A Texas-based company has paid $50 million to buy the Pittsburgh International Race Complex, a Beaver County track that closed in 2025 after more than two decades in operation, land records show.
The sale to Wampum I LLC was finalized in March, according to the documents.
The company shares a Texas street address with Provident Data Centers, a developer that has been pursuing data center projects in Scranton and elsewhere in the U.S. The Wampum representative who signed the sale documents was Julian Hawes, who is also Provident’s president.
Though the track’s former owners have been largely silent about the fate of the community institution, local residents have been concerned that it would attract attention from data center developers.
Daniel Dennehy-Rodriguez, a local motorsport enthusiast and track preservation advocate, believes it’s only a matter of time before the property’s new owners unveil a data center proposal for the roughly 400-acre site.
“The conversation, sadly, won’t be one where we’ll say no data center,” he said. “It’s too far gone, and I don’t think it’s realistic to do that.”
At this point, he’s more focused on securing legal assurances that residents won’t face spiking utility costs related to a data center’s water and electricity consumption.
Jim Stout, the previous owner of Pitt Race, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the real estate deal. In February, he said he couldn’t offer details about plans for the site because of a non-disclosure agreement he’d signed.
Officials with Big Beaver Borough and Provident representatives were unresponsive to inquiries about the sale.
In an April 14 social media post, borough officials alluded to recent rumors about “potential large developments in Big Beaver.” The post went to describe the borough’s development review process and explain that residents have the opportunity to comment on plans during a public hearing.
However, Sandra Friend, who lives near the track, said she’s already observed workers knocking down trees and clearing trails on land bordering the race track property. In recent weeks, she said she also noticed a large amount of gravel and dirt washing down the road from the Pitt Race site.
The track opened in 2002 and has hosted motocross, autocross and drifting events. It had also partnered with the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Motorsport Festival since 2004.
In October 2025, Jim and Kathy Stout, who co-owned Pitt Race, announced on social media that they were closing the track after the season ended. They didn’t give a reason for the decision and said nothing about plans for the property.
A few weeks earlier, Big Beaver had updated its laws to add rules for developers who might want to build a data center in the borough. Records from the meeting show the language passed without much controversy at the time, but after the closure of Pitt Race, Dennehy-Rodriguez and others began wondering if the new rules were related to the changes at the property.
