Dustin Slack

Vice President & General Manager

Dustin delivers exceptional real estate value with creative problem-solving, teamwork and leadership.

Responsibilities

Manages the overall day-to-day business activities of the Austin office
Identifies multifamily and industrial development opportunities and evaluates the market and financial feasibility of proposed projects in major Texas markets, including Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and El Paso
Oversees the land acquisition process, including due diligence and feasibility studies, and negotiates land acquisition, development, lease, construction and building sale transactions
Develops future leadership within the organization and maintains productive relationships between associates in the field and office
Analyzes requirements related to the real estate market, city or regional growth, transportation and development trends and local economic and business trends
Monitors current trends related to our products and services to anticipate future trends that could impact our work

Experience

Dustin Slack returned to Team Opus in 2024 after working here from 2016 – 2022. He began his career as an architect in 1994 and as a developer in 2000. Since the late 1990s, he has developed over 11,000 multifamily units.

Previously, Dustin served as Vice President of Multifamily, for Milhaus, where he was responsible for project pursuit, acquisition and development. He worked in real estate development for JPI, Forestar Group, McShane Development Company and Trammell Crow Residential and as an architect for GFF Architects (formerly Good Fulton & Farrell Architects) and Womack + Hampton Multifamily Architects.

Dustin’s architecture and development experience provide unique capabilities. Combining the two, he is adept at creative problem-solving. For example, he employed a data-driven process to understand lease-up challenges on a multifamily project. He then worked with the property managers to improve marketing strategies and visitor’s first impressions of the new building. With these improvements, the building soon reached stabilization.

Dustin has developed best practices for keeping our team and our partners informed. For example, on Paradise at P83 (Peoria, AZ), Dustin realized that our financial partner was new to wood-framed construction, so he facilitated visits before critical components to ensure all stakeholders were informed and comfortable with the finished project. This project was impacted by COVID-19 shutdowns. By this time, Dustin and the team had developed a strong working relationship with the financial partner who described their confidence that the team’s expertise would yield a positive result.

For 25 years, Dustin’s weekends were consumed with youth sports – both coaching and observing. Living in Austin, fitness and enjoying nature are natural hobbies for Dustin.