Brattleboro Declared Strongest Town Contest Winner
After four rounds in a March Madness-style tournament against 15 other North American cities, Brattleboro won the title Strongest Town in North America.
Voters from an international audience selected Brattleboro to win the 8th annual Strongest Town Contest based on its dedication to Strong Towns principles, such as transparent local accounting, building safe and productive streets, encouraging incremental housing, eliminating parking mandates, and ending highway expansions.
A huge thank you to everyone who voted in the contest and helped us get the word out!
Representatives from Brattleboro will receive an award on behalf of the town at the Strong Towns National Gathering, a conference of city-builders focused on improving transportation safety, municipal budgeting, housing opportunity, and more, at the end of May. Brattleboro will also be the subject of a professionally produced documentary video about building community prosperity from the bottom-up.
During the fourth and final round of the contest, Rachel Quednau, Program Director of Strong Towns, discussed what makes our community special with Brattleboro Planning Director Sue Fillion, Video Producer Mike Pasternock, and Structural Design Engineer Charli Lomino from (beautiful!) Saranac Lake, NY. Watch below.