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Project narrative
In January 2016, Lloyds Commercial Banking entered into a four-year whole £185 million GBP loan facility agreement with a joint venture (JV) between Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) and Crosstree Real Estate Partners to partially refinance The O2 Arena's existing Entertainment District and to finance the development of a Designer Outlet Village at The O2. Then, in April 2016, Lloyds Commercial Banking syndicated 50% of the loan (£92.5 million GBP) to the London Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). This loan carried a maturity period of four years. Record ID#92053 captures ICBC's £92.5 million GBP contribution to the £185 million GBP loan. AEG and Crosstree both hold 50% equity stakes in the JV. AEG is an American sports and live entertainment company that operates The O2 Arena. Crosstree Real Estate Partners is a British private real estate investment. The purpose of the JV was the development of the Designer Outlet Village at The O2, as well as the operation and management of The O2 Arena's existing leisure and retail real estate. This project sought to construct a 204,000 square foot self-contained designer outlet village (mall) at The O2 Arena meant to support a total of 100 shops, namely premium and high street retailers, and restaurants and attract shoppers during the day. The Designer Outlet Village development had a cost of £69 million GBP. The Designer Outlet Village was later branded as ICON Outlet at The O2. ICON Outlet opened on October 18, 2018 for exclusive access for Priority for O2 customers, with its public opening scheduled for October 20, 2018. Upon completion of the ICON Outlet, ICBC and Lloyds provided a £231,000,000 GBP investment loan to the JV between AEG and Crosstree to refinance the existing £185 million GBP loan facility. Record ID#92057 captures this loan.
Staff comments
1. The individual contributions of ICBC and Lloyds to this £231,000,000 GBP syndicated loan are unknown. For the time being, AidData has estimated the contribution of ICBC by assuming that both of the lenders contributed an equal amount (£115,500,000 GBP) to the loan syndicate. 2. AidData has coded October 18, 2018 as the commitment date, but marked the commitment_date_estimated? field as True because this loan was made upon practical completion of ICON Outlet {{see Source ID#162800}}. ICON Outlet opened on October 18, 2018 {{see Source ID#162838}}.