MEPT

MIKE MCKEE JOINS KENNEDY ASSOCIATES AS CEO IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2010
Originally a Board of Managers’ independent director at Kennedy Associates, MEPT’s real estate advisor, Mike McKee joined Kennedy full-time as CEO. The addition of Mike McKee expands Kennedy’s executive team and allows the company to divide the role of CEO and President into two positions that were formerly both held by John Parker, a founding principal of Kennedy...

IN FEBRUARY, MEPT SOLD BANDINI, AN INDUSTRIAL ASSET IN LOS ANGELES, FOR GROSS PROCEEDS OF $14.8 MILLION
Bandini, comprised of three, single-story, industrial buildings totaling 335,000 square feet, was originally purchased in 2003 as part of a 17-asset industrial portfolio and was 73 percent leased to three tenants. When acquired, the strategy for the portfolio was to sell each asset individually, maximizing the sale price MEPT could obtain....

DURING THE FIRST QUARTER, MEPT SOLD BEDFORD PARK BUSINESS CENTER IN CHICAGO FOR GROSS PROCEEDS OF $8.2 MILLION
MEPT built Bedford Park, a 296,000 square industrial building, in 2005. Bedford Park was targeted for sale because of persistent vacancy at the property and weakness in the surrounding submarket. Additionally, the sale provided an opportunity to reduce the Fund’s over-allocation to the Midwest region. The asset was purchased by a local owner/user, GRM, a provider of information management solutions....

Patriots Plaza signs new government tenant
The government continues to flock to Patriots Plaza in Southwest, having just signed a new 58,143-square-foot lease at the site this week. The 321,502-square-foot building, completed in October, is part of a three-phase, 1 million-square-foot office complex developed and leased by Trammell Crow Co. of D.C…The owner of Patriots Plaza, Multi-Employer Property Trust, has seen gradual leasing success at the complex since its first building, Patriots Plaza I, was completed in 2005…

Columbia deal may be hopeful sign. Sale price highest since 2007; financing rare
The majority owner of the Columbia Center towers in Troy has sold its stake in the complex ...Troy-based Kirco Development Corp., developer of both towers and formerly a minority investor, bought out the majority investor…

San Francisco Office Values Begin to Crystalize
One of the upcoming sales is 303 Second St. (left), a 732,000 square-foot property 90 percent leased through the end of March. This transaction will give the San Francisco office market a benchmark for both building values and capitalization rates… There was plenty of buyer interest in the property, too; it attracted nearly 20 bids. The top seven or eight of the offers were north of $300 a square foot…


	MANAGEMENT TEAM \| POLICY BOARD MEMBERS

Management Team

MEPT is organized as a bank collective investment trust, which is maintained by NewTower Trust Company. The Fund is managed by three entities: Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel, LP, (Kennedy) of Seattle, Washington, serves as the real estate investment advisor, Landon Butler & Company, LP® (LBC) provides investor relations and marketing services to MEPT, and NewTower Trust Company (NewTower), of Bethesda, Maryland, serves as the trustee and fiduciary of the Fund.

MEPT's management team has a unique combination of capabilities since the team is made of three organizations with distinct areas of expertise, and more than 95 professionals with a broad range of real estate and investment management acumen. NewTower, Kennedy and LBC work together on MEPT to offer participating pension plans an attractive and direct way to invest in equity real estate.

Kennedy, the real estate investment advisor to MEPT, was founded in 1978. LBC became a full service investor relations firm in 1981. Together, Kennedy and LBC founded MEPT in 1981. NewTower became the fiduciary and trustee of MEPT on June 14, 2005.

MEPT uses a Policy Board to perform oversight and risk analysis for the Fund. Principals of NewTower, Kennedy, and LBC serve together on MEPT's Policy Board. The Policy Board determines MEPT's strategic direction, including investment policy and portfolio strategy. The Policy Board meets at least twice a year to review the performance and management of the Fund. The current members of the Policy Board are Landon Butler (LBC), Patrick Mayberry (NewTower), John Parker (Kennedy) and Gary Whitelaw (Bentall Capital).

Kennedy serves as the real estate advisor to MEPT. Kennedy, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices in Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California and Washington, D.C., manages real estate assets of more than $7.8 billion.

Landon Butler & Company, LP® (LBC), headquartered in Washington, D.C., sponsors and provides services to real estate investment vehicles developed to meet the needs of U.S. and foreign multi-employer, public employee, and corporate pension plans.

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