The Union and Pennsylvania-based Power Home Remodeling on Thursday "baptized the newly-monikered Power Training Complex," which will serve as the MLS club's training complex, and the facility goes to show the club has "redoubled efforts to procure the infrastructure they envision as fostering long-term success," according to Matthew DeGeorge of the DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES. The complex "falls in lockstep" with the team's Union Academy, launching the USL club Bethlehem Steel FC and "other behind-the-scenes moves like greater emphasis on the non-soccer aspects of first-team performance." Union Sporting Dir Earnie Stewart said, "The majority of teams (in MLS) would be jealous just to have a facility like this." The naming rights deal with Power Home Remodeling, offer the Union "another chance to integrate with one of the area's largest companies." Stewart: "When I compare this to what I've seen -- obviously I'm not talking about the Chelseas and the Paris Saint-Germains and stuff like that -- but for clubs that have budgets like we have, this is unique. I'd say it gets close to those top clubs." Union Owner & Chair Jay Sugarman said, "This facility ... puts us in the upper echelon of MLS." DeGeorge notes Sugarman, who lives in N.Y., has recently "added local business figures to the ownership group, and Power CEO Corey Schiller and co-CEO Asher Raphael are intriguing candidates to join the group" (DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES, 10/14). SB NATION's Eugene Rupinski wrote the facility is "exactly" what the club needed (SBNATION.com, 10/13).
