It’s official: the village of Fredonia is the winner of Small Business Revolution.

They’ll now be featured on the popular Hulu series and win a half-million-dollar investment for their community.

There was absolute joy after the village was announced as the winner of the competition.

“This is my fifth time hearing it and it’s always so impactful. I mean it never loses its luster because you hear so much in that screen,” said Amanda Brinkman, Small Business Revolution co-host.

For its fifth season, Brinkman and co-host Ty Pennington will tell the story of Fredonia by investing $500,000 to makeover seven area businesses.

“When the Small Business Revolution comes to town, it’s really quite a whirlwind. We invest some of the dollars into the effort of the town itself, maybe Main Street aesthetics, we really work with the town leaders to determine what would make the biggest impact for this particular community and then we really pour our heart and soul into the businesses,” said Brinkman.

It all started when Grace Czechowski, who grew up in Fredonia, nominated her hometown for the competition.

“Fredonia has a ton to offer. The university here is always bringing in world class acts, we have amazing Victorian homes that are absolutely stunning, there’s a beautiful wine trail that runs through here not far from Lake Erie, and a lot of hardworking community people that are really trying to build businesses and live their lives,” said Czechowski.

After thousands of towns were nominated, Fredonia made the top five finalists and then people had to vote for the winner. Brinkman says it was a tight finish but Fredonia ended up on top.

“We were told that there’s this thing called ‘Buffalove’ and you guys were right, it’s incredible all of Western New York did such an incredible job of supporting the village of Fredonia,” said Brinkman.

”Between the community, between the college, between all the local areas, we all banded together as one,” said Dan Siracuse, who lives in Fredonia.

“It’s just a wonderful, wonderful community, great loving people, if you live here everybody loves you,” said Esther McMillan, who went to school in Fredonia.

For an area that lost jobs after businesses closed or left and a rise in unemployment, many are now ready for Fredonia to make a comeback.

“We’re seeing a rebirth and this is just like the icing on the cake,” said Leslie Long, Fredonia native.

Filming will begin in March and it’ll air in September on Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and SmallBusinessRevolution.org.