Bernice Radle
Bernice Radle owns Buffalove Development and Little Wheel Restoration Company, a full-service real estate firm focused on reviving vacant and underutilized places and spaces in Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Her goal is to combine urban design, preservation, energy efficiency, and affordability to make neighborhoods better for people to live, work, and play.
Her woman-owned and minority-focused companies aim for a more inclusivity for females and minorities in the real estate and construction industries. Bernice's work has been featured on HGTV and DIY network as well as in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Preservation Magazine, TedX, and was awarded the Peter H. Brink Award for individual achievement by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Bernice has been a member of the City of Buffalo's Zoning Board of Appeals since 2016 and was appointed Vice Chair in 2019. Bernice was an active volunteer throughout the adoption of the Buffalo Green Code and active on the Zoning Board throughout the Code transition in 2017. Bernice is a Senior Faculty member of the Incremental Development Alliance where she works with cities across America to do zoning stress tests and train their communities on how to do small-scale real estate development.
In 2021, she was selected to serve on the Form Based Codes Institute Driehaus Awards Committee and in 2022 became an appointed to the FBCI steering committee.
Bernice holds a B.S. in Urban Planning and Regional Analysis from Buffalo State College.