Two Dickson City business owners are partnering to build a youth sports complex on some of the borough\u2019s only data center-zoned land.\n<\/p>\n
The owners of neighboring Enterprise Street businesses Talk Shirty to Me and Kriger Pipeline Inc. acquired about 17 acres along the Lackawanna River in the northeast corner of Dickson City to build a youth sports complex to host tournaments and provide a place for kids to train with performance metrics, said Ron Augelli, a Jessup resident who owns custom apparel shop Talk Shirty to Me.\n<\/p>\n
Operating as American Youth Development DC LLC, the business owners purchased the land for $900,000 from Carrier Coal Corp. and its Carrier Coal Enterprises LP, according to a property transaction recorded Tuesday with the Lackawanna County recorder of deeds. Keystone Sanitary Landfill co-owners Louis and Dominick DeNaples signed the deed on behalf of Carrier Coal as president and vice president, respectively.\n<\/p>\n
American Youth Development DC uses the address 859 Enterprise St., Dickson City, which corresponds with Kriger Pipeline; Alfred \u201cButch\u201d Kriger Jr. registered the limited liability company with the Pennsylvania Department of State on March 2 using the same address, according to a certification of organization obtained by The Times-Tribune.\n<\/p>\n
The site of the proposed sports complex is behind the Giant supermarket on Main Street and just southeast of Railroad Street.\n<\/p>\n
The youth sports complex is much needed for the area, Augelli said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re bringing some sunshine to the area instead of all the darkness that\u2019s coming,\u201d he said. \u201c(We) bought that chunk of land to kind of put a little hold on it. \u2026 Now we\u2019re turning it into something nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
By developing a youth sports complex, it effectively takes one of the only sections of Dickson City zoned for data centers off the market.<\/p>\n
The land falls into the borough\u2019s light manufacturing district, which conditionally allows data centers with a slew of restrictions. Borough council voted Feb. 12 to amend its zoning to regulate data centers by making them conditional uses in its light manufacturing district that includes land on Enterprise Street near Eagle Lane and American Youth Development\u2019s property.\n<\/p>\n
The project is still in its early stages, but Augelli is optimistic after pitching it to Dickson City officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re zoned for it, and now we\u2019re just in the planning stages of how big we\u2019re going to go, and when we\u2019ll be breaking ground,\u201d Augelli said.<\/p>\n
The idea for the sports complex arose from Augelli\u2019s role running a private basketball club and having to travel out of the area to places like Allentown and Manheim for tournaments for younger kids in the kindergarten to fourth grade range, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see the people coming from all over the tri-state to participate,\u201d Augelli said. \u201cIt really opened our eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
While there are other local sports complexes, they don\u2019t run tournaments for young kids, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to focus on specific sports so that our children could get more out of sports when they\u2019re younger,\u201d Augelli said. \u201cWe have a long road ahead of us, but it won\u2019t take too long.\u201d<\/p>\n
The complex will give kids the opportunity to \u201ctrain at a higher level\u201d with more than just coaching, Augelli said.<\/p>\n
Augelli works with professional sports teams through his custom apparel company, including the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe technology that I\u2019ve seen in their practice facilities \u2014 we\u2019re bringing up here,\u201d Augelli said, explaining they will use that technology to track performance metrics for kids using the complex.<\/p>\n
He emphasized the sports complex will be open to other trainers who will be able to share space and court time at their complex to train their young athletes.<\/p>\n
Augelli hopes to eventually expand American Youth Sports Development beyond Dickson City and envisioned someday building townhouses on remaining land on the site.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s just so much we can do back there,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking to make a positive impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Dickson City business owners are partnering to build a youth sports complex on some of the borough\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1099,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-183717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dickson-city","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\/183717","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=183717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}