Vandewalle & Associates: Shaping places, shaping change

Waterloo, Iowa Manufacturing Reuse and Downtown Rebuilding

Working together to revitalize Waterloo since 1999, the City of Waterloo, the WDC, and Vandewalle & Associates have wrought a remarkable transformation of former Deere manufacturing facilities and the downtown.

Strategies for Resilient Communities

Planning for resilient communities includes sustainability plans, hazard mitigation, siting and relocation planning, floodplain analysis, foodshed analysis, renewable energy and micro-grid strategies, solar analysis, redundant power use, transit and electrification analysis, and so much more.

Let’s make your TIF District successful

Is your TIF District delivering the community value it should? Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts are a tool that can help communities optimize the value of an incremental tax base and make improvements and development happen. Yet we often see local municipalities who...

Milwaukee/LISC Brew City Match Market Analysis

The City of Milwaukee asked V&A to deliver an in-depth commercial market and land use analysis for LISC’s Brew City Match business accelerator and technical support program which helps neighborhoods find opportunities, revitalize and attract new businesses.

Connecting recovery opportunities to keep you moving forward

For every new challenge: an opportunity. V&A is moving them forward--writing grants, tracking funding changes, listening, collaborating, and collecting vital social, economic, and change data to inform solutions for a post-COVID recovery and other new realities.

Former Oscar Mayer Plant Strategic Assessment

The opportunity to reposition the 72-acre former Oscar Mayer site and surrounding Northside for the next 100 years is “one of the more important economic development projects Madison will undertake.” Phase 1 offers a corridor vision and “big picture” opportunities to explore in Phase 2.

Shaping Places, Shaping Change

Transforming Places • Shaping Communities • Building Economies • Adding Impact

About Us

We are driven to find new and better ways to make more of each place’s assets

Vandewalle & Associates is a guild-like collection of highly talented masters with diverse expertise in economic strategy, planning, design, energy systems, food and water systems, redevelopment, architecture, marketing, and real estate.

Healthy Communities

Getting Communities Ready for What’s Next

Communities large and small must adapt and focus on building resilient places, shaping healthy social and economic systems, growing jobs, and moving people around. We are working with communities, businesses and neighborhoods living through climate change and pandemic/post-pandemic realities to identify and advance transformational and recovery projects, and to position those projects for funding.

Midwest Focus

Rebuilding and Retooling for a New Economy

Our nationally recognized team is based out of Madison, and focused on helping communities and businesses reposition economically to build place-based, sustainable pathways to a vibrant future. Applying a range of visionary economic repositioning strategies, our work is making a world of difference to clients across the heartland.