Mark Lammas
Analyst · Scotiabank. Please proceed with your question
Thanks, Victor. We're pleased to report that we've collected 93% of total April rents. This includes an impressive 95% of office rents and 95% studio rents, which no doubt reflects the quality of these respective tenants. We also collected 38% of storefront retail rents, which I will discuss more in a moment.With respect to the preponderance of uncollected rents, we've implemented a rent relief program. Early in the pandemic, as shelter-in-place requirements were beginning to disrupt many businesses, local jurisdictions throughout California and Washington adopted rent relief orders to protect commercial tenants. Those orders afforded qualifying tenants essentially small and medium businesses impacted by the pandemic with various protections.With few exceptions, our portfolio was covered by those governmental orders. Our program dovetails with the underlying rent relief orders, typically by deferring near-term rents with repayment requirements corresponding to local ordinances. Most of our deferrals have been about two months, with repayment either before year-end or amortized over the remaining lease term.To-date, we've granted deferrals equivalent to approximately $2.2 million, or 4% of total April rent. Another approximately $1.3 million, or 2.5% of total April rents remains in discussion for either payment or deferral. In terms of the composition of deferred rents, we've granted about $600,000 of deferrals to storefront retail tenants. These smaller shops cafes and restaurants have been hardest hit, but only comprise a little over 3% of our total monthly rent. While they're not a large portion of our revenue, we're nonetheless working diligently to keep these types of retailers in place, as they provide amenities to both local communities and our soon to be returning office tenants.Consequently, we expect our storefront retail to recover relatively quickly as office buildings become occupied again. The Ferry Building marketplace the company's share of which comprises just 36,000 square feet and represents 18% of storefront retail rent may take longer to return to normal operations. We've granted about $1.1 million of deferrals to co-working tenants.We abated $250,000 of April rent at Maxwell in connection with an opportunity to recapture some or all of that co-working space. Meanwhile, WeWork paid rent at all other locations within our portfolio and has indicated it intends to continue doing so. The company's share of true co-working throughout our entire portfolio comprises just 2.6% of our monthly rent with another 1.3% attributable to enterprise co-working.We believe there is a continued role for traditional co-working space, albeit modified for social distancing, but enterprise clients may create opportunities for us to go direct should deferred rents become delinquent. In terms of small office and studio tenants, we've granted about $500,000 of deferrals. Specifically, only $160,000 of studio rent has been deferred or abated, which equates to just 0.3% of total April rents. This highlights, as we've always noted, both the underlying credit of our studio tenants and the fact that a prolonged shutdown's impact is most likely to be seen in production related revenue not rent.That aside, we believe once shelter-in-place restrictions are lifted, we'll see a normalization in production related revenue and perhaps even an acceleration as studios look to catch up with content demand. For example, we're hearing that productions may go from a typical four to five-day a week schedule to a seven-day week schedule, which may enable us to recoup lost revenue over time.We also expect Los Angeles will be the first major studio market to resume production bringing a surge in demand for our stages particularly as shows and films look to curtail travel for the foreseeable future. In the first quarter, we also saw an immaterial pullback in non-contractual parking revenue across garages in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Harout will provide more color in connection with our guidance on the expected decline in non-contractual and transient parking revenue stemming from the various shelter-in-place measures.One final word on tenant improvement delays. Jurisdictions across our portfolio adopted policies ranging from carve outs for construction as an essential service to more restricted measures that temporarily delayed some of our tenant improvement projects. Thankfully, only nine tenant improvement projects involving approximately 41,000 square feet all-in Northern California have experienced temporary delays that may push back these deliveries. While it is too early to gauge the impact of such delays, if any, we expect it to be relatively minor.Fortunately, both San Francisco and Seattle this week lifted said restricted measures. So going forward, tenant improvements in these markets along with those in Los Angeles should continue unabated.And now, I'll turn the call over to Alex.