Atlanta provides NCR $3.2 million for Midtown move; terms unavailable

Atlanta has provided a $3.2 million grant to NCR to help fund its relocation to Midtown.

Terms of the grant were unavailable. Information from an economic impact study conducted by Invest Atlanta, the city’s development arm, was not available Wednesday.

The legislation approved Tuesday by the Atlanta City Council, which provided the money, included these details:

The legislation did not provide a timeline by which these milestones are to be met.

NCR has a market cap of $4.49 billion. It has not paid dividends in more than a year, according to stock data provided by wsj.com.

Clawback penalties are not unusual in these kinds of transactions.

For example, Carter’s Inc. agreed to a number of provisions to obtain a $350,000 grant it used to complete its relocation to offices in Buckhead. The Atlanta funding was part of a $30 million assistance package the company received to move to Atlanta.

The public benefits analysis to which Carter agreed in order to obtain the grant from Atlanta includes the following provisions:

To verify its compliance, Carter has agreed to file annual reports that include:

Terms call for the amount of the clawback to be based on an amount to be derived from the difference between the objective of creating 200 jobs and the number actually created.

For example, if just 60 percent of those jobs is created, Carter’s would have come up 10 percent short of the minimum completion target of 70 percent. The clawback would be 10 percent of the grant.

NCR has said it intends to occupy its new Midtown campus in late 2017 or early 2018. The site is at Centergy North at Technology Square, located on Spring Street.

NCR also intends to maintain what it calls a “significant presence” at a campus in Atlanta’s northern suburbs. The company did not name a location, nor mention if the current location in Gwinnett County is a possibility.

The company chose Midtown as its future headquarters for the following reason, according to its Jan. 13 statement: