Type | Public company |
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NYSE: WRI S&P 400 component | |
Industry | Real estate investment trust |
Founded | 1948 |
Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
Key people | Stanford Alexander, Chairman Andrew M. Alexander, CEO Stephen C. Richter, CFO |
Revenue | $486 million (2019) |
$322 million (2019) | |
Total assets | $3.937 billion (2019) |
Total equity | $1.876 billion (2019) |
Number of employees | 239 (2019) |
Website | weingarten |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Weingarten Realty Investors is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers, primarily in the Southern United States and primarily with grocery stores as the anchor stores.[1]
As of December 31, 2019, the company owned interests in 170 properties comprising 32.5 million square feet.[1]
During 2019, 20.0% of the company's revenues were generated from properties in the Houston area and 29.3% of the company's revenues were generated from properties in Texas.[1] The company's largest tenants, Kroger and TJX Companies, each accounted for 2.5% of revenue in 2019.[1]
In the 1880s, Hersch Harris Weingarten, a poor Jewish immigrant from Łańcut (what was then Austria-Hungary),[2][3] started a grocery business in Houston called Weingarten's.[4]
In 1948, Joseph Joe Weingarten, the eldest son of Harris Weingarten founded Weingarten Realty to build stores for his father's business.[4] In 1980, Safeway Inc. purchased the grocery operations.[4]
In 1985, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.[4]
In 2002, the company acquired 3 shopping centers for $46.2 million.[5][6]
In 2012, the company sold all of its industrial assets for $382.4 million.[7]
In 2021, Kimco Realty announced its intent to acquire Weingarten.[8]