First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. Announces Retirement of Bruce W. Duncan as President and Chief Executive Officer, with Effect from December 31, 2016

First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. is a self-administered and fully integrated real estate company. The Company owns, manages, acquires, sells, develops, and redevelops industrial real estate. Through its fully integrated operating and investing platform, the Company provides facilities and customer service to multinational corporations and regional firms that are essential for their supply chains. The Company owns approximately 428 industrial properties, of which 422 are classified as in-service. The 422 in-service industrial properties contained an aggregate of approximately 64.9 million square feet of gross leasable area (GLA) in 18 states, with a diverse base of tenants engaged in a wide variety of businesses, including e-commerce, third-party logistics and transportation, consumer and other manufactured products, retail and consumer services, food and beverage, lumber and building materials, wholesale goods, health services, governmental and other.