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.

Capitol East District Repositioning and Redevelopment

The Capitol East District is looking very different today than even five years ago. In its new role as Madison's urban live-work center, it has attracted over $400 million in new investment.

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.

Alliant Energy Center Destination District Vision & Strategy

With guidance from a public/private task force, V&A led a six-month process and prepared the Destination District Vision & Strategy. The collection of ideas and opportunities helped create a shared 15-year vision.

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 are seeing unprecedented change in how they build resilient places, healthy social and economic systems, grow jobs, and move people around. We are working on the ground with neighborhoods, communities, institutions and corporations–to identify and advance transformational and recovery projects that are future-ready, then position them 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.