SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-008657 to BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST (BDN)
BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST
Date: July 30, 2024 · CIK: 0000790816 · Accession: 0000000000-24-008657
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July 30, 2024
Thomas E. Wirth
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Brandywine Realty Trust
2929 Arch Street, Suite 1800
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Re:Brandywine Realty Trust
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023
File No. 001-09106
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Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023
File No. 000-24407
Dear Thomas E. Wirth:
We have reviewed your May 23, 2024 response to our comment letter and have the
following comments.
Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we
note otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our May 2, 2024 letter.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023
Item 2. Properties, page 25
1.We acknowledge your response to prior comment 1. Please tell us, and in future Exchange
Act reports discuss, how rent concessions or abatements, tenant improvements or other
inducements impacted your average annualized rent for the reporting period.
2.We note your explanation in response to prior comment 2 that you use non-formulaic and
qualitative adjectives to describe the mix of qualities taken into consideration within a
given market. To provide investors with appropriate context, please tell us and in future
Exchange Act periodic reports define the qualities of your assets or the qualities of
prospective properties or developments that you consider in each market when
determining whether a property is "quality" or "high quality."
July 30, 2024
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Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,
page 29
3.We note that your response to prior comment 3 indicates that within the Management's
Discussion and Analysis section of your 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K there was a
specific discussion of the impacts that increased interest rates have had on your business,
including the current impacts of higher interest rates on property valuations,
acquisition/disposition activity, results of operations, financial condition, and liquidity.
The discussion of the impact of interest rates within that section appears to be
hypothetical, other than the results of operations discussion of interest expense and equity
in loss of unconsolidated real estate ventures. While we note that the termination of the
purchase and sale agreement was disclosed in the discussion of impairment charges, this
was not linked to the increase in interest rates or the resulting reduced lending to owners
of commercial real estate. Please tell us what consideration you gave to discussing this
transaction, the reasons it was not successful, and the potential implications, within the
Management's Discussion and Analysis section.
Please contact Eric McPhee at 202-551-3693 or Shannon Menjivar at 202-551-3856 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Catherine De Lorenzo at 202-551-3772 or Isabel Rivera at 202-551-3518 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction