City of Fredericksburg

Welcome to Fredericksburg!

 The Heritage Festival will take place on the streets of downtown Fredericksburg on July 4. The daylong event offers a wide variety of activities, entertainment and food, culminating in fireworks that light up the sky over the Rappahannock River. PLEASE NOTE: Old Mill Park in the City will not be open for viewing the fireworks.  It will close at 8 p.m.  For more information about events and where to view the fireworks, call 540-371-4811 or go to www.fredericksburg.com/heritagefest. Thanks to all the generous donors who supported this year’s Heritage Festival and fireworks! If not for their financial support, the fireworks may not have been funded.

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The Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Fredericksburg Hotel is NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS. With just under 100 rooms, an indoor pool, retail space, and a conference facility and more.  This hotel offers additional downtown options to visitors and business people wishing to stay in the City of Fredericksburg.

SHOP LOCAL AND WIN! Small businesses are the backbone of our community and during tough economic times, it is important that we show our support by giving them our business. If you shop or dine between June 1 and September 30 at participating downtown Fredericksburg businesses, you could win a $100 Downtown Gift Certificate each month!  When you shop locally, you are not only treated to a unique shopping or dining experience, you are helping the local community… everyone is a winner! 

For a complete list of participating businesses, contest rules, and to enter SHOP FRED Contest click here  

FREE BUSINESS SALES GROWTH SEMINAR- JULY 29 – The City of Fredericksburg’s Department of Economic Development and Tourism is pleased to join with the Chamber of Commerce, Germanna Community College, the Fredericksburg Regional Alliance and the Economic Development departments of Spotsylvania and Stafford counties to present a July 29 seminar on how to grow your business' sales.  For more information and to register click HERE 

Wegmans opened June 21! - headquartered in Rochester, New York, Wegmans is a privately held, family-owned company, founded in 1916 by the Wegman family.  This megagrocery store is about 130,000 square feet in size. Aisles are unusually spacious. Wegmans offers more customer convenience services and “stores within a store” than possibly any other supermarket chain.  And they brought a western New York favorite, kimmelwick buns, to Fredericksburg so we, too, can build a beef on weck!  

Downtown developments
Fredericksburg City Council continues to move forward on the courthouse complex. The new development will offer more space, improved security and the ability to handle future growth. City Council is now considering locating the courthouse on the site of the Juvenile/Domestic Relations court, to house both Circuit Court and Juvenile/Domestic Relations court. For now, Council has set aside pursuing the Post Office site for re-use as a mixed-use development to house all three courts in one building.