distribution shall have been made shall either repay to the Agent its proportionate share of the amount so adjudged to be repaid or shall pay over the same in such manner and to such Persons as shall be determined by such court.  In the event that the Agent shall refrain from making any distribution of any amount received by it as provided in this §14.5(b), the Agent shall endeavor to hold such amounts in an interest bearing account and at such time as such amounts may be distributed to the Banks, the Agent shall distribute to each Bank, based on their respective Commitment Percentages, its pro rata share of the interest or other earnings from such deposited amount.
 
 
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(c)           Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, any Bank that fails (i) to make available to the Agent its pro rata share of any Loan, (ii) to comply with the provisions of §13 with respect to making dispositions and arrangements with the other Banks, where such Bank’s share of any payment received, whether by setoff or otherwise, is in excess of its pro rata share of such payments due and payable to all of the Banks, in each case as, when and to the full extent required by the provisions of this Agreement, or (iii) to perform any other obligation within the time period specified for performance, or if no time period is specified, if such failure continues for a period of five (5) Business Days after notice from the Agent, shall be deemed a defaulting Bank (a “Defaulting Bank”) and shall be deemed a Defaulting Bank until such time as such delinquency is satisfied provided that a Bank shall not be a Defaulting Bank if such Bank notifies the Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Bank’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied.  In addition to the rights and remedies that may be available to the Agent at law and in equity, a Defaulting Bank’s right to participate in the administration of the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, any rights to consent to or direct any action or inaction of the Agent pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, or to be taken into account in the calculation of Required Banks, Majority Banks or any matter requiring approval of all of the Banks, shall be suspended while such Bank is a Defaulting Bank; provided that a consent of a Defaulting Bank shall be required for any increase of its Commitment.  A Defaulting Bank shall be deemed to have assigned any and all payments due to it from the Borrower and the Guarantors, whether on account of outstanding Loans, interest, fees or otherwise, to the remaining non-defaulting Banks for application to, and reduction of, their respective pro rata shares of all outstanding Loans.  The Defaulting Bank hereby authorizes the Agent to distribute such payments to the non-defaulting Banks in proportion to their respective pro rata shares of all outstanding Loans.  The provisions of this Section shall apply and be effective regardless of whether an Event of Default occurs and is then continuing, and notwithstanding (i) any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary or (ii) any instruction of Borrower as to its desired application of payments.  The Agent shall be entitled to (i) withhold or set off, and to apply to the payment of the obligations of any Defaulting Bank any amounts to be paid to such Defaulting Bank under this Agreement, (ii) to collect interest from such Bank for the period from the date on which the payment was due at the rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate plus two percent (2%), for each day during such period, and (iii) bring an action or suit against such Defaulting Bank in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover the defaulted obligations of such Defaulting Bank.  A Defaulting Bank shall be deemed to have satisfied in full a delinquency when and if, as a result of application of the assigned payments to all outstanding Loans of the non-defaulting Banks or as a result of other payments by the Defaulting Banks to the non-defaulting Banks, the Banks’ respective pro rata shares of all outstanding Loans have returned to those in effect immediately prior to such delinquency and without giving effect to the nonpayment causing such delinquency.
 
§14.6.                  Holders of Notes .  Subject to the terms of Article 18, the Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Obligation and any Note as the absolute owner or purchaser thereof for all purposes hereof until it shall have been furnished in writing with a different name by such payee or by a subsequent holder, assignee or transferee.
 
§14.7.                  Indemnity .  The Banks ratably hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Agent from and against any and all claims, actions and suits (whether groundless or otherwise), losses, damages, costs, expenses (including any expenses for which the Agent has not been reimbursed by the Borrower as required by § 15), and liabilities of every nature and character arising out of or related to this Agreement, the Notes, or any of the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated or evidenced hereby or thereby, or the Agent’s actions taken hereunder or thereunder, except to the extent that any of the same shall be directly caused by the Agent’s willful misconduct or gross negligence.
 
 
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§14.8.                  Agent as Bank .  In its individual capacity, the Bank acting as the Agent shall have the same obligations and the same rights, powers and privileges in respect to its Commitment and the Loans made by it, and as the holder of any of the Obligations and the Notes as it would have were it not also the Agent.
 
§14.9.                  Resignation .  The Agent may resign at any time by giving thirty (30) days’ prior written notice thereof to the Banks and the Borrower.  The Majority Banks may remove the Agent from its capacity as Agent in the event of the Agent’s willful misconduct or gross negligence.  The Commitment Percentage of the Bank which is acting as Agent shall not be taken into account in the calculation of Majority Banks for the purposes of removing Agent in the event of the Agent’s willful misconduct or gross negligence.  Upon any such resignation, the Majority Banks shall have the right to appoint as a successor Agent, any Bank or any bank whose senior debt obligations are rated not less than “A” or its equivalent by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or not less than “A” or its equivalent by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group Inc. and which has a net worth of not less than $500,000,000.  Unless a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, such successor Agent shall be reasonably acceptable to the Borrower.  If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Majority Banks and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Agent’s giving of notice of resignation or the Majority Bank’s removal of the Agent, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Banks, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be any Bank or a bank whose debt obligations are rated not less than “A” or its equivalent by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or not less than “A” or its equivalent by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group Inc. and which has a net worth of not less than $500,000,000.  Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring or removed Agent and the retiring or removed Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder as Agent.  After any retiring Agent’s resignation or removal, the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as Agent.
 
§14.10.                  Duties in the Case of Enforcement .  In case one or more Events of Default have occurred and shall be continuing, and whether or not acceleration of the Obligations shall have occurred, the Agent may, and if so requested by the Majority Banks and the Banks have provided to the Agent such additional indemnities and assurances in accordance with their respective Commitment Percentages against expenses and liabilities as the Agent may reasonably request, shall proceed to exercise all or any legal and equitable and other rights or remedies as it may have.  The Majority Banks may direct the Agent in writing as to the method and the extent of any such exercise, the Banks hereby agreeing to indemnify and hold the Agent harmless in accordance with their respective Commitment Percentages from all liabilities incurred in respect of all actions taken or omitted in accordance with such directions, provided that the Agent need not comply with any such direction to the extent that the Agent reasonably believes the Agent’s compliance with such direction to be unlawful or commercially unreasonable in any applicable jurisdiction.
 
§14.11.                  Bankruptcy .  In the event a bankruptcy or other insolvency proceeding is commenced by or against Borrower or any Guarantor with respect to the Obligations, the Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right to file and pursue a joint proof claim on behalf of all Banks.  Any votes with respect to such claims or otherwise with respect to such proceedings shall be subject to the vote of the Majority Banks, the Required Banks or all of the Banks as required by this Agreement.  Each Bank irrevocably waives its right to file or pursue a separate proof of claim in any such proceedings unless Agent fails to file such claim within thirty (30) days after receipt of written notice from the Banks requesting that Agent file such proof of claim.
 
 
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§14.12.                  Approvals .  If consent is required for some action under this Agreement, or except as otherwise provided herein an approval of the Banks, the Required Banks or the Majority Banks is required or permitted under this Agreement, each Bank agrees to give the Agent, within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of the request for action together with all reasonably requested information related thereto (or such lesser period of time required by the terms of the Loan Documents), notice in writing of  approval or disapproval (collectively “Directions”) in respect of any action requested or proposed in writing pursuant to the terms hereof.  If consent is required for the requested action, any Bank’s failure to respond to a request for Directions within the required time period shall be deemed to constitute a Direction to take such requested action.  In the event that any recommendation is not approved by the requisite number of Banks and a subsequent approval on the same subject matter is requested by Agent, then for the purposes of this paragraph each Bank shall be required to respond to a request for Directions within five (5) Business Days of receipt of such request.  Agent and each Bank shall be entitled to assume that any officer of the other Banks delivering any notice, consent, certificate or other writing is authorized to give such notice, consent, certificate or other writing unless Agent and such other Banks have otherwise been notified in writing.
 
§14.13.                  Borrower not Beneficiary .  Except for the provisions of §14.9 relating to the appointment of a successor Agent, the provisions of this §14 are solely for the benefit of the Agent and the Banks, may not be enforced by Borrower or any Guarantor, and except for the provisions of §14.9, may be modified or waived without the approval or consent of Borrower and Guarantors.
 
§15.        EXPENSES .
 
The Borrower agrees to pay (a) the reasonable costs of producing and reproducing this  Agreement, the other Loan Documents and the other agreements and instruments mentioned herein, (b) any taxes (including any interest and penalties in respect thereto) payable by the Agent or any of the Banks (other than taxes based upon the Agent’s or any Bank’s gross or net income, except that the Agent and the Banks shall be entitled to indemnification for any and all amounts paid by them in respect of taxes based on income or other taxes (other than pursuant to the Michigan Business Tax, M.C.L. §§208.1101 et seq. , if any) on or with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including any such taxes payable by the Agent or any of the Banks after the Closing Date (the Borrower hereby agreeing to indemnify the Agent and each Bank with respect thereto), (c) the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of the counsel to the Agent and any local counsel to the Agent incurred in connection with the preparation, administration or interpretation of the Loan Documents and other instruments mentioned herein (excluding, however, the preparation of agreements evidencing participation granted under §18.4), each closing hereunder, and amendments, modifications, approvals, consents or waivers hereto or hereunder, (d) the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of the Agent incurred by the Agent in connection with the preparation or interpretation of the Loan Documents and other instruments mentioned herein, and the making of each advance hereunder, (e) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, which attorneys may be employees of any Bank or the Agent and the fees and costs of appraisers, engineers, investment bankers or other experts retained by any Bank or the Agent) incurred by any Bank or the Agent in connection with (i) the enforcement of or preservation of rights under any of the Loan Documents against the Borrower or the Guarantors or the administration thereof after the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default and (ii) any litigation, proceeding or dispute whether arising hereunder or otherwise, in any way related to the Agent’s or any of the Bank’s relationship with the Borrower or the Guarantors, (f) all reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of the Agent incurred in connection with UCC searches, UCC filings, title rundowns or title searches, (g) all reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) which may be incurred by KeyBank and the Agent in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (h) all reasonable fees and expenses and disbursements (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs), not to exceed $5,000.00 in the aggregate, which may be incurred by KeyBank in connection with each and every assignment of interests in the Loans pursuant to §18.1, and (i) all expenses relating to the use of Intralinks, SyndTrak or any other similar system for the dissemination and sharing of documents and information in connection with the syndication of the Loans.  The covenants of this §15 shall survive payment or satisfaction of payment of the Obligations.
 
 
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§16.        INDEMNIFICATION .
 
The Borrower and the Trust, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Agent, the Banks and the Arranger and each director, officer, employee, agent and Person who controls the Agent or any Bank from and against any and all claims, actions and suits, whether groundless or otherwise, and from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages and expenses of every nature and character arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby including, without limitation (a) any brokerage, finders or similar fees asserted against any Person indemnified under this §16 based upon any agreement, arrangement or action made or taken, or alleged to have been made or taken, by the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (b) any condition of the Real Estate, (c) any actual or proposed use by the Borrower or the Guarantors of the proceeds of any of the Loans, (d) any actual or alleged infringement of any patent, copyright, trademark, service mark or similar right of any of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (e) the Borrower entering into or performing this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, (f) any actual or alleged violation of any law, ordinance, code, order, rule, regulation, approval, consent, permit or license relating to the Real Estate, (g) with respect to the Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries and their respective properties and assets, the violation of any Environmental Law, the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Substances or any action, suit, proceeding or investigation brought or threatened with respect to any Hazardous Substances (including, but not limited to, claims with respect to wrongful death, personal injury or damage to property), and (h) any use of Intralinks, SyndTrak or any other system for the dissemination and sharing of documents and information (other than any ongoing usage fees following the closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement), in each case including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel and allocated costs of internal counsel incurred in connection with any such investigation, litigation or other proceeding; provided, however , that neither the Borrower nor the Trust shall be obligated under this §16 to indemnify any Person for liabilities arising from such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined in a non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction, any loss suffered solely to the extent they arise from violation of any such Person’s internal policies or from a violation of laws, rules or regulations applicable to such Person’s operations as determined in a non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction, and with respect to matters described in §16(b), (f) or (g), any loss attributable to events, acts or circumstances first occurring after the period Agent and the Banks acquired a direct ownership interest (and not a Lien) in such Real Estate.  The immediately preceding proviso shall not be construed to require any Person to disclose confidential or proprietary information unless on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to such Person.  In litigation, or the preparation therefor, the Banks, the Agent and the Arranger shall be entitled to select a single nationally recognized law firm as their own counsel and, in addition to the foregoing indemnity, the Borrower and the Trust agree to pay promptly the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel.  If, and to the extent that the obligations of the Borrower and the Trust under this §16 are unenforceable for any reason, the Borrower and the Trust hereby agree to make the maximum contribution to the payment in satisfaction of such obligations which is permissible under applicable law.  The provisions of this §16 shall survive any assignment by a Bank of its Commitment, the repayment of the Loans and the termination of the obligations of the Banks hereunder.
 
 
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§17.        SURVIVAL OF COVENANTS, ETC .
 
All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made herein, in the Notes, in any of the other Loan Documents or in any documents or other papers delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries pursuant hereto or thereto shall be deemed to have been relied upon by the Banks and the Agent, notwithstanding any investigation heretofore or hereafter made by any of them, and shall survive the making by the Banks of any of the Loans, as herein contemplated, and shall continue in full force and effect so long as any amount due under this Agreement or the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents remains outstanding or any Bank has any obligation to make any Loans.  The indemnification obligations of the Borrower and the Trust provided herein and the other Loan Documents shall survive the full repayment of amounts due and the termination of the obligations of the Banks hereunder and thereunder to the extent provided herein and therein.  All statements contained in any certificate or other paper delivered to any Bank or the Agent at any time by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries pursuant hereto or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall constitute representations and warranties by such Person hereunder.
 
§18.        ASSIGNMENT AND PARTICIPATION .
 
§18.1.                  Conditions to Assignment by Banks .  Except as provided herein, each Bank may assign to one or more banks or other entities all or a portion of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment Percentage and Commitment and the same portion of the Loans at the time owing to it, and the Notes held by it); provided that (a) the Agent shall have given its prior written consent to such assignment, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed (provided that such consent shall not be required for any assignment to another Bank, to a Related Fund of such Bank, to a bank which is under common control with the assigning Bank or to a wholly-owned Subsidiary of such Bank provided that such assignee shall remain a wholly-owned Subsidiary or Related Fund of such Bank), (b) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Term Loan Commitment in the event an interest in the Term Loan is assigned, (c) the parties to such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for recording in the Register (as hereinafter defined), an Assignment and Acceptance Agreement (an “Assignment and Acceptance Agreement”) in the form of Exhibit J hereto, together with any Notes subject to such assignment, (d) in no event shall any assignment be to any Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with, or which is not otherwise free from influence or control by, any of the Borrower or the Guarantors, (e) such assignee shall acquire an interest in the Term Loans of not less than $5,000,000 unless such assignment is to another Bank or a Related Fund or unless such requirement is waived by the Borrower and the Agent, and (f) the assignor shall assign its entire interest in the Loans or retain an interest in the Loans of not less than $5,000,000 unless otherwise approved by Agent and Borrower.  Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, of such notice of assignment, (i) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and all other Loan Documents executed by the Banks and, to the extent provided in such assignment, have the rights and obligations of a Bank hereunder, and (ii) the assigning Bank shall, to the extent provided in such assignment and upon payment to the Agent of the registration fee referred to in §18.2, be released from its obligations under this Agreement.  In connection with each assignment, the assignee shall represent and warrant to the Agent, the assignor and each other Bank as to whether such assignee is controlling, controlled by, under common control with or is not otherwise free from influence or control by, the Borrower or the Guarantors.  Upon any such assignment, the Agent may unilaterally amend Schedule 1.1 to reflect any such assignment.
 
 
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§18.2.                  Register .  The Agent for itself and on behalf of the Borrower shall maintain a copy of each assignment delivered to it and a register or similar list (the “Register”) for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Banks and the Commitment Percentages of, and principal amount of the Loans owing to the Banks from time to time.  The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Banks may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Bank hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement.  The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and the Banks at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.  Upon each such recordation, the assigning Bank agrees to pay to the Agent a registration fee in the sum of $3,500.  Contemporaneous assignments by a Bank to multiple Related Funds will be treated as a single assignment for the purposes of such registration fee.
 
§18.3.                  New Notes .  Upon its receipt of an assignment executed by the parties to such assignment, together with each Note, if any, subject to such assignment, the Agent shall (a) record the information contained therein in the Register, and (b) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower and the Banks (other than the assigning Bank).  Within five (5) Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall if requested execute and deliver to the Agent, in exchange for each surrendered Note, a new Note to the order of such assignee in an amount equal to the amount assumed by such assignee pursuant to such assignment and, if the assigning Bank has retained some portion of its obligations hereunder, a new Note to the order of the assigning Bank in an amount equal to the amount retained by it hereunder.  Such new Notes shall provide that they are replacements for the surrendered Notes, shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the surrendered Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such assignment and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of the assigned Notes.  The surrendered Notes shall be canceled and returned to the Borrower.
 
 
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§18.4.                  Participations .  Each Bank may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities in all or a portion of such Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; provided that (a) any such sale or participation shall not affect the rights and duties of the selling Bank hereunder to the Borrower, (b) such participation shall not entitle such participant to any rights or privileges under this Agreement or any Loan Documents, including without limitation, the right to approve waivers, amendments or modifications, (c) such participant shall have no direct rights against the Borrower or the Guarantors except the rights granted to the Banks pursuant to §13, (d) such sale is effected in accordance with all applicable laws, and (e) such participant shall not be a Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with, or which is not otherwise free from influence or control by the Borrower or the Guarantors.
 
§18.5.                  Pledge by Bank .  Any Bank may at any time pledge all or any portion of its interest and rights under this Agreement (including all or any portion of its Note) to any of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks organized under §4 of the Federal Reserve Act, 12 U.S.C. §341 or, with Agent’s prior written approval, to another Person.  No such pledge or the enforcement thereof shall release the pledgor Bank from its obligations hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents.  Any Term Loan Bank may with the consent of the Agent pledge all or any portion of its rights and interests under this Agreement (including all or any portion of its Term Loan Note) to a Person approved by Agent.
 
§18.6.                  No Assignment by Borrower or the Trust .  Neither the Borrower nor the Trust shall assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under any of the Loan Documents without the prior written consent of each of the Banks.
 
§18.7.                  Disclosure .  The Borrower and the Trust each agrees that in addition to disclosures made in accordance with standard banking practices any Bank may disclose  information obtained by such Bank pursuant to this Agreement to assignees or participants and potential assignees or participants hereunder.  In addition, the Banks may make disclosure of such information to any contractual counterparty in swap agreements or such contractual counterparty’s professional advisors.
 
§18.8.                  Amendments to Loan Documents .  Upon any such assignment or participation, the Borrower and the Trust shall, upon the request of the Agent, enter into such documents as may be reasonably required by the Agent to modify the Loan Documents to reflect such assignment or participation.
 
 
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§18.9.                  Mandatory Assignment .  In the event Borrower requests that certain amendments, modifications or waivers be made to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents which request is approved by Agent but is not approved by one or more of the Banks (any such non-consenting Bank shall hereafter be referred to as the “Non-Consenting Bank”), then, within thirty (30) days after Borrower’s receipt of notice of such disapproval by such Non-Consenting Bank, Borrower shall have the right as to such Non-Consenting Bank, to be exercised by delivery of written notice delivered to the Agent and the Non-Consenting Bank within thirty (30) days of receipt of such notice, to elect to cause the Non-Consenting Bank to transfer its entire Commitment.  The Agent shall promptly notify the remaining Banks that each of such Banks shall have the right, but not the obligation, to acquire a portion of the Commitment, pro rata based upon their relevant Commitment Percentages, of the Non-Consenting Bank (or if any of such Banks does not elect to purchase its pro rata share, then to such remaining Banks in such proportion as approved by the Agent).  In the event that the Banks do not elect to acquire all of the Non-Consenting Bank’s Commitment, then the Agent shall endeavor to find a new Bank or Banks to acquire such remaining Commitment.  Upon any such purchase of the Commitment of the Non-Consenting Bank, the Non-Consenting Bank’s interests in the Obligations and its rights hereunder and under the Loan Documents shall terminate at the date of purchase, and the Non-Consenting Bank shall promptly execute and deliver any and all documents reasonably requested by Agent to surrender and transfer such interest, including, without limitation, an Assignment and Acceptance Agreement and such Non-Consenting Bank’s original Note.  Notwithstanding anything in this §18.9 to the contrary, any Bank or other Bank assignee acquiring some or all of the assigned Commitment of the Non-Consenting Bank must consent to the proposed amendment, modification or waiver.  The purchase price to be paid by the acquiring Banks for the Non-Consenting Bank’s Commitment shall equal the principal owed to such Non-Consenting Bank, and the Borrower shall pay to such Non-Consenting Bank in addition thereto and as a condition to such sale any and all other amounts outstanding and owed by Borrower to the Non-Consenting Bank hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, including all accrued and unpaid interest or fees which would be owed to such Non-Consenting Bank hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents if the Loans were to be repaid in full on the date of such purchase of the Non-Consenting Bank’s Commitment.  No registration fee under §18.2 shall be required in connection with such assignment.
 
§18.10.                Titled Agents .  The Titled Agents shall not have any additional rights or obligations under the Loan Documents, except for those rights, if any, as a Bank.
 
§19.        NOTICES .
 
Each notice, demand, election or request provided for or permitted to be given pursuant to this Agreement (hereinafter in this §19 referred to as “Notice”) must be in writing and shall be deemed to have been properly given or served by personal delivery or by sending same by overnight courier or by depositing same in the United States Mail, postpaid and registered or certified, return receipt requested, or as expressly permitted herein, by telegraph, telecopy, telefax or telex, and addressed as follows:
 
  If to the Agent or KeyBank:
     
   
KeyBank National Association
   
1200 Abernathy Road, N.E.
   
Suite 1550
   
Atlanta, Georgia  30328
   
Attn:  Daniel Silbert
   
Telecopy No.:  (770) 510-2195
 
 
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  With a copy to:
     
   
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
   
5300 SunTrust Plaza
   
303 Peachtree Street
   
Atlanta, Georgia  30308
   
Attn:  William F. Timmons, Esq.
   
Telecopy No.:  (404) 527-4198
     
  If to the Borrower or the Guarantor:
     
   
Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P.
   
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
   
Suite 300
   
31500 Northwestern Highway
   
Farmington Hills, Michigan  48334
   
Attn:  Chief Financial Officer
   
Telecopy No.:  (248) 350-9925
     
  With a copy to:
     
   
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP
   
Suite 101
   
39400 Woodward Avenue
   
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan  48304-5151
   
Attn:  Richard J. Burstein
   
Telecopy No.:  (248) 566-8431
 
to each other Bank a party hereto at the address for such party set forth on Schedule 1.1 hereto for such Bank, and to each other Bank which may hereafter become a party to this Agreement at such address as may be designated by such Bank.  Each Notice shall be effective upon being personally delivered or upon being sent by overnight courier or upon being deposited in the United States Mail as aforesaid, or if transmitted by facsimile, upon being sent and confirmation of receipt.  The time period in which a response to such Notice must be given or any action taken with respect thereto (if any), however, shall commence to run from the date of receipt if personally delivered or sent by overnight courier, or if so deposited in the United States Mail, the earlier of three (3) Business Days following such deposit or the date of receipt as disclosed on the return receipt, or if sent by facsimile, upon receipt or the next Business Day if received after 5:00 p.m. (Cleveland time) or on a day that is not a Business Day.  Rejection or other refusal to accept or the inability to deliver because of changed address for which no notice was given shall be deemed to be receipt of the Notice sent.  By giving at least fifteen (15) days prior Notice thereof, the Borrower, the Trust, a Bank or Agent shall have the right from time to time and at any time during the term of this Agreement to change their respective addresses and each shall have the right to specify as its address any other address within the United States of America.
 
 
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§20.        RELATIONSHIP .
 
Neither the Agent nor any Bank has any fiduciary relationship with or fiduciary duty to the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereunder and thereunder, and the relationship between each Bank and the Borrower is solely that of a lender and borrower, and nothing contained herein or in any of the other Loan Documents shall in any manner be construed as making the parties hereto partners, joint venturers or any other relationship other than lender and borrower.
 
§21.        GOVERNING LAW: CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE .
 
THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SPECIFICALLY PROVIDED THEREIN, ARE CONTRACTS UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN AND SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF SUCH STATE (EXCLUDING THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO CONFLICTS OR CHOICE OF LAW).  THE BORROWER AND THE TRUST EACH AGREES THAT ANY SUIT FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF OHIO OR THE STATE OF MICHIGAN OR ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING THEREIN AND CONSENT TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURT AND THE SERVICE OF PROCESS IN ANY SUCH SUIT BEING MADE UPON THE BORROWER OR THE TRUST BY MAIL AT THE ADDRESS SPECIFIED IN §19.  THE BORROWER AND THE TRUST EACH HEREBY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT OR ANY SUCH COURT OR THAT SUCH SUIT IS BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT COURT.
 
§22.        HEADINGS .
 
The captions in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit the provisions hereof.
 
§23.        COUNTERPARTS .
 
This Agreement and any amendment hereof may be executed in several counterparts and by each party on a separate counterpart, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, and all of which together shall constitute one instrument.  In proving this Agreement it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought.
 
§24.        ENTIRE AGREEMENT, ETC .
 
The Loan Documents and any other documents executed in connection herewith or therewith express the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby.  Neither this Agreement nor any term hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated, except as provided in §27.
 
 
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§25.        WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL AND CERTAIN DAMAGE CLAIMS .
 
EACH OF THE BORROWER, THE TRUST, THE AGENT AND THE BANKS HEREBY WAIVES ITS RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY ACTION OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF ANY DISPUTE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, ANY NOTE OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, ANY RIGHTS OR OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER OR THE PERFORMANCE OF SUCH RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.  EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY LAW, THE BORROWER AND THE TRUST EACH HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO CLAIM OR RECOVER IN ANY SUCH LITIGATION ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN, OR IN ADDITION TO, ACTUAL DAMAGES.  THE BORROWER AND THE TRUST EACH (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY BANK OR THE AGENT HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH BANK OR THE AGENT WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVERS AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE AGENT AND THE BANKS HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS TO WHICH THEY ARE PARTIES BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS §25.
 
§26.        DEALINGS WITH THE BORROWER OR THE GUARANTORS .
 
The Agent, the Banks and their affiliates may accept deposits from, extend credit to, invest in, act as trustee under indentures of, serve as financial advisor of, and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with the Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries or any of their affiliates regardless of the capacity of the Agent or the Bank hereunder.  The Banks acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, the Agent, a Bank or its affiliates may receive information regarding such Persons (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Person) and acknowledge that the Agent or such Bank, as applicable, shall be under no obligation to provide such information to them.
 
§27.        CONSENTS, AMENDMENTS, WAIVERS, ETC .
 
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any consent or approval required or permitted by this Agreement may be given and any term of this Agreement or of any other instrument related hereto or mentioned herein may be amended, and the performance or observance by the Borrower or the Guarantors of any terms of this Agreement or such other instrument or the continuance of any Default or Event of Default may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with, but only with, the written consent of the Majority Banks.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) none of the following may occur without the written consent of each Bank affected thereby:  a decrease in the rate of interest on the Loans (except as contemplated in §2.8); an increase or a non-pro rata reduction in the amount of the Commitments of the Banks except pursuant to §2.8 or §18.1; a forgiveness, reduction or waiver of the principal of any unpaid Loan or any interest thereon; the postponement of any date fixed for any payment of principal of or interest on the Loans; a decrease of the amount of any fee (other than late fees) payable to a Bank hereunder; the release of the Borrower or any Guarantor except as otherwise provided herein; a change in the manner of distribution of any payments to the Banks or the Agent; an amendment of the definition of Majority Banks or Required Banks or of any requirement for consent by the Majority Banks, the Required Banks or all of the Banks; or an amendment of this §27, and (b) the provisions of §9 and any of the definitions used therein may not be modified, amended or waived without the written consent of the Required Banks.  The amount of the Agent’s fee payable for the Agent’s account and the provisions of §14 may not be amended or waived without the written consent of the Agent.  The Borrower and the Guarantors each agrees to enter into such modifications or amendments of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents as may be reasonably requested by KeyBank in connection with the acquisition by each Bank acquiring all or a portion of the Commitment, provided that no such amendment or modification materially affects or increases any of the obligations of the Borrower or the Guarantors hereunder.  No waiver shall extend to or affect any obligation not expressly waived or impair any right consequent thereon.  No course of dealing or delay or omission on the part of the Agent or any Bank in exercising any right shall operate as a waiver thereof or otherwise be prejudicial thereto.  No notice to or demand upon the Borrower or the Guarantors shall entitle the Borrower and the Guarantors to other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
 
 
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§28.        SEVERABILITY .
 
The provisions of this Agreement are severable, and if any one clause or provision hereof shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part in any jurisdiction, then such invalidity or unenforceability shall affect only such clause or provision, or part thereof, in such jurisdiction, and shall not in any manner affect such clause or provision in any other jurisdiction, or any other clause or provision of this Agreement in any jurisdiction.
 
§29.        TIME OF THE ESSENCE .
 
Time is of the essence with respect to each and every covenant, agreement and obligation of the Borrower or the Trust under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
 
§30.        NO UNWRITTEN AGREEMENTS .
 
THE WRITTEN LOAN DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES.  THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.  ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES ARE SET FORTH BELOW.
 
§31.        REPLACEMENT OF NOTES .
 
Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to Borrower of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Note, and in the case of any such loss, theft or destruction, upon delivery of an indemnity agreement reasonably satisfactory to Borrower or, in the case of any such mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of the applicable Note, Borrower will execute and deliver, in lieu thereof, a replacement Note, identical in form and substance to the applicable Note and dated as of the date of the applicable Note and upon such execution and delivery all references in the Loan Documents to such Note shall be deemed to refer to such replacement Note.
 
 
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§32.        TRUST EXCULPATION .
 
Subject to the terms of this paragraph, all persons having a claim against the Trust (as a Guarantor or general partner of Borrower), the general partner of the Borrower whose signature is affixed hereto as said general partner, hereunder or in connection with any matter that is the subject hereof, shall look solely to (i) the Trust’s interest and rights in the Borrower (as a general partner or limited partner), (ii) the amount of any Net Offering Proceeds not contributed to the Borrower, (iii) all accounts receivable, including the amount of any Distributions received by the Trust from the Borrower and not distributed to shareholders of the Trust as permitted by this Agreement, (iv) all rights and claims (including amounts paid under) the Tax Indemnity Agreement, (v) all cash and Short-term Investments in an amount in excess of $500,000.00, (vi) any other assets which the Trust may now own or hereafter acquire with the consent of Agent pursuant to §7.17, (vii) all documents and agreements in favor of the Trust in connection with any of the foregoing, (viii) all claims and causes of action arising from or otherwise related to any of the foregoing, and all rights and judgments related to any legal actions in connection with such claims or causes of action, and (ix) all extensions, additions, renewals and replacements, substitutions, products or proceeds of any of the foregoing (the “Attachable Assets”), and in no event shall the obligation of the Trust be enforceable against any shareholder, trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust personally.  In no event shall any person have any claim against:  (i) the cash, Short-term Investments of the Trust and the property described in Schedule 6.29 hereto, all under the heading of “Other Permitted Assets”, (ii) all documents and agreements in favor of the Trust in connection with any of the foregoing, (iii) all claims and causes of action arising from or otherwise related to any of the foregoing, and all rights and judgments related to any legal actions in connection with such claims or causes of action, and (iv) all extensions, additions, renewals and replacements, substitutions, products or proceeds of any of the foregoing (the “Other Permitted Assets”).  The Agent and the Banks have agreed to the terms of this §32 solely based upon the representation and covenant of Borrower and the Trust that the Trust does not and will not own any assets other than the Attachable Assets and the Other Permitted Assets.  Notwithstanding anything in this §32 to the contrary, the foregoing limitation on liability and recourse to the Trust (as a Guarantor or general partner of Borrower) shall be null and void and of no force and effect, and Agent and the Banks shall have full recourse against the Trust, individually as a Guarantor and in its capacity as general partner of Borrower, and to all of its assets (including, without limitation, the Other Permitted Assets) in the event that the Trust shall now or at any time hereafter own any asset other than or in addition to the Other Permitted Assets and the Attachable Assets.  Nothing herein shall limit the rights of the Agent and the Banks against the Borrower.
 
 
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§33.        PATRIOT ACT .
 
Each Bank and the Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Bank) hereby notifies the Borrower and Guarantors that, pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries, which information includes names and addresses and other information that will allow such Bank or the Agent, as applicable, to identify Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries in accordance with the Patriot Act.
 
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have duly executed this Agreement as a sealed instrument as of the date first set forth above.
 
 
TRUST :
   
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES
TRUST , a Maryland real estate investment trust
   
 
By:                                                                                                      
 
Name:                                                                                                 
 
Title:                                                                                                   
     
     
     
 
BORROWER :
   
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P. ,
a Delaware limited partnership
     
 
By:
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a
Maryland real estate investment trust, its
General Partner
     
   
By:                                                                                         
   
Name:                                                                                    
   
Title:                                                                                      
 
 
[Signature Page to Unsecured Term Loan Agreement]
 
 
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BANKS :
   
 
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ,
 
individually and as Agent
   
 
By:                                                                                                      
 
Name:                                                                                                 
 
Title:                                                                                                   
   
 
THE HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK
   
 
By:                                                                                                      
 
Name:                                                                                                 
 
Title:                                                                                                   
   
 
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
   
 
By:                                                                                                      
 
Name:                                                                                                 
 
Title:                                                                                                   
 
 
[Signature Page to Unsecured Term Loan Agreement]
 
 
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EXHIBIT B
 
FORM OF TERM LOAN NOTE
 
$_________________
__________, 2011
 
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, hereby promises to pay to __________________________ ________or order, in accordance with the terms of that certain Unsecured Term Loan Agreement dated as of September 30, 2011 (the “Loan Agreement”), as from time to time in effect, among the undersigned, KeyBank National Association, for itself and as Agent, and such other Banks as may be from time to time named therein, to the extent not sooner paid, on or before the Term Loan Maturity Date, the principal sum of __________________________ Dollars ($_____________), with daily interest from the date hereof, computed as provided in the Loan Agreement, on the principal amount hereof from time to time unpaid, at a rate per annum on each portion of the principal amount which shall at all times be equal to the rate of interest applicable to such portion in accordance with the Loan Agreement, and with interest on overdue principal and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on overdue installments of interest and late charges at the rates provided in the Loan Agreement.  Interest shall be payable on the dates specified in the Loan Agreement, except that all accrued interest shall be paid at the stated or accelerated maturity hereof or upon the prepayment in full hereof.  Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Loan Agreement.
 
Payments hereunder shall be made to KeyBank National Association, as Agent for the payee hereof, at 127 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1306  or such other address as may be designated by Agent.
 
This Note is one of one or more Term Loan Notes evidencing borrowings under and is entitled to the benefits and subject to the provisions of the Loan Agreement.  The principal of this Note may be due and payable in whole or in part prior to the maturity date stated above and is subject to mandatory prepayment in the amounts and under the circumstances set forth in the Loan Agreement, and may be prepaid in whole or from time to time in part, all as set forth in the Loan Agreement.
 
Notwithstanding anything in this Note to the contrary, all agreements between the undersigned Borrower and the Banks and the Agent, whether now existing or hereafter arising and whether written or oral, are hereby limited so that in no contingency, whether by reason of acceleration of the maturity of any of the Obligations or otherwise, shall the interest contracted for, charged or received by the Banks exceed the maximum amount permissible under applicable law.  If, from any circumstance whatsoever, interest would otherwise be payable to the Banks in excess of the maximum lawful amount, the interest payable to the Banks shall be reduced to the maximum amount permitted under applicable law; and if from any circumstance the Banks shall ever receive anything of value deemed interest by applicable law in excess of the maximum lawful amount, an amount equal to any excessive interest shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of the Obligations of the undersigned Borrower and to the payment of interest or, if such excessive interest exceeds the unpaid balance of principal of the Obligations of the undersigned Borrower, such excess shall be refunded to the undersigned Borrower.  All interest paid or agreed to be paid to the Banks shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be amortized, prorated, allocated and spread throughout the full period until payment in full of the principal of the Obligations of the undersigned Borrower (including the period of any renewal or extension thereof) so that the interest thereon for such full period shall not exceed the maximum amount permitted by applicable law.  This paragraph shall control all agreements between the undersigned Borrower and the Banks and the Agent.
 
 
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In case an Event of Default shall occur, the entire principal amount of this Note may become or be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in said Loan Agreement.  In addition to and not in limitation of the foregoing and the provisions of the Loan Agreement hereinabove defined, the undersigned further agrees, subject only to any limitation imposed by applicable law, to pay all expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and legal expenses, incurred by the holder of this Note in endeavoring to collect any amounts payable hereunder which are not paid when due, whether by acceleration or otherwise.
 
This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan (without giving effect to the conflict of laws rules of any jurisdiction).
 
The undersigned maker and all guarantors and endorsers, hereby waive presentment, demand, notice, protest, notice of intention to accelerate the indebtedness evidenced hereby, notice of acceleration of the indebtedness evidenced hereby and all other demands and notices in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance and enforcement of this Note, except as specifically otherwise provided in the Loan Agreement, and assent to extensions of time of payment or forbearance or other indulgence without notice.
 
Recourse to the general partner of the Borrower shall be limited as provided in §32 of the Loan Agreement.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned has by its duly authorized officers, executed this Note under seal as of the day and year first above written.
 
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P. ,
 
a Delaware limited partnership
   
 
By:
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a
   
Maryland real estate investment trust, its
   
General Partner
     
     
   
By:                                                                                                      
     
   
Title:                                                                                              
 
 
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EXHIBIT D
 
FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT
 
THIS JOINDER AGREEMENT (“Joinder Agreement”) is executed as of __________________, 20__, by _______________________________, a __________________________ (“Joining Party”), and delivered to KeyBank National Association, as Agent, pursuant to §5.2 of the Unsecured Term Agreement dated as of September 30, 2011, as from time to time in effect (the “Credit Agreement”), among Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. (the “Borrower”), Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (the “Trust”), KeyBank National Association, for itself and as Agent, and the other Banks from time to time party thereto.  Terms used but not defined in this Joinder Agreement shall have the meanings defined for those terms in the Credit Agreement.
 
RECITALS
 
A.           Joining Party is required, pursuant to §5.2   of the Credit Agreement, to become an additional Subsidiary Guarantor under the Guaranty and the Contribution Agreement.
 
B.           Joining Party expects to realize direct and indirect benefits as a result of the availability to Borrower of the credit facilities under the Credit Agreement.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, Joining Party agrees as follows:
 
AGREEMENT
 
1.            Joinder .  By this Joinder Agreement, Joining Party hereby becomes a “Subsidiary Guarantor” and a “Guarantor” under the Credit Agreement, the Guaranty and the other Loan Documents with respect to all the Obligations of Borrower now or hereafter incurred under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and a “Subsidiary Guarantor” under the Contribution Agreement.  Joining Party agrees that Joining Party is and shall be bound by, and hereby assumes, all representations, warranties, covenants, terms, conditions, duties and waivers applicable to a Subsidiary Guarantor and a Guarantor under the Credit Agreement, the Guaranty, the other Loan Documents and the Contribution Agreement.
 
2.            Representations and Warranties of Joining Party .  Joining Party represents and warrants to Agent that, as of the Effective Date (as defined below), except as disclosed in writing by Joining Party to Agent on or prior to the date hereof and approved by the Agent in writing (which disclosures shall be deemed to amend the Schedules and other disclosures delivered as contemplated in the Credit Agreement), the representations and warranties contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects as applied to Joining Party as a Subsidiary Guarantor and a Guarantor on and as of the Effective Date as though made on that date.  As of the Effective Date, all covenants and agreements in the Loan Documents and the Contribution Agreement of the Subsidiary Guarantors are true and correct with respect to Joining Party and no Default or Event of Default shall exist or might exist upon the Effective Date in the event that Joining Party becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor.
 
 
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3.            Joint and Several .  Joining Party hereby agrees that, as of the Effective Date, the Guaranty and the Contribution Agreement heretofore delivered to the Agent and the Banks shall be a joint and several obligation of Joining Party to the same extent as if executed and delivered by Joining Party, and upon request by Agent, will promptly become a party to the Guaranty and the Contribution Agreement to confirm such obligation.
 
4.            Further Assurances .  Joining Party agrees to execute and deliver such other instruments and documents and take such other action, as the Agent may reasonably request, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Joinder Agreement.
 
5.            GOVERNING LAW .  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION UNDER, AND SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN (WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES OF ANY JURISDICTION).
 
6.            Counterparts .  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts which shall together constitute but one and the same agreement.
 
7.           The effective date (the “Effective Date”) of this Joinder Agreement is _________________, 20__.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Joining Party has executed this Joinder Agreement under seal as of the day and year first above written.
 
 
 
“JOINING PARTY”
   
                                                                                                        ,
                                                                                     
   
  By:                                                                                                 
  Name:                                                                                            
  Title:                                                                                              
 
ACKNOWLEDGED:
 
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Agent
 
By:                                                                   
 
Its:                                                                   
 
[Printed Name and Title]
 
 
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EXHIBIT F
 
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EXHIBIT G
 
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EXHIBIT H
 
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EXHIBIT I
 
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
 
KeyBank National Association, as Agent
1200 Abernathy Road, N.E.
Suite 1550
Atlanta, Georgia  30328
Attn:  Mr. Daniel L. Silbert
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
Reference is made to the Unsecured Term Loan Agreement dated as of September 30, 2011 (the “Loan Agreement”) by and among Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. (the “Borrower”), Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (the “Trust”), KeyBank National Association, for itself and as Agent, and the other Banks from time to time party thereto.  Terms defined in the Loan Agreement and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Loan Agreement.
 
Pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Borrower is furnishing to you herewith (or have most recently furnished to you) the financial statements of the Borrower, the Trust and their respective Subsidiaries for the fiscal period ended _____________________ (the “Balance Sheet Date”).  Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and present fairly the financial position of the Borrower, the Trust and the Subsidiaries covered thereby at the date thereof and the results of their operations for the periods covered thereby, subject in the case of interim statements only to normal year-end audit adjustments.
 
This certificate is submitted in compliance with requirements of §7.4(e) or §10.11 of the Loan Agreement or such other provision of the Loan Agreement requiring the delivery of a Compliance Certificate.  If this certificate is provided under a provision other than §7.4(e), the calculations provided below are made using the financial statements of the Borrower, the Trust and their respective Subsidiaries as of the Balance Sheet Date adjusted in the best good-faith estimate of the Borrower and the Trust to give effect to the making of a Loan, acquisition or disposition of property or other event that occasions the preparation of this certificate; and the nature of such event and the Borrower’s and the Guarantor’s estimate of its effects are set forth in reasonable detail in an attachment hereto.  The undersigned officer is the chief financial or chief accounting officer of the Trust and of the general partner of the Borrower.
 
The undersigned officers have caused the provisions of the Loan Documents to be reviewed and have no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default.  [Note: If the signers do have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default, the form of certificate should be revised to specify the Default or Event of Default, the nature thereof and the actions taken, being taken or proposed to be taken by the Borrower and the Trust with respect thereto.]
 
The Borrower and the Trust are attaching hereto the Borrowing Base Property Certificate and supporting information.
 
 
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The Borrower and the Trust are providing the attached information to demonstrate compliance as of the date hereof with the covenants described in the attachment hereto.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hand this ____ day of _____________, 201__.
 
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P.
     
 
By:
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, its
General Partner
     
   
By:                                                                                                 
     
   
Title:                                                                                              
   
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST
     
 
By:                                                                                                               
     
 
Title:                                                                                                            
 
 
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APPENDIX A
TO
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
[TO BE ATTACHED]
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EXHIBIT J
 
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE AGREEMENT
 
THIS ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated _____________, _____, by and between _________________________________ (“Assignor”), and ____________________________ (“Assignee”).
 
W I T N E S E T H :
 
WHEREAS , Assignor is a party to that certain Unsecured Term Loan Agreement dated as of September 30, 2011, by and among Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Borrower”), Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (the “Trust”), KeyBank National Association, the other Banks that are or may become a party thereto, and KeyBank National Association, as Agent (the “Loan Agreement”); and
 
WHEREAS , Assignor desires to transfer to Assignee a Term Loan   Commitment under the Loan Agreement and its rights with respect to the Commitment assigned and its Outstanding Loans with respect thereto;
 
NOW, THEREFORE , for and in consideration of the sum of Ten and No/100 Dollars ($10.00) and other good and valuable considerations, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Assignor and Assignee hereby agree as follows:
 
1.            Definitions .  Terms defined in the Loan Agreement and used herein without definition shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Loan Agreement.
 
2.            Assignment .
 
(a)           Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in consideration of the payment to be made by Assignee to Assignor pursuant to Paragraph 5 of this Agreement, effective as of the “Assignment Date” (as defined in Paragraph 7 below), Assignor hereby irrevocably sells, transfers and assigns to Assignee, without recourse, a $_______________ Term Loan   Commitment, and a corresponding interest in and to all of the other rights and obligations under the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents (the assigned interests being hereinafter referred to as the “Assigned Interests”), including Assignor’s share of all outstanding Term Loans with respect to the Assigned Interests and the right to receive interest and principal on and all other fees and amounts with respect to the Assigned Interests, all from and after the Assignment Date, all as if Assignee were an original Bank under and signatory to the Loan Agreement having a Commitment Percentage equal to the amount of the respective Assigned Interests.
 
(b)           Assignee, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, hereby assumes all obligations of Assignor with respect to the Assigned Interests from and after the Assignment Date as if Assignee were an original Bank under and signatory to the Loan Agreement, which obligations shall include, but shall not be limited to, the obligation to make Term Loans to the Borrower with respect to the Assigned Interests and to indemnify the Agent as provided therein (such obligations, together with all other obligations set forth in the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Assigned Obligations”).  Assignor shall have no further duties or obligations with respect to, and shall have no further interest in, the Assigned Obligations or the Assigned Interests.
 
 
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3.            Representations and Requests of Assignor .
 
(a)           Assignor represents and warrants to Assignee (i) that it is legally authorized to, and has full power and authority to, enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations under this Agreement; (ii) that as of the date hereof, before giving effect to the assignment contemplated hereby the amount of Assignor’s Term Loan Commitment is $____________ and the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Term   Loans made by it equals $____________, and (iii) that it has forwarded to the Agent the Term Loan   Note held by Assignor, if any.  Assignor makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Loan Documents or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness or sufficiency of any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto or in connection with the Loan, the collectability of the Loans, the continued solvency of the Borrower or the Guarantors or the continued existence, sufficiency or value of any assets of the Borrower or the Guarantors which may be realized upon for the repayment of the Loans, or the performance or observance by the Borrower or the Guarantors of any of their respective obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party or any other instrument or document delivered or executed pursuant thereto or in connection with the Loan; other than that it is the legal and beneficial owner of, or has the right to assign, the interests being assigned by it hereunder and that such interests are free and clear of any adverse claim.
 
(b)           If the applicable box is checked below, Assignor requests that the Agent obtain replacement notes for each of Assignor and Assignee as provided in the Loan Agreement.
 
o   Replacement Note Requested for Assignor
 
o   Replacement Note Requested for Assignee
 
4.            Representations of Assignee .  Assignee makes and confirms to the Agent, Assignor and the other Banks all of the representations, warranties and covenants of a Bank under Articles 14 and 18 of the Loan Agreement.  Without limiting the foregoing, Assignee (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to, and has full power and authority to, enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations under this Agreement; (b) confirms that it has received copies of such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement; (c) agrees that it has and will, independently and without reliance upon Assignor, any other Bank, the Agent or any Titled Agent and based upon such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in evaluating the Loans, the Loan Documents, the creditworthiness of the Borrower and the Guarantors and the value of any assets of the Borrower and the Guarantors, and taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents; (d) appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents; (e) agrees that, by this Assignment, Assignee has become a party to and will perform in accordance with their terms all the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Bank; (f) represents and warrants that Assignee is not a Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with, or which is not otherwise free from influence or control by, any of the Borrower or the Guarantors; and (g) agrees that if Assignee is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any State, it has on or prior to the date hereof delivered to Borrower and Agent certification as to its exemption or non-exemption from deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes.
 
 
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5.            Payments to Assignor .  In consideration of the assignment made pursuant to Paragraph 1 of this Agreement, Assignee agrees to pay to Assignor on the Assignment Date, an amount pursuant to their separate agreement representing the aggregate principal amount outstanding of the Term   Loans owing to Assignor under the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents with respect to the Assigned Interests.
 
6.            Payments by Assignor . Assignor agrees to pay the Agent on the Assignment Date the registration fee required by §18.2 of the Loan Agreement.
 
7.            Effectiveness .
 
(a)           The effective date for this Agreement shall be _______________ (the “Assignment Date”).  Following the execution of this Agreement, each party hereto shall deliver its duly executed counterpart hereof to the Agent for acceptance and recording in the Register by the Agent.
 
(b)           Upon such acceptance and recording and from and after the Assignment Date, (i) Assignee shall be a party to the Loan Agreement and, to the extent of the Assigned Interests, have the rights and obligations of a Bank thereunder, and (ii) Assignor shall, with respect to the Assigned Interests, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Loan Agreement.
 
(c)           Upon such acceptance and recording and from and after the Assignment Date, the Agent shall make all payments in respect of the rights and interests assigned hereby accruing after the Assignment Date (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to Assignee.
 
(d)           All outstanding LIBOR Rate Loans shall continue in effect for the remainder of their applicable Interest Periods and Assignee shall accept the currently effective interest rates on its Assigned Interest of each LIBOR Rate Loan.
 
8.            Notices .  Assignee specifies as its address for notices and its Lending Office for all assigned Loans, the offices set forth below:
 
Notice Address:
_____________________
 
_____________________
 
_____________________
 
_____________________
 
Attn:_________________
 
Facsimile: ____________
   
Domestic Lending Office:
Same as above
   
LIBOR Lending Office:
Same as above
 
 
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9.            Payment Instructions .  All payments to Assignee under the Loan Agreement shall be made as provided in the Loan Agreement in accordance with the following instructions:
 
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________
 
10.            Governing Law .  THIS AGREEMENT IS INTENDED TO TAKE EFFECT AS A SEALED INSTRUMENT FOR ALL PURPOSES AND TO BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN (WITHOUT REFERENCE TO CONFLICT OF LAWS).
 
11.            Counterparts .  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts which shall together constitute but one and the same agreement.
 
12.            Amendments .  This Agreement may not be amended, modified or terminated except by an agreement in writing signed by Assignor and Assignee, and consented to by Agent.
 
13.            Successors .  This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns as permitted by the terms of Loan Agreement.
 
[signatures on following page]
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending to be legally bound, each of the undersigned has caused this Agreement to be executed on its behalf by its officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.
 
 
ASSIGNEE:
   
   
 
By:                                                                                                     
 
Title:                                                                                                  
   
   
 
ASSIGNOR:
   
   
 
By:                                                                                                     
 
Title:                                                                                                  
 
 
RECEIPT ACKNOWLEDGED AND
ASSIGNMENT CONSENTED TO BY:
 
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Agent
 
By:                                                         
Title:                                                      
 
 
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ASSIGNMENT APPROVED BY :
 
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P. ,
a Delaware limited partnership
 
By:
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a
 
Maryland real estate investment trust, its
 
General Partner
   
 
By:                                                                          
 
Name:                                                                     
 
Title:                                                                       
 
 
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SCHEDULE 1.1
 
BANKS AND COMMITMENTS
 
TERM LOAN
 
 
 
Term Loan
Commitment
 
Term Loan
Commitment
Percentage
KeyBank National Association
1200 Abernathy Road, N.E., Suite 1550
Atlanta, Georgia  30328
Attention:  Nathan Weyer
 
LIBOR Lending Office
Same as above
 
$25,000,000.00
41.667%
The Huntington National Bank
917 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44114
Attention:  Michael Kauffman
 
LIBOR Lending Office
Same as above
 
$25,000,000.00
41.667%
PNC Bank, National Association
755 West Big Beaver, Suite 2400
Troy, Michigan  48084
Attention:  David Drouillard
 
LIBOR Lending Office
Same as above
 
$10,000,000.00
16.666%
Total
 
$60,000,000.00
100%
 
 
SCHEDULE 1.1 - PAGE 7

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.5

MARKETED PROPERTIES
 



1.           Southfield Plaza.
2.           Fraser Center.
3.           Office Max at Toledo.
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.5 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.6

TRADEMARKS; TRADENAMES
 


None.
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.6 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.7
 
LITIGATION
 

 
1.           Matters covered by insurance policies, except for applicable deductibles.
 
2.           Landlord/Tenant and employment claims in the ordinary course of business.
 
3.           Matters disclosed in the Form 10-K filed with the SEC.
 
4.           Alleged ADA violations at the Bagel Joint at Sunshine Plaza; Access for the Disabled, Inc., Robert Cohen, and Patricia Kennedy v. Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. US District Court Southern District of Florida Case No. 05-61246-CIV-LENARD.
 
