As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2009

Registration No. 333-142474

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

36-3935116
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

311 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 4000
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(312) 344-4300
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Bruce W. Duncan	Copies to:
President and Chief Executive Officer First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. 311 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 4000 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312) 344-4300 (Name of agent for service)	Howard A. Nagelberg William E. Turner II Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP 200 W. Madison St., Suite 3900 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312) 984-3100

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

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The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

     First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-142474) (the “Registration Statement”) to convert the Registration Statement from an automatic shelf registration statement to a non-automatic shelf registration statement in light of the fact that the Company is no longer a well-known seasoned issuer, as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as of the most recent eligibility determination date specified in paragraph (2) of that definition. No changes are hereby made to the most recent form of prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Chicago, state of Illinois, on March 6, 2009.

FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST, INC.
By:	/s/ Scott A. Musil
	Scott A. Musil
	Acting Chief Financial Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Bruce W. Duncan and Scott A. Musil, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all pre- or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-3 and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection with such matters, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Bruce W. Duncan Bruce W. Duncan	President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	March 6, 2009
/s/ Scott A. Musil Scott A. Musil	Acting Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)	March 6, 2009
/s/ W. Edwin Tyler W. Edwin Tyler	Director	March 6, 2009
	Director
John Brenninkmeijer
/s/ Michael G. Damone Michael G. Damone	Director	March 6, 2009
/s/ Kevin W. Lynch Kevin W. Lynch	Director	March 6, 2009
/s/ John E. Rau John E. Rau	Director	March 6, 2009
/s/ Jay H. Shidler Jay H. Shidler	Director	March 6, 2009
/s/ Robert J. Slater Robert J. Slater	Director	March 6, 2009
/s/ J. Steven Wilson J. Steven Wilson	Director	March 6, 2009