Exhibit 10.4
MEZZANINE PROMISSORY
NOTE
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$6,040,000.00
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February 1, 2007
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BREOF UVA GP LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, BREOF UVA LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company, PPC-UVA 15 th
Street Limited Partnership, a
Texas limited partnership and PPC Charlottesville GP, Inc., a Texas
corporation (“ Borrowers ”), FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
promise to pay to the order of Behringer Harvard UVA, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company or its assigns (“
Lender ”), at such place as Lender may from time to
time designate in writing, the principal sum of Six Million Forty
Thousand Dollars ($6,040,000.00) or so much thereof as may from
time to time have been advanced to Borrowers under this Note with
Interest (as defined below) on the outstanding principal amount at
the rates set forth herein.
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this Note
capitalized terms not defined below will be as defined in the Loan
Agreement:
“ Contribution
Agreement ” shall mean that certain Contribution
Agreement by and between Borrowers and Lender, dated of even date
herewith.
“ Default Interest
” shall mean any interest accruing at the Default Interest
Rate and payable pursuant to the terms hereof or of the other Loan
Documents.
“ Default Interest Rate
” shall mean a rate of interest per annum equal to the lesser
of either (a) eighteen percent (18%) or (b) the maximum
rate of interest which may be collected from Borrowers under
applicable law.
“ Interest ”
shall mean any interest accruing at the Interest Rate or the
Default Interest Rate, as applicable and payable pursuant to the
terms hereof or of the other Loan Documents.
“ Interest Rate ”
shall mean a rate of interest per annum equal to the lesser of: (a)
ten percent (10%) or (b) the maximum rate of interest which may be
collected from Borrowers under applicable law.
“ Late Charge ”
shall mean the lesser of (a) five percent (5%) of any unpaid
amount, or (b) the maximum late charge permitted to be charged
under applicable law.
“ Loan Agreement
” shall mean that certain Mezzanine Loan Agreement, between
Lender and Borrowers, dated of even date herewith, corresponding to
this Note, as the same may hereafter be amended, modified and
restated from time to time.
“ Maturity Date ”
shall mean February 25, 2008.
“ Payment Date ”
shall mean the first day of each calendar month, commencing on the
date set forth in Section 1.1, and the Maturity Date (or, if any
such date is not a Business Day, then the first Business Day
immediately before such date).
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SECTION 1 - STATED MATURITY;
INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS.
1.1
Payment of Interest . Interest shall accrue on this
Note at the Interest Rate or, during any time at which an Event of
Default is continuing, at the Default Interest Rate.
Commencing on February 1, 2007, and continuing monthly on the same
date of each calendar month thereafter up to and until the Maturity
Date, an installment of accrued and unpaid Interest shall be due
and payable to Lender. On the Maturity Date, all accrued but
unpaid Interest, shall be due and payable in full.
1.2
Payments of Principal . On the Maturity Date, if not
earlier prepaid, the unpaid principal balance, together with all
accrued but unpaid Interest, shall be due and payable in
full.
1.3
Payment on Stated Maturity Date . Any remaining unpaid
Indebtedness shall be due and payable in full at the Maturity Date,
subject, however, to the terms of the Contribution
Agreement.
1.4
Computation of Interest . Subject to the provisions of
Section 1.8, Interest under this Note shall be paid as set forth
herein and shall be calculated based on actual days elapsed and a
three hundred sixty (360) day year.
1.5
Method of Payment . Each payment due hereunder shall
not be deemed received by Lender until received on a Business Day
(as hereafter defined) in Federal funds in lawful money of the
United States of America immediately available to Lender prior to
2:00 p.m. local time at the place then designated by Lender.
Any payment received on a Business Day after the time established
by the preceding sentence, shall be deemed to have been received on
the immediately following Business Day for all purposes.
1.6
Application of Payments . Payments under this Note
shall be applied first to the payment of Late Charges and Default
Interest and other costs and charges due in connection with this
Note, as Lender determines in its sole discretion, then to the
payment of accrued but unpaid Interest, and then to reduction of
the outstanding principal balance. No principal amount repaid
may be reborrowed. All amounts due under this Note shall be
payable without setoff, counterclaim or any other deduction
whatsoever.
1.7
Prepayment . No prepayment of this Note shall be
permitted without the written approval of Lender.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Borrowers shall be permitted to
prepay this Note upon an event of default by Lender under the
Contribution Agreement such that the transactions contemplated
under the Contribution Agreement do not close in accordance with
the terms thereof and Borrowers are not then in default under the
Contribution Agreement. Borrower shall be required to prepay
this Note upon earlier to occur of: (a) the closing of the
transactions contemplated in the Contribution Agreement, (b) an
uncured default by Borrowers under the Contribution Agreement and
the commencement of the pursuit by Lender or its assignee of its
remedies in connection with such default, (c) the sale of the
Project Owner Membership Interest (as defined in the Contribution
Agreement) or the sale of the Project, (d) the event of an uncured
Event of Default by Borrower under the Loan Agreement (after taking
into account all applicable grace, notices and opportunity for
cure) or (e) the repayment of the Senior
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Loan. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any prepayment required under (b), (c) and (d) above
shall only occur with the approval of the Senior Lender (as defined
in the Loan Agreement).
1.8
No Usury . The provisions of this Note and of all
other agreements between Borrowers and Lender, whether now existing
or hereafter arising and whether written or oral, including, but
not limited to, the Loan Documents, are hereby expressly limited so
that, after taking into account all amounts deemed interest or as
reducing the true principal balance of the Loan, in no contingency
or event whatsoever, whether by reason of demand or acceleration of
the maturity of this Note or otherwise, shall the amount contracted
for, charged, taken, reserved, paid, or agreed to be paid to Lender
for the use, forbearance, retention or detention of the money
loaned under this Note and related indebtedness exceed the maximum
amount permissible under applicable law. If, from any
circumstance whatsoever, performance or fulfillment of any
provision hereof or of any agreement between Borrower and Lender
shall, at the time performance or fulfillment of such provision
shall be due, exceed the limit for interest prescribed by law or
otherwise transcend the limit of validity prescribed by applicable
law, then ipso facto the obligation to be performed or fulfilled
shall be reduced to such limit; and if, from any circumstance
whatsoever, Lender shall ever receive anything of value deemed
interest by applicable law in excess of the maximum lawful amount,
an amount equal to any excessive interest shall be applied to the
reduction of the principal balance owing under this Note in the
inverse order of its maturity (whether or not then due) or at the
option of Lender be paid over to Borrower, and not to the payment
of interest. All Interest (including any amounts or payments
judicially or otherwise under the law deemed to be interest)
contracted for, charged, taken, reserved, paid or agreed to be paid
to Lender shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be
amortized, prorated, allocated and spread throughout the full term
of the Note, including any extensions or renewals thereof, until
payment in full of the Indebtedness so that the Interest thereof
for such full period will not exceed at any time the maximum amount
permitted by applicable law. This paragraph 1.8 will control
all agreements between Borrowers and Lender. The loan is not
for family, household or personal purposes, but is a commercial
purpose loan.
SECTION 2 - DEFAULT;
REMEDIES
2.1
Acceleration . Lender may, by notice to Borrowers at
any time during the existence of an Event of Default (after any
applicable grace, notice or opportunity to cure as may be set forth
in the Loan Agreement), declare immediately due and payable the
entire principal amount outstanding hereunder together with all
Interest and other charges due hereunder including, without
limitation, all Late Charges and Default Interest.
2.2
Default Interest Rate; Late Charges .
(a)
After an Event of Default, the Default Interest Rate shall apply,
in place of the Interest Rate, to all amounts outstanding under the
Loan. Such Default Interest shall be compounded on the
monthly anniversary of such Event of Default until paid in
full.
(b)