TORONTO, Sept. 18, 2017 /CNW/ - Granite Real
Estate Investment Trust ("Granite") (TSX: GRT.UN / NYSE: GRP.U)
announced today that its board of trustees has declared a
distribution on Granite's stapled units of CDN$0.217 per stapled unit. The
distribution will be paid by Granite on October 16, 2017 to stapled unitholders of record
at the close of trading on September
29, 2017. The stapled units will begin trading on an
ex-dividend basis at the opening of trading on Thursday, September 28, 2017 on the Toronto Stock
Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange.
As it relates to certain unitholders, Granite confirms that no
portion of the above distribution constitutes effectively connected
income. A qualified notice providing the breakdown of the
sources of the above distribution will be issued to the Depository
Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) subsequent to the record
date of September 29, 2017, pursuant
to United States Treasury Regulation Section 1.1446-4.
ABOUT GRANITE
Granite is a Canadian-based REIT engaged in the ownership and
management of predominantly industrial, warehouse and logistics
properties in North America and
Europe. Granite owns approximately
30 million square feet in over 90 rental income properties. Our
tenant base includes Magna International Inc. and its operating
subsidiaries as our largest tenants, in addition to tenants from
other industries.
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 Michael Forsayeth, Chief Executive Officer, at
647-925-7600 or Ilias
Konstantopoulos, Chief Financial Officer, at
647-925-7540.
SOURCE Granite Real Estate Investment Trust