Virginia Business 100 People to Meet in 2025 includes Josh Summits, City’s EDT Director

The sixth annual list of 100 Virginians you’ll want to meet in the new year was published in the December 2024 issue of Virginia Business.

Our very own, Josh Summits, Economic Development & Tourism Director was listed in the “Rainmaker” category.

“Josh Summits has worked in local government for nearly two decades and now has the top economic development job in the City of Fredericksburg.

Before that, he spent about five years in neighboring Stafford County. A native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Summits earned degrees in urban planning, which has come in handy when he’s involved in project development, he says.

Although Fredericksburg has more historic appeal than some localities in Northern Virginia, Summits still works with many local, regional and national developers to bring more mixed-use, higher density development to some corridors of the city. He’s also gotten a crash course in data center development as the data center boom moves south from Loudoun and Prince William counties.”

View the other 99 People to Meet in 2025.

By Kate Andrews, Beth JoJack, Katherine Schulte, April Thompson, Elizabeth Cooper, Elizabeth Lake, Karen Newton, Courtney Mabeus-Brown, and Robyn Sidersky