Mr. Wheeler is a co-founder of Wheeler Brothers Holdings, LLC, and Mid-Atlantic Associates, LLC, both real estate investment companies. Mr. Wheeler has been involved in real estate acquisitions and development since 1984 and has participated in over 3-million square feet of transactions. Up until 1995, retail real estate transactions were the primary focus; however, since that time Mr. Wheeler has focused more heavily on large, urban mixed-use transactions in the New York to Washington corridor and South Florida. Mr. Wheeler graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in economics and pursued some graduate work in the same area. He is involved in many political circles and has served by appointment on the Mayor’s Economic Advisory Council for the District of Columbia. He is involved in many local charitable organizations including serving a term as fundraising Chairman for a major United Way organization in Washington, D.C., and in June of 2007 he was appointed to the Board of the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.