The report shows that sales, lodging and meals tax revenues all rose in 2017 compared with 2016. The report also shows a variety of data on commercial vacancy rates, real estate transactions and more.

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To add your event to VisitFred.com, contact Fredericksburg Visitor Center Manager Danelle Rose .

The City of Fredericksburg and its Economic Development Authority, along with the University of Mary Washington, are working on plans to bring a 1,000-foot-long water slide to a stretch of Hanover Street for a day of slip-n-slide fun on September 1.

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The City has the opportunity to submit funding applications through VDOT's Smart Scale Program for needed road-development and road-improvement projects and to improve the service that FREDericksburg Regional Transit provides.  

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From Virginia Business article: "By our projection, by 2040, half of Virginia's population should live in Fredericksburg, or north of it."

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The City will host a public forum at Dorothy Hart Community Center tonight to discuss a draft of its bicycle and pedestrian master plan. 

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Check out the below video we did on this wonderful sanctuary within our midst (trust us).

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This week's edition of "Freehling Finds" takes a look at this great research facility located in the basement of the former Maury School at 900 Barton Street. 

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The April 9 meeting of Fredericksburg's Architectural Review Board will include reviews of a Sophia Street residential project, a new retail business on Caroline Street and more. 

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The engineering proposal shall include services to develop specifications and construction bid documents for the installation of brick sidewalks and crosswalk improvements on 11 blocks in the urban core, for the installation of lighting on five of those blocks, and for resurfacing the Market Square alley in a manner that meets ADA standards. 

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The City of Fredericksburg will have an emergency road project under way that will close Lansdowne Road to through traffic from April 9-27. 

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Available retail spaces: 1,500 s.f., 2,000 s.f., 2,200 s.f., 2,277 s.f. and 11,250 s.f. Shopping center located along the busy Plank Road corridor less than a half-mile from Fredericksburg's busiest interchange at I-95 and Route 3.   

    

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