Our community hub and regional economic engine is in danger of being sold and demolished. We need your help to protect it.
Your presence is critical. Let's continue to show our support in person.
If you plan to speak publicly, please contact the Borough at least 36 hours in advance.
📞 724-827-8962When: Tuesday, December 2nd, 6:00 PM
Where: Big Beaver Borough Municipal Building
114 Forest Dr, Darlington, PA 16115
The first thing I would like to do, is to thank the collective efforts of Alec, Nate, and Corey for helping to put off our first ever, “Big Beaver Beater Meeter”… We will continue to host car meets during council meetings, as we have been given permission to do so by the Big Beaver Borough VFD. We were given their blessing due to how well we conducted ourselves; and they are very much in support of us. Great work team!
Feedback from Council meeting on 11/18: The tone of tonight was notably different to previous meetings. Even before the meeting, we were informed that we would not be able to use any EZ-Ups on the parking lot, that the hallway adjacent to the board room would be closed to us, and that they had moved their parking spaces so that their own cars would occupy the area where we once stood.
In the meeting, we heard from an increasing number of locals who spoke about concerns of a Data Center coming to replace the track and that their VFD would be closing at the end of the year with no clear succession plan in place.
Their response, nearly every single time, was that they do not know anything beyond what has been made public… and that they are looking into options to replace their VFD. They are also hiding behind how Ordinance #243 has been written and acting as if they are unfamiliar with it.
Before going to the council meeting, I visited the Beaver County courthouse. While there, I was able to review a draft copy of Ordinance #243. This was not signed into law, rather; it shows the language they were considering at that time. You will note that the language shown in #243 is shown here… this shows that the council has deliberated on this for some time; so their hiding behind it is incredibly odd.
We need to share this information with as many Big Beaver Borough residents as possible as it is our understanding that AES has everything they need to be able to immediately redevelop the PittRace site come January 1st. When they do so, what they will build there will pale in comparison to the economic windfall that has been our motorsports nucleus for the last 22-years.