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Kite Realty Group Trust, Feldman Mall Properties, Grayco Partners, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. and Fieldstone Investment Corp. Select FRB for Financial Communications and Investor Relations CHICAGO, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Relations Board (FRB), one of the nation's leaders in financial communications and investor relations, announced today the continued expansion of its REIT and real estate practice with the addition of eight new domestic clients: Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG), Feldman Mall Properties (NYSE:FMP), Grayco Partners, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF), Fieldstone Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:FICC), Douglas Emmett (NYSE:DEI), CBRE Realty Finance, Inc. (NYSE:CBF) and Quadra Realty Trust. FRB will implement full-service investor relations and financial communications programs on behalf of Kite Realty Group Trust, Feldman Mall Properties, Grayco Partners, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., and Fieldstone Investment Corp. Additionally, the firm handled all pre-IPO work and will be providing after-market IR and financial communications for Douglas Emmett and CBRE Realty Finance. On behalf of Quadra Realty Trust, FRB is providing all pre-IPO IR consulting to its senior management team and working hand-in-hand with its investment bankers on messaging, IPO presentation and website creation and content. "The addition of these eight marquee clients to our domestic REIT practice underscores FRB's dominance in the real estate sector," said Claire A. Koeneman, Co-President of Financial Relations Board and real estate practice leader. "FRB continues to be hired for our best practices consulting work, as well as our expertise in assisting pre-IPO companies and helping to make their transition to the public realm smooth and seamless." FRB's newest clients include: * Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG) - Kite Realty Group Trust is a fully vertically integrated real estate company focused primarily on the development, construction, acquisition, ownership and operation of high quality neighborhood and community shopping centers in selected growth markets in the United States. * Feldman Mall Properties (NYSE:FMP) - Feldman Mall Properties, Inc. acquires, renovates and repositions enclosed retail shopping malls. Feldman Mall Properties Inc.'s investment strategy is to opportunistically acquire underperforming malls and transform them into physically attractive and profitable Class A or near Class A malls through comprehensive renovation and re-tenanting efforts aimed at increasing shopper traffic and tenant sales. * Grayco Partners (Private company: TX-based) - Grayco Partners is a long- term real estate investment builder. Grayco Partners strategy is to invest in multifamily and mixed-retail properties in strong geographic markets. * NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF) - NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. is an internally-managed real estate finance company. NorthStar Realty Finance invests in real estate debt business, which acquires, originates, and structures debt investments secured primarily by income- producing real estate properties; real estate securities business that invest in commercial real estate debt securities, including commercial mortgage backed securities, REIT unsecured debt, and credit tenant loans; and net lease properties business, which acquires properties that are primarily net leased to corporate tenants. * Fieldstone Investment Corporation (NASDAQ:FICC) - Fieldstone Investment Corporation is a self-managed, fully integrated mortgage banking REIT that originates, securitizes, sells and services non-conforming and conforming single-family residential mortgage loans secured primarily by first liens and retains a portion of its high-quality non-conforming residential mortgage loans to build and manage an investment portfolio. * Douglas Emmett (NYSE:DEI) - Douglas Emmett is a full-service real estate investment and management firm based in Santa Monica, California, and one of the largest owners and operators of high-quality office and multifamily properties. The company has ownership interests in 46 Class A, high-rise and mid-rise office buildings, which total over 11.6 million square feet, and nine luxury apartment communities, aggregating 2,868 apartment units. The company's asset portfolio is located in premiere neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California and Honolulu, Hawaii. * CBRE Realty Finance, Inc. (NYSE:CBF) - CBRE is the REIT spin-off of the largest real estate company in the United States, CB Richard Ellis. CBRE is a commercial real estate specialty finance company based in Hartford, Connecticut that primarily focuses on originating, acquiring, investing in, financing and managing a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate-related loans and securities. * Quadra Realty Trust - Quadra Realty Trust will invest in commercial mortgage investments, real estate and related products, including construction loans, bridge loans, mezzanine loans, B notes, loan participations, fixed and floating rate whole loans and preferred equity in commercial real estate. They are externally managed and advised by Hypo Real Estate Capital, a commercial real estate finance company. About Financial Relations Board For more than 40 years, the Financial Relations Board has been one of the nation's leaders for investor relations and financial communications. The firm offers a full array of services, including deep expertise in corporate positioning and communication, investment community targeting (market intelligence), financial media relations, shareholder management services, valuation analysis, and the company's industry-leading Strategy Consulting Group. Financial Relations Board works alongside companies of all sizes, from established Fortune 100 brands to mid-size and micro-cap companies, pre-IPOs and the newly public. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm has full-service offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Financial Relations Board is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG). For more information on Financial Relations Board, visit http://www.frbir.com/. DATASOURCE: Financial Relations Board CONTACT: Chris Savarese of MWW Group, +1-201-964-2405, Web site: http://www.frbir.com/

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