Plymouth Industrial REIT Continues Improvement of its Capital Structure with $78 Million Refinancing of Variable Rate Debt on Chicago Portfolio

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE American: PLYM) today announced that it has closed on a new 10-year $78.0 million loan from Transamerica Life Insurance Company with a fixed interest rate of 4.35% and secured by 18 Chicago area properties. The proceeds of the loan, together with additional working capital, were used to repay in full the Company’s $79.8 million variable rate secured term loan from GS Special Situations Group scheduled to mature in December 2019 with a floating interest rate of 310 basis points over LIBOR. The previous loan was used to partially fund Plymouth’s acquisition of a 15-property industrial portfolio in the greater Chicago area from a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs in November 2017.

Daniel Wright, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Plymouth Industrial REIT, noted, “With this refinancing, we have 80% of our total debt at fixed rates maturing over the next 5 to 10 years with a weighted average interest rate of 4.13%. The new loan also results in annual direct interest savings in excess of $600,000.”

Jeff Witherell, Plymouth’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, added, “We have made great strides in 2018 to improve our capital structure. With this refinancing and the May 2018 prepayment of our mezzanine debt through KeyBank, we have significantly reduced our cost of debt while eliminating most of our variable rate debt exposure.”

About Plymouth

Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc. is a vertically integrated and self-managed real estate investment trust focused on the acquisition and operation of single and multi-tenant industrial properties located in secondary and select primary markets across the United States. The Company seeks to acquire properties that provide income and growth that enable the Company to leverage its real estate operating expertise to enhance shareholder value through active asset management, prudent property re-positioning and disciplined capital deployment.

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Released July 16, 2018