NEWTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Service Properties Trust (Nasdaq: SVC) (“SVC” or the “Company”) today announced that Flat Footed LLC (“Flat Footed”), an SVC institutional shareholder, has expressed support for the plan announced earlier today by SVC’s Board of Trustees to transition SVC into a pure-play triple net lease REIT. Marc Andersen, Co-Founder and Managing Member of Flat Footed LLC, made the following statement: “Given the capital recently deployed into the retained hotel portfolio and