SITE Centers (DDR) Risk Analysis

Any distributions the Company makes to its shareholders will be at the discretion of the Board of Directors and will depend upon, among other things, the Company's liquidity, which will be affected by various factors, including income and sale proceeds from its remaining properties, the collection of amounts owed to the Company by tenants and third parties, the Company's projected operating and wind-up expenses and the amount of claims made against the Company during the winding up of its operations. As a result, no assurance can be given regarding the level or timing of any distributions the Company may make in the future.

E-commerce has been broadly embraced by the public and growth in e-commerce is likely to continue in the future. Some of the Company's tenants have been negatively impacted by increasing competition from internet retailers, and this trend could affect the way current and future tenants lease space. For example, the migration toward e-commerce has led a number of omni-channel retailers to reduce the number and size of their traditional "brick and mortar" locations, and increasingly rely on e-commerce and alternative distribution channels. The Company cannot predict with certainty how continuing growth in e-commerce will impact the demand for space at its properties or how much revenue will be generated at traditional store locations in the future. If the Company is unable to anticipate and respond promptly to trends in retailer and consumer behavior, or if demand for traditional retail space significantly decreases, the Company's occupancy levels, operating results and the value of its properties could be materially and adversely affected.

A foreign person disposing of a U.S. real property interest, including shares of a U.S. corporation whose assets consist principally of U.S. real property interests, is generally subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gain recognized on the disposition. This tax does not apply, however, to the disposition of stock in a REIT if the REIT is "domestically controlled." In general, the Company will be a domestically controlled REIT if at all times during the five-year period ending on the applicable stockholder's disposition of the Company's stock, less than 50% in value of the stock was held directly or indirectly by non-U.S. persons. If the Company were to fail to qualify as a domestically controlled REIT, gain recognized by a foreign stockholder on a disposition of the Company's common shares would be subject to U.S. federal income tax unless the common shares were traded on an established securities market and the foreign stockholder did not at any time during a specific testing period directly or indirectly own more than 10% of the Company's outstanding common stock.

The Company can issue preferred shares and common shares without shareholder approval subject to certain limitations in the Company's Articles of Incorporation. Holders of preferred shares have priority over holders of common shares, and the issuance of additional shares reduces the ownership interest of existing holders in the Company.

The Company's common shares are currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") under the trading symbol "SITC." However, there can be no assurance that the Company's common shares will continue to be listed on the NYSE or that an active trading market for the Company's common shares will be maintained, especially as the Company executes on its strategy to sell its remaining properties and make distributions to shareholders, which is expected to negatively impact the price of the Company's common shares, its market capitalization and its ability to satisfy the NYSE's minimum listing requirements. The Company expects to voluntarily de-list its common shares from the NYSE as it approaches price-per-share and market capitalization levels that would trigger automatic de-listing. The NYSE also has certain discretionary authority to de-list the Company's common shares. Accordingly, no assurance can be given as to the ability of the Company's shareholders to sell their common shares or the price that shareholders may obtain for their common shares, particularly after the Company's common shares cease to be listed on the NYSE.

Pursuant to the terms of the Shared Services Agreement, until October 1, 2027 or such earlier time as the Shared Services Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, the Company is generally obligated to provide Curbline Properties with the services of such Company's employees and the use or benefit of such of the Company's assets, offices and other resources as may be necessary or useful for Curbline Properties to establish and operate various business functions in a manner consistent with a REIT similarly situated to Curbline Properties. As a result of these obligations, even as sales of Company assets cause a significant decrease in the size of the Company's portfolio and income, the Company will have limited ability to proportionately reduce the size of its organization and general and administrative expense during the term of the Shared Services Agreement. While Curbline Properties is required to pay certain fees to the Company pursuant to the terms of the Shared Services Agreement, these fees do not fully offset the cost of the services and benefits the Company is required to provide to Curbline Properties during the term of the agreement. As a result, the costs incurred by the Company to satisfy its obligations to Curbline Properties during the term of the Shared Services Agreement are expected to continue to have an increasingly disproportionate and adverse impact on the Company's results of operations and its ability to use cash flow from operations and disposition proceeds to make distributions to shareholders.