Christopher P. Tessitore Joins Commercial Net Lease Realty, Inc.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Commercial Net Lease Realty, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NNN), announced today that Christopher P. Tessitore has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Tessitore had been a partner at the Orlando-based business law firm of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A., where he specialized in commercial real estate acquisition and development. As Assistant General Counsel, Mr. Tessitore will be primarily responsible for structuring and closing the company's real estate transactions, as well as managing the company's outside counsel. "Chris has been an integral part of NNN's operational success for many years," said Jay Whitehurst, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "We are looking forward to even further benefiting from his expertise as our lead in-house real estate counsel." Mr. Tessitore is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is an international trade association of the shopping center industry. The organization, founded in 1957, has 65,000 members worldwide, which include shopping center owners, developers and managers, as well as other individuals, (ICSC) and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and the United Way Leadership Club. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received his J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif An unincorporated national scholastic honor society in law. Its purpose is to foster excellence in legal scholarship and to recognize those who have attained high grades in law school or who have distinguished themselves in the teaching of law. , from the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. College of Law. Commercial Net Lease Realty invests primarily in high quality, single-tenant retail properties generally subject to long-term, net leases with established tenants, such as Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, CVS, OfficeMax and the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, . As of December 31, 2004, the Company owned 362 investment properties in 38 states with a gross leasable area of approximately 8.5 million square feet. These properties are leased to 151 corporations in 56 industry classifications. |
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