Kite Realty Group Announces Pricing of $350 Million Senior Notes Offering

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE: KRG) (the “Company”) announced today that, on August 13, 2024, its operating partnership, Kite Realty Group, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), priced an offering of $350 million aggregate principal amount of 4.950% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “Notes”) in an underwritten public offering. The Notes will be issued at 99.328% of par value with a yield to maturity of 5.062%. Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning on December 15, 2024. The offering is expected to close on August 15, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to repay outstanding indebtedness and for general corporate purposes.

Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Securities, US Bancorp, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan, PNC Capital Markets LLC, Regions Securities LLC and TD Securities acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. KeyBanc Capital Markets, Scotiabank and Truist Securities served as senior co-managers for the offering. Capital One Securities and Ramirez & Co., Inc. served as co-managers for the offering.

The offering is being made pursuant to a shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which became effective on June 7, 2024. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering has been filed with the SEC.

The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to these securities may be obtained, when available, by contacting Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd Avenue South, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attn: WFS Customer Service, Email: wfscustomerservice@wellsfargo.com, by telephone (toll free) at 1-800-645-3751, BofA Securities, Inc., 201 North Tryon Street, NC1-022-02-25, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, by telephone (toll free) at 1-800-294-1322, or by email at dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com, or U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., 214 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202, Attention: High Grade Syndicate, by telephone at 1-877-558-2607.

This press release is for information purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About Kite Realty Group

Kite Realty Group (NYSE: KRG) is a real estate investment trust headquartered in Indianapolis, IN that owns and operates open-air shopping centers and mixed-use assets. The Company’s primarily grocery-anchored portfolio is located in high-growth Sun Belt markets and select strategic gateway markets. As of June 30, 2024, the Company owned interests in 178 U.S. open-air shopping centers and mixed-use assets, comprising approximately 27.6 million square feet of gross leasable space.

Safe Harbor

This release, together with other statements and information publicly disseminated by the Company and/or the Operating Partnership, contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such statements are based on assumptions and expectations that may not be realized and are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated. Future events and actual results, performance, transactions or achievements, financial or otherwise, may differ materially from the results, performance, transactions or achievements, financial or otherwise, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

Risks, uncertainties and other factors that might cause such differences, some of which could be material, include but are not limited to: economic, business, banking, real estate and other market conditions, particularly in connection with low or negative growth in the U.S. economy as well as economic uncertainty (including a potential economic slowdown or recession, rising interest rates, inflation, unemployment, or limited growth in consumer income or spending); financing risks, including the availability of, and costs associated with, sources of liquidity; the Company’s ability to refinance, or extend the maturity dates of, the Company’s indebtedness; the level and volatility of interest rates; the financial stability of the Company’s tenants; the competitive environment in which the Company operates, including potential oversupplies of, or a reduction in demand for, rental space; acquisition, disposition, development and joint venture risks; property ownership and management risks, including the relative illiquidity of real estate investments, and expenses, vacancies or the inability to rent space on favorable terms or at all; the Company’s ability to maintain the Company’s status as a real estate investment trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes; potential environmental and other liabilities; impairment in the value of real estate property the Company owns; the attractiveness of the Company’s properties to tenants, the actual and perceived impact of e-commerce on the value of shopping center assets and changing demographics and customer traffic patterns; business continuity disruptions and a deterioration in the Company’s tenant’s ability to operate in affected areas or delays in the supply of products or services to the Company or its tenants from vendors that are needed to operate efficiently, causing costs to rise sharply and inventory to fall; risks related to the Company’s current geographical concentration of its properties in the states of Texas, Florida, and North Carolina and the metropolitan statistical areas of New York, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.; civil unrest, acts of violence, terrorism or war, acts of God, climate change, epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters and severe weather conditions, including such events that may result in underinsured or uninsured losses or other increased costs and expenses; changes in laws and government regulations including governmental orders affecting the use of the Company’s properties or the ability of its tenants to operate, and the costs of complying with such changed laws and government regulations; possible short-term or long-term changes in consumer behavior due to COVID-19 and the fear of future pandemics; the Company’s ability to satisfy environmental, social or governance standards set by various constituencies; insurance costs and coverage, especially in Florida and Texas coastal areas; risks associated with cybersecurity attacks and the loss of confidential information and other business disruptions; other factors affecting the real estate industry generally; and other risks identified in reports the Company and/or the Operating Partnership file with the SEC or in other documents that the Company and/or the Operating Partnership publicly disseminate, including, in particular, the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s and the Operating Partnership’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contact Information: Kite Realty Group Trust
Tyler Henshaw
SVP, Capital Markets & Investor Relations
317.713.7780
thenshaw@kiterealty.com