COPT Defense Properties Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Real Estate Joint Ventures

Real Estate Joint Ventures

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

Consolidated Joint Ventures

The table below sets forth information pertaining to our investments in consolidated real estate joint ventures as of March 31, 2018 (dollars in thousands):



		Nominal
		Ownership		March 31, 2018 (1)
	Date	% as of		Total		Encumbered		Total
	Acquired	3/31/2018	Nature of Activity	Assets		Assets		Liabilities
LW Redstone Company, LLC	3/23/2010	85%	Development and operation of real estate (2)	$	161,290	$	74,509	$	52,511
M Square Associates, LLC	6/26/2007	50%	Development and operation of real estate (3)	71,556		44,909		45,436
Stevens Investors, LLC	8/11/2015	95%	Development of real estate (4)	73,240		—		15,469
				$	306,086	$	119,418	$	113,416


(1)	Excludes amounts eliminated in consolidation.


(2)	This joint venture’s properties are in Huntsville, Alabama.


(3)	This joint venture’s properties are in College Park, Maryland.


(4)	This joint venture’s property is in Washington, DC.

Unconsolidated Joint Venture

As of March 31, 2018, we owned a 50% interest in GI-COPT DC Partnership LLC (“GI-COPT”), a joint venture owning six triple-net leased, single-tenant data center shell properties in Virginia, that we account for using the equity method of accounting. As of March 31, 2018, we had an investment balance in GI-COPT of $41.3 million.