Join us virtually for this stop on the Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour Spring 2025, featuring local advocate Bernice Radle.
LOCATION: Online Event | DATE: April 17, 2025 | TIME: Noon CDT
Join us for an insightful online workshop featuring Bernice Radle, a visionary leader from Buffalo, New York. Bernice is building a small-scale development movement and transforming communities by employing the Strong Towns principles of incremental development, flexible housing, small bets and step-by-step improvements. As the president of Neighborhood Evolution, a consulting firm dedicated to fostering small development ecosystems, and the founder of a development firm that renovates historic buildings, she brings a wealth of experience and passion to her work. Hosted by Norm Van Eeden Petersman, director of Movement Building at Strong Towns, this workshop offers live conversations and plenty of chances for attendees to engage and have their questions answered. Meet the unsung heroes of the Strong Towns movement and be inspired to make a difference in your own community!
Bernice Radle is a dreamer and a doer. Her entire life work has been dedicated to bringing vacant buildings back to life in Buffalo, NY. She is the President of Neighborhood Evolution LLC, a consulting firm that helps places build their small development ecosystem by coaching, training, and one on one project development assistance. Bernice is the Executive Director at Preservation Buffalo Niagara where they use non profit tools to renovate historic buildings that are demolition candidates. She is the Founder of Buffalove Development LLC where since 2012, she has focused on renovating vacant historic buildings in her neighborhood. Bernice recently left the Zoning Board of Appeals after serving for 9 years and was a leader in Buffalo to overhaul the zoning code to the current Buffalo Green Code. She is a member of Strong Towns and has a cat named Jane Jacobs!