City Of Frederick

City seeks better deal with Frederick Keys

Frederick city officials are revisiting some of the details in the stadium lease they negotiated with the Frederick Keys after two aldermen questioned the deal last week.

“Based on aldermanic feedback, we need to re-evaluate the arrangement of the parking deal with the Keys,” said Josh Russin, executive assistant to Mayor Randy McClement (R).

Russin said he and McClement will meet with Keys officials Wednesday after The Gazette’s deadline to continue discussing their long-term lease of Harry Grove Stadium.

At the city workshop on Aug. 3, aldermen Karen L. Young (D) and Shelley Aloi (R) criticized the selection process and raised questions about the mayor’s negotiations with the Keys.

The parking deal arranged with the Keys particularly was troublesome to the aldermen. The Keys agreed to continue pay utilities, which average about $116,000 annually and which was not included in the request for proposals, in exchange for a better deal on parking fees.

The Keys will receive $150,000 in parking fees annually, and split the rest with the city getting 60 percent and the Keys keeping 40 percent.

The Keys’ main competition in the bid for the stadium lease, the Frederick Atlantic League, offered to pay utilities and gave the city overall better financial terms, said Jack Lavoie, managing member of the Frederick Atlantic League.

“Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to matter what we proposed,” Lavoie said in an interview. “The Keys’ $150,000 front-loaded payment for parking and the city’s explanation about the utilities is flabbergasting. …We outbid them financially, not just on that one point. It doesn’t add up.”

Lavoie said the city used the bid process to force more cash from the Keys and that his organization never stood a chance.

McClement denied that allegation in a previous interview, and said he wanted the best financial arrangement for the city.

Young, who has repeatedly voiced frustration about the muddiness of the selection process, said in an interview Tuesday she thought the process was going to be equitable and that city officials would analyze everything before making a recommendation.

“Now I have some questions, but I don’t know if the end was predetermined or the process was not as buttoned up as it should have been. I am not close enough to the process to make that call,” she said.

Young agreed with Lavoie that the Atlantic League bid was more financially advantageous to the city. She tallied up the rent, parking and other potential avenues for revenue, including naming rights and signage sales, and said she determined that Lavoie and company “offered up the better deal … unless I am missing something.

Medimmune, Local Officials Celebrate Opening of ... - City of Frederick

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Frederick, MD - On Friday, City and County officials joined with MedImmune in celebrating the official opening of their 2nd manufacturing facility in the City of Frederick.

The new 331,000 square foot facility began construction in 2006. Construction was completed in 2010, and the process of FDA licensure began. That approval came in early 2011, and MedImmune is now licensed to begin production.

"The multimillion dollar expansion of MedImmune's manufacturing capacity here in Frederick is a terrific example of a match between workforce, access, land availability, and proximity to the MedImmune Headquarters in Gaithersburg," stated Mayor McClement. "Congratulations to MedImmune and its leadership team led by their president, Peter Greenleaf, on a job well done."

"The City of Frederick Department of Economic Development has been involved with company officials on this expansion since it was first a concept nearly 10 years ago. Our planning, engineering, and permits departments have worked hard to ensure that MedImmune could deliver this facility on-time," said the City's economic development director Richard Griffin. "We are immensely proud of MedImmune, this facility, and its employees. We hope to have a long future together."

MedImmune first established a presence in Frederick in 1996, opening a manufacturing facility to produce Synagis®, which is FDA-approved to prevent RSV in high-risk children. The new plant, which will expand MedImmune's production capacity for Synagis as well as future marketed monoclonal antibodies, is on the same site as the first facility. Currently, MedImmune employs nearly 250 at the Frederick facility.

Preliminary report of Frederick L. Olmsted, Jr, relative to beautifying the City of Holyoke

Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, tenth president of Columbia College in the city of New York

Frederick city code, containing public local laws of Maryland relating to the city of Frederick and ordinances of the mayor and aldermen of Frederick

Frederick County transportation study, short range, low capital highway improvements

Acts passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia