ProLogis will help you spread the word -- or at least help you spread the goods. The industrial real estate investment trust (REIT) acquires and develops warehouses and distribution facilities for some 4,000 retailers and manufacturers such as MolsonCoors and Unilever. It owns more than 2,400 properties in Asia, Europe, and North America. All together, ProLogis owns, manages or is developing more than 475 million sq. ft. of space. The company is selective about development and usually only develops pre-leased properties. Its fund management operations oversee long-term property investments. ProLogis holds about 30% of publicly traded ProLogis European Properties.

Transwestern Realty Finance is actually Midwestern but realty finance is the name of the game. The Chicago company, a newly formed real estate investment trust (REIT), plans to originate, acquire, and manage loans and other debt backed by US commercial real estate. It plans to make most of the loans itself targeting experienced borrowers with a good track record; it will also acquire undervalued debt. The company, which filed an IPO in 2009, believes a combination of tight credit markets and government assistance programs will help it succeed. Transwestern Realty Finance will be managed by Transwestern Realty Finance Partners, which has about a dozen investment funds and nearly $4 billion in equity capital.

Driven... Anthem Properties is a 100-person real estate investment, development and management company operating in Western Canada, headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. The group principally pursues retail and multi-family residential asset classes. The Anthem portfolio is currently comprised of 3.5 million square feet of retail, 50 acres of urban and suburban land held for future development, and approximately 1,000 residential condominium units under construction.

Burroughs & Chapin Company's presence in Horry County (pronounced O-Ree) and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, began more than a century ago when Franklin G. Burroughs settled in nearby antebellum Conway and recognized the potential of the turpentine business there. As Burroughs' turpentine and mercantile business grew, Conway flourished as a primary destination on the Waccamaw River. Riverboats like the "F.G. Burroughs" linked Horry County to the rest of the world.

Weingarten Realty Investors operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). The company engages in the management, acquisition, and development of real estate. It operates in two segments, Shopping Center and Industrial. The Shopping Center segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of real estate, primarily anchored neighborhood and community shopping centers located in Texas, California, Louisiana, Arizona, Nevada, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Utah, Kentucky, and Maine. Its customer base includes supermarkets, discount retailers, drugstores, and other retailers. The Industrial segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of bulk warehouses and office/service centers. Its properties are located in Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Florida, California, and Tennessee. As of June 30, 2005, Weingarten Realty Investors owned or operated under long-term leases, directly or through its interest in joint ventures or partnerships, a total of 350 developed properties and 3 properties that are in various stages of development. Its properties include 294 shopping centers and 59 industrial properties. Weingarten Realty Investors qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be taxed on the portion of its income, which is distributed to shareholders, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income. The company was founded in 1948 and is based in Houston, Texas.

In 1993, Don Barr established Donald L. Barr & Co. Inc. utilizing his specialized talents to build condominiums and cluster home communities. Don has had 16 years of experience with another Cleveland area builder where he was involved in the planning and construction of 18 communities and over 800 homes. He also served as a Builder/Developer Management Consultant for a number of local organizations and within the City of Cleveland.

Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., real estate investment trust, engages in the ownership, operation, development and redevelopment of supermarket-anchored community shopping centers and drug store-anchored convenience centers in the United States. As of December 31, 2007, it owned 118 properties, aggregating approximately 12.0 million square feet of gross leasable area primarily in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, and New York. Cedar Shopping has elected to be treated as a REIT for federal income tax purposes and would not be subject to federal income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its stockholders. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Port Washington, New York.

NAI Realvest is a market leading commercial real estate brokerage firm founded in 1988. Since joining the NAI Global network in 2002, we have continued our growth and expansion to cover all areas throughout Central Florida. We provide services in all facets of commercial real estate, including land brokerage, office, retail and industrial sales and leasing, tenant representation, property and asset management, investment, development and consulting services. Specialty practice groups are key to the success of NAI Realvest and include office, retail, logistics, LEED experienced, land, valuations, industrial, life sciences & biotechnology, investments, hotel & hospitality, real estate for technology.

We are the largest publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership and leasing of service stations, convenience stores and petroleum distribution terminals in the United States. We provide financing to the petroleum and convenience store industries for acquisitions, site upgrades and refinancing through our sale/leaseback and net lease financing programs. We own or lease approximately 1,050 service station and convenience store properties and nine petroleum distribution terminals in twenty-one states. We were founded in 1955 with the ownership of one gasoline service station in New York City and historically operated as an integrated wholesale and retail marketer and owner of gasoline stations. As our business grew, we combined real estate ownership, leasing and management with petroleum supply and distribution. We had our initial public offering in 1971 under the name Power Test Corp. In 1997, we spun-off our petroleum marketing business to our shareholders as a separate NYSE listed company, Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., which was acquired in 2000 by a subsidiary of OAO Lukoil, one of Russia's largest integrated oil companies. We lease approximately 78% of our properties to Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. on a long-term net basis. The balance of the properties are leased to individual operators and petroleum distributors.

Hersha Hospitality Trust, a real estate investment trust, engages in the ownership and operation of mid scale limited service hotels in the Eastern United States. As of June 30, 2005, it owned interests in 35 hotels, including 4 hotels owned through joint ventures in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. The company has elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, Hersha would not be subject to income tax to the extent it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

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