Data center developer to buy mobile home park in Archbald
Earlier this month, residents of the Jermyn Mobile Home Village, also known as Valley View Estates, received letters dated July 26 informing them their community is being sold to Archbald Developer II LLC, with the anticipated transfer of ownership on April 15, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by The Times-Tribune. The sale agreement was signed May 21, according to the letter.
Located at the bottom of the Eynon Jermyn Road just shy of the Jermyn border, the mobile home park is on the outskirts of a proposed data center campus known as Project Gravity, according to the project's subdivision/land development application form and concept plan obtained by The Times-Tribune in April via a Right to Know Law request.
Project Gravity proposes to build at least six two-story data center buildings, each 135,000-square-feet per floor, across 186 acres between Business Route 6 on its western border and the Eynon Jermyn Road on its east, with entrances on both roads.
The mobile home park would be just a few hundred feet from the closest data center building, with the main entrance to the data center campus paralleling the entrance to the park.
Western Hospitality Partners—Jermyn LLC signed a memorandum of purchase and sale agreement Oct. 15 to buy the 186.21-acre parcel from property owner Five Up Realty LLC, 805 Enterprise St., Dickson City. James Marzolino signed on behalf of Five Up; Harry Bram signed for Western Hospitality. The agreement, which was recorded with the Lackawanna County recorder of deeds on Oct. 21, does not include a sale price.
Marzolino is involved in two other data center projects in Archbald and Blakely; he is also the president of Scranton-based Kriger Construction. Less than half a mile up the Eynon Jermyn Road from Project Gravity, Marzolino purchased the Highway Auto Parts junkyard for $1,575,000 this month to build three more data centers for his Archbald Data & Energy Center, and he and co-developer Alpesh 'Al' Patel of Al's Quick Stop convenience stores asked Blakely to rezone land along Business Route 6 and Terrace Drive to build four data centers.
For Project Gravity, a firm known as Archbald 25 Developer LLC initially filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State on Oct. 10 as Western Hospitality Partners—Jermyn LLC under a Denver-based law firm, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, which describes itself on its website as 'one of the nation's leading lobbying firms, offering a bipartisan team with full-service lobbying, public policy and legal representation that helps companies, associations, nonprofits and other organizations interpret federal government actions, solve challenges and seize opportunities.'
That same law firm and one of its paralegals, Meredith Whatley, signed a certificate of organization for Archbald Developer II LLC on May 9, according to the Department of State filing obtained by The Times-Tribune.
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