Frederick, Maryland, sitting where I-70 meets the I-270 corridor, is represented by 2 buildings and 18 office lots: 5100 Buckeystown Pike and the Westview Village Business Center, both on Buckeystown Pike south of the historic centre. With the entire Frederick sample on one road, the comparison is less about geography than about what each of the 18 lots includes.
Median lot size in Frederick is 113 m², against a range from 5 m² to 520 m². A median that high means the catalogue is weighted toward suites for established teams rather than single desks, and a company arriving with a two-person requirement will find the 5 m² end of these 18 lots much shallower than the middle. Planning a Frederick move around the 113 m² median matches where the supply actually sits.
Rents in Frederick run from $345 to $438 per m² a year, and the median is also $345 — the midpoint sits on the floor of the range. Most of the 18 lots are therefore quoted at the low end, with only a minority carrying the premium toward $438, so a tenant quoted near the top should ask what the extra buys. A $93 per m² gap on a 113 m² suite is about $10,500 a year, enough to justify the question.
Only 2 buildings stand behind the Frederick shortlist, so there is no third property to fall back on when the 18 lots thin out. A tenant working to a fixed start date should keep a parallel option elsewhere in Frederick County rather than assume the same units will still be open a quarter later.