Cogdell Spencer Inc. Declares Preferred Quarterly Dividend

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cogdell Spencer Inc. (NYSE: CSA) announced its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.419 per share for the Company's 8.500% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock ("Series A"), for the period from December 20, 2010, the date of original issuance, to February 28, 2011.  The dividend will be payable on March 1, 2011, to shareholders of record on February 15, 2011.  Series A dividends equate to an annualized rate of $2.125 per share.

About Cogdell Spencer Inc.

Charlotte-based Cogdell Spencer Inc. (NYSE: CSA) is a fully-integrated, self-administered, and self-managed real estate investment trust ("REIT") that invests in specialty office buildings for the medical profession, including medical offices and ambulatory surgery and diagnostic centers.  The Company focuses on the ownership, development, redevelopment, acquisition and management of strategically located medical office buildings and other healthcare related facilities in the United States of America.  The Company has been built around understanding and addressing the full range of specialized real estate needs of the healthcare industry.  Learn more about Cogdell Spencer Inc. and its subsidiaries at www.cogdell.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements reflect the Company's views about future events and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and changes in circumstances that may cause actual results to differ materially. Factors that may contribute to these differences include, but are not limited to the following: our business strategy; our ability to comply with financial covenants in our debt instruments; our access to capital; our ability to obtain future financing arrangements, including refinancing existing arrangements; estimates relating to our future distributions; our understanding of our competition; our ability to renew our ground leases; legislative and regulatory changes (including changes to laws governing the taxation of REITs and individuals); increases in costs of borrowing as a result of changes in interest rates and other factors; our ability to maintain our qualification as a REIT due to economic, market, legal, tax or other considerations; changes in the reimbursement available to our tenants by government or private payors; our tenants' ability to make rent payments; defaults by tenants and customers; customers' access to financing; delays in project starts and cancellations by customers; our ability to convert design-build project opportunities into new engagements for us; market trends; and projected capital expenditures.

For a further list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 and the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010.  Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be realized. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

SOURCE Cogdell Spencer Inc.