I am so very very sad. Freez King, a locally owned business, is FOR SALE. A sign has been at the edge of the property for a few weeks, but I have stubbornly told my mom to KEEP DRIVING, IT MIGHT BE THE GAS STATION INSTEAD, FLOOR IT WOMAN!
Freez King opens in March, when it is still "too cold" for ice cream. The establishment sells soft serve (chocolate, vanilla, twist) and food. There is a big park across the street where I worked for a few summers, and we'd take the kids in the afternoon once a week. It was, of course, the day with the highest attendance. When I was little we'd drive past it on the way home from school and we'd stop in the spring. When I was older, we'd go on the last day of the season because it was usually near or on my birthday. When my sister was in highschool, down the street from Freez King, she'd get a cone for breakfast. I remain jealous. I did not go to the same high school and there was no soft serve ice cream for breakfast.
Here's the article from The Frederick News-Post:
Josh Roames described Freez King as “a little neighborhood staple that offers a good family environment.”
The neighborhood landmark at 13th and East streets in Frederick is up for sale, more than 40 years after opening on March 11, 1966.
“The neighborhood is going to miss it,” Roames said. “My six-year-old and I always went there.”
Without Freez King, Roames and others in the neighborhood would have to walk about six blocks to the ice cream shop at East and Church streets, he said.
A sign on the Freez King property reads, “Sorry, closed for the season, will re-open March 6, weather permitting.”
The property also sports a “for sale” sign.
Freez King owners James and Mary Lou Thomas have owned and operated the business for 40 years. They are getting older and combined with health problems, “it’s no use fighting it,” James Thomas said.
The Thomases also want to sell a rental house nearby. There’s a lot of interest in the property, said Amy Castle, associate broker with Gloria and Roland Castle at Real Estate Teams and listing agent for the property.
“The Thomases are not actually interested in selling the business itself but would consider it,” Castle said. “They want to sell the land so if somebody wants to operate a different business, they could. But if someone wants to buy the business, they would sell the machinery separately, which is typical in a real estate sale.”
For more on this story, check out Wednesday's edition of The Frederick News-Post.
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