Fred served as a project manager for Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse (SBER) projects during the early years. Now, he manages all project superintendents and all construction sites and is the visionary for SBER's Special Projects team. Like his brother Bill, Fred was raised in Rochester, New York. They moved to Baltimore in 1974 and started Struever Bros. and Eccles, Inc. Mr. Struever has been instrumental in the completion of many significant projects. Tide Point is the $67 million redevelopment of a former Procter and Gamble soap manufacturing facility in the South Baltimore neighborhood of Locust Point. This five-building waterfront complex now houses the headquarters of SBER and various tech-related firms. Tide Point has won various awards, including a Maryland Smart Growth award in 2001. His other projects include Tindeco Wharf, the conversion of a former canning facility in the Baltimore neighborhood of Canton into a 240-unit residential complex on the waterfront, The Can Company, a historic renovation of the former American Can Company in Canton transformed it into a vibrant retail and office center, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a 40,000 square feet transformation of Class B office space into the national headquarters of a non-profit organization and Bagby Furniture Building, a former furniture company building (c. 1890) converted into 100,000 square feet of Class A commercial office space. Besides guiding great projects for SBER, Fred devotes his time and tremendous energy to civic activities. He is a member of the board of Civic Works, a non-profit youth service corps founded in Baltimore in 1993. Civic Works provides critical community service that would otherwise go undone while enhancing the work, education and citizenship skills of young people. Its members have rehabbed low-income housing, built community gardens and parks, tutored and mentored school children, and provided additional staffing for several Police Athletic League (PAL) centers in Baltimore City. He also serves on the board of the Historic Charles Street Association Baltimore's oldest business association. Its mission is to create and maintain an atmosphere of distinction for shops, businesses, services, organizations and residences on and near Charles Street, which is considered the "Main Street" of Baltimore. Most recently, he joined the board of the Reuse Development Organization (ReDO), which promotes means of using surplus and discarded materials, such as left over building supplies from construction sites. During the spring of 2002, he was instrumental in leveraging support from subcontractors (in the form of donated services and materials) to build a new gym for the Mack Lewis Foundation. As boxing fans know, Mack Lewis trained former world heavyweight champion Hasim Rachman. In June, Fred led efforts to landscape and spruce up Baltimore's Northern District Police Station as part of activities held on the annual James W. Rouse Community Service Day. He has also spearheaded the revitalization of the Three Sisters Ponds in Druid Hill Park and initiated the first "Adopt a Firehouse" Project Engine House No. 41 in the Brewers Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. |