FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:  Tempe Seibel/Marketing Coordinator
(407) 849-2607

ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER AND HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES, INC. TO ANNOUNCE NEW MIXED USE PROJECT IN DOWNTOWN ORLANDO, FL.

WHAT: Capital Plaza III Project Announcement


WHEN: April 26, 2006
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

WHERE: North end of outside plaza between Capital Plaza I and II, which is located on E. Pine Street. Please park on Central Blvd.


SPEAKERS: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Highwoods Properties Senior Vice President Michael Beale, and Day Danzler, with The Kessler Enterprise, will be available for interviews following the press conference.


Highwoods Properties is a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index, is a fully integrated, self-administered real estate investment trust ("REIT") that provides leasing, management, development, construction and other customer-related services for its properties and for third parties. As of December 31, 2005, the Company owned or had an interest in 447 in-service office, industrial and retail properties encompassing approximately 37.0 million square feet. Highwoods also owns approximately 892 acres of development land. Highwoods is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and its properties and development land are located in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
 

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