A Dickson City company acquired part of Sugarman’s Plaza in Archbald for $3.4 million this month, a site where a local data center developer applied for $4 million in grant funding to develop a Starbucks and dental office.
Sterling Property Holdings 1891 LLC purchased just shy of 13 acres from 600 Scranton LLC, which owns the shopping plaza that was once home to Sugerman’s Department Store at 600 Business Route 6, according to a property transaction recorded Oct. 14. Sterling Property Holdings uses a residential address on Bell Mountain in Dickson City.
Linda Malinowski signed two accompanying easement agreements as manager of Sterling Property Holdings. Malinowski also signed an Oct. 7 certificate of organization with the Pennsylvania Department of State as the organizer of Sterling Property Holdings 1891. Malinowski is the former president of Kriger Construction Inc. and the mother of local data center developer and Kriger Construction President Jim Marzolino.
Marzolino’s companies propose the nearly 620,000-square-foot Project Boson data center on Eynon Jermyn Road and the 400-megawatt Essential Energy LLC natural gas power plant across the street from Project Boson. Other companies linked to Marzolino and Kriger Construction’s executive leadership propose four data centers and three power plants across Bell Mountain in Dickson City.
Land adjacent to the former Sugarman’s marketplace on the Route 6 is slated for development in Archbald’s Eynon section Tuesday, October 20, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Attorney Raymond Rinaldi, who represented Sterling Property Holdings in the transaction, declined to comment Tuesday because he didn’t have permission to speak on behalf of his client.
Marzolino is also involved with the development of two proposed Wawas in Dickson City, one off Cold Spring Road and another on Main Street along Viewmont Drive at the former Lackawanna Executive Park, as well as a Wawa proposed on Birney Avenue in Moosic.
Sterling Property Holdings bought four lots in Archbald’s Eynon section immediately south of the former Sugerman’s, which now spells its name Sugarman’s. The lots encompass paved parking and a section of now-felled trees along Betty Street.
A map subdividing the Sugarman’s property recorded Oct. 9 specifies that GLI Archbald LLC will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of a stormwater easement area.
GLI Archbald applied for $4 million through the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program’s 2025 round of funding for a development at the Sugarman’s Plaza. The project did not receive money from the state.
The application lists Marzolino as the manager of GLI Archbald and uses an address at 99 Power Blvd., Archbald, which is the office of Kriger Construction and its affiliated NEPA Concrete & Asphalt plant.
The filing describes “site development for the Dental office and future Starbucks site.” The project will consist of a commercial/professional office building of approximately 12,000 to 18,000 square feet; a separate lot will have a convenience store with other site pads ready for additional tenants.
The application describes a $5.5 million private match, totaling $9.5 million for the project. The RACP funding would offset costs for site preparation and construction of the professional office building.
GLI Archbald also applied for $1.3 million through the state Department of Transportation’s 2026-27 Multimodal Transportation Fund as part of “a large commercial development plan.” Upgrading the infrastructure would allow “better and safer access to the site” and “enhance the opportunity to bring professional services and other supporting development to this location,” according to PennDOT’s list of applications.
Earlier this year, GLI Moosic LLC received a $900,000 Commonwealth Financing Authority Multimodal Transportation Fund grant for road improvements at Birney and Springbrook avenues to support development of a gas station/convenience store in Moosic, coinciding with the location of the proposed Wawa. Marzolino is the governor of GLI Moosic LLC, according to a Pennsylvania Department of State business registry.
Lackawanna Executive Park Dickson LLC, which owns the site of the proposed Main Street Wawa in Dickson City, also received $450,000 from the same round of grants for road safety improvements at Main Street and Viewmont Drive. Malinowski signed an assignment of rents as the sole member of Lackawanna Executive Park Dickson, according to the document recorded Sept. 13, 2021, with the county recorder of deeds.
The once-booming Sugerman’s on Business Route 6 closed in late 1995. The commercial corridor through Eynon never recovered from the loss, though borough officials have tried to revive it with commercial development.
GLI Archbald’s RACP application addresses that void, stating that work will consist of “redevelopment of a 13-acre parcel of the former Sugarman’s Department store site for retail and commercial office space, creating additional economic development and expansion of workforce potential.”
“There is a need for new development in an area where job growth has been stagnant for years,” the application states. “The development of this project will create over a hundred well paying jobs and will provide a service for the entire region.”