WPT Industrial Reit Announces Timing of First Quarter 2016 Results & Conference Call and 2015 Annual and Special Meeting of Unitholders

TORONTO, April 1, 2016 /CNW/ - WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust (the "REIT") (TSX: WIR.U - OTCQX: WPTIF) will issue its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 on the afternoon of Thursday, May 12, 2016. A conference call hosted by the REIT's management team will be held on Friday, May 13, 2016 at 10:00 am Eastern Time.

The telephone numbers to participate in the conference call are:

Canada Toll Free: [phone]

U.S. Toll Free: [phone]

International: [phone]

The conference call will also be webcast over the REIT's web site at www.wptreit.com. Please click on "Investors" and follow the link. Participants are requested to dial-in or access the webcast at least ten minutes before the start time.

The telephone numbers to listen to the call after it is completed (Instant Replay) are Canada Toll Free [phone], U.S. Toll Free [phone] and International [phone]. The Passcode for the Instant Replay is 10083581#. A recording of the call will also be archived on the REIT's web site at www.wptreit.com.

Annual and Special Unitholders' Meeting
The REIT will hold its Annual and Special Meeting of the REIT's Unitholders on Friday, May 13, 2016 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time, at 333 Bay Street, Suite 3400, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2S7.

About WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust is an unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust established pursuant to a declaration of trust under the laws of the Province of Ontario. The REIT has been formed to own and operate an institutional-quality portfolio of primarily industrial properties located in the United States, with a particular focus on warehouse and distribution industrial real estate. WPT Industrial, LP (the REIT's operating subsidiary) indirectly owns a portfolio of properties consisting of approximately 15.1 million square feet of gross leasable area, comprised of 46 industrial properties and two office properties located in 13 states in the United States. WPT Capital Advisors, LLC is the external asset manager and property manager of the REIT.:

SOURCE WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust

Scott Frederiksen, Chief Executive Officer, WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust, Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]