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Virginia Beach ArenaFinancing Proposal
June 28, 2016
Andrea Kilmer, USM
Create a flexible, state-of-the art venue that:
• Serves as an iconic symbol for the City, Region, & State
• Offers events for everyone
• Creates memories of a lifetime
• Creates jobs and business
• Draws major acts and top tier events
• Year-round playground
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Our Vision
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City Economic Impact
Construction Impact
New Jobs
2,300
New Spending
+
$240M
Salaries
Materials/Services
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City Economic Impact
Annual Operations Impact
New Jobs
440
Net NewSpending
NewSalaries
$15M
+ 20-Year NPV
$1.7B$111M
RoomNights
65,500
• Everything, except the lender and loan structure
• All previously negotiated agreements (with changes on 1 page out of over 400)
• Fundamental business model and market analysis
• City incentives
• Privately financed and locally owned
• Highly qualified, experienced team
• Minority participation
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What Remains the Same
• Lender will be a US Investment Bank
• Loan structure
• 2 clauses on 1 page of the Development Agreement
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What Changes
Main Benefits of Proposed Financing Change
• Domestic Alternative to Chinese Loan
Addresses any perceived security concerns
Removes procurement requirement
Removes political volatility
• Accelerated Development/Opening2016 ground breaking/2018 grand opening
• US Bank Trustee administrates Loan Proceeds
• No balloon payment or interest rate risk in year 15
• Early pro sports team potential
Plan of Finance
• Taxable Municipal Bond– Known Finance Structure
• U.S. Investment Bank Large Institutional Investors
• Bond Proceeds will be limited to use for the Construction Contract, related Cost of Issuance, and required Reserves and Escrows
• No Developer Fees or cost to date reimbursement
• USM fully responsible for the debt
• Bonds repaid by same revenue streams as current Agreement– 1% of Hotel Tax and “But For” Taxes
– Payments from Arena Operations
• VBDA may serve as the Conduit Issuer– No obligation and no recourse to VBDA, City, or State
– Same role it plays for other private entities, such as Westminster Canterbury
– Annual fee revenue
Proposed Change in Terms
• Type of lender/form of commitment
• USM’s debt to equity ratio will changeLoan will fund full Construction ContractDebt payments likely to decrease based on
current marketPayment Cap of City incentives cannot
increase and will likely decreaseEquity contribution estimated to be $10
million
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4.3 Loan Commitment. Developer will use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain
and deliver to City an executed copy of a loan commitment or bond purchase or placement agreement with the VBDA or other appropriate entity serving as a conduit issuer (the “Construction Loan Commitment”) from an InstitutionalLender committing to provide construction and permanent financing (a“Construction Lender”) to Developer (the “Construction Loan”) adequate to constructthe Arena Improvements and fulfill Developer’s other obligations under the TransactionAgreements, subject to customary lender requirements and conditions. City will havethe right to approve the Construction Loan Commitment and the documentsultimately evidencing and securing the Construction Loan (the “Construction LoanDocuments”) which approval right for purposes of this Section 4.3 shall be limitedto the right to approve those terms and provisions of the Construction LoanCommitment and the Construction Loan Documents which concern (i) funding mechanisms and reasonable assurances that any overseas lender will fully fund theConstruction Loan, (ii) protections and cure rights of City and the ConstructionLender in the event of a Developer default under the Construction Loan and/orTransaction Agreements, (iii) City Credit Rating Concerns, and (iv) verification that the plan of finance will fund no more than (1) one-hundred percent (100%) of the fixed price of the Construction Contract and A & E Contract, (2) costs of the financing, and (3) required reserves and escrows, without inclusion of any reimbursement to Developer for other costs incurred or payment of any developer fee general consistency with the debt, equity and loan term structure outlined in Developer’s proposal and pro-forma submitted to the City and the Term Sheet. Such approvalshall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, delayed or denied.
City Protections
City retains the right to review:
• Funding Mechanisms and Assurances
• Protections and the Right to Cure, but not the obligation to do so
• City Credit Rating Implications
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Future Vision (Strategic Growth Area)