Business Owner Considers Sports Facility

NORTH HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Land owned by North Huntingdon Township could be leased to a local business owner who is looking to build a multi-million dollar sports facility. Shane Larkin, the owner of N Zone Sports Westmoreland, said it’s a big project in the works. “We’re looking to do an indoor and outdoor sports space on about a 15 to 18-acre piece of property,” he said. That property is currently owned by North Huntingdon Township for the Public Works facility. Last month, the township and Larkin had a meeting to discuss the potential of leasing that site for this project. Larkin is partnering with RocStreet Sports for this project. Larkin wants it to have indoor and outdoor turf fields, basketball courts, pickleball courts, dek hockey and inline hockey rinks, and an indoor and outdoor track. RocStreet is investing that $10 million for the development of this project – so that means if they end up leasing land from the township – it wouldn’t cost taxpayers. Atwood said while the talks are still in the very early stages, he’s excited to see the possibility of development on the western part of Route 30. If all goes according to plan, Larkin says they could break ground as early as this summer.