Vandewalle & Associates: Shaping places, shaping change

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...

Let’s shape places to be free of discrimination and racism

LET’S SHAPE PLACES TO BE FREE OF DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM. Because Black Lives Matter. These lives matter to each of us personally and to our company’s mission.

See more vibrancy and color at Eye Level

When new inspiration is called on to create impetus for needed change, this new design and communication studio shines–crystalizing need into bold vision and making it a reality. Eye Level Studio is the new design and communication studio division of Vandewalle &...

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.