5.           Ramco Hartland LLC, Ramco RM Hartland SC LLC, and Ramco RM Hartland Disposition LLC (“Ramco”) are the plaintiffs/counter-defendants in Case No. 08-093556-CK, pending in Michigan Supreme Court.  Landmark/Mansour Development LLC is a defendant and Hani Mansour is a defendant/counter-plaintiff in the case.  The parties had entered an agreement to develop certain property in Hartland Township together through LLCs they agreed to form.  Defendants made demand for a capital account in one of the LLCs and refused to execute the proposed operating agreements unless they were given a capital account.  Ramco has asserted that the Defendants were not entitled to a capital account under the terms of their agreements.  When Defendants failed to execute the operating agreements, Ramco sued them in August 2008 on theories of breach of contract, promissory estoppel and declaratory judgment.  Hani Mansour brought a counterclaim against Ramco for breach of contract, declaratory judgment, and fraud/misrepresentation, demanding $1 million plus other unspecified damages.  Each party moved for summary disposition; the court granted all motions, and all sides have now appealed.  The appeal has been determined.  The appellate court let the lower court decision stand.  A motion for reconsideration was denied.  The parties appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court.
 
 
SCHEUDLE 6.7 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.15
 
AFFILIATE TRANSACTIONS
 
1996 Share Option Plan of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
 
Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreements dated May 10, 1996, September 16, 1998 and March 8, 2000, along with related Election and Option Deferral Agreements and Notices of Option Exercises between Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (the “Trust”) and each of the following:
 
Dennis Gershenson
Michael A. Ward
 
Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreements dated June 10, 1997, June 10, 1998, June 9, 1999, and June 7, 2000, June 13, 2001, June 6, 2002, June 12, 2003, June 10, 2004, June 7, 2005, June 14, 2006 and June 5, 2007 between Trust and the Board of Trustees
 
Noncompetition Agreements dated May 10, 1996, between the Trust and Dennis Gershenson
 
Registration Rights Agreements dated May 10, 1996, among Trust and the Ramco Principals
 
Tax Agreement dated May 10, 1996, between Atlantic and RPS
 
Exchange Rights Agreement dated May 10, 1996, between Operating Partnership and the Ramco Principals
 
Assignment, Assumption and Indemnification Agreement relating to Atlantic dated May 10, 1996, between RPS and Atlantic
 
The 1997 Non-employee Trustee Stock Option Plan
 
Management Services and Reimbursement Agreement dated May 10, 1996 between Ramco-Gershenson, Inc. and Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P.
 
Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. (Operating Partnership”) as amended which lists the following persons as holding a partnership interest directly or by entities controlled by them:
 
Dennis Gershenson
Michael A. Ward
 
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust purchased Directors” and Officers” liability insurance from Aon Risk Services, Inc. of New York, an insurance brokerage firm (“Aon”).  In connection with such insurance purchase, Aon received brokerage commission.  Mr. Robert A. Meister, who is a member of the Trust’s Board of Trustees, is Vice Chairman of Aon Risk Services & Co., an affiliate of Aon.  In addition, Mr. Alan Mann, who is Senior Vice President of Aon, is the son-in-law of Mr. Arthur H. Goldberg, who is also a member of the Trust’s Board of Trustees.
 
2003 Long-Term Incentive Plan of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.15 - PAGE 1

 
 
2003 Non-Employee Trustee Stock Option Plan of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
 
Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreements dated March 3, 2004 between Trust and each of the following:  Dennis Gershenson
 
Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreements dated April 1, 2005 between Trust and each of the following:  Dennis Gershenson
 
Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreements dated February 28, 2006 between Trust and each of the following:  Dennis Gershenson
 
Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreements dated March 8, 2007 between Trust and each of the following:  Dennis Gershenson
 
2008 Restricted Share Plan for non-employee Trustees
 
Restricted Stock Award Agreement under 2003 Long-Term Incentive Plan dated March 8, 2007, March 3, 2008, April 4, 2008 and March 4, 2009 and related agreements between Trust and Dennis Gershenson
 
Restricted Stock Award Agreement under 2008 Restricted Share Plan for non employees dated June 30, 2008 and June 30, 2009 and related agreements between Trust and each of the non employee Trustees
 
Change in Control Policy dated July 10, 2007 between Trust and Officers of the Trust, as amended on March 1, 2010
 
Employment Agreement dated August 1, 2007 between Trust and Dennis Gershenson
 
2009 Omnibus Long-Term Incentive Plan
 
Employment Agreement dated February 16, 2010 between Trust and Gregory R. Andrews
 
Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated February 16, 2010 between Trust and Gregory R. Andrews
 
Restricted Stock Award Agreements made in 2010 to the non-employee Trustees of the Trust under the 2008 Restricted Share Plan for non-employee Trustees
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.15 - PAGE 2

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.18
 
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
 
[SEE ATTACHED]
 
 
 

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.18 - PAGE 1

 

SCHEDULE 6.19
 
SUBSIDIARIES AND UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES OF THE BORROWER
 
[SEE ATTACHED]
 

 
 
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.19 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.21
 
MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS; OPTIONS
 
 
1.            Management Services and Reimbursement Agreement dated May 10, 1996 between Ramco-Gershenson, Inc. and Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P.
 
2.           The following options / rights of first refusal:
 
A.           Wal-Mart at Roseville Towne Center has a right of first refusal.
 
B.           Wendy's at The Auburn Mile has an option to acquire its parcel as of 1/1/11.
 
C.            Ruby Tuesday at Taylors Square has an option to purchase its parcel at the expiration of the 10 th Lease Year.
 
D.            Target at Gaines Marketplace has an option to purchase its parcel by the month of October 2014.
 
E.            Meier at Gaines has an option to purchase its parcel at anytime during the 12 months proceeding June 30, 2014.
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.21 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.23
 
EXISTING DEFAULTS
 
 
West Acres:  Loan dated March 31, 2001 from Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in the original principal amount of $9,500,000
 
Madison Shopping Center:  Loan dated April 23, 2001 from LaSalle Bank in the original principal amount of $10,340,000
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.23 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.29
 
PROPERTY OF GUARANTOR
 
The assets of the Guarantor, Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust are comprised solely of the following:
 
Attachable Assets
 
Cash and Short-term Investments in an amount in excess of $500,000.00.
 
Accounts receivable, including Distributions received from Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. that have not been distributed to the shareholders of the Trust as permitted by this Agreement.
 
Rights and claims (including amounts paid under) the Tax Indemnity Agreement.
 
Investments in Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P.
 
All Net Offering Proceeds that have not been contributed to Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P.
 
Other Permitted Assets
 
Prepaid expenses, including capitalized legal fees
 
Cash and Short-term Investments in an amount not to exceed $500,000.00.
 
Investments in the following subsidiaries:
 
Ramco SPC, Inc. (Related to Ramco Properties Associates Limited Partnership)
 
Ramco SPC II, Inc. (Related to Ramco Virginia Properties LLC (Aquia))
 
 
SCHEDULE 6.29 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.31
 
UNENCUMBERED BORROWING BASE PROPERTIES
 
[SEE ATTACHED]
 
 
 

 
 
SCHEDULE 6.31 - PAGE 1

 
 
SCHEDULE 8.9
 
EXISTING UNDEVELOPED LAND PROJECTS
 
 
1.            Hartland Towne Square, Hartland Township, Michigan
 
2.            Stonegate, Kingsport, Tennessee
 
3.           Vacant land adjacent to Holcomb Center, Roswell, Georgia
 
 
 
SCHEDULE 8.9 - PAGE 1

 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
   
Page
     
§1.
DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF INTERPRETATION
1
 
§1.1.
Definitions
1
 
§1.2.
Rules of Interpretation
20
§2.
THE CREDIT FACILITY
21
 
§2.1.
Intentionally Deleted
21
 
§2.2.
Commitment to Lend Term Loan
21
 
§2.3.
Intentionally Deleted
21
 
§2.4.
Interest on Loans
21
 
§2.5.
Intentionally Deleted
22
 
§2.6.
Funds for Loans
22
 
§2.7.
Intentionally Deleted
23
 
§2.8.
Increase of Term Loan Commitment
23
 
§2.9.
Intentionally Deleted
24
 
§2.10.
Intentionally Deleted
24
 
§2.11.
Evidence of Debt
24
§3.
REPAYMENT OF THE LOANS
25
 
§3.1.
Stated Maturity
25
 
§3.2.
Mandatory Prepayments
25
 
§3.3.
Optional Prepayments
25
 
§3.4.
Partial Prepayments
26
 
§3.5.
Effect of Prepayments
26
§4.
CERTAIN GENERAL PROVISIONS
26
 
§4.1.
Conversion Options
26
 
§4.2.
Commitment and Syndication Fee
27
 
§4.3.
Agent’s Fee
27
 
§4.4.
Funds for Payments
27
 
§4.5.
Computations
28
 
§4.6.
Suspension of LIBOR Rate Loans
28
 
§4.7.
Illegality
28
 
§4.8.
Additional Interest
29
 
§4.9.
Additional Costs, Etc
29
 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
 
      Page
       
 
§4.10.
Capital Adequacy
30
 
§4.11.
Indemnity of Borrower
30
 
§4.12.
Interest on Overdue Amounts; Late Charge
31
 
§4.13.
Certificate
31
 
§4.14.
Limitation on Interest
31
 
§4.15.
Intentionally Deleted
31
 
§4.16.
Intentionally Deleted
32
§5.
UNSECURED OBLIGATIONS; GUARANTY
32
 
§5.1.
Unsecured Obligations
32
 
§5.2.
New Guarantors
32
§6.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER
33
 
§6.1.
Corporate Authority, Etc
33
 
§6.2.
Governmental Approvals
34
 
§6.3.
Title to Properties; Lease
34
 
§6.4.
Financial Statements
34
 
§6.5.
No Material Changes
34
 
§6.6.
Franchises, Patents, Copyrights, Etc
35
 
§6.7.
Litigation
35
 
§6.8.
No Materially Adverse Contracts, Etc
35
 
§6.9.
Compliance with Other Instruments, Laws, Etc
35
 
§6.10.
Tax Status
35
 
§6.11.
No Event of Default
36
 
§6.12.
Investment Company Acts
36
 
§6.13.
Absence of UCC Financing Statements, Etc
36
 
§6.14.
Intentionally Deleted
36
 
§6.15.
Certain Transactions
36
 
§6.16.
Employee Benefit Plans
36
 
§6.17.
Regulations T, U and X
37
 
§6.18.
Environmental Compliance
37
 
§6.19.
Subsidiaries and Unconsolidated Affiliates
38
 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
 
      Page
       
 
§6.20.
Loan Documents
38
 
§6.21.
Property
39
 
§6.22.
Brokers
39
 
§6.23.
Other Debt
39
 
§6.24.
Solvency
39
 
§6.25.
Contribution Agreement
40
 
§6.26.
No Fraudulent Intent
40
 
§6.27.
Transaction in Best Interests of Borrower; Consideration
40
 
§6.28.
Partners and the Trust
40
 
§6.29.
Tax Indemnity Agreement
40
 
§6.30.
Embargoed Persons
40
 
§6.31.
Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties
41
§7.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER
41
 
§7.1.
Punctual Payment
41
 
§7.2.
Maintenance of Office
41
 
§7.3.
Records and Accounts
41
 
§7.4.
Financial Statements, Certificates and Information
41
 
§7.5.
Notices
44
 
§7.6.
Existence; Maintenance of Properties
45
 
§7.7.
Insurance
45
 
§7.8.
Taxes
46
 
§7.9.
Inspection of Properties and Books
46
 
§7.10.
Compliance with Laws, Contracts, Licenses, and Permits
46
 
§7.11.
Use of Proceeds
47
 
§7.12.
Further Assurances
47
 
§7.13.
Compliance
47
 
§7.14.
Limiting Agreements
47
 
§7.15.
Ownership of Real Estate
48
 
§7.16.
More Restrictive Agreements
48
 
§7.17.
Trust Restrictions
48
 
§7.18.
Interest Rate Contract(s)
48
 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
 
      Page
       
 
§7.19.
Unencumbered Borrowing Base Properties
49
§8.
CERTAIN NEGATIVE COVENANTS OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER
52
 
§8.1.
Restrictions on Indebtedness
52
 
§8.2.
Restrictions on Liens Etc
54
 
§8.3.
Restrictions on Investments
55
 
§8.4.
Merger, Consolidation
57
 
§8.5.
Conduct of Business
57
 
§8.6.
Compliance with Environmental Laws
57
 
§8.7.
Distributions
59
 
§8.8.
Asset Sales
59
 
§8.9.
Development Activity
60
 
§8.10.
Intentionally Deleted
61
 
§8.11.
Trust Preferred Equity and Subordinated Debt
61
§9.
FINANCIAL COVENANTS OF THE TRUST AND THE BORROWER
61
 
§9.1.
Liabilities to Assets Ratio
61
 
§9.2.
Fixed Charges Coverage
61
 
§9.3.
Consolidated Tangible Net Worth
61
 
§9.4.
Secured Indebtedness
62
 
§9.5.
Borrowing Base Test
62
§10.
CLOSING CONDITIONS
62
 
§10.1.
Loan Documents
62
 
§10.2.
Certified Copies of Organizational Documents
62
 
§10.3.
Resolutions
62
 
§10.4.
Incumbency Certificate; Authorized Signers
62
 
§10.5.
Opinion of Counsel
63
 
§10.6.
Payment of Fees
63
 
§10.7.
Performance; No Default
63
 
§10.8.
Representations and Warranties
63
 
§10.9.
Proceedings and Documents
63
 
§10.10.
Stockholder and Partner Consents
63
 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
 
