Associated Estates to Provide Support to Food Banks in Eight States

CLEVELAND, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Estates Realty Corporation (NYSE, NASDAQ: AEC) will hold a Holiday Food Drive from Friday, Nov. 11 through Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. The nonperishable food items collected will help restock local food banks across the company's geographic footprint in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland/Washington D.C., Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.

"To help people who are hungry is the most basic form of giving and I'm incredibly proud that our employees have embraced this cause like they have," says President and CEO Jeffrey I. Friedman.  

Many of Associated Estates' properties have participated in food drives in past years, but this is first year the drive is expanded company-wide.  The holiday food drive will encompass 54 collection sites, which includes the company's 53 apartment communities, as well as its corporate headquarters.

You can help make a difference by supporting Associated Estates and its apartment communities in their effort to collect food for several local food banks. The food collection sites are located at each property listed on its corporate website: associatedestates.com/map.aspx, as well as, at the corporate headquarters at 1AEC Parkway, Richmond Heights, Ohio.

Through its "Associated Estates Cares" community involvement initiative, the company focuses on health, hunger, and education causes throughout the year.

Associated Estates is a real estate investment trust ("REIT") and is a member of the Russell 2000 and the MSCI US REIT Indexes. The Company is headquartered in Richmond Heights, Ohio. Associated Estates' portfolio consists of 53 properties containing 13,908 units located in eight states. For more information about the company, please visit its website at AssociatedEstates.com.

Contact:
John Lytell, Director of Corporate Communications:
[email protected], (216) 797-8718

SOURCE Associated Estates Realty Corporation

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