Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 24, 1999

Richard J. Rouse – Lexington Corporate Property Trust (lxp)

RICHARD J. ROUSE is the Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Lexington Corporate Properties Trust, a NYSE real estate trust focusing exclusively on purchasing single tenant industrial, office and retail properties leased to major corporate tenants pursuant to long-term net leases. Lexington was created in 1993 by The LCP Group, the successor to Lepercq Capital Partners, where Mr. Rouse was a Managing Director engaged in all aspects of net lease finance, acquisition, syndication and corporate financing transactions since 1979. Mr. Rouse is a graduate of Michigan State University and the graduate division of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. Profile
TWST: Can you give us kind of a brief overview and a little bit of the

history of the company?

Mr. Rouse: Lexington is a real estate investment trust that has been

listed on the New York