      Page
       
 
§10.11.
Compliance Certificate
63
 
§10.12.
Contribution Agreement
63
 
§10.13.
No Legal Impediment
63
 
§10.14.
Governmental Regulation
64
 
§10.15.
Intentionally Deleted
64
 
§10.16.
Other
64
§11.
CONDITIONS TO ALL BORROWINGS
64
 
§11.1.
Prior Conditions Satisfied
64
 
§11.2.
Representations True; No Default
64
 
§11.3.
Intentionally Deleted
64
§12.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT; ACCELERATION; ETC
64
 
§12.1.
Events of Default and Acceleration
64
 
§12.2.
Limitation of Cure Periods
68
 
§12.3.
Intentionally Deleted
68
 
§12.4.
Remedies
68
 
§12.5.
Distribution of Proceeds
68
§13.
SETOFF
69
§14.
THE AGENT
69
 
§14.1.
Authorization
69
 
§14.2.
Employees and Agents
70
 
§14.3.
No Liability
70
 
§14.4.
No Representations
70
 
§14.5.
Payments
71
 
§14.6.
Holders of Notes
72
 
§14.7.
Indemnity
72
 
§14.8.
Agent as Bank
73
 
§14.9.
Resignation
73
 
§14.10.
Duties in the Case of Enforcement
73
 
§14.11.
Bankruptcy
73
 
§14.12.
Approvals
74
 
§14.13.
Borrower not Beneficiary
74
 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
 
    Page
     
§15.
EXPENSES
74
§16.
INDEMNIFICATION
75
§17.
SURVIVAL OF COVENANTS, ETC
76
§18.
ASSIGNMENT AND PARTICIPATION
76
 
§18.1.
Conditions to Assignment by Banks
76
 
§18.2.
Register
77
 
§18.3.
New Notes
77
 
§18.4.
Participations
78
 
§18.5.
Pledge by Bank
78
 
§18.6.
No Assignment by Borrower or the Trust
78
 
§18.7.
Disclosure
78
 
§18.8.
Amendments to Loan Documents
78
 
§18.9.
Mandatory Assignment
78
 
§18.10.
Titled Agents
79
§19.
NOTICES
79
§20.
RELATIONSHIP
81
§21.
GOVERNING LAW: CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE
81
§22.
HEADINGS
81
§23.
COUNTERPARTS
81
§24.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT, ETC
81
§25.
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL AND CERTAIN DAMAGE CLAIMS
82
§26.
DEALINGS WITH THE BORROWER OR THE GUARANTORS
82
§27.
CONSENTS, AMENDMENTS, WAIVERS, ETC
82
§28.
SEVERABILITY
83
§29.
TIME OF THE ESSENCE
83
§30.
NO UNWRITTEN AGREEMENTS
83
§31.
REPLACEMENT OF NOTES
83
§32.
TRUST EXCULPATION
84
§33.
PATRIOT ACT
84
 
 
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EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
 
EXHIBIT A
INTENTIONALLY DELETED
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF TERM LOAN NOTE
EXHIBIT C
INTENTIONALLY DELETED
EXHIBIT D
FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT E
INTENTIONALLY DELETED
EXHIBIT F
INTENTIONALLY DELETED
EXHIBIT G
INTENTIONALLY DELETED
EXHIBIT H
INTENTIONALLY DELETED
EXHIBIT I
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
EXHIBIT J
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE AGREEMENT
SCHEDULE 1.1
BANKS AND COMMITMENTS
SCHEDULE 6.5
MARKETED PROPERTIES
SCHEDULE 6.6
TRADEMARKS; TRADENAMES
SCHEDULE 6.7
LITIGATION
SCHEDULE 6.15
AFFILIATE TRANSACTIONS
SCHEDULE 6.18
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
SCHEDULE 6.19
SUBSIDIARIES AND UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES OF THE BORROWER
SCHEDULE 6.21
MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS; OPTIONS
SCHEDULE 6.23
EXISTING DEFAULTS
SCHEDULE 6.29
PROPERTY OF GUARANTOR
SCHEDULE 6.31
UNENCUMBERED BORROWING BASE PROPERTIES
SCHEDULE 8.9
EXISTING UNDEVELOPED LAND PROJECTS
 
 
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Exhibit 10.2
 
UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTY OF PAYMENT AND PERFORMANCE
 
THIS UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTY OF PAYMENT AND PERFORMANCE (this “Guaranty”) is made as of this 30th day of September, 2011, by RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST , a Maryland real estate investment trust, having its principal place of business and chief executive office at 31500 Northwestern Highway, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, Michigan  48334 (“Trust”), and the other Persons, if any, now or hereafter a party hereto as a Subsidiary Guarantor (the Trust and such other Subsidiary Guarantors are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Guarantors”), in favor of KeyBank National Association, a national bank organized under the laws of the United States of America, its successors and assigns, for itself (“KeyBank”) and in its capacity as agent (the “Agent”) for certain other lenders that may now be or may hereafter become a party to the “Loan Agreement” (as such term is defined below), having an office at 1200 Abernathy Road, Suite 1550, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, Attn: Dan Silbert.  KeyBank (except when acting as the Agent) and each other lending institution which may now be or may hereafter become a party to the Loan Agreement, shall be referred to collectively herein as the “Banks.”
 
WHEREAS, Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Debtor”), the Trust, KeyBank, the Agent, and the Banks are parties to that certain Unsecured Term Loan Agreement dated of even date herewith (as the same may be modified, amended, increased, renewed or restated, the “Loan Agreement”), pursuant to which the Debtor is liable for the “Obligations” (as such term is defined in the Loan Agreement), including without limitation, loans and other financial accommodations from the Banks (including the Agent in its capacity as a Bank thereunder) in the aggregate principal amount of up to $60,000,000.00 (as the Total Commitment and the Obligations may be increased to $150,000,000.00 as provided in the Loan Agreement) (all Obligations, as the same may be increased pursuant to the Loan Agreement, being hereinafter referred to as the “Indebtedness”); and
 
WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Loan Agreement that this Guaranty be executed and delivered by the Guarantors in favor of the Agent; and
 
WHEREAS, the Trust is the sole general partner of and the owner of at least a 90% of the ownership interests in Debtor, and the Debtor is the owner of all of the ownership interests in each other Guarantor; and
 
WHEREAS, the Debtor and the Subsidiary Guarantors are mutually dependent upon each other in the conduct of their business as an integrated operation and each of the Guarantors will derive substantial benefit and advantage from the financial accommodations to the Debtor set forth in the Loan Agreement including the loans and advances made to the Debtor thereunder, and it will be to the Guarantors’ direct interest and economic benefit to assist the Debtor in procuring said financial accommodations from the Banks by executing and delivering this Guaranty;
 
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and in order to induce the Agent and the Banks to enter into the Loan Agreement and the Banks to make loans and provide other financial accommodations thereunder, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Guarantors hereby agree as follows (unless otherwise defined herein all capitalized terms used herein shall have their meanings as set forth in the Loan Agreement):
 
 
 

 
 
1.            Guaranty of Payment .
 
(a)           The Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally guarantee the full and prompt payment to the Banks and the Agent, on behalf of the Banks, when due, upon demand, at maturity or by reason of acceleration or otherwise and at all times thereafter, of any and all of the Indebtedness.
 
(b)           The Guarantors acknowledge that valuable consideration supports this Guaranty, including, without limitation, the consideration set forth in the recitals above as well as any commitment to lend, extension of credit or other financial accommodation, whether heretofore or hereafter made by the Banks to the Debtor; any extension, renewal, increase or replacement of any of the Indebtedness; any forbearance with respect to any of the Indebtedness or otherwise; any cancellation of an existing guaranty; any purchase of any of the Debtor’s assets by the Banks; or any other valuable consideration.
 
(c)           The Guarantors agree that all payments under this Guaranty shall be made in United States currency and the same manner as provided for the Indebtedness.
 
2.            The Banks’ Costs and Expenses .
 
The Guarantors jointly and severally agree to pay on demand, if not paid by the Debtor, all reasonable costs and expenses of every kind incurred by the Agent or the Banks: (a) in enforcing this Guaranty, (b) in collecting any of the Indebtedness from the Debtor or Guarantors, (c) in realizing upon or protecting any collateral for this Guaranty or for payment of any of the Indebtedness, and (d) for any other purpose related to the Indebtedness or this Guaranty.  “Costs and expenses” as used in the preceding sentence shall include, without limitation, the actual reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by the Agent or any Bank in retaining counsel for advice, suit, appeal, any insolvency or other proceedings under the United States Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, or for any purpose specified in the preceding sentence.
 
3.            Nature of Guaranty: Continuing, Absolute and Unconditional .
 
(a)           This Guaranty is and is intended to be a continuing guaranty of payment of the Indebtedness, independent of and in addition to any other guaranty, endorsement, collateral or other agreement held by the Agent or the Banks therefor or with respect thereto, whether or not furnished by any Guarantor.  The obligation of the Guarantors to repay the Indebtedness hereunder shall be unlimited.  The Guarantors shall have no right of subrogation with respect to any payments made by Guarantors hereunder, and hereby waive any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any security or collateral given to the Agent or the Banks to secure payment of the Indebtedness, until all of the Indebtedness outstanding or contracted or committed for (whether or not outstanding) is paid in full, and the Guarantors agree that none of them will take any action to enforce any obligations of the Debtor to such Guarantor prior to the Indebtedness being paid in full, provided that, in the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of the Debtor, the Agent, on behalf of the Banks, shall be entitled notwithstanding the foregoing, to file in the name of any Guarantor or in its own name a claim for any and all indebtedness owing to such Guarantor by the Debtor, vote such claim and to apply the proceeds of any such claim to the Indebtedness.
 
 
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(b)           Except as otherwise provided for in Section 8.7 of the Loan Agreement, for the further security of the Banks and without in any way diminishing the liability of the Guarantors, following the occurrence of an Event of Default under the Loan Agreement and acceleration of the Indebtedness, all debts and liabilities, present or future of the Debtor to Guarantors and all monies received from the Debtor or for its account by Guarantors in respect thereof shall be received in trust for the Banks and forthwith upon receipt shall be paid over to the Agent, on behalf of the Banks, until all of the Indebtedness has been paid in full.  This assignment and postponement is independent of and severable from this Guaranty and shall remain in full effect whether or not any Guarantor is liable for any amount under this Guaranty.
 
(c)           This Guaranty is absolute and unconditional and shall not be changed or affected by any representation, oral agreement, act or thing whatsoever, except as herein provided. This Guaranty is intended by the Guarantors to be the final, complete and exclusive expression of the guaranty agreement between the Guarantors, the Banks and the Agent, on behalf of the Banks.  No modification or amendment of any provision of this Guaranty shall be effective unless in writing and signed by a duly authorized officer of the Agent, on behalf of the Banks.
 
(d)           In the event of the business failure of any Guarantor or if there shall be pending any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding with respect to any Guarantor under the United States Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable law or in connection with the insolvency of any Guarantor, or if a liquidator, receiver, or trustee shall have been appointed for any Guarantor or any Guarantor’s properties or assets, the Agent on behalf of the Banks may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Agent on behalf of the Banks allowed in any proceedings relative to such Guarantor, or any of such Guarantor’s properties or assets, and, irrespective of whether the Indebtedness or other Obligations of the Debtor guaranteed hereby shall then be due and payable, by declaration or otherwise, the Agent on behalf of the Banks shall be entitled and empowered to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any sums or sums owing with respect to the Indebtedness or other Obligations of the Debtor guaranteed hereby, and to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claim.  Guarantors covenant and agree that upon the commencement of a voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy proceeding by or against the Debtor or any other Guarantor, no Guarantor shall seek a supplemental stay or otherwise pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §105 or any other provision of the United States Bankruptcy Code or any other debtor relief law (whether statutory, common law, case law, or otherwise) of any jurisdiction whatsoever, now or hereafter in effect, which may be or become applicable, to stay, interdict, condition, reduce or inhibit the ability of the Agent to enforce any rights of the Agent against Guarantors by virtue of this Guaranty or otherwise.
 
 
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4.            Certain Rights and Obligations .
 
(a)           The Guarantors authorize the Agent and the Banks, without notice, demand or any reservation of rights against the Guarantors and without affecting the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder, from time to time: (i) to renew, extend, increase, accelerate or otherwise change the time for payment of, the terms of or the interest on the Indebtedness or any part thereof or grant other indulgences to the Debtor or others, and to otherwise modify the terms of the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents; (ii) to accept from any Person and hold collateral for the payment of the Indebtedness or any part thereof, and to modify, exchange, enforce or refrain from enforcing, or release, compromise, settle, waive, subordinate or surrender, with or without consideration, such collateral or any part thereof; (iii) to accept and hold any endorsement or guaranty of payment of the Indebtedness or any part thereof, and to discharge, release or substitute any such obligation of any such endorser or guarantor, or any Person who has given any security interest in any collateral as security for the payment of the Indebtedness or any part thereof, or any other Person in any way obligated to pay the Indebtedness or any part thereof, and to enforce or refrain from enforcing, or compromise or modify, the terms of any obligation of any such endorser, guarantor, or Person; (iv) to dispose of any and all collateral securing the Indebtedness in any manner as the Agent or the Banks, in their sole discretion, may deem appropriate, and to direct the order or manner of such disposition and the enforcement of any and all endorsements and guaranties relating to the Indebtedness or any part thereof as the Agent or the Banks in their sole discretion may determine; (v) except as otherwise provided in the Loan Agreement, to determine the manner, amount and time of application of payments and credits, if any, to be made on all or any part of any component or components of the Indebtedness (whether principal, interest, fees, costs, and expenses, or otherwise); and (vi) to take advantage or refrain from taking advantage of any security or accept or make or refrain from accepting or making any compositions or arrangements when and in such manner as the Agent or the Banks, in their sole discretion, may deem appropriate and generally do or refrain from doing any act or thing which might otherwise, at law or in equity, release the liability of Guarantors as a guarantor or surety in whole or in part, and in no case shall the Agent or the Banks be responsible, nor shall any Guarantor be released, either in whole or in part for any act or omission in connection with the Agent or the Banks having sold any security at an under value.
 
(b)           If any default shall be made in the payment of any of the Indebtedness and any grace period has expired with respect thereto, each Guarantor jointly and severally hereby agrees to pay the same in full to the extent hereinafter provided:  (i) without deduction by reason of any setoff, defense (other than payment) or counterclaim of the Debtor; (ii) without requiring presentment, protest or notice of nonpayment or notice of default to Guarantors, to the Debtor or to any other Person, except as required pursuant to the Loan Agreement; (iii) without demand for payment or proof of such demand or filing of claims with a court in the event of receivership, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Debtor; (iv) without requiring the Agent or the Banks to resort first to the Debtor (this being a guaranty of payment and not of collection) or to any other guaranty or any collateral which the Banks may hold; (v) without requiring notice of acceptance hereof or assent hereto by the Agent or the Banks; and (vi) without requiring notice that any of the Indebtedness has been incurred, extended or continued or of the reliance by the Agent or the Banks upon this Guaranty; all of which the Guarantors hereby waive.
 
 
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(c)           The Guarantors’ obligations hereunder shall not be affected by any of the following, all of which the Guarantors hereby waive:  (i) any failure to perfect or continue the perfection of any security interest in or other lien on any collateral securing payment of any of the Indebtedness or the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder; (ii) the invalidity, unenforceability, propriety of manner of enforcement of, or loss or change in priority of any such security interest or other lien or guaranty of the Indebtedness; (iii) any failure to protect, preserve or insure any such collateral; (iv) failure of Guarantors to receive notice of any intended disposition of such collateral; (v) any defense arising by reason of the cessation from any cause whatsoever of liability of the Debtor, including, without limitation, any failure, negligence or omission by the Agent or the Banks in enforcing their claims against the Debtor; (vi) any release, settlement or compromise of any obligation of the Debtor, other than as a result of the payment of the Indebtedness; (vii) the invalidity or unenforceability of any of the Indebtedness or other obligations guaranteed hereunder; (viii) any change of ownership of the Debtor or the insolvency, bankruptcy or any other change in the legal status of the Debtor; (ix) any change in, or the imposition of, any law, decree, regulation or other governmental act which does or might impair, delay or in any way affect the validity, enforceability or the payment when due of the Indebtedness; (x) the existence of any claim, setoff or other rights which Guarantors may have at any time against the Agent, any Bank or the Debtor in connection herewith or any unrelated transaction (provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit Guarantor from bringing a separate action for any such claim, provided such action shall not reduce, impair or effect its liability hereunder); (xi) the Agent’s or any Bank’s election, in any case instituted under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, of the application of section 1111(b)(2) of the United States Bankruptcy Code; (xii) any borrowing, use of cash collateral, or grant of a security interest by the Debtor, as debtor in possession, under sections 363 or 364 of the United States Bankruptcy Code; (xiii) the disallowance of all or any portion of any of the Agent’s or any Bank’s claims for repayment of the Indebtedness under sections 502 or 506 of the United States Bankruptcy Code; (xiv) (A) any change in the amount, interest rate or due date or other term of any of the obligations hereby guaranteed, (B) any change in the time, place or manner of payment of all or any portion of the obligations hereby guaranteed, (C) any amendment or waiver of, or consent to the departure from or other indulgence with respect to, the Loan Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any other document or instrument evidencing or relating to any obligations hereby guaranteed, or (D) any waiver, renewal, extension, addition, or supplement to, or deletion from, or any other action or inaction under or in respect of, the Loan Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents, or any other documents, instruments or agreements relating to the obligations hereby guaranteed or any other instrument or agreement referred to therein or evidencing any obligations hereby guaranteed or any assignment or transfer of any of the foregoing; (xv) any act or failure to act by Debtor or any other Person which may adversely affect any Guarantor’s subrogation rights, if any, against Debtor to recover payments made under this Guaranty; (xvi)  the incapacity, lack of authority, death or disability of Debtor or any other Person, or the failure of Agent or the Banks to file or enforce a claim against the estate (either in administration, bankruptcy or in any other proceeding) of Debtor or Guarantors or any other Person; (xvii)  the dissolution or termination of existence of Debtor, any Guarantor or any other Person; (xviii)  the failure of Agent and the Banks to give notice of the existence, creation or incurring of any new or additional indebtedness or obligation of Debtor or of any action or nonaction on the part of any other person whomsoever in connection with any obligation hereby guaranteed; (xix) any failure or delay of Agent and the Banks to commence an action against Debtor or any other Person, to assert or enforce any remedies against Debtor under the Loan Agreement, the Notes or the other Loan Documents, or to realize upon any security; (xx) any failure of any duty on the part of Agent and the Banks to disclose to Guarantors any facts it may now or hereafter know regarding Debtor or any other Person, any of their properties or any of the improvements located thereon, whether such facts materially increase the risk to Guarantors or not; (xxi)  failure to accept or give notice of acceptance of this Guaranty by Agent and the Banks; (xxii) failure to make or give notice of presentment and demand for payment of any of the indebtedness or performance of any of the obligations hereby guaranteed; (xxii) failure to make or give protest and notice of dishonor or of default to Guarantors or to any other party with respect to the indebtedness or performance of obligations hereby guaranteed; (xxiv) either with or without notice to Guarantors, any renewal, extension, modification, amendment or another changes in the Indebtedness, including but not limited to any material alteration of the terms of payment or performance of the Indebtedness; or (xxv) any other fact or circumstance which might otherwise constitute grounds at law or equity for the discharge or release of a Guarantor from its obligations hereunder, all whether or not Guarantors shall have had notice or knowledge of any act or omission referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) through (xxv) of this Paragraph 4.
 
 
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5.            Representations, Warranties and Covenants .
 
(a)           Guarantors further represent and warrant to the Agent and the Banks that:  (i) the Trust is a real estate investment trust duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, and has full power, authority and legal right to own its property and assets and to transact the business in which it is engaged, and each other Guarantor is a limited partnership or limited liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, and has the full power, authority and legal right to own its property and assets and to transact the business in which it is engaged; (ii) each Guarantor has full power, authority and legal right to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, this Guaranty, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the guarantee hereunder on the terms and conditions of this Guaranty and to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty; and (iii) this Guaranty has been duly executed and delivered by Guarantors and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Guarantors enforceable against Guarantors in accordance with its terms.  In addition, each representation and warranty that is applicable to or is made by any Subsidiary under the Loan Agreement or any other Loan Document is hereby incorporated herein by this reference and the Guarantors (other than the Trust) hereby make, restate and reaffirm each such representation and warranty.
 
(b)           Each covenant and agreement that is applicable to or is to be performed by any Subsidiary under the Loan Agreement or any other Loan Document is hereby incorporated herein by this reference and the Guarantors (other than the Trust) hereby agrees to perform or abide by each such covenant and agreement.
 
6.            Security; Assets - Negative Pledge .
 
Guarantors warrant and represent to and covenant with the Agent and the Banks that: (i) each Guarantor has good, indefeasible and merchantable title to all of its assets, and (ii) each Guarantor shall not grant a security interest in or permit a lien, claim or encumbrance upon any of its assets in favor of any third party, except as otherwise allowed under the Loan Agreement.
 
7.            Termination .
 
This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until all of the Indebtedness shall be finally and irrevocably paid in full, and the commitments under the Loan Agreement shall have been terminated.  Payment of all of the Indebtedness from time to time shall not operate as a discontinuance of this Guaranty.  The Guarantors further agree that, to the extent that the Debtor makes a payment or payments to the Agent or any of the Banks on the Indebtedness, or the Agent or the Banks receive any proceeds of collateral securing the Indebtedness which payment or receipt of proceeds or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be returned or repaid to the Debtor, its estate, trustee, receiver, debtor in possession or any other Person, including, without limitation, any guarantor, under any insolvency or bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then to the extent of such payment, return or repayment, the obligation or part thereof which has been paid, reduced or satisfied by such amount shall be reinstated and continued in full force and effect as of the date when such initial payment, reduction or satisfaction occurred, and this Guaranty shall continue in full force notwithstanding any contrary action which may have been taken by the Agent or the Banks in reliance upon such payment, and any such contrary action so taken shall be without prejudice to the Agent’s or the Banks’ rights under this Guaranty and shall be deemed to have been conditioned upon such payment having become final and irrevocable.
 
 
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8.            Guaranty of Performance .
 
The Guarantors also jointly and severally guarantee the full, prompt and unconditional performance of all obligations and agreements of every kind owed or hereafter to be owed by the Debtor and the other Guarantors to the Agent or the Banks.  Every provision for the benefit of the Agent or the Banks contained in this Guaranty shall apply to the guaranty of performance given in this Paragraph 8.
 
9.            Assumption of Liens and Indebtedness .
 
To the extent that any Guarantor has received or shall hereafter receive contributions to its capital consisting of assets of the Debtor that are subject, at the time of such contribution, to liens and security interests in favor of the Agent or the Banks in accordance with the Loan Agreement, each Guarantor hereby expressly agrees that (i) it shall hold such assets subject to such liens and security interests and subject to the terms of the Loan Agreement and (ii) it shall be liable for the payment of the Indebtedness secured thereby.  The Guarantors’ obligations under this Paragraph 9 shall be in addition to their obligations as set forth in other sections of this Guaranty and not in substitution therefor or in lieu thereof.
 
10.            Miscellaneous .
 
(a)           The terms “Debtor” and “Guarantor” or “Guarantors” as used in this Guaranty shall include:  (i) any successor individual or individuals, association, partnership or corporation to which all or a substantial part of the business or assets of the Debtor or a Guarantor shall have been transferred and (ii) any other entity into or with which the Debtor or a Guarantor shall have been merged, consolidated, reorganized, or absorbed.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to modify any restrictions regarding assignments, transfers, mergers, consolidations or reorganizations set forth in the Loan Agreement.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Guarantor shall assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Guaranty without the prior written consent of each of the Banks.
 
(b)           Without limiting any other right of the Agent or the Banks, whenever the Agent or the Banks have the right to declare any of the Indebtedness to be immediately due and payable (whether or not it has been so declared), subject to the notice requirements and other limitations set forth in Section 13 of the Loan Agreement, the Agent and the Banks at their sole election without notice to any of the undersigned may appropriate and set off against the Indebtedness:  (i) any and all indebtedness or other moneys due or to become due to a Guarantor by the Agent or the Banks in any capacity and (ii) any credits or other property belonging to a Guarantor (including all account balances, whether provisional or final and whether or not collected or available) at any time held by or coming into the possession of the Agent or any of the Banks, or any affiliate of the Agent or any of the Banks, whether for deposit or otherwise, whether or not the Indebtedness or the obligation to pay such moneys owed by the Agent or Banks is then due, and the Agent or the Banks shall be deemed to have exercised such right of set off immediately at the time of such election even though any charge therefor is made or entered on the Agent’s or the Banks’ records subsequent thereto.
 
 
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(c)           The Guarantors’ obligation hereunder is to pay the Indebtedness in full when due according to the Loan Agreement to the extent provided herein, and shall not be affected by any stay or extension of time for payment by the Debtor resulting from any proceeding under the United States Bankruptcy Code or any similar law.
 
(d)           No course of dealing between the Debtor or any Guarantor and the Agent or the Banks and no act, delay or omission by the Agent or the Banks in exercising any right or remedy hereunder or with respect to any of the Indebtedness shall operate as a waiver thereof or of any other right or remedy, and no single or partial exercise thereof shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy.  The Agent or the Banks may remedy any default by the Debtor under any agreement with the Debtor or with respect to any of the Indebtedness in any reasonable manner without waiving the default remedied and without waiving any other prior or subsequent default by the Debtor.  All rights and remedies of the Agent and the Banks hereunder are cumulative.
 
(e)           The term “Banks” as used herein shall have the same meaning as in the Loan Agreement and this Guaranty shall inure to the benefit of the Agent and such Banks.
 
(f)           Captions of the paragraphs of this Guaranty are solely for the convenience of the Agent, the Banks and the Guarantors, and are not an aid in the interpretation of this Guaranty.
 
(g)           If any provision of this Guaranty is unenforceable in whole or in part for any reason, the remaining provisions shall continue to be effective.
 
(h)            THIS GUARANTY IS A CONTRACT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN AND SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF SUCH STATE (EXCLUDING THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO CONFLICTS OR CHOICE OF LAW).  EACH GUARANTOR AGREES THAT ANY SUIT FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS GUARANTY MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN OR THE STATE OF OHIO OR ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING THEREIN AND CONSENTS TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURT AND THE SERVICE OF PROCESS IN ANY SUCH SUIT BEING MADE UPON SUCH GUARANTOR BY MAIL AT THE ADDRESS SPECIFIED IN THE OPENING PARAGRAPH HEREOF.  EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT OR ANY SUCH COURT OR THAT SUCH SUIT IS BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT COURT.
 
(i)           Time is of the essence with respect to each and every covenant, agreement and obligation of Guarantors under this Guaranty and any and all Loan Documents to which such Guarantor is a party.
 
(j)           Each notice, demand, election or request provided for or permitted to be given pursuant to this Guaranty (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as “Notice”) must be in writing and shall be deemed to have been properly given or served by personal delivery or by sending same by overnight courier or by depositing same in the United States Mail, postpaid and registered or certified, return receipt requested, or as expressly permitted herein, by telegraph, telecopy, telefax or telex, and addressed as follows:
 
 
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If to the Agent or the Banks:
   
 
KeyBank National Association, as Agent
 
1200 Abernathy Road, N.E.
 
Suite 1550
 
Atlanta, Georgia  30328
 
Attn:  Daniel Silbert
 
Telecopy No.:  (770) 510-2195
   
With a copy to:
   
 
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
 
5300 SunTrust Plaza
 
303 Peachtree Street
 
Atlanta, Georgia  30308
 
Attn:  William F. Timmons, Esq.
 
Telecopy No.:  (404) 527-4198
   
If to the Guarantors:
   
 
c/o Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
 
Suite 300
 
31500 Northwestern Highway
 
Farmington Hills, Michigan  48334
 
Attn:  Chief Financial Officer
 
Telecopy No.:  (248) 350-9925
   
With a copy to:
   
 
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP
 
Suite 101
 
39400 Woodward Avenue
 
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan  48304-5151
 
Attn:  Richard J. Burstein, Esq.
 
Telecopy No.:  (248) 566-8431
 
Each Notice shall be effective upon being personally delivered or upon being sent by overnight courier or upon being deposited in the United States Mail as aforesaid, or if transmitted by facsimile, upon being sent and confirmation of receipt.  The time period in which a response to such Notice must be given or any action taken with respect thereto (if any), however, shall commence to run from the date of receipt if personally delivered or sent by overnight courier, or if so deposited in the United States Mail, the earlier of three (3) Business Days following such deposit or the date of receipt as disclosed on the return receipt, or if sent by facsimile, upon receipt or the next Business Day if received after 5:00 p.m. (Cleveland time) or on a day that is not a Business Day.  Rejection or other refusal to accept or the inability to deliver because of changed address for which no notice was given shall be deemed to be receipt of the Notice sent.  By giving at least fifteen (15) days prior Notice thereof, the Guarantors or Agent shall have the right from time to time and at any time during the term of this Guaranty to change their respective addresses and each shall have the right to specify as its address any other address within the United States of America.
 
 
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11.            Waivers .
 
(a)            EACH GUARANTOR WAIVES THE BENEFIT OF ALL VALUATION, APPRAISAL AND EXEMPTION LAWS.
 
(b)            IN THE EVENT OF A DEFAULT UNDER THE LOAN AGREEMENT, EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO NOTICE AND HEARING OF ANY KIND PRIOR TO THE EXERCISE BY THE AGENT OR THE BANKS OF ANY OF THEIR RIGHTS AND REMEDIES UNDER THE LOAN AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY OF THEIR RIGHTS TO REPOSSESS ANY COLLATERAL WITHOUT JUDICIAL PROCESS OR TO REPLEVY, ATTACH OR LEVY UPON ANY COLLATERAL OR OTHER ASSETS OF DEBTOR OR ANY GUARANTOR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE OR HEARING.  EACH GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS BEEN ADVISED BY COUNSEL OF ITS CHOICE WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRANSACTION AND THIS GUARANTY.
 
(c)            EACH GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE TIME AND EXPENSE REQUIRED FOR TRIAL BY JURY EXCEED THE TIME AND EXPENSE REQUIRED FOR A BENCH TRIAL AND HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TRIAL BY JURY, ANY OBJECTION BASED ON FORUM   NON   CONVENIENS , ANY OBJECTION TO VENUE OF ANY ACTION INSTITUTED HEREUNDER, AND WAIVES ANY BOND OR SURETY OR SECURITY UPON SUCH BOND WHICH MIGHT, BUT FOR THIS WAIVER, BE REQUIRED OF THE AGENT OR THE BANKS.
 
12.            Trust Exculpation .
 
Subject to the terms of this Paragraph 12, all persons having a claim against the Trust (as a Guarantor or general partner of Debtor), hereunder or in connection with any matter that is the subject hereof, shall look solely to (i) the Trust’s interest and rights in Debtor (as a general partner or limited partner), (ii) the amount of any Net Offering Proceeds not contributed to the Debtor, (iii) all accounts receivable, including the amount of any Distributions received by the Trust from the Debtor and not distributed to shareholders of the Trust as permitted by the Loan Agreement, (iv) all rights and claims (including amounts paid under) the Tax Indemnity Agreement, (v) all cash and Short-term Investments in an amount in excess of $500,000.00, (vi) any other assets which the Trust may now own or hereafter acquire with the consent of Agent pursuant to Section 7.17 of the Loan Agreement, (vii) all documents and agreements in favor of the Trust in connection with any of the foregoing, (viii) all claims and causes of action arising from or otherwise related to any of the foregoing, and all rights and judgments related to any legal actions in connection with such claims or causes of action, and (ix) all extensions, additions, renewals and replacements, substitutions, products or proceeds of any of the foregoing (the “Attachable Assets”), and in no event shall the obligation of the Trust be enforceable against any shareholder, trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust personally.  In no event shall any person have any claim against:  (i) the cash, Short-term Investments of the Trust and the property described in Schedule 6.29 to the Loan Agreement, all under the heading of “Other Permitted Assets”, (ii) all documents and agreements in favor of the Trust in connection with any of the foregoing, (iii) all claims and causes of action arising from or otherwise related to any of the foregoing, and all rights and judgments related to any legal actions in connection with such claims or causes of action, and (iv) all extensions, additions, renewals and replacements, substitutions, products or proceeds of any of the foregoing (the “Other Permitted Assets”).  The Agent and the Banks have agreed to the terms of this Paragraph 12 solely based upon the representation and covenant of Debtor and the Trust that the Trust does not and will not own any assets other than the Attachable Assets and the Other Permitted Assets.  Notwithstanding anything in this Paragraph 12 to the contrary, the foregoing limitation on liability and recourse to the Trust (as a Guarantor or general partner of Debtor) shall be null and void and of no force and effect, and Agent and the Banks shall have full recourse against the Trust, individually as a Guarantor and in its capacity as general partner of Debtor, and to all of its assets (including, without limitation, the Other Permitted Assets) in the event that the Trust shall now or at any time hereafter own any asset other than or in addition to the Other Permitted Assets and the Attachable Assets.  Nothing herein shall limit the rights of the Agent and the Banks against the Debtor.
 
 
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13.            Release of Guarantors .
 
Under certain circumstances described in Section 5.2 of the Loan Agreement, certain Subsidiaries of the Debtor may obtain from the Agent a written release from this Guaranty pursuant to the provisions of such section, and upon obtaining such written release, any such Subsidiary shall no longer be a Guarantor hereunder.  Each other Guarantor consents and agrees to any such release and agrees that no such release shall affect its obligations hereunder.
 
14.            Joint and Several Obligations .
 
All of the representations, warranties, covenants, obligations and liabilities of the Guarantors hereunder shall be joint and several.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantors have caused this Guaranty to be executed as of the day and year first written above.
 
 
TRUST :
 
 
 
RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST ,
 
a Maryland real estate investment trust
   
 
By: _________________________________________
 
Name: _______________________________________
 
Title: _______________________________________
   
 
[SEAL]
   
   
 
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS :
   
 
RAMCO FOX RIVER LLC , a Delaware limited
  liability company
   
  By: _________________________________________
 
Name:  Gregory R. Andrews
 
Title:    Chief Financial Officer
   
 
[SEAL]
   
   
  RAMCO LIBERTY SQUARE LLC , a Delaware
  limited liability company
   
 
By: _________________________________________
 
Name:  Gregory R. Andrews
 
Title:    Chief Financial Officer
   
 
[SEAL]
   
   
  MERCHANTS 450 LLC, a Delaware limited liability
  company
   
 
By: _________________________________________
 
Name:  Gregory R. Andrews
 
Title:    Chief Financial Officer
   
 
[SEAL]
 
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RAMCO GAINES LLC, a Michigan limited
 
liability company
       
 
By:  
Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. a
   
Delaware limited partnership
   
Its:  Manager
       
    By:
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a
     
Maryland real estate investment trust
     
Its: General Partner
       
     
By:____________________________
     
Name: _________________________
     
Title: __________________________
       
     
[SEAL]
       
       
 
BEACON SQUARE DEVELOPMENT LLC, a
 
Michigan limited liability company
       
  By:
Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P. a
   
Delaware limited partnership
   
Its:  Manager
       
    By:
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a
     
Maryland real estate investment trust
     
Its: General Partner
       
     
By:____________________________
     
Name: _________________________
     
Title: __________________________
       
     
[SEAL]
 
 
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Exhibit 12.1
 
 
                         
Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends
                   
For the three and nine months ended Sepetmber 30, 2011 and 2010
                   
(in thousands, except ratio computation)
                       
                         
   
Three months ended
   
Nine months ended
 
   
September 30,
   
Sepetmber 30,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2011
   
2010
 
Pretax income (loss) from continuing operations before adjustment
     for noncontrolling interest (a)
  $ 5,869     $ (29,336 )   $ 5,408     $ (31,091 )
                                 
Add back:
                               
Fixed charges and preferred dividends
    9,170       8,537       27,356       26,514  
Distributed income of equity investees
    951       463       3,143       1,859  
                                 
Deduct:
                               
Equity in (earnings) loss of equity investees
    (3,703 )     1,362       (5,336 )     662  
Capitalized interest
    (156 )     (195 )     (359 )     (1,059 )
Preferred share dividends
    (1,813 )     -       (3,432 )     -  
Earnings as Defined
  $ 10,318     $ (19,169 )   $ 26,780     $ (3,115 )
                                 
Fixed Charges
                               
Interest expense including amortization of deferred financing fees
  $ 7,129     $ 8,253     $ 23,331     $ 25,217  
Capitalized interest
    156       195       359       1,059  
Interest portion of rent expense
    72       89       234       238  
Fixed Charges
  $ 7,357     $ 8,537     $ 23,924     $ 26,514  
Preferred share dividends
    1,813       -       3,432       -  
Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends
  $ 9,170     $ 8,537     $ 27,356     $ 26,514  
                                 
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
    1.40    
(b)
      1.12    
(c)
 
                                 
Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends
    1.13    
(b)
   
(a)
   
(c)
 
                                 
(a)
Due to the pretax income from continuing operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the ratio coverage was less than 1:1.  We would have needed to generate additional earnings of approximately $0.6 million to achieve a coverage of 1:1 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011.
   
(b)
Due to the pretax loss from continuing operations for the three months ended September 30, 2010, the ratio coverage was less than 1:1.  We would have needed to generate additional earnings of approximately $27.7 million to achieve a coverage of 1:1 for the three months ended September 30, 2010.
 
The pretax loss from continuing operations before adjustment for noncontrolling interest for the three months ended September 30, 2010 includes a provision for impairment of $28.8 million.
   
(c)
Due to the pretax loss from continuing operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, the ratio coverage was less than 1:1.  We would have needed to generate additional earnings of approximately $29.6 million to achieve a coverage of 1:1 for the nine months ended September 30, 2010.
 
The pretax loss from continuing operations before adjustment for noncontrolling interest for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 includes a provision for impairment of $28.8 million and impairment charges of equity investments in unconsolidated joint ventures of $2.7 million.
 
 
Exhibit 31.1
 
CERTIFICATION

I, Dennis E. Gershenson, certify that:

 
1.
I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust;
     
 
2.
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
     
 
3.
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
     
 
4.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f ) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
     
   
a)
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision,  to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
     
   
b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
     
   
c)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
     
   
d)
Disclosed in this report any changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)   that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
     
 
5.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
     
   
a)
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
     
   
b)
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.


Date:   November 4, 2011
By: /s/ Dennis E. Gershenson                       
 
Dennis E. Gershenson
 
President and Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATION

I, Gregory R. Andrews, certify that:

 
1.
I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust;
     
 
2.
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
     
 
3.
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
     
 
4.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
     
   
a)
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision,  to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
     
   
b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
     
   
c)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
     
   
d)
Disclosed in this report any changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
     
 
5.
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
     
   
a)
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
     
   
b)
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 
Date:   November 4, 2011
By: /s/ Gregory R. Andrews                              
 
Gregory R. Andrews
 
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
Exhibit 32.1
 
 Certification
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350


In connection with the quarterly report of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2011, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Dennis E. Gershenson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that:

 
(1)
The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
     
 
(2)
The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
 
 
Date:   November 4, 2011
By: /s/ Dennis E. Gershenson                       
 
Dennis E. Gershenson
 
President and Chief Executive Officer
 
 
Exhibit 32.2
 
 Certification
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350


In connection with the quarterly report of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2011, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Gregory R. Andrews, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that:

 
1.
The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
     
 
2.
The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
 
 
Date:   November 4, 2011
By: /s/ Gregory R. Andrews                              
 
Gregory R. Andrews
 
Chief Financial Officer