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El Paso, TX (May 14, 2012) – Hunt Companies, Inc. is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Blue Star Families. Blue Star Families is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping military families across the country. Hunt and Blue Star Families will seek to increase program and membership outreach to military families on military bases across the country. Areas of focus for the partnership include deployed spouse services, re-integration support, improving quality of life and providing community connections for military families. “We are excited about this partnership”, says Sinclair Cooper, Co-President of Hunt’s Public Private Partnership division. “Blue Star Families is an organization that supports families of military members and promotes causes and interests to positively affect their lives. Hunt is in the business of developing and managing military communities on military bases throughout the country. We have mutual interests in ensuring the best quality of life possible for our military members and their families.” “This is a wonderful opportunity,” says Mark Smith, Executive Director of Blue Star Families. “This partnership with Hunt will give Blue Star Families an opportunity to ensure that our programs reach more military families in more locations across the country. We applaud Hunt for working with us to help improve the lives of military families.” ABOUT HUNT Hunt Companies, Inc. is a leading national real estate company dedicated to building values through development, investment, and management. Hunt is focused in the core areas of public private partnership, military housing, community development, real asset investment management and multifamily housing. Hunt is firmly rooted in a legacy of leadership, integrity, and trust. Together, Hunt and its affiliates have more than $13 billion in assets under management, including 115,302 multi-family housing units and 7.7 million square feet of office, retail and industrial properties. Hunt has also developed 89,000 housing units and thousands of acres of land. Development project costs have totaled more than $6.3 billion with more than $8.2 billion in construction costs. Visit www.huntcompanies.com to learn more about Hunt, its heritage and commitment to values that build. ABOUT BLUE STAR FAMILIES Blue Star Families is a national, nonprofit network of military families from all ranks and services, including guard and reserve, with a mission to support, connect and empower military families. In addition to morale and empowerment programs, Blue Star Families raises awareness of the challenges and strengths of military family life and works to make military life more sustainable through programs and partnerships like Books on Bases, MilKidz Club and Blue Star Museums. Membership includes military spouses, children and parents as well as service members, veterans and the civilians who strongly support them all. To learn more about Blue Star Families, visit http://www.bluestarfam.org.