WPT Industrial REIT Announces Timing of Fourth Quarter and Year End 2015 Results & Conference Call

TORONTO, Jan. 8, 2016 /CNW/ - WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust (the "REIT") (TSX: WIR.U - OTCQX: WPTIF) will issue its results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2015 on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 23, 2016. A conference call hosted by the REIT's management team will be held on Thursday, March 24, 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 10078686#. A recording of the call will also be archived on the REIT's web site at www.wptreit.com.

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 within the United States.  Welsh Property Trust, LLC is the external asset manager and property manager of the REIT.

About Welsh Property Trust
Welsh Property Trust, LLC ("Welsh"), a privately held real estate investment management company, is the external asset manager and property manager of the REIT. The Welsh organization was founded in 1977 and has extensive experience in the acquisition, management and disposition of industrial and office real estate assets in attractive markets throughout the United States.

SOURCE WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust

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