Granite Real Estate Investment Trust announced the appointment of Kevan Gorrie as Chief Executive Officer of Granite, effective August 1, 2018. Mr. Gorrie is an accomplished real estate professional in the industrial real estate market who most recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust. There he successfully grew and led that business until its recent strategic sale to Blackstone Property Partners and Ivanho Cambridge. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Gorrie is a seasoned real estate executive who is well known in the Canadian capital markets and on both sides of the border in the industrial real estate market. Mr. Gorrie will replace Michael Forsayeth who had previously announced his upcoming retirement in September 2018 and who has been with Granite since August 2011 as, most recently, its Chief Executive Officer and, prior to that, its Chief Financial Officer.