{"id":146508,"date":"2026-03-24T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146508\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:28:07","slug":"archbald-hearing-on-18-data-center-campus-postponed-due-to-procedural-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146508\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbald hearing on 18-data-center campus postponed due to procedural issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARCHBALD \u2014 The borough postponed its second public hearing on an 18-building data center campus Monday night due to a procedural issue.<\/p>\n<p>Council was unable to listen to testimony on a conditional use application for Archbald I LLC\u2019s Project Scott data center campus because The Times-Tribune didn\u2019t publish public notices announcing the hearing, Solicitor Jay O\u2019Connor said at the onset of Monday\u2019s hearing. At least 150 residents attended the roughly three-minute meeting at the Valley View High School auditorium.\n<\/p>\n<p>Archbald council was supposed to hear from representatives with Dallas, Texas-based Provident Realty Advisors, operating as Archbald I LLC, regarding their proposal to build up to 18 two-story data centers, each up to 90 feet tall with a 154,850-square-foot footprint across about 400 acres between Business Route 6 and Eynon Jermyn Road. The developer filed a conditional use application with the borough on Dec. 16. Council held its first hearing on the project on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/2026\/02\/12\/data-centers-are-coming-developer-addresses-archbald-at-public-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 11.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Archbald resident Tamara Misewicz-Healey questions a data center developer during a public hearing at the Valley View High School in Archbald on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (FRANK WILKES LESNEFSKY \/ STAFF PHOTO)\" width=\"8082\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-ARCHBALD-0213-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1549728\" \/>Archbald resident Tamara Misewicz-Healey questions a data center developer during a public hearing at the Valley View High School in Archbald on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (FRANK WILKES LESNEFSKY \/ STAFF PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p>During last month\u2019s hearing, Provident representatives declined to answer questions on their campus\u2019s water and electricity needs, saying they would address that information during their second hearing with testimony from their data center engineer.<\/p>\n<p>However, a table set up for Provident was empty Monday night on the stage of Valley View High School\u2019s auditorium as O\u2019Connor explained why council could not hold the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor did not announce a new hearing date. When it does occur, the meeting will likely include testimony from Provident\u2019s data center engineer, a traffic engineer and a sound and noise consultant. Residents will also have the opportunity to testify before council eventually votes on the conditional use application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARCHBALD \u2014 The borough postponed its second public hearing on an 18-building data center campus Monday night due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2117,2116,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-146508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-archbald","tag-data-centers","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}