Transforming places and impacting change
Racine City-wide Economic Opportunity Analysis
The Racine City-Wide Economic Opportunity Analysis helped determine geographic areas in the City of Racine with the greatest potential for redevelopment and economic growth to guide and target redevelopment and economic development efforts over the next 3-5 years.
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Madison Metropolitan School District
The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) has a long history of success in projecting student enrollment resulting from existing residential development. Based on current and recent enrollment patterns with a focus on cohort-survival analysis, modified by trends in the...
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Greater Amsterdam Area, New York – Economic Opportunity Analysis
CLIENT/PARTNERS: Greater Amsterdam New York Area including City of Amsterdam, Towns of Florida and Amsterdam, and Montgomery County. DATE: 2015 NEED: The Greater Amsterdam area is a pocket of latent economic opportunity shaped by picturesque geography, intact historic building...
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Madison AEC Area – Destination District Vision & Strategy
DATES: May 2018 – December 2018 CLIENT/PROJECT PARTNERS: Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau, Dane County, City of Madison, Destination Madison, Alliant Energy, Madison Gas and Electric NEED: The Destination District Vision & Strategy...
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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.
Midwest Focus
Retooling for a new economy
Our Madison office focuses on helping Midwest communities and businesses reposition economically and build creative, 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 Midwest.
Coastal Communities Focus
A coastal cities revival
Great Lakes cities like Milwaukee, Manitowoc, Racine, Sturgeon Bay, and Sheboygan have a bright new outlook on the horizon. Our Milwaukee office is helping assemble and lead a range of inventive economic development initiatives that are taking shape all along the Lake Michigan freshwater coast.
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Deeply involved with impactful project development and implementation--and already having created successful Opportunity Zone applications in several states--Vandewalle and Associates is uniquely qualified to provide the analysis, prioritization, and catalytic project planning that will attract investors and spur economic development in your designated Opportunity Zones.
STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN: An open house will focus on the Downtown so the public can...
The city and Waterloo Development Corp. have been working (with the help of Vandewalle & Associates) to create a boating facility on the west bank of the river just upstream from the Manatt’s concrete plant, near the intersection of West Commercial Street and River Road.
The City of West Bend has entered into an agreement with RafRad LLC and Kinseth Hospitality with the intention of constructing a hotel and office building on the former Gehl site in the downtown. Working in partnership with Washington County Site Development Committee (SRC) the City of West Bend completed a hotel study specifically dedicated to the former Gehl site. City staff approached SRC and identified the site as a high priority redevelopment site.
MILWAUKEE, WISC: The Vandewalle & Associates’ Milwaukee team is in good company...
A Carrollton civic group is hoping to fund two studies that will help find ways the group can improve the community. The first study, which will be conducted by Vandewalle and Associates, will provide areas of improvement for the community, such as business opportunities or needs. “They will look at the community and region and find the areas where there are significant opportunities,” Pinkston said.
FORT ATKINSON, WISC. The City of Fort Atkinson Common Council and Plan Commission held a...
Adjacent to the E.D. Locke Public Library, McFarland has a newly reimagined park space designed to spark kids' creativity and inspire interaction with textures, sounds and multi-sensory activities. Designed by Vandewalle & Associates' design team, the park is now open to the public.
MONONA, WISC: Check out the construction progress on “The Current,” on...
The City of Jefferson has been awarded a $250,000 CDI Grant from WEDC. The grant will help Gorman Company’s construction of the Candise Street Lofts--a redevelopment project that is a key part of the Downtown and Economic Recovery Plans that Vandewalle has worked on over the last several years.
"The new Highway 63 design has made pedestrian safety improvements that allowed for connections and accessibility from John Deere Waterloo Works and the TechWorks campus to downtown businesses, residential and entertainment,” said Marta Purdy, of Vandewalle and Associates, a downtown planning consultant.
MONONA, WISC: The Galway Companies have shared their latest video of the City of...
The opportunity to reposition the 72-acre former Oscar Mayer site and the surrounding area for the next 100 years is "one of the more important economic development projects that Madison will undertake." Several different development opportunities have been identified as part of the city’s Strategic Assessment Report (prepared for the City with the help of Vandewalle & Associates).
JANESVILLE, WISC: The Wisconsin Chapter APWA (American Public Works Association) ...
CARROLLTON, ILL. to MT. HOREB, WISC. (WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE GREENE PRAIRIE PRESS):...
A former farm implement building is coming back to life as another example of redevelopment and growth in downtown Mount Horeb. Vandewalle & Associates has been assisting the city with the downtown planing and economic development. “We’re really trying to build momentum and change things in downtown Mount Horeb, and this was an opportunity to get involved in a deeper way,” said building Owner Steve Grundahl.
MOUNT HOREB, WISC (EXCERPTS FROM MADISON.COM): Brix Cider is the newest addition to...
MUNCIE, INDIANA (EXCERPTS FROM MUNCIE JOURNAL and ALLIANCE MAGAZINE): Next Muncie–a...
At the urging of area employers, the city and other area stakeholders took steps to redevelop Hartford's downtown. More than three years ago, the city hired urban planners Vandewalle & Associates Inc. to conduct a downtown opportunity analysis. The result has been two catalytic projects in downtown Hartford and more than 300 new apartment units either opened or planned within the past two years.
MADISON, WI (EXCERPTS FROM MADISON.COM): After a nearly yearlong study, the Madison...
the council heard City Manager Cameron Clapper give a summarized report. That joint session was referred to as a “charrette,” a French word meaning “collaborative design.” The two-hour session was facilitated by Mike Slavney of the firm Vandewalle & Associates, which is the city’s planning consultant. The charrette was a result of an issue that came to light over the summer of 2018 regarding the zoning of annexed land into the city and the proposed development of townhomes on that land.