The Beck group is a general contractor for major commercial developments. Recently the company has built two Texas mega-malls for the Mills Corp. Another famous Mills Corp. employee is Bush’s predecessor, Ann Richards. Mills hired Richards to help convince regulators that they should grant Mills Corp. a special permit to fill 206 acres of the Hackensack River wetlands because there was no other reasonable place to build a mega-mall. Beck was elected in 2000 as the chair of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce.