Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Co.

04/04/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/04/2025 14:05

Material Agreement (Form 8-K)

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Omnibus Extension of Certain Debt Instruments

On March 31, 2025, the Hall of Fame Resort& Entertainment Company (the "Company") and HOF Village Newco, LLC ("Newco," and collectively with the Company "Borrower") entered into a formal omnibus extension of debt instruments ("Omnibus Extension") with CH Capital Lending, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("CHCL"), IRG, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company ("IRG"), and Midwest Lender Fund, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("MLF" individually; IRG, CHCL, and MLF referred to collectively as "Lenders"). The impacted agreements include the following, as amended from time to time (collectively, "Subject IRG Debt Instruments"):

(a) that certain Term Loan Agreement (as amended or modified from time to time), dated December 1, 2020, as assigned to CHCL in its capacity as "Administrative Agent" for itself and the other lenders, on March 1, 2022, and all agreements, instruments, and promissory notes executed in connection with such Term Loan Agreement, as subsequently amended;

(b) that certain Secured Cognovit Promissory Note, effective as of November 7, 2022, by and among certain of the Borrowers, as makers, and JKP Financial, LLC ("JKP"), as holder, as modified by the Omnibus Release of Youth Fields Borrower from Certain Debt Instruments, dated as of January 11, 2024, by CHCL, IRG, JKP, and/or MLF, in favor of HOF Village Youth Fields, LLC, and the Omnibus Extension of Debt Instruments, dated April 7, 2024, which relates to that certain Secured Cognovit Promissory Note, dated as of June 19, 2020, made by certain of the Borrowers, as assigned by HOF Village, LLC to Newco pursuant to that certain Contribution Agreement dated as of June 30, 2020, by and between HOF Village, LLC and Newco, and as amended by that certain First Amendment to Secured Promissory Note, dated as of December 1, 2020 and the Joinder and Second Amendment to Secured Cognovit Promissory Note, dated as of March 1, 2022, among Newco, HOF Village Hotel II, LLC, the Company, and JKP, which note was assigned by JKP to IRG Master Holdings, LLC, effective January 15, 2025, as subsequently assigned effective January 15, 2025 to CHCL;

(c) that certain Secured Cognovit Promissory Note, dated effective as of November 7, 2022, made by certain of the Borrowers, as modified by the Omnibus Release of Youth Fields Borrower from Certain Debt Instruments, dated as of January 11, 2024, by CHCL, IRG, JKP, and/or MLF, in favor of HOF Village Youth Fields, LLC, which was assigned by JKP to IRG Master Holdings, LLC, effective January 15, 2025, as subsequently assigned effective January 15, 2025 to CHCL;

(d) that certain Second Amended and Restated Secured Cognovit Promissory Note, dated effective as of November 7, 2022, from certain of the Borrowers and others to CHCL as subsequently amended;

(e) that certain Joinder and Second Amended and Restated Secured Cognovit Promissory Note, dated effective as of November 7, 2022, from certain of the Borrowers and others to IRG as may have been subsequently amended; and

(f) that certain Secured Cognovit Promissory Note, dated effective as of November 7, 2022, from certain of the Borrowers and others to MLF as may have been subsequently amended, which relates to that certain Cognovit Promissory Note, dated as of April 27, 2022, from certain of the Borrowers to MLF as may have been subsequently amended.