John Kite
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets. Your line is now open
Well, starting at the beginning of that, three parter, I’d say that in terms of how we looked at this Todd, backing up going at a higher altitude, we looked at the markets, we looked at specific real estate, we looked at tenants and we looked at where we want to be at the end of that movie, okay. And so in terms of the markets themselves, we dug in and looked at not only our own data that we had on our existing markets, but also outside data through things like the brokerage community, Green Street reports, other analyst reports. So we really got into it in terms of trying to figure out rankings of those markets. But ultimately, what we focused on is where we could actually operate and penetrate in the sense of markets that we thought had growth whether that’s population growth, that’s income growth, where the disposable income levels, where we looked to tap scores, we looked at where the – what type of centers we would own in those markets, neighborhood centers, community centers, et cetera. And in the end of the day, we dug down to where we are going to generate IRRs that made sense for us in markets that were attractive, which is why I named some of the markets that I named, because we think in those markets that we will generate IRRs, unleveraged IRRs before CapEx in the sevens and after CapEx maybe in the mid-six range, that we felt like generating those returns in a Nashville or a Charlotte or a Dallas is a much better risk adjusted return than going into a market either at the higher cap rate end, some of the ones we’re disposing up or the much lower cap rate end where we just can’t make those returns work and by the way very few people can actually. So that’s high level in the sense of where we wanted to land, and as we move through this and start to do more work around actually winning the other markets, then we will be talking to you guys more about what those markets are. And by the way make sure you understand, these are initial, the reason we said 15 to 20 markets, that is where we are initially looking and as time goes by and hopefully our cost of capital improves, that might expand, contract, it’s not – you don’t set that in stone and just say you’re going to be there forever. You’ve got to adjust to a lot of different things when you’re looking at that.