Executive Vice President of Development
Bruce R. Heller
Principal Responsibilities: Design, Construction and Development Management
As executive vice president of development, Mr. Heller offers Means Knaus Partners unsurpassed hands-on experience in commercial real estate development. His expertise includes site analysis, due diligence, designing, value engineering, construction documents and development management. Mr. Heller initially joined forces with Steven A. Means in the development of Colinas Crossing in Dallas, the first project orchestrated by Means Knaus Partners. Under the Means Knaus banner, Mr. Heller has also directed development of CAREington International’s corporate headquarters in Frisco, Texas; Westchase Corporate Center in Houston and Oak Park at Westchase.
With a career spanning over 30 years, Mr. Heller has been directly involved in the development of more than five million square feet of projects, valued at more than $500 million. Among his most recent developments are Twin Creeks Rehabilitation Hospital and Twin Creeks Medical Center, located in Allen, Texas. He currently serves as the hospital’s managing general partner and chairman of the governing board.
Mr. Heller began his career as an architect, serving in two firms in the Midwest, prior to joining the Dallas architectural firm of James Harwick & Partners. In 1989, Mr. Heller joined Dallas’s Woodbine Development Corporation. While at Woodbine, he was responsible for such notable projects as the BNRR Command Center and new Corporate Headquarters, as well as conversion of the former Sanger Harris Building into the Dallas Area Rapid Transit headquarters. Mr. Heller also oversaw more than one million square feet of improvements at several Woodbine-managed office properties.
In 1995, Mr. Heller joined Fults Associates to form Fults Project Services, its Dallas-based project construction management subsidiary. Major projects of this company include the Steak & Ale corporate headquarters, Applied Industrial Regional Facility, H.D. Vest corporate headquarters and Protection One regional headquarters. In addition to providing construction management services for tenant-representation clients, Mr. Heller initiated third-party fee-development relationships with numerous public and private entities.
Mr. Heller, who earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois, is a registered architect in Texas and Missouri and also holds a Texas Real Estate Broker’s License. He is a past member of the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Allen, Texas, and a member of the Real Estate Council.
