Butler Township briefs state official on recreational complex plan
BUTLER TWP — Richard Vilello hears about hundreds of projects in communities across Pennsylvania, but it’s not every day he learns about them in person.
On Wednesday, May 17, the Pennsylvania deputy secretary of community affairs and development traveled to the Butler Township municipal building, where he learned about the township’s ongoing creation of a recreational complex by Pullman Business Park.
Vilello told the officials who attended the meeting that he will have an easier time visualizing the project if he receives a support request in the coming years.
“It’s a great project,” Vilello said, “and being able to meet here and seeing it with members of my team, it makes it easier when we’re in Harrisburg and someone will call and say, ‘This is the Butler Township project.’ I can say, ‘Yeah I remember that meeting.’”
Butler Township is in the process of creating a recreation complex by Pullman Business Park. The first phase involves the installation of an artificial turf field near the Butler Transit Authority office that will come with soccer, lacrosse and football markings. There also will be a parking lot with 68 spaces, which Butler Township manager Tom Knights said is slated to contain four chargers for electric vehicles.
