Gazit America Inc. [TSX:GAA] is focused on entrepreneurial real estate opportunities including the acquisition and development of income-producing properties, investments in public and private real estate entities, investments in joint ventures and other structured acquisitions and investments in commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities.

Gazit America currently owns approximately 12.5% of Equity One, Inc. (NYSE: EQY), a U.S. real estate investment trust, and has interest in thirteen properties totaling approximately 1,083,000 square feet of rentable space located in Longueuil and Montreal, Quebec, and Cambridge, London, Mississauga, Toronto, Kitchener and Ottawa, Ontario, and Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta.