PPS Post Properties, Inc. (delisted)

POST PROPERTIES, INC.

(Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. as successor by merger to Post Properties, Inc.)

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (901) 682-6600

Robert J. DelPriore

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

6584 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, Tennessee 38138

(901) 682-6600

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service of process for

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. as successor by merger to Post Properties, Inc.)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: N/A.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These Post-Effective Amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) relate to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 and Form S-3D (collectively, the “Registration Statements”) filed by Post Properties, Inc., a Georgia corporation (the “Company”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):

Effective December 1, 2016, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 15, 2016, by and among Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., a Tennessee corporation (“MAA”), Mid-America Apartments, L.P., a Tennessee limited partnership, the Company, Post GP Holdings, Inc., a Georgia corporation, and Post Apartment Homes, L.P., a Georgia limited partnership, the Company merged with and into MAA, and the separate corporate existence of the Company thereupon ended.

As a result of the merger, the Company has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. Accordingly, the Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements and, in accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in Part II of the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, removes from registration any and all securities of the Company registered but unsold under the Registration Statements as of the date hereof.