Dickson City residents who want to learn details about at least three power plants proposed across Bell Mountain must wait one more week.

Firms tied to Kriger Construction Inc. will go before the Dickson City Zoning Hearing Board on June 10 to seek approvals to build “power generation facilities” on the mountainside above Business Route 6, according to a public notice published May 26 in The Times-Tribune. The proposed power plants coincide with the sites of four recently denied data centers.

The hearing will take place at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 901 Enterprise St. It was initially scheduled for May 13 and then rescheduled to Thursday before the latest date change. Zoning Hearing Board Solicitor Frank Marcin said Monday the developer requested the new hearing date.

Operating as Dickson City Power One LLC, Dickson City Power Two LLC and Dickson City Power Three LLC, all based out of 99 Power Blvd., Archbald, the firms filed three zoning hearing applications dated March 19 to build the power plants.

The LLCs share an address with Kriger Construction Inc. and its affiliated NEPA Concrete & Asphalt plant. The contact information in each application lists Kriger Construction Vice President David Stiles’ email and Kriger Construction’s office number; the $575 checks required for each application are also from Kriger Construction.

Dickson City Development LLC, another firm linked to Kriger Construction, received five zoning denials from the board in recent weeks. On May 20, the zoning hearing board voted to deny its appeal that sought to overturn Dickson City’s zoning standards for data centers. On May 27, the board denied its appeals of the borough’s denials of its applications for four data centers across Bell Mountain, which align with the sites of the proposed power plants.

Other firms linked to Kriger, its President Jim Marzolino or Stiles seek approval for a 400-megawatt Essential Energy LLC natural gas power plant on Eynon Jermyn Road in Archbald and look to build a nearly 620,000-square-foot Project Boson data center across the street from the Archbald power plant.

In Dickson City, the borough’s zoning ordinance allows public and private power generation facilities as special exceptions in its residential open space, or ROS, zoning district, which encompasses the upper portion of Bell Mountain where Dickson City Power wants to build its plants.

Special exceptions require developers to testify about their projects at public hearings and abide by conditions imposed by the municipality while allowing for the public to testify for or against the proposal. When testimony concludes, the zoning hearing board will decide whether to approve the applications.

The applications for the power plants provide little information about the facilities. They do not include how much power the facilities will generate, their emissions, the type of fuel they will use, or, for two of the three applications, their square footage. Each application depicts the parcels where the power plants will be located with rudimentary site plans that lack labels.

Farthest east, Dickson City Power Two applied to build a plant less than 1,000 feet above the Circle Drive-In’s movie screens. The application includes an “equitable interest/executed agreement of sale” with Scranton Circle Drive In Company Inc.

Moving west, above Cold Spring Road, Dickson City Power One’s plans appear to show to two large facilities and one smaller one, with the only description being, “Location of Power Generation Facilities Within the footprint of subject parcels to comply with all setback and other zoning requirements.” The property is owned by Fore Up Realty, 805 Enterprise St., Dickson City, according to the application. Marzolino signed an assignment of rents and leases as the manager of Fore Up last year, according to the document recorded with the Lackawanna County recorder of deeds March 25, 2025.

For the westernmost power plant, directly behind the former Kmart that is now storage units at 1011 Business Route 6, Dickson City Power Three applied for a “a 775,000-square-foot power plant area.” It is the only application to include square footage. According to the application, Mountainview DC Realty LLC, 855 Enterprise St., Dickson City, is the property owner. Alfred Kriger Jr., who is Marzolino’s uncle, is the president of Mountainview. He signed a right-of-way agreement with PPL as the president of Mountainview in 2024, according to the document recorded Oct. 4, 2024. He previously proposed in 2021 to build about 300 townhouses on the land.

Dickson City Development LLC has an active appeal against Dickson City’s data center zoning in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, with the option to appeal its recent denials.