Daryl Mangan, as executive vice president of the division willbe in charge of the company's retail portfolio. John Hughey, asexecutive vice president of retail development, will focus onexpanding retail development opportunities. Mangan and Hughey willreport to Reynolds Thompson, Colonial Properties' chief operatingofficer

Mangan has 30 years of retail real estate experience with SafecoProperties, Equitable Real Estate, Federated Department Stores andCole National Corp. He has managed a $6 billion retail portfoliomade up of 75 regional malls and 40 retail properties.

Colonial Properties Trust is a diversified REIT that, throughits subsidiaries, owns 111 multi-family, office and retailproperties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, NorthCarolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Thecompany operates 16,700 apartment units, 3.4 million sf of officeand 15 million sf of retail.