Um, she works for ROIC.  That is clearly stated near the title of the article.  Retail Opportunities Investments Corporation = ROIC

What is disgusting about this?  This is an OP-ED piece on the OPINION page.  Newspapers do these all the time to get multiple perspectives on things affecting their readership.  I thought she did a great job of describing ROIC's intentions for the shopping center and dispelling some of the wild rumors that continue to circulate (such as redeveloping into a large scale, mixed use project).