Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. engages in the acquisition, finance, development, lease, ownership, and management of retail properties. The company is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia and currently employs 56 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2012-11-19. The firm owns, leases, and operates income-producing retail properties with a primary focus on grocery-anchored centers. The company owns a portfolio consisting of seventy-five properties, including seventy-two retail shopping centers, totaling 7,660,979 leasable square feet and three undeveloped land parcels totaling approximately 11 acres. The properties are geographically located in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Northeast. The firm generally leases its properties to national and regional supermarket chains and selects retailers that offer necessity and value-oriented services and items and generate regular consumer traffic. Its portfolio consists of 75 properties, including 72 retail shopping centers and three undeveloped land parcels. 21 of these properties are located in South Carolina, 12 in Georgia, 10 in Virginia, eight in Pennsylvania.
