Pricing Supplement No. 3                       Filing under Rule 424(b)(3)
Dated     December  17, 2003                   Registration File No. 333-104560
Cusip  #  948  74R  CM6

                           WEINGARTEN REALTY INVESTORS
                           MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES A

Principal amount:  $25,000,000                 Floating Rate Notes: N/A
Interest Rate (if fixed rate):  4.950%                Interest rate basis:  N/A
Stated  Maturity:   12/01/13                          Paper  Rate
Specified  Currency:  U.S.  $                         Prime  Rate
Applicable  Exchange  Rate  (if  any):                LIBOR
    U.S.  $1.00  =  N/A                               Treasury  Rate
Issue price (as a percentage of                       CD  Rate
    principal amount):  99.227%                       Federal Funds Rate
Selling Agent's commission (%): .625%                 Other
Purchasing  Agent's  discount                  Index  Maturity:  N/A
    or  commission  (%):  N/A                  Spread  Multiplier:  N/A
Settlement  date  (original                    Maximum Rate:  N/A
    issue  date):  12/22/03                    Minimum  Rate:  N/A
Redemption Commencement                        Initial Interest Rate:  N/A
    Date  (if  any):  N/A                      Interest Reset Date(s):  N/A
Interest Determination Date(s):  N/A           Optional Repayment Date:  N/A
Calculation  Date(s):  N/A                     Cusip  # 948 74RCM6
Interest Payment Date (s):  3/15,  9/15
Regular Record Date(s):  3/1,  9/1

     Redemption  prices  (if  any):  The  Redemption  Price  shall  initially be
N/A  %  of  the  principal  amount  of  such  Notes  to  be  redeemed.

     If  such  Notes  are denominated in other than U.S. dollars, the applicable
Foreign  Currency  Supplement  is  attached  hereto.

     Additional  terms:  N/A

     As  of  the  date  of this Pricing Supplement, the aggregate initial public
offering  price  (or  its equivalent in other currencies) of the Debt Securities
(as  defined  in  the  Prospectus)  which have been sold (including the Notes to
which  this  Pricing  Supplement  relates)  is  $75,000,000.

     "N/A"  as  used  herein  means  "Not  Applicable."

These notes represent a reopening of the 4.95% medium-term note due 2013 issued
by Weingarten Realty Investors and these notes constitute a single series of
notes with these notes.

Pursuant to U.S. Treasury regulations section 1.1275-2(k)(3), the issuance of
the notes will be treated as a "qualified reopening" of the fixed rate  notes
with an original issue date of November 24, 2003 (the "original notes').
Therefore, for purposes of the rules governing original issue discount, the
notes will have the same issue date, issue price and adjusted issue price as the
original notes.  See "Federal Income Tax Consequences - U.S. Holders - Original
Issue Discount" in the prospectus supplement.  Depending on your purchase price
for your notes, your notes may have a market discount or amortizable bond
premium.  See "Federal Income Tax Consequences - U.S. Holders - Market Discount"
and "-Acquisition Premium; Amortizable Bond Premium" in the prospectus
supplement.  The purchase price for the notes will also reflect interest accrued
from November 24, 2003 ("pre-issuance accrued interest") which will be included
in the accrued interest to be paid on the first interest payment date on March
15, 2003.  In accordance with U.S. Treasury regulations section 1.1273-2(m), for
purposes of the rules governing original issue, Weingarten Realty Investors will
exclude the pre-issuance accrued interest from the issue price of the notes.  In
accordance with this treatment, holders must treat a corresponding portion of
the interest payable on the first interest payment date as a return of the
excluded pre-issuance accrued interest, rather than as an amount payable on the
notes.

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