HFFI honors preservation excellence

Look inside Fredericksburg’s escape room

Harkness Screens property sale highlights February transactions

224 acres at Celebrate Virginia South scheduled for auction

ILM Corp. moves to Cowan Crossing

City of Fredericksburg gains 1,124 jobs in Q3 2017

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HFFI honors preservation excellence

Look inside Fredericksburg’s escape room

Harkness Screens property sale highlights February transactions

224 acres at Celebrate Virginia South scheduled for auction

ILM Corp. moves to Cowan Crossing

City of Fredericksburg gains 1,124 jobs in Q3 2017

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Mar 13, 2018

by Bill Freehling in All Articles

Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Inc. (HFFI) on Sunday honored several area residents and projects for excellence in historic preservation. The awards were handed out during HFFI’s annual meeting at Fredericksburg’s historic former Renwick courthouse. Here are the winners: President’s Exceptional Service Award Winner: Faculty of the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington […]

Mar 08, 2018

by Bill Freehling in All Articles

Every week, we put out a YouTube video in a series called “Freehling Finds” that promotes the City of Fredericksburg in a variety of ways. You can watch the episodes (43 so far!) here. This week we featured Connect Games Escape Room, which is located at 1011 Caroline Street in downtown Fredericksburg. Some of my […]

Mar 07, 2018

by Bill Freehling in All Articles

The sale of the former Harkness Screens property at 10 Harkness Boulevard was among several notable real estate transactions in Fredericksburg last month, according to the February 2018 deeds report. The roughly 59,400-square-foot building, which sits on about 3.85 acres and is zoned for heavy industrial use, sold to Great Falls-based investor Dominion Real Estate […]

Feb 27, 2018

by Bill Freehling in All Articles

Below is the news release that went out this week about a planned tax-sale auction for 224 acres of commercially zoned land at Celebrate Virginia South in Fredericksburg. The parcels outlined in blue on the image to the right are the ones scheduled for auction. Full payment of the City taxes/Community Development Authority assessments owed […]

Feb 26, 2018

by Bill Freehling in All Articles

Fredericksburg-based ILM Corporation moved Friday into its new 10,000-square-foot office in the nearly completed Cowan Crossing mixed-use development. ILM, a data-management company with numerous federal government clients, is now located at 1551 Jefferson Davis Highway. Fredericksburg-based DLR Contracting Inc. constructed the 15,000-square-foot building for a limited liability company affiliated with ILM. DLR’s Chris Golden served […]

Feb 26, 2018

by Bill Freehling in All Articles, Jobs

Average employment in Fredericksburg rose by 4.7 percent in the third quarter of 2017, according to recently released Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) data. The City of Fredericksburg picked up 1,124 jobs during the third quarter compared with that three-month period in 2016. There were an average of 25,071 jobs in the City in the third […]

Dec 18, 2017

by Bill Freehling in All Articles

Fredericksburg’s Department of Economic Development and Tourism is pleased to roll out this new blog. Here, we will promote business activity in the City of Fredericksburg. Ours is a great City, and we hope this blog reflects it. We will post often, so be sure to check back regularly. Also, be sure to sign up for our […]

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