---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-25-001395"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EDUC"
cik: "0000031667"
company_name: "EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP"
filed_at: "2025-10-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:31:17.528493+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EDC sells Hilti Complex for $32.2M; buyer proceeds, closing within 45 days

## Summary
- Purchase price reduced to $32.2M; buyer's notice to proceed waives escrow.
- Proceeds will repay all outstanding bank debt; expect limited working capital borrowings.
- Interest savings on reduced borrowings will exceed monthly rent, improving cashflow.
- Complex: 402k sq ft; Hilti (15yr) and Crusoe Energy (10yr) leases assigned at closing.
- EDC will sign triple-net lease for its occupied space post-closing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-25-001395
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EDUC
- cik: 0000031667
- company_name: EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP
- filed_at: 2025-10-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518525001395/0001185185-25-001395-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518525001395/educ8k100625.htm

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