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Celebrate Life in Downtown Villa Rica

Downtown Villa Rica is making progress in developing into an area with popular restaurants and quality shopping. Along with many professional offices, the Main Street area is where one can find almost any service or merchandise a person or family needs. There are clothing stores, furniture stores, accountants, dentists, insurance agents, stockbrokers, hair salons, antique stores, home decorating expertise, bookstores, attorneys and gardening supplies along with several top quality restaurants. Come on downtown, park in some of the newly built and landscaped lots and walk around the Main Street area. You will be surprised what is available and enjoy meeting the wonderful people of Villa Rica. The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce and Villa Rica Main Street Program will host a “Gold Fever” Expo at THE MILL amphitheater on Thursday, May 3, from 4p – 7p (rain date May 10).

“Cash Mob” Coming to Downtown Villa Rica!

Friday, May 18 from 5p – 8p

You’ve heard of “Flash Mobs”, right? Well, at the Main Street office, we’re coordinating an idea similar to this concept – only it includes money.

A cash mob is a group of people who assemble at a local business and all buy items from that business. The purpose of these mobs is to support both the local businesses and the overall community. They may also serve a secondary purpose in providing social opportunities. They were inspired by flash mobs.

YES, you are part of the mob! Pull your shopping posse together, and look for the “CASH MOB HERE” signs in these windows. Enjoy later hours (5p – 8p), sidewalk shopping, free food samples, balloons and more. Share this information to help build a buzz. See you in historic downtown.

Cash Mob standard is to come prepared to spend $20. Amount of fun we are going to have? Priceless!

Digger’s Downtown Dollars

We hope to reintroduce “Digger’s Dollars” in the next few weeks. It is anticipated that we will slightly change the approach, but it will still offer great values for the customers of our participating downtown businesses. Look for “Digger’s Dollars” when you shop in historic downtown beginning later this month. We are encouraged by reports that several existing industries are gearing up to expand in the Villa Rica area. This should occur over the next eighteen months. All of us should support these companies as well as our existing small business owners.

Art Walk @ THE MILL | Saturday, May 26

Click Here for Application

Historic Gold Rush Festival

September 8, 2012
Save the date for this all day celebration!

Come enjoy everything that makes the Historic Gold Rush Festival the exciting event that it is: friends, food, fun, crafts, 5k road race, a parade and free music! Saturday evening, head over to the Thomas A. Dorsey stage @ THE MILL amphitheater for the communities annual “Battle of the Bands” competition where the very best of local talent will battle for top prizes and “best of the best” bragging rights! Bring your lawn chairs and blankets, and enjoy!

Interested in being a vendor? Contact Kim Sechrest at sechrestkimberly@gmail.com for more information.

Click here for your Gold Rush 2012 Festival Committee Application.