“North Eastwood’s desire to increase revenues is of minimal value in the court’s analysis,” Pearson stated. It further contended that North Eastwood’s decision to relocate, the age of the local population and development around the proposed site support the project’s public and private need. In a reply brief, the Corps argued that the population information in its public need analysis was not dispositive and that the need for the project existed irrespective of whether the local population was increasing or decreasing. The Corps later conceded that the population was “affirmatively in decline” and had relied on inaccurate statements made by North Eastwood and data from Warren County, which borders Cincinnati, and not the city of Warren. Initially, the Corps concluded that the area’s population was increasing and relied on that finding to demonstrate a need for the project, the judge continued. “Many factors, including many large businesses leaving the area, have led the population of this specific area of Trumbull County to decline even more than in surrounding counties.” “The most glaring issue with the Corps’ analysis is that it has not properly established that it is in the public interest to authorize a project that involves the construction of massive hospital and residential facilities with a declining population in the area,” Pearson wrote. To offset the environmental impact that the Enterprise Park project would have on local aquatic resources, the Army Corps required North Eastwood to purchase 30.5 wetland credits and 1,620 linear feet of stream credits for $2 million and to preserve roughly 38 acres of wetlands and streams in a specific area adjacent to Mosquito Creek. Two years later, Mercy Health announced it was putting on hold plans for that expansion, citing economic uncertainty in the wake of the closing of General Motors’ Lordstown plant. In 2016, the real estate developer announced plans for Enterprise Park, a proposed $367 million campus that would include medical offices, education buildings and an expansion of Mercy Health’s St.

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