Whitestone REIT to Offer Common Shares

HOUSTON-Whitestone REIT said that week that it intends to sell 4,000,000 of its common shares in an underwritten public offering. In connection with the offering, Whitestone intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 600,000 common shares to cover over-allotments, if any. Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. and JMP Securities LLC are acting as joint-book running managers of the offering.

Whitestone will contribute the net proceeds of the offering to its operating partnership in exchange for units of limited partnership interest in the operating partnership. The operating partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include acquisitions of additional properties, the repayment of outstanding indebtedness, capital expenditures (including tenant improvements), the expansion, redevelopment and/or re-tenanting of properties in Whitestone’s portfolio, working capital and other general purposes.