- Wild Hare Cider Pub at 205 William St. in downtown Fredericksburg will remain open. The business’ lease was briefly terminated, according to a sign posted on the building Monday, but by the next morning the lease had been reinstated, according to landlord The Stover Jarrell Agency. Wild Hare posted on its Facebook page this week that the business has been “struggling with big rent and costs and light sales this summer.” Wild Hare added that it “made an agreement with our landlord recently to slow pay and then we missed a detail that caused a temporary lock out.” The matter has since been resolved, and Wild Hare plans to open as usual on Wednesday. “If you want to help, just come on in, bring a friend, or provide a good suggestion on how we could improve,” Wild Hare wrote on its Facebook page.
- There were 125 homes sold in the past week in the Fredericksburg area, according to the Fredericksburg Area Association of Realtors, including two for more than $1 million. Check back weekly for the new list.
- Sheehy Toyota of Fredericksburg donated $2,500 to support this past year’s Great Train Race in downtown Fredericksburg.
- Fredericksburg-area school-children between the ages of 5 and 16 can get a free haircut and free lunch this Saturday (Aug. 9) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Pete’s Barbershop at 10800-E Courthouse Road in Spotsylvania County. “Sharp Start Saturday” is made possible by Pete’s and Sheehy GMC of Fredericksburg.
- The Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is the focus of this week’s Biz Beat Clips video.
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- Rich Larochelle, who has been instrumental in the success of several local nonprofits, is the guest on this week’s edition of the Biz Beat Banter podcast.
- A 16-home lakefront subdivision called The Reserve at Jett Pointe is proposed off Belmont Road on Lake Anna in Spotsylvania. A rezoning is required for the project, which is named after former Livingston District Supervisor Barry Jett, who died in 2021.
- Mary Washington Primary Care and Mary Washington Occupational Medicine recently moved its practice at 10620 Spotsylvania Ave. down the street to 4548 Empire Court in Spotsylvania.
- Taj Indian Cuisine recently opened its second area location — at 909 Garrisonville Road, Suite 101, in Stafford. The other location is at 2032 Plank Road in Fredericksburg.
- Chase Bank recently opened its branch at 830 Wonder Road, Suite 120, in Stafford’s Embrey Mill area.
- Thistle Medical Aesthetics recently opened its new location at 450 Garrisonville Road, Suite 205, in Stafford.
- Greater Washington Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery recently opened a Stafford office at 905 Wonder Road, Suite 110, in the Embrey Mill area.
- Aroos Boutique and Events recently opened at 432 Garrisonville Road, Suite 110, in Stafford.
- Endless Swings Indoor Golf, an indoor golf simulator facility, recently opened at 20 Berkshire Drive, Suite 107, off Garrisonville Road in North Stafford.
- Tobacco Panda recently opened its shop at 372 Warrenton Road in Stafford.
- Coldwell Banker Commercial Elite reports the following recent commercial lease transactions:
- Stellar FXBG LLC, 700 square feet of office space at 4020 Plank Road, Unit B, in Spotsylvania from Ace Property Management LLC
- Slammin’ Cuts Fredericksburg LLC, 1,500 square feet of retail space at 15 South Gateway Drive, Suite 103, in Stafford from 15 Southgate LLC
- Silly Goose Imagination Village LLC, 2,000 square feet of retail space at 50 N. Stafford Center Complex, Suite 108, in Stafford from GPAC-II
- The Cleaning Authority, 1,500 square feet of retail space at 4920 Southpoint Drive in Spotsylvania from Southpoint Plaza III LLC
- Borinquen Bar & Grill at Aquia Harbour, 2,000 square feet of retail space at 204 Bow Cove in Stafford from Aquia Harbour Property Owners Association Inc.
- Coldwell Banker Commercial Elite reports the following recent commercial real estate sales:
- Alabaster Properties LLC purchased a 3.14-acre industrially zoned parcel on Alabaster Lane off U.S. 1 in Stafford from Shimco Land Development LLC. for $1.625 million
- Callahan Properties CLC Two LLC purchased 628 Cambridge St. in Stafford from Revathi Rathinasamy for $1.8 million
- Scar LLC purchased 2765 Richmond Highway, Suite 207, in Stafford from Edward and Edith Horn for $328,000
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