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FXBG Advance
- May 28, 2024
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Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Lays Out Preservation Goals for City Council

Top three goals have also been in the city’s Comprehensive Plan since 2015. HFFI hopes to see them achieved by May of 2025. At tonight’s Fredericksburg City Council meeting, the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation will present a series of preservation goals for the coming year. The top three goals—establish a preservation advisory committee, complete a historic […]

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FXBG Advance
- March 26, 2024
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Mary’s Landing Project Seeks Open Space Credits for Preserving one “Character Structure,” but Would Demolish Other Buildings from Same Period

J.J. Ballentine's drawings for the Fredericksburg Public Health Center, located at 435 Hunter Street and slated for demolition under plans for Mary's Landing, which is under review by Fredericksburg City staff. Photo courtesy HFFI.

By ADELE UPHAUSMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Plans for the Mary’s Landing townhouse project, which would be located across Fall Hill Avenue from the old Mary Washington Hospital, seek “open space credits” for preserving one mid-20th-century structure while calling for the demolition of two other early-to-mid-20th-century structures. The building that would be preserved is also not […]

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FXBG Advance
- March 4, 2024
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OPINION: Most Affordable Housing Isn’t New

by Danae Peckler, HFFI PreservationistGUEST WRITER We all support increasing the supply of housing within Fredericksburg city limits. We just don’t have much of a shared understanding about what that growth will look like—what types of new housing is best suited for which locations or what kind of benefits and trade-offs are expected in those […]

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