| First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company is a self-administered and fully integrated real estate company which owns, manages, acquires, sells, develops, and redevelops industrial real estate. As of December 31, 2012, the Company's in-service portfolio consisted of 346 light industrial properties, 108 R&D/flex properties, 150 bulk warehouse properties, 102 regional warehouse properties and eight manufacturing properties containing approximately 63.4 million square feet of gross leasable area (GLA) located in 26 states in the United States and one province in Canada. The Company's in-service portfolio includes all properties other than developed, redeveloped and acquired properties that have not yet reached stabilized occupancy (generally defined as properties that are 90% leased). |