---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-019480"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AKR"
cik: "0000899629"
company_name: "ACADIA REALTY TRUST"
filed_at: "2022-10-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T04:12:33.996430+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acadia Realty appoints Mark Denien to Board; Lorrence Kellar to retire at 2023 shareholder meeting

## Summary
- Mark Denien appointed as trustee and to Audit Committee effective Oct 11, 2022.
- Denien served as Duke Realty CFO from 2013 to Oct 2022, with 20+ years REIT finance experience.
- Lorrence Kellar, independent trustee since 2003, will retire at 2023 annual meeting.
- Kellar's retirement is part of ongoing Board refreshment; Kenneth McIntyre appointed in 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-019480
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AKR
- cik: 0000899629
- company_name: ACADIA REALTY TRUST
- filed_at: 2022-10-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899629/000095017022019480/0000950170-22-019480-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899629/000095017022019480/akr-20221011.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-019480
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-019480.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-019480.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lorrence T. Kellar departed as independent trustee at ACADIA REALTY TRUST.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: independent trustee
  source text: On October 11, 2022, Lorrence T. Kellar, an independent trustee and member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee of the Board, has formally notified the Company of his intention to retire from the Board effective as of the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899629/000095017022019480/0000950170-22-019480-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mark Denien was appointed as trustee at ACADIA REALTY TRUST.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: trustee
  source text: On October 11, 2022, the board of trustees (the “Board”) of Acadia Realty Trust (the “Company”) voted to appoint Mark Denien as a trustee of the Company, effective as of the same day
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899629/000095017022019480/0000950170-22-019480-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.