Dale Wheeler has more than 30 years' experience in real estate development, disposition, acquisition, and leasing. At Sierra Commercial Real Estate, Inc., Dale is responsible for providing brokerage services, strategic planning and asset management to clients. One of his principal assignments has been the management of the Banning-Lewis Ranch: a 22,000-acre master-planned community in Colorado Springs, for offshore investors. Dale recently completed this assignment by brokering the sale of this major strategic asset. Formerly with Palmer McAllister, Dale was the Company’s Top Producer in 2001, and named again to Palmer McAllister’s President’s 500 Club.

Dale’s list of clients includes 3M, Banning-Lewis Ranch Corporation, Cedarwood Development, Lockheed Martin, Northgate, Fountain Valley School, and Union Pacific Resources Corporation. While specializing in land, his brokerage expertise also includes office and industrial leasing and sales. When he joined Frederick Ross Company as a Director in the Ross Consulting Group, Dale folded in Wheeler & Associates, a real estate consulting firm, offering management and advisory services to corporate, institutional and investor clients.

Prior to establishing Wheeler & Associates, Dale served as Director of Corporate Real Estate for the Johns Manville Corporation and President of Johns Manville Properties Corporation. He was responsible for all real estate asset management and development, including the 10,000-acre Ken-Caryl Ranch master-planned community in Denver.

As Johns Manville’s senior real estate executive, Dale’s major accomplishments included managing a real estate subsidiary that produced more than $100 million in earnings and cash flow from multiple projects; negotiating the sale of Johns Manville’s world headquarters building, and leasing 250,000 square feet of replacement space, which produced annual savings of $7.5 million in occupancy costs.

Before his career at Johns Manville, Dale was CFO of a publicly traded real estate development company, as well as senior accountant with Deloitte & Touche, Certified Public Accountants.

Dale received his MS and BS in Accounting from Oklahoma State University, and is a CPA (Retired). He is a past national president of the International Development Research Council (IDRC) and holds its Master Professional Certificate. In addition, he has served as president of several community service boards, including the District 38 Board of Education, Big Brothers of Colorado Springs, and the Tennyson Center for Children and Families in Denver as well as other civic activities.