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      Knight, Inc. (formerly Kinder Morgan, Inc.), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners,
      L.P., (NYSE:KMP) and Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE:KMR), to serve on
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      and other products and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals
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      Corporation, an enterprise focused on the distribution of web-based investment
      research for the financial services industry. &#160;In addition, he has served
      as Vice President and CFO for First Data Analytics, a wholly owned subsidiary
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      First Data Corporation. &#160;Mr. Shaper holds bachelor&#8217;s degrees in industrial
      engineering and quantitative economics from Stanford&#160;University. &#160;He
      also earned a master&#8217;s degree in business administration from the
      J.L.&#160;Kellogg&#160;Graduate&#160;School of Management at
      Northwestern&#160;University. &#160;An active member of the Houston community,
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      pleased to be adding Park as an independent member of our Board of Trust
      Managers. &#160;We believe he will enhance and further strengthen our Board with
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form8k-08012007.htm
UNITED
      STATES
SECURITIES
      AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
      D.C. 20549
FORM
      8-K
CURRENT
      REPORT
PURSUANT
      TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES
      EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date
      of
      report (Date of earliest event reported):  August 1, 2007
WEINGARTEN
      REALTY INVESTORS
(Exact
      name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)
Texas
1-9876
74-1464203
(State
                or other jurisdiction of
incorporation
                or organization)
(Commission
                file number)
(I.R.S.
                Employer
Identification
                Number)
2600
      Citadel Plaza Drive, Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77008
(Address
      of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's
      telephone number, including area code:  (713) 866-6000
Not
      applicable
(Former
      name or former address, if changed since last report)
Item
      5.02.
Departure
      of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain
      Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
.
On
      July
      26, 2007, our Board of Trust Managers appointed C. Park Shaper, President of
      Knight, Inc. (formerly Kinder Morgan, Inc.), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners,
      L.P., (NYSE:KMP) and Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE:KMR), to serve on
      our
      board.  Mr. Shaper will also be a member of our Audit
      Committee.
Mr.
      Shaper joined Kinder Morgan in 2000 as Vice President and CFO.  He was
      named to the Office of the Chairman and the Boards of Directors of KMP and
      KMR
      in 2003, Executive Vice President in 2004 and President in 2005.
KMP
      is a
      leading energy transportation and storage company in North America.  KMP
      owns an interest in or operates more than 26,000 miles of pipelines and 150
      terminals.  Its pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, CO2
      and other products and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals
      and
      handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke.  KMP is also the
      leading provider of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery projects in North America.
       One of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in
      America, KMP has an enterprise value of approximately $20 billion.
Prior
      to
      joining Kinder Morgan, Mr. Shaper served as President and Director of Altair
      Corporation, an enterprise focused on the distribution of web-based investment
      research for the financial services industry.  In addition, he has served
      as Vice President and CFO for First Data Analytics, a wholly owned subsidiary
      of
      First Data Corporation.  Mr. Shaper holds bachelor's degrees in industrial
      engineering and quantitative economics from Stanford University.  He
      also earned a master's degree in business administration from the
      J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at
      Northwestern University.  An active member of the Houston community,
      Mr. Shaper sits on the Board of Directors of the Alley Theatre, the Children's
      Museum of Houston, and Boys and Girls Clubs of Houston.
Stanford
      Alexander, our Chairman of the Board of Trust Managers, commented, "We are very
      pleased to be adding Park as an independent member of our Board of Trust
      Managers.  We believe he will enhance and further strengthen our Board with
      his extensive business background and financial management expertise.  He
      will be an outstanding complement to our fine Board of Trustees."
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
      has
      duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
      duly authorized.
Date:  August
      7, 2007
WEINGARTEN
                REALTY INVESTORS
By:  /s/
                Joe D. Shafer
Joe
                D. Shafer
Vice
                President/Chief Accounting Officer
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