ASSIGNMENT

Exhibit 10.481

ASSIGNMENT

This Assignment is made as of the 28^th day of December, 2004 by INLAND REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS, INC., an Illinois corporation (“Assignor”) to and for the benefit of INLAND WESTERN PHENIX CITY, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Assignee”).

Assignor does hereby sell, assign, transfer, set over and convey unto Assignee all of its right, title and interest as Buyer under into that certain Real Estate Sale Agreement for the purchase and sale of a Shopping Center dated as of November 15, 2004, as amended and entered into by Regency Realty Group, Inc., a Florida corporation, as Seller, and Assignor, as Buyer (collectively,  the “Agreement”), for the sale and purchase of the property described by the Agreement, located in Phenix City, Alabama.

Assignor represents and warrants that it is the Buyer under the Agreement, and that it has not sold, assigned, transferred, or encumbered such interest in any way to any other person or entity. By acceptance hereof, Assignee accepts the foregoing assignment and agrees, from and after the date hereof, to (i) perform all of the obligations of Buyer under the Agreement, and (ii) indemnify, defend, protect and hold Assignor harmless from and against all claims and liabilities arising under the Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Assignor and Assignee have executed this instrument as of the date first written above.

	ASSIGNOR:
	INLAND REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS, INC. an Illinois corporation
	By:	/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
	Name:		Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
	As Its:		V.P.
	ASSIGNEE:
	INLAND WESTERN PHENIX CITY, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
	By: Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole member
	By:	[ILLEGIBLE]
	Name:		[ILLEGIBLE]
	As Its:		[ILLEGIBLE]