Weingarten Realty Investors was a real estate investment trust that invested in shopping centers, primarily in the Southern United States and primarily with grocery stores as the anchor stores.[1] In August 2021, the company was acquired by Kimco Realty.
As of December 31, 2020, the company owned interests in 159 properties comprising 30.2 million square feet.[1] In 2020, 20.6% of the company's revenues were generated from properties in the Houston area and 30.4% of the company's revenues were generated from properties in Texas.[1]
History
In the 1880s, Hersch Harris Weingarten, a poor Jewish immigrant from Łańcut (what was then Austria-Hungary),[2]