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The former home of Frederick Brick Works has found a development partner to design and develop a mixed use community at the eastside gateway to downtown Frederick. Foulger-Pratt Development, LLC of Rockville was chosen by Frederick Brick Works to develop the 65-acre site at the corner of East and South streets. Frederick Brick Works relocated to Monocacy Boulevard to make way for the East Street extension to I-70.

The design and development process will likely take between 18 months and two years, according to Brick Works attorney Bruce Dean of McEvoy and Dean in Frederick.

The timing is good, Dean said, because of the current economic slump. "It takes a few years to go through the development process, so hopefully the market will come back by then," he said. "Right now's not the time to put a shovel in the ground."

Dean said the final plan will likely include an urban mixed-use development of multi-family and townhouse residential, and office and retail space. The East Street corridor is intended to be an extension of Frederick's downtown, and its architecture and ambience will likely reflect that, but Dean said it is "way, way too early to predict" what the development will look like.

Foulger-Pratt was selected after the Brick Works board of directors toured several mixed-use properties, according to a press release. Dean said the group was particularly impressed with Foulger-Pratt's work on redeveloping downtown Silver Spring and Park Potomac Place, a 10-story condominium tower, in Potomac.

"We feel Foulger-Pratt did an amazing job in redeveloping in Silver Spring – it's a very vibrant and exciting community now compared to what it was 30 years ago," Dean said. "As for the Park Potomac Place, we all just said, ‘wow, we want to see something like that in Frederick."