Christopher T. Corr - Rayonier, Inc.
Management
Thanks, Dave, and good morning everybody. Moving on to page 13, the Real Estate segment had a strong third quarter with revenue totaling $61 million on the sale of nearly 24,000 acres at an average price of $2,569 an acre. Unimproved development sales totaled $1.4 million, which was comprised of a 73-acre tract in St. John's County, Florida for approximately $18,500 an acre. This was our third sale since last year to Toll Brothers, a national homebuilder of property with approved land-use entitlements allowing for residential development. In the rural category, sales totaled $6.4 million on approximately 2,100 acres at an average price of $3,082 an acre. This included one sale in Texas of almost 560 acres at $4,650 an acre, and another in Louisiana of 325 acres for $2,000 an acre. Finally, in the non-strategic and Timberland category, sales totaled $53 million on approximately 21,500 acres at an average price of $2,465 per acre. Sales in this category were dominated by a $48 million transaction in Georgia totaling roughly 17,800 acres for $2,720 an acre. The property, located approximately 40 miles south of Savannah, was purchased under the threat of combination by the U.S. Department of the Navy to expand the Townsend Bombing Range, which supports multiple branches of the U.S. Military. This was a unique transaction that was evaluated by the Navy for several years. Excluding the large sale in Georgia, we sold 3,700 acres of non-strategic timberlands at an average price of $1,200 an acre, including the sale in Louisiana of 2,900 acres at roughly $1,100 an acre. This property had very low productivity, and was only 30% plantable. In summary, we remain highly focused on unlocking the long-term value of our HBU development and rural property portfolio. We continue to be encouraged by the market interest that we are receiving at our Wildlight project north of Jacksonville. Construction of the Wildlight Elementary School and our new Rayonier office building remain on track for opening in the second half of next year, along with key parcels for sale to developers and homebuilders. For those of you that are able to join us during next week's Investors Day, we look forward to the opportunity to show you the site, and report on progress to-date. I'll now turn the call back over to, Mark.