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HOWLAND — Cafaro Company spokesperson Joe Bell said groundbreaking on the proposed Enterprise Park medical facility could come as soon as early spring, but “there’s no firm time frame.”
Bell said the project is still working through the permitting process.
After coming into the public eye in late 2018, the proposed Cafaