UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date
of
report (Date of earliest event reported): August 1, 2007
WEINGARTEN
REALTY INVESTORS
(Exact
name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)
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Texas
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1-9876
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74-1464203
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(State
or other jurisdiction of
incorporation
or organization)
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(Commission
file number)
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(I.R.S.
Employer
Identification
Number)
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2600
Citadel Plaza Drive, Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77008
(Address
of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's
telephone number, including area code: (713) 866-6000
Not
applicable
(Former
name or former address, if changed since last report)
Item
5.02. Departure
of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain
Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On
July
26, 2007, our Board of Trust Managers appointed C. Park Shaper, President of
Knight, Inc. (formerly Kinder Morgan, Inc.), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners,
L.P., (NYSE:KMP) and Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE:KMR), to serve on
our
board. Mr. Shaper will also be a member of our Audit
Committee.
Mr.
Shaper joined Kinder Morgan in 2000 as Vice President and CFO. He was
named to the Office of the Chairman and the Boards of Directors of KMP and
KMR
in 2003, Executive Vice President in 2004 and President in 2005.
KMP
is a
leading energy transportation and storage company in North America. KMP
owns an interest in or operates more than 26,000 miles of pipelines and 150
terminals. Its pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, CO2
and other products and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals
and
handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. KMP is also the
leading provider of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery projects in North America.
One of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in
America, KMP has an enterprise value of approximately $20 billion.
Prior
to
joining Kinder Morgan, Mr. Shaper served as President and Director of Altair
Corporation, an enterprise focused on the distribution of web-based investment
research for the financial services industry. In addition, he has served
as Vice President and CFO for First Data Analytics, a wholly owned subsidiary
of
First Data Corporation. Mr. Shaper holds bachelor’s degrees in industrial
engineering and quantitative economics from Stanford University. He
also earned a master’s degree in business administration from the
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at
Northwestern University. An active member of the Houston community,
Mr. Shaper sits on the Board of Directors of the Alley Theatre, the Children’s
Museum of Houston, and Boys and Girls Clubs of Houston.
Stanford
Alexander, our Chairman of the Board of Trust Managers, commented, “We are very
pleased to be adding Park as an independent member of our Board of Trust
Managers. We believe he will enhance and further strengthen our Board with
his extensive business background and financial management expertise. He
will be an outstanding complement to our fine Board of Trustees.”
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
Date: August
7, 2007
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WEINGARTEN
REALTY INVESTORS
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By: /s/
Joe D. Shafer
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Joe
D. Shafer
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Vice
President/Chief Accounting Officer
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