Duke pre-leases 60 percent of building prior to completion

For Immediate Release
8/21/2006

Indianapolis, Indiana — Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, a leading supply chain management services company, has signed a 5-year lease for 400,000 square feet at Duke Realty Corporation’s Plainfield 8 building. Located in the Plainfield Business Park, the 650,000 square foot speculative bulk distribution warehouse facility was completed in July. Ozburn-Hessey Logistics will take occupancy this month.

“Duke is looking forward to what we know will be a long-lasting relationship with Ozburn-Hessey Logistics,” said Charlie Podell, Senior Vice President of Duke’s Indiana Industrial Group. “We are providing quality industrial developments similar to Plainfield 8 both locally and around the country to meet the needs of growing logistics companies like Ozburn-Hessey.”

Plainfield 8 sits on 42 acres and is a cross-loaded facility featuring I-70 frontage, 36-foot clear height, 60 dock doors, 28 knockouts, 4 drive-in doors with electric operations and 50-foot by 50-foot bay spacing. It also offers 140 truck courts, 30 trailer spaces and 293 car parking spaces.

“Plainfield 8 is a perfect fit for our clients’ expansion needs in the Indianapolis market,” said Scott McWilliams, Ozburn-Hessey Logistics CEO. “Duke’s provision for our real estate needs will help us continue to serve our customers with the highest level of flexibility, quality and efficiency.” Ozburn-Hessey Logistics operates 2.2 million square feet of warehouse space in the Indianapolis market and over 21 million total square feet in North America.

Andrew Morris, Steve Schwegman and Brian Seitz of Meridian Real Estate and Randy Wolcott of ProVenture Commercial Real Estate represented Ozburn-Hessey Logistics. Duke was represented by Mark Hosfeld, Senior Industrial Leasing Representative.

Upon completion of Plainfield 8 Duke will have 3.45 million square feet of property and 30 acres for future development at Plainfield Business Park. In addition, AllPoints Midwest, part of the Browning-Duke joint venture has 922-acres adjacent to the Indianapolis International Airport with excellent access to the CSX intermodal rail facility, I-70 and Ronald Reagan Parkway. This development can support 12 buildings and 12.5 million sq ft of modern warehouse facilities.

About Duke Realty Corporation
In the greater Indianapolis area, Duke Realty Corporation employs 372 associates. Duke owns, manages or has under development more than 27.5 million square feet of office and industrial properties and controls more than 1,500 acres of land for future development.

Duke Realty Corporation specializes in the ownership, construction, development, leasing and management of office, industrial, medical office and retail real estate. It is the largest publicly-traded, vertically-integrated office/industrial real estate company in the United States. The Company owns, manages or has under development more than 112 million square feet in 19 major U.S. cities. Duke, which controls 5,000 acres of land for 73 million square feet of future development, also provides nationwide real estate solutions through its national development division.

More information about Duke is available on the Internet: www.dukerealty.com

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