TORONTO, May 17, 2019 /CNW/ - Granite Real Estate
Investment Trust ("Granite") (TSX: GRT.UN / NYSE:
GRP.U) announced today that its board of trustees has declared
a distribution of CAD$0.233 per
stapled unit for the month of May
2019 representing $2.80 per
stapled unit on an annualized basis. The distribution will be
paid by Granite on June 14, 2019 to
stapled unitholders of record at the close of trading on
May 31, 2019. The stapled units will
begin trading on an ex-dividend basis at the opening of trading on
Thursday, May 30, 2019 on the Toronto
Stock Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange.
Granite confirms that no portion of the distribution constitutes
effectively connected income for U.S. federal tax purposes. A
qualified notice providing the breakdown of the sources of the
distribution will be issued to the Depository Trust & Clearing
Corporation subsequent to the record date of May 31, 2019, pursuant to United States Treasury
Regulation Section 1.1446-4.
ABOUT GRANITE
Granite is a Canadian-based REIT engaged in the acquisition,
development, ownership and management of industrial, warehouse and
logistics properties in North
America and Europe. Granite
owns over 80 investment properties representing approximately 34
million square feet of leasable area.
OTHER INFORMATION
Copies of financial data and other publicly filed documents
about Granite are available through the internet on the Canadian
Securities Administrators' Systems for Electronic Document Analysis
and Retrieval (SEDAR) which can be accessed at www.sedar.com and on
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic
Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (EDGAR) which can be
accessed at www.sec.gov. For further information, please see
our website at www.granitereit.com or contact Andrea Sanelli, Manager, Legal & Investor
Services, at 647-925-7504 or Ilias
Konstantopoulos, Chief Financial Officer, at
647-925-7540.
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SOURCE Granite Real Estate Investment Trust