Alexander Baldwin, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2019 Results HONOLULU , May 2, 2019 |PRNewswire| -- Alexander Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE: ALEX ) ("AB" or "Company") today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2019. Chris Benjamin , AB president chief executive officer, stated: "Our commercial real estate ("CRE") business continues to perform extremely well, with an 11.5% increase in cash net operating income ("NOI"), 7.7% same-store NOI growth and 10.3% in comparable leasing spreads in the first quarter. Meanwhile, portfolio occupancy increased 180 bps from prior year to 93.6%. Our growth efforts also advanced in the quarter and we now have 100% of our Maui land sale proceeds either reinvested or committed to binding CRE acquisitions in Hawaii that are expected to close well in advance of the mid-June exchange deadline. The successful reinvestment of nearly $260 million of proceeds from non-income producing lands into our preferred CRE asset classes will help fuel NOI growth in our core CRE portfolio. To date we have closed on $149.1 million of reinvestments, including two west Oahu industrial assets and two Oahu ground lease assets.