NYSE, GOV - Government Properties Income Trust
The Company. We were organized as a real estate investment trust, or REIT,
under Maryland law on February 17, 2009 as a wholly owned subsidiary of HRPT
Properties Trust, or HRP. HRP is a REIT listed on the New York Stock Exchange,
or the NYSE, which owns office and industrial properties with a historical cost
of over $6 billion. We were organized to concentrate the ownership of certain
HRP properties that are majority leased to government tenants and to expand such
investments. On April 24, 2009, we acquired 100% ownership of the properties
that we owned at the time of our initial public offering, or IPO, by means of a
contribution from HRP to one of our subsidiaries. On June 8, 2009, we issued
10,000,000 of our common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per
share, or Shares, in our IPO and became a separate publicly owned company. ...
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