SL Green Realty Corporation (SLG) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
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SL Green Realty Corporation (NYSE: SLG)
Q2 2019 Earnings Call
Jul 18, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET

Contents:

  • Prepared Remarks

  • Questions and Answers

  • Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:

Operator

Thank you, everybody, for joining us and welcome to SL Green Realty Corp's Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Results Conference Call. This conference call is being recorded. At this time, the Company would like to remind listeners that during the call, management may make forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ from the forward-looking statements that management may make today. Additional information regarding the factors that could cause such differences appear in the MD&A section of the Company's Form 10-K and other reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also during today's conference call, the Company may discuss non-GAAP financial measures as defined by SEC Regulation G.

The GAAP financial measure most directly comparable to each non-GAAP financial measure discussed and the reconciliation of the differences between each non-GAAP financial measure and the comparable GAAP financial measure can be found on the Company's website at www.slgreen.com, by selecting the press release regarding the Company's second quarter 2019 earnings.

Before turning the call over to Andrew Mathias, President of SL Green Realty Corp, I ask that those of you participating in the Q-and-A portion of the call, please limit your questions to two per person.

Thank you. I would now turn the call over to Andrew Mathias. Please go ahead, Andrew.

Andrew W. Mathias -- President

Thank you, operator and good afternoon, everyone. It's Andrew Mathias filling in for Marc, who unfortunately had a death in the family last night. So is unable to join the call today. The rest of the management team is here with me though. Hopefully, everyone had a chance to review the earnings release, which should convey that this was another strong quarter across our business and the New York City market in which we operate.

We have a very deliberate plan and we are executing on it in a way that drives value across our portfolio and continues to be justified by a robust New York City jobs, capital markets and leasing environment. New York City OMB again raised its 2019 jobs forecast for both private sector and office, using employment by about 25% in each category to 71,000 and 26,000 respectively.

And hiring to date in most major sectors continues apace. As the jobs base continues to diversify away from the fire sector in New York City. We were very busy this quarter in support of our business plan in all areas of SL Green. We signed 40 leases covering more than 500,000 feet this quarter, well ahead of projections as leasing pace shows no signs of slowing up. We closed on the sale of 521 Fifth Avenue, concluding our very successful history with that building, which began with a mezzanine loan in 1999, continued to an equity acquisition, then recapitalisation by a joint venture and then an additional recapitalization via joint venture and ends with our sale to Savanna generating a 13.4% IRR over our 13 year equity hold period for the asset.