Washington Prime Group's (WPG) CEO Lou Conforti on Q2 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Washington Prime Group, Inc. (WPG) Q2 2019 Earnings Conference Call July 25, 2019 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Lisa Indest – Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
Lou Conforti – Chief Executive Officer
Mark Yale – Chief Financial Officer
Josh Lindimore – Head-Leasing
Dan Scott – Senior Vice President-Development

Conference Call Participants

Ki Bin Kim – SunTrust
Caitlin Burrows – Goldman Sachs
Jim Sullivan – BTIG

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Second Quarter 2019 Washington Prime Group Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today’s program is being recorded.

And now I’d like to introduce your host for today’s program Lisa Indest, Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Please go ahead.

Lisa Indest

Good morning, and welcome to WPG’s second quarter 2019 earnings call. During today’s call, we will make certain forward-looking statements as defined by the federal security laws. These statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, plans and other matters that are not historical and are subject to the risks and uncertainties that might affect future events or results. For a detailed description of these risks, please refer to our earnings release and various SEC filings.

Management may also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, reconciliations of each non-GAAP financial measure to the comparable GAAP measure are included in our press release, supplemental information packet and SEC filings, which are available on the Investor Relations section of our website.

Members of management with us today are Lou Conforti, CEO; Mark Yale, CFO; Josh Lindimore, Head of Leasing; and Dan Scott, Senior VP of Development.

Now, I’ll turn the call over to Lou.

Lou Conforti

Thanks, Lisa, and hey everybody. Let’s