The Republic Family of Companies (“Republic”) encompasses several operating companies including Republic Land Development LLC, Republic Properties Corporation, and Republic Urban Properties LLC. We are a privately owned, full-service real estate investment, management and development enterprise. For more than 25 years we have focused on institutional quality real estate, actively managing partnerships and other fiduciary relationships for successful real estate investments throughout the United States. Republic has developed award-winning real estate projects ranging from land development to historic adaptive reuse to shopping malls. We have developed and invested in real property transactions totaling over 17 million square feet with a value in excess of $4 billion. Republic has vast experience in the entitlement, development, leasing, financing, construction and management of urban retail, residential, office and parking. As we have pursued a variety of development projects, our efforts have been notable for the attention paid to local citizen groups. We solicit and pay close attention to stated neighborhood community needs and incorporate reasonable responses to them in our projects. This sensitivity, combined with extensive knowledge of—and respect for—the goals of local government, has enabled Republic to establish an enviable record of entitling even the most complex and challenging projects. In addition, we are proud of our outstanding record of exceeding minority outreach and contracting requirements in every place we do business.