 Engine Capital LP together with its affiliates, Engine, a significant stockholder of CIM Commercial Trust Corporation the Company NASDAQ: CMCT, with ownership of approximately 6.2 of the Companys outstanding shares, today issued an open letter to the Companys Board of Directors the Board. In the letter, Engine expressed its concerns that the Board may be favoring the interests of the Companys external operator and administrative services provider to the detriment of the Companys stockholders. Given the significant discount to net asset value that the Companys shares trade, Engine called on the Board to immediately stop any plans to raise equity at this point in time, and expressed its belief that a liquidation or a sale represents the best risk-adjusted path forward for stockholders. 