Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000921825-25-000032
Chunk: 7

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 at www.firstindustrial.com and are available in print free of charge to any stockholder or other interested party who requests them. The Company intends to post on its website amendments to, or waivers from, any provision of the Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. The Company also posts or otherwise makes available on its website from time to time other information that may be of interest to investors and other interested parties. However, none of the information provided on the Company’s website is part of the proxy solicitation material.

Board Leadership Structure . Our Board of Directors recognizes that one of its key responsibilities is to evaluate and determine its optimal leadership structure so as to provide effective management oversight and a fully engaged, highly functioning Board of Directors. Our key objective in establishing the structure of the Board of Directors is to strengthen the independence and general role of the Board of Directors with appropriate checks and balances on the power, actions and performance of our Chief Executive Officer.

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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY HIGHLIGHTS

| SUSTAINABILITY 
 COMMUNITY      |     | The Company is focused on building and maintaining a socially responsible and sustainable business that succeeds by delivering long-term value for our stockholders. We continuously look for new and better ways to minimize our environmental impacts as well as that of our tenants. Recent sustainability highlights are:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 •In our LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) volume program, which streamlines the certification process, we successfully certified five buildings totaling 1.6 million square feet comprised of three buildings in Southern California and one each in the Philadelphia and Denver markets                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 •First Industrial properties with LEED certifications totaled 4.6 million square feet at year end 2024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 •Continued to be recognized at the Gold level for the Green Lease Leaders program for the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance and the Institute for Market Transformation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 The Company has a strong corporate culture and a long-standing tradition of supporting worthy causes in its community and partnering with high quality and ethical supply chains. Social responsibility and engagement is an integral part of our business, as we are committed to developing and maintaining strong relationships with our customers, business partners, investors and the communities in which we operate and invest. In addition, we aim to provide a positive work environment for our employees by offering proper compensation, quality benefit offerings and career training and growth opportunities. Community highlights include: 
 •Employee recognition program with quarterly and annual awards