Vista RED is a privately-owned real estate investment and development firm led by Brent Mann and Joe Dubuc. Prior to co-founding Vista during 2006, Brent spent 19 years working with Weingarten Realty Investors (NYSE: WRI) in a number of senior management roles in the areas of development, leasing and operations. Joe, a principal in our firm, joined Vista RED with more than 20 years of commercial real estate experience, including particular expertise in executing urban redevelopment projects. At Vista RED, Brent and Joe seek to leverage their vast experience and relationships throughout the U.S. commercial real estate market in executing value-added development strategies. Vista RED has the ability to pursue development opportunities on a national scale, although our primary focus will be on select markets we believe offer attractive long-term growth prospects.

Vista RED is focused on generating ground-up retail, urban mixed-use and adaptive re-use development projects with a targeted project size of $10-100 million, as well as retail and commercial redevelopment projects with a minimum size of 10 acres. With access to proprietary sources of investment capital, Vista RED will acquire attractive real estate parcels (or partner with local land owners) and then serve as a value-added development partner. We will also acquire existing anchored retail shopping centers (or portfolios of such centers) in need of market repositioning.

Vista RED and Weingarten Realty Investors (“WRI”) have executed a master development agreement as joint development partners focused on ground-up development and redevelopment projects in attractive markets throughout the U.S. The Vista-Weingarten partnership seeks to generate projects representing long-term holdings as well as merchant-build opportunities.

Please refer to our General Investment Criteria for further details regarding submission of packages and opportunities.

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