Vandewalle & Associates: Shaping places, shaping change

Monona Waterfront Redevelopment

Monona’s leadership has taken a proactive approach to economic development and infill. The City of Monona is working with the CDA and Vandewalle & Associates to create a vibrant waterfront destination for Monona residents where people want to gather.

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.

How successful is your TIF District?

HOW SUCCESSFUL IS YOUR TIF DISTRICT? Is it delivering the community value it should? We have some tips that can help you manage it more successfully. Join us for TIF Talks - our exclusive 5-part series with strategies for making the most of your TIF District. Register now!

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 &...

GrantWatch and Grant Roadmap Services

Register for our no-cost GrantWatch alert service. Getting out in front with GrantWatch is as easy as clicking here. Once you are registered, we will alert you with carefully curated federal and state grant announcements. GrantWatch emails will share basic details and links to...

Reimagining Shopping Malls for the Future

In the age of Amazon, how can you leverage the great location, easy access to transportation & highways, and significant acreage of once-vibrant shopping malls? Learn about a real solution to increase the tax base and address the housing challenge in your community. Download...

Get Onboard with Reshoring

Reshoring is one of the hottest topics in American business today. For those communities that are looking to the future economy and making plans to capture growth and new business tax base, the opportunities connected with reshoring (moving supply chain production back to...

Shaping Places, Impacting Communities

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

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.

Housing Demand

Be proactive about your community’s housing supply

From small towns to major metropolitan cities, housing challenges consistently rank as one of the top concerns of Midwestern communities today. The housing crisis may not look quite the same everywhere, but the crunch poses very real challenges: