Hudson Pacific and Macerich Complete $700 Million Sale of One Westside and Westside Two

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (NYSE: HPP), a unique provider of end-to-end real estate solutions for tech and media tenants, and Macerich (NYSE: MAC), one of the nation’s leading owners, operators and developers of major retail and mixed-use properties in top markets, today announced the sale of One Westside and Westside Two in Los Angeles to the Regents of the University of California for $700 million before prorations and closing costs. Hudson Pacific held a 75% interest and Macerich a 25% interest in the joint venture that owned the assets, which total approximately 687,000 square feet.

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“The opportunistic sale of One Westside and Westside Two significantly bolsters our balance sheet and we now have no debt maturities until year-end 2025,” said Victor Coleman, Chairman and CEO of Hudson Pacific. “We transformed the former Westside Pavilion mall into a multi-award winning, modern and flexible campus environment that attracted not one, but two distinct large-scale, high-quality end-users, a testament to our ability to create value through development expertise, commitment to quality and strong relationships.”

Macerich Chief Executive Officer Tom O’Hern noted that, “This transaction is an excellent example of how Macerich consistently makes the most of our opportunities to maximize value for our stakeholders. Net proceeds enable us to further deleverage and improve our liquidity profile, allowing us to more aggressively advance Macerich’s successful densification-diversification strategy, which adds new uses—from fitness, grocery and medical to residential, hotel, office and more—to our high-quality portfolio of Regional Town Centers in attractive U.S. markets.”

Hudson Pacific used net proceeds from the sale to repay amounts outstanding on its unsecured revolving credit facility. This transaction addresses the company’s debt maturities until December 2025, and further strengthens the company’s compliance with its unsecured revolving credit facility covenants as recently amended. Further, the company’s share of net debt to the company’s share of undepreciated book value as of September 30, 2023 proforma for all announced asset sales improved to 35% from 39%.