{"id":1004195178,"date":"2017-10-26T03:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004195178"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:47:28","slug":"franklin-street-closes-major-credit-facility-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/franklin-street-closes-major-credit-facility-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Street Closes Major Credit Facility Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Scott Baltic<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Over the past week, Franklin Street Properties Corp. has completed a cluster of financial transactions, chief among which was recasting its existing unsecured credit facility into a $1 billion facility.<\/p>\n

Among other changes, the company\u2019s total availability under the revolving line of credit was increased from $500 million to $600 million, and the maturity date was extended from Oct. 29, 2018, to Jan. 12, 2022, with two optional six-month extensions. Although the principal amount of the term loan remained unchanged at $400 million, its maturity date was extended from Sept. 27, 2021, to Jan. 12, 2023. An accordion feature that allows for additional borrowing capacity under the revolving line of credit or the term loan was expanded from up to $350 million to up to $500 million.<\/p>\n

The participating banks included Bank of America N.A. as administrative agent; Bank of Montreal and JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. as syndication agents; Citizens Bank N.A. and Regions Bank as documentation agents; U.S. Bank N.A. as managing agent; and PNC Bank N.A., TD Bank N.A., BBVA Compass, Branch Banking and Trust Co. and Capital One N.A. as the lenders. Franklin Street also amended its existing term loan with Bank of Montreal and JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. as administrative agent.<\/p>\n

Debt transactions<\/h2>\n

The company entered into a note purchase agreement with respect to the private placement of $200 million aggregate principal amount of unsecured senior notes. The placement consists of $116 million in aggregate principal amount of Series A Senior Notes with a 7-year maturity at 3.99 percent annual interest and $84 million in aggregate principal amount of Series B Senior Notes with a 10-year maturity at 4.26 percent annual interest. Franklin Street intends to use the proceeds from this placement to reduce the outstanding balance of the revolving line of credit portion of the recast credit facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that these debt transactions help to better align the risk\/reward characteristics of our capital structure with the long-term, value-add growth opportunities that we believe exist in our now predominantly urban and infill office property portfolio<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0J. Carter, Franklin Street chairman & CEO, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

Franklin Street focuses on investing in select institutional-quality urban infill and central business district office properties in the United States. Though Franklin Street has properties in a dozen states, about 75 percent of its rentable square footage is in five core metro areas: Minneapolis, Denver, Dallas, Houston and Atlanta. One example of the company\u2019s trophy assets<\/a> is the 43-story, 680,000-square-foot 1999 Broadway in downtown Denver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recast of the existing unsecured credit facility into the $1 billion facility is accompanied by a $200M private placement and extension of term loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004195179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21808,21825,23891,21742],"tags":[33250,33925,35012,35274],"class_list":["post-1004195178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-finance","category-national","category-latest","tag-bank-of-america","tag-citizens-bank","tag-franklin-street","tag-jpmorgan-chase"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFranklin Street Closes Major Credit Facility Expansion - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/franklin-street-closes-major-credit-facility-expansion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Franklin Street Closes Major Credit Facility Expansion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The recast of the existing unsecured credit facility into the $1 billion facility is accompanied by a $200M private placement and extension of term loans.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/franklin-street-closes-major-credit-facility-expansion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-26T11:03:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-08T22:47:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/10\/financing-news-01-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Scott Baltic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/franklin-street-closes-major-credit-facility-expansion\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/franklin-street-closes-major-credit-facility-expansion\/\",\"name\":\"Franklin Street Closes Major Credit Facility Expansion - 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