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St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms

St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware

ProposedContestedRecord updated October 1, 2026

St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms is a proposed data center in St. Georges, Delaware (New Castle County), operated by Parkway Gravel Inc. The public record puts it at 300 MW planned, 1,500 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record. The record for this site rests on a single unverified source and should be read that way.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Parkway Gravel Inc.
Facility type
Data center
Location
St. Georges, New Castle County, DE
Coordinates
39.5593, -75.6543 (approximate)
Power capacity
300 MW planned
Land
1,500 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Not established from a public source
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
Contested
Source confidence
Rumored: a single unverified source

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. November 2025
    Proposed
    Revised site plan filed for St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms at 3.2 million sq ft (up from an original 2.5 million sq ft / three distribution buildings + 150 homes). The developer's engineering firm, Verdantas, told the county the zoning allows 'distribution centers, fulfillment centers, truck terminals, warehouses, and data centers' on the parcel. Source: Spotlight Delaware

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms in St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. The site includes land hosting Frightland, a well-known Delaware Halloween attraction, which would be demolished.

A new status, a permit, a reception finding, or a lawsuit. Nothing else, ever.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

The site includes land hosting Frightland, a well-known Delaware Halloween attraction, which would be demolished. The proposal has drawn resident backlash over energy-cost and environmental impact, which Spotlight Delaware cites as a driver of New Castle County's new data-center zoning ordinance (buffer/setback, noise, and cooling-water rules).

Source: Spotlight Delaware

Notes on the record

Confidence is rumored rather than reported because sources disagree on whether the ultimate use will be a data center: county filings and press describe a mixed-use industrial park (distribution/fulfillment/warehouse) for which Delaware zoning also happens to permit data centers, and coverage attributes to the developer's engineering firm only that 'the developer may be planning to build a data center', not a confirmed data-center project. A Delmarva Power internal project list obtained via FOIA (Technical.ly) separately lists a 300 MW 'St. Georges/Frightland Area' project 'pending cluster study analysis'. That project is treated here as the same site given the shared name and geography, though the FOIA-based list does not itself name Parkway Gravel Inc., so the 300 MW planned figure carries that caveat. The square footage progression (2.5M sq ft → 3.2M sq ft) is not recorded separately because it describes the broader mixed-use park, not a confirmed data-center footprint. The pin is approximate: it is geocoded to the unincorporated place of St. Georges, DE (OSM); some press coverage instead characterizes the site as 'in Middletown' given proximity. The specific parcel south of the C&D Canal off US Route 13 did not resolve via geocoding.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Cooling method and water use
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
Which utility serves it
The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms data center in St. Georges?

Yes. St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms in St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. The site includes land hosting Frightland, a well-known Delaware Halloween attraction, which would be demolished.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms data center?

No lawsuit over St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms appears in the record we track as of October 1, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms use?

No water withdrawal figure for St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms, and how big is it?

Parkway Gravel Inc. is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 300 MW. The site is recorded at 1500 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms," updated October 1, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/parkway-gravel-st-georges-de.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/parkway-gravel-st-georges-de, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Two New Castle County industrial projects may become data centers · Spotlight Delaware · retrieved September 12, 2026
  2. 2.After months of debate, New Castle County Council agrees to regulate the data center industry · Spotlight Delaware · retrieved September 12, 2026
  3. 3.Newly public records reveal four pending Delaware data center projects · Technical.ly · retrieved September 12, 2026
  4. 4.Three sites across New Castle explore data center conversions (Parkway Gravel plans for close to 1,500 acres at St. Georges Business Park / Lighthouse Farms) · Delaware Business Times · retrieved October 1, 2026

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