Power REIT Acquires Properties in Colorado for Greenhouse Cannabis Cultivation in Highly Accretive Transaction
Enters into Long-Term Lease with Cloud Nine Farms – a Minority Owned Business
Old Bethpage, New York, April 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Power REIT (NYSE-AMEX: PW and PW.PRA) (“Power REIT” or the “Trust”) today announced that it has acquired two adjacent property parcels totaling 4.0 acres in Crowley County, Colorado (the “Property”) through a wholly owned subsidiary (“PropCo”). The Property is strategically located in a very favorable business setting of Southern Colorado that offers a growing environment for efficient and sustainable greenhouse cultivation.
As part of the transaction, Power REIT has agreed to fund the construction of an approximately 38,440 square foot greenhouse cultivation facility. Power REIT’s total capital commitment for the project is approximately
LEASE STRUCTURE
Concurrent with the acquisition, PropCo entered into a 20-year “triple-net” lease (the “Lease”) with Cloud Nine Farms LLC (“Cloud Nine”), a minority owned business that is owned by Mr. Joel Perez, a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience in the construction industry. Mr. Perez will operate the cannabis cultivation facility along with a team of experienced operators that specializes in the Colorado marketplace for cannabis cultivation, development, and supply chain logistics.
The lease requires Cloud Nine to pay all property related expenses including maintenance, insurance and taxes. After the initial 20-year term, The Lease provides two, five-year renewal options and has a personal guarantee from the owner of Cloud Nine. As mandated by the Lease, Cloud Nine will maintain a medical marijuana license and will operate in accordance with all Colorado and municipal regulations. The Lease also prohibits retail sales from the Property.
After an initial deferred rent period to allow for construction, the rental payments enumerated in the Lease provide PropCo with a full return of its invested capital over the next three years after which PropCo receives an approximately
The Lease, as structured, is immediately accretive to Core FFO and by adding straight-line annual rent of approximately
David Lesser, Power REIT’s Chairman and CEO, commented, “We continue to deploy capital on a highly accretive basis that supports our investment thesis of investing in sustainable properties. Southern Colorado continues to represent a compelling opportunity for our investment strategy in cannabis cultivation facilities. We believe that each additional acquisition diversifies our tenant concentration and further improves our focused strategy within this vibrant market, which we believe has significant runway for growth.”
Joel Perez, Cloud Nine’s President, commented, “Power REIT is providing Cloud Nine with a unique opportunity to dramatically scale our business through a prudent, accelerated growth plan. We are very excited about our future prospects and are looking forward to getting this property operational as quickly as possible and moving onto additional phases of expanding the cultivation area with Power REIT’s support.”
FORWARD CORE FFO PER SHARE
Power REIT has now deployed approximately
Reflecting the impact of Power REIT’s recent Rights Offering and assuming the full deployment of its remaining proceeds into additional acquisitions at an average
The following table provides a roadmap and sensitivity analysis for forward Core FFO per share:
Common Shares Outstanding (Pre Rights Offering) | 1,916,139 | |||||||||||
Shares Sold in Rights Offering | 1,383,394 | |||||||||||
Total Shares Outstanding (Post Rights Offering) | 3,299,533 | |||||||||||
Rights Offering Price | $ | 26.50 | ||||||||||
Rights Offering Capital Raise - Gross | $ | 36,659,941 | ||||||||||
Proceeds Net of Costs (est.) | 0.25 | % | $ | 36,568,291 | ||||||||
Announced Transactions Using Proceeds from Rights Offering: | ||||||||||||
Apotheke | 1,813,398 | |||||||||||
Canndescent | 2,685,000 | |||||||||||
Grail Project Expansion | 517,663 | |||||||||||
Gas Station | 2,118,717 | |||||||||||
Cloud Nine | 2,947,905 | |||||||||||
Total | 10,082,683 | |||||||||||
Remaining Rights Offering Proceeds for Investment | $ | 26,485,608 |
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About PWpower reit (ticker: pw) is a listed real estate investment trust (reit) that acquires, owns and manages real-estate related to energy and transportation infrastructure in the u.s. infrastructure assets often have significant embedded real-estate value due to their proximity to supporting infrastructure, favorable geographic or other locational advantages and ownership of hard to acquire operating permits and/or rights of way. within the energy sector, power reit is focused on acquiring land and other real estate interests related to renewable energy based generating facilities, including real estate related to solar, wind, hydropower and geothermal generating facilities. since december 2012, power reit has announced over 25mw of land investments in utility scale solar projects.
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