Macerich to Present at REITWeek 2012: NAREIT's Investor Forum

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Macerich® (NYSE: MAC), today announced that Art Coppola, Chairman and CEO, Ed Coppola, President and Tom O'Hern, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will participate in the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust (NAREIT) 2012 REIT Week Investor Forum to be held in New York, New York.

The Macerich presentation will be held from approximately 2:15 pm to 2:45 pm Eastern Time, on Wednesday, June 13, 2012. The live audio-only webcast will be available online in the Investing Section of the Company's website at www.macerich.com. An online replay will be available through 11:59 pm Pacific Time, July 31, 2012 at the same location.

Macerich has posted additional materials to the Investing Section of the Company's website at www.macerich.com.  

The materials posted may contain forward-looking statements, including guidance, which can be identified by the use of words, such as "expects," "anticipates," "assumes," "projects," "estimated" and "scheduled" and similar expressions that do not relate to historical matters. Stockholders are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to vary materially from those anticipated, expected or projected. Such factors include, among others, general industry, as well as national, regional and local economic and business conditions, which will, among other things, affect demand for retail space or retail goods, availability and creditworthiness of current and prospective tenants, anchor or tenant bankruptcies, closures, mergers or consolidations, lease rates, terms and payments, interest rate fluctuations, availability, terms and cost of financing and operating expenses; adverse changes in the real estate markets including, among other things, competition from other companies, retail formats and technology, risks of real estate development and redevelopment, acquisitions and dispositions; the liquidity of real estate investments, governmental actions and initiatives (including legislative and regulatory changes); environmental and safety requirements; and terrorist activities which could adversely affect all of the above factors. The reader is directed to the Company's various filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, for a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which discussion is incorporated herein by reference. The Company does not intend, and undertakes no obligation, to update any forward-looking information to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events unless required by law to do so.

Macerich is a fully integrated self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust, which focuses on the acquisition, leasing, management, development and redevelopment of regional malls throughout the United States. Macerich now owns approximately 64 million square feet of gross leaseable area consisting primarily of interests in 63 regional shopping centers. Additional information about Macerich can be obtained from the Company's website at www.macerich.com.

SOURCE Macerich