Exhibit
99.1
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TRIPLE NET PROPERTIES ACQUIRES
EASTERN WISCONSIN MEDICAL PORTFOLIO IN WISCONSIN
Santa Ana, Calif., December 28, 2007 — Chief Investment Officer Jeff Hanson announced today that
Triple Net Properties, LLC has acquired the Eastern Wisconsin Medical Portfolio on behalf of
tenant-in-common investors. The acquisition closed on
December 21, 2007.
The Eastern Wisconsin Medical Portfolio consists of five single-story Class A medical office
buildings and one two-story Class A medical office building totaling approximately 153,000 square
feet. Built between 2000 and 2007, the buildings are located in six different cities throughout
eastern Wisconsin and are subject to 15 year, triple-net leases for 100% of the space to Aurora
Medical Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Aurora Health Care, Inc. (Aurora), a regional healthcare
provider. Each of the state-of-the-art medical office buildings are strategically located to serve
Aurora-owned hospitals as part of a carefully assembled provider network. Aurora employs more than
25,000 people, and is the area’s largest private-sector employer, as well as the largest healthcare
provider in the state of Wisconsin. Aurora Health Care, Inc. has a BBB+ credit rating by Standard &
Poor’s and an A- rating by Fitch.
Triple Net Properties purchased the Eastern Wisconsin Medical Portfolio from Aurora Medical Group,
Inc., which was represented by David Boerke and Jack Price of the Boerke Company, Inc. Financing
was arranged by Joseph Byers of Commercial Realty Capital and provided by PNC Bank.
Triple Net Properties, LLC became a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Grubb & Ellis Company, a
leading real estate services and investment management firm, on
December 7, 2007, subsequent to
Triple Net Properties’ acquisition of the Eastern Wisconsin Medical Portfolio. Triple Net
Properties and affiliates manage a growing portfolio of nearly 39 million square feet of real
estate, including more than 10,000 apartment units, with a combined market value in
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excess of $5.4 billion. Triple Net Properties and affiliates are currently buying and selling
properties throughout the United States, offering a full range of commercial real estate
investments, including tenant-in-common (TIC) programs for investors structuring tax-deferred
(like-kind) exchanges under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, real estate investment
trusts (REITs) and institutional investments.
FORWARD-LOOKING LANGUAGE
This
press release contains
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statement in this
press release about expectations, beliefs,
plans, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical facts and are
forward looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefs and
expectations of management and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause the actual results, performance, achievements or transactions of
the company and its
affiliates to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or
transactions expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from the
anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements: changes in
the company’s results of operations; uncertainties relating to the implementation of
the company’s
real estate investment and asset management strategies; changes in general and local economic and
real estate conditions; the inability to combine the businesses of NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb &
Ellis successfully, or that such combination may take longer, be more difficult, time-consuming or
costly to accomplish than expected; and increased operating costs and business disruption following
the merger of NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis, including adverse effects on employee
retention and on business relationships with third parties.
Additional information or factors which could impact
the company and the forward-looking statements
contained herein are included in Grubb & Ellis’ filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including but not limited to the joint proxy statement/prospectus of Grubb & Ellis and
NNN Realty Advisors. Any forward looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are
made and
the company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that
become untrue because of subsequent events.
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