Retail Opportunity Investments Corporation (NASDAQ:ROIC) is a fully integrated real estate company that is qualified as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The company is focused on acquiring, owning leasing, repositioning and managing a diverse portfolio of necessity-based retail properties, including, primarily, well located community and neighborhood shopping centers, anchored by national or regional supermarkets and drugstores. ROIC targets properties strategically situated in densely populated, middle and upper income markets in western regions of the United States. The Company presently owns and operates seventy three shopping centers encompassing approximately 8,600,000 square feet.