Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. Announces Board Appointments

Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-managed commercial real estate investment company. The Company owns, leases, and operates income-producing retail properties with a primary focus on grocery-anchored centers. It owns a portfolio consisting of seventy-nine properties, including seventy-five retail shopping centers, totaling 8,142,065 leasable square feet, and four undeveloped land parcels totaling approximately 61 acres. The properties are geographically located in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Northeast. The Company’s income producing properties are located in South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Maryland, West Virginia, and Oklahoma. The Company generally leases its properties to national and regional supermarket chains and selects retailers that offer necessity and value-oriented services and items and generate regular consumer traffic.