Mack-Cali Leases 93,910 Square Feet at Jersey City Office Building

Mack-Cali Leases 93,910 Square Feet at Jersey City Office Building

    Business Editors/Real Estate Writers

    CRANFORD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2005--Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (NYSE: CLI) today announced that it has leased 93,910 square feet at Harborside Financial Center Plaza 5 on the Jersey City waterfront.

    The leases include:

--	IXIS North America, Inc., leased two full floors totaling 71,681 square feet. The firm will initially occupy 55,198 square feet for a 15-year term and the balance of the space five years after lease commencement. IXIS North America and its subsidiaries make up the U.S. capital markets arm of IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank, a member of the Groupe Caisse d'Epargne, headquartered in France. Michael Goldman of Studley represented the tenant.
--	HQ Global Workplaces, a provider of temporary office suites, leased 22,229 square feet for 10 years.

    Mack-Cali was represented in each transaction by Mark Ravesloot of CB Richard Ellis and Jane Greenblatt, in-house senior director of leasing and development. Harborside Financial Center Plaza 5, a 980,000 square-foot, class A office tower, is 87.0% leased.
    Mitchell E. Hersh, president and chief executive officer of Mack-Cali, commented, "These transactions demonstrate Harborside's appeal as a leading headquarters location, due to its wealth of on-site amenities, excellent transportation access, and attractive financial incentives."
    Mack-Cali Realty Corporation is a fully-integrated, self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) providing management, leasing, development, construction and other tenant-related services for its class A real estate portfolio. Mack-Cali owns or has interests in 269 properties, primarily office and office/flex buildings located in the Northeast, totaling approximately 30.1 million square feet. The properties enable the Company to provide a full complement of real estate opportunities to its diverse base of approximately 2,100 tenants.
    Additional information on Mack-Cali Realty Corporation is available on the Company's Web site at www.mack-cali.com.

    Certain information discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the federal securities laws, including Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements relate to, without limitation, the Company's future economic performance, plans and objectives for future operations and projections of revenue and other financial items. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may," "will," "should," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "continue" or comparable terminology. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions at the time made, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties, many of which the Company cannot predict with accuracy and some of which the Company might not even anticipate. Future events and actual results, financial and otherwise, may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Among the risks, trends and uncertainties are changes in the general economic conditions, including those affecting industries in which the Company's principal tenants compete; any failure of the general economy to recover timely from the current economic downturn; the extent of any tenant bankruptcies; the Company's ability to lease or re-lease space at current or anticipated rents; changes in the supply of and demand for office, office/flex and industrial/warehouse properties; changes in interest rate levels; changes in operating costs; the Company's ability to obtain adequate insurance, including coverage for terrorist acts; the availability of financing; and other risks associated with the development and acquisition of properties, including risks that the development may not be completed on schedule, that the tenants will not take occupancy or pay rent, or that development or operating costs may be greater than anticipated. For further information on factors which could impact the Company and the statements contained herein, reference should be made to the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and Annual Reports on Form 10-K. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.

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CONTACT: Mack-Cali Realty Corporation Barry Lefkowitz Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 908-272-8000 or Virginia Sobol Vice President, Marketing and Public Relations 908-272-8000 or Rubenstein Associates Maria Englund Vice President 212-843-8270

KEYWORD: NEW JERSEY INDUSTRY KEYWORD: REAL ESTATE BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION PRODUCT SOURCE: Mack-Cali Realty Corporation

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