AURORA, ON, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MI Developments Inc. ("MID") (TSX: MIM.A, MIM.B; NYSE: MIM) today announced that Senator Rod A. A. Zimmer has been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Senator Zimmer has been a member of the Senate of Canada since August 2005 and currently serves on the standing committees for National Security and Defence and for Transportation and Communications. Since 1993, he has been the President of The Gatehouse Corporation. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Vice-President (Festivals) for the Pan American Games Society Inc. From 1986 to 1993, he was the Vice-President of Marketing and Communications and then the Executive Vice-President for the Manitoba Lotteries Foundation and was also the Director of Project Management for the Canadian Sports Pool Corporation in Ottawa in 1984. From 1979 to 1984, he was Vice-President of Corporate Communications for CanWest Capital Corporation. As a philanthropist, he serves as a member of the boards of directors for the following organizations: Canadian Paralympic Foundation, Gold Medal Plates (2010 Olympics and Paralympics), Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Burton Cummings Theatre, the Millennium Centre, Canadian Unity Council (Manitoba), and the Belinda Stronach Foundation. He also serves on the Honourary Council of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, as a member of the Board of the Canadian Paralympic Foundation, and as Canadian Paralympic Foundation Liaison Director to the board of directors of the Canadian Paralympic Committee. He was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1992 and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002. About MID MID is a real estate operating company focusing primarily on the ownership, leasing, management, acquisition and development of a predominantly industrial rental portfolio for Magna and its subsidiaries in North America and Europe. MID also acquires land that it intends to develop for mixed-use and residential projects. MID holds a controlling interest in MEC, North America's number one owner and operator of horse racetracks, based on revenue, and one of the world's leading suppliers, via simulcasting, of live horse racing content to the growing intertrack, off-track and account wagering markets. DATASOURCE: MI Developments Inc. CONTACT: Richard J. Smith, Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, at (905) 726-7507

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