Bernice Radle

Bernice Radle

Bernice Radle

Guest Speaker
Seaside Prize 2024


Bernice Radle is the Executive Director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, a non profit dedicated to saving and restoring historic properties in Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

Additionally, Bernice founded Buffalove Development in 2012, a full-service real estate firm focused on reviving vacant and underutilized places and spaces in Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Her favorite thing is to combine urban design, preservation, energy efficiency, and affordability to make neighborhoods better for people to live, work, and play.

Bernice's Buffalove Development renovation 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. She is also the co- founder of Neighborhood Evolution which works in communities such as South Bend, Lafayette and KCMO.

Bernice was the Vice Chair of the City of Buffalo's Zoning Board of Appeals from 2016 to 2023. 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 formerly worked as 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.