Expand<\/a><\/p>\nAugelli said he and his business partner are still planning the complex in Dickson City, and the Watres Armory space will complement it. Having the space in the armory also gives them a head start, with groundbreaking on the Dickson City facility expected to take a year.<\/p>\n
Built between 1900 and 1901 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the armory was home to the Pennsylvania National Guard until it moved in 2011 to a new center on Olyphant Avenue. Local developer Don Mammano has owned the building since 2015, when he purchased it from the state.\n<\/p>\n
Neo-Expressionist artist Hunt Slonem occupied the space in the building beginning in 2015 but moved out several months ago, Augelli said. A painter, sculptor and printmaker known for his colorful works depicting birds and rabbits, Slonem has been displayed in more than 50 museums worldwide.\n<\/p>\n
Efforts to reach Mammano for comment about the new facility were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Augelli said the place will be one for children to hang out at and a community asset.<\/p>\n
\u201cKids have nowhere to go, and we\u2019re looking to provide something to give them somewhere to hang their hat, call home, meet new friends from across Northeastern Pennsylvania,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re giving a great opportunity for the local community to be back in such a beautiful building that\u2019s, you know, a historic part of Scranton.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a new chapter for a historic Scranton building. Ron Augelli plans to open Armory Athletics, a multipurpose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-303162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","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\/303162","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=303162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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