Gaming and Leisure Properties Announces Completion of Previously Announced Transactions
WYOMISSING, Pa., Dec. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLPI) (the “Company”), today announced the completion of its previously announced transaction to acquire the land and real estate assets of Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland (“Live! Maryland”) from The Cordish Companies (“Cordish”) for total consideration of $1.14 billion. The transaction includes not only the land and real estate assets of Live! Maryland, but also a partnership on future Cordish casino developments, as well as potential financing partnerships between GLPI and Cordish in other areas of Cordish's portfolio of real estate and operating businesses. The Company funded the transaction by assuming approximately $363 million in debt, which the Company intends to repay by the end of 2021, and issuing approximately $200 million of operating partnership units (4.35 million total units), with the balance paid out of cash on hand, which was in part generated by its recent issuance of senior unsecured notes and common stock.
- Casino & Hotel Maryland
WYOMISSING, Pa., Dec. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLPI) (the Company), today announced the completion of its previously announced transaction to acquire the land and real estate assets of Live! - The Company also completed on December 17, 2021, the previously announced sale of the operations of Hollywood Casino Baton Rouge to Casino Queen Holding Company (Casino Queen) for total cash consideration of $28.2 million.
- The Company remains on track to complete its previously announced acquisition of the real property assets of Live!
- Maryland by December 31, 2021; GLPIs ability to successfully consummate the announced transactions for the real property assets of Live!