February 09, 2024
JTSA Sports and McKinley Architecture + Engineering Announce Merger

Wheeling, W.Va. – In an exciting move for both firms, JTSA Sports merged with McKinley Architecture and Engineering to amplify their collective impact. JTSA Sports, a Pennsylvania based company, provides a total sports architecture and recreation specialist team. They have designed projects from NCAA football stadiums to regional community parks. McKinley Architecture and Engineering has a network of 6 offices and 50 team members serving the states of WV, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
“We started to discuss the idea of a merger almost a year ago,” stated Ernest Dellatorre, McKinley Architecture and Engineering. “Together, we have successfully completed numerous sports complexes. It became clear we could have more impact by merging.”
“As a leader in the Sports Architecture field, we felt the time was right to merge. We will be able to ensure that our client base is served, and we can increase our capability and capacity on larger projects,” commented James Sauer, President, JTSA Sports. “The Sports Architecture part of the business is a fast-growing specialty in the industry, and we look forward to staying on the leading edge.”
About JTSA Sports:
We believe performance is everything. Our sports facilities are designed to bring out the highest performance level of your team. Our fields, grandstands, scoreboards, lighting, courts, tracks, and training centers are the pinnacle combination of material and design performance.
About McKinley Architecture and Engineering:
In its fourth decade of service, McKinley Architecture and Engineering has shown continued growth in both revenue and number of design personnel. Our corporation is conveniently located in Wheeling, Charleston, and Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which are within 500 miles of one-half the population of the United States. To highlight this growth, McKinley Architecture and Engineering is a 2nd year consecutive winner of PSMJ’s Circle of Excellence as one of the top-performing Architecture and Engineering firms in the nation. We are also a winner of PSMJ’s 2023 A/E/C Employer of Choice Award, the industry’s premier recognition of firms that have mastered workforce retention and productivity by achieving the highest level of employee engagement. In addition, for the 4th consecutive year, McKinley nationally ranks and appears on the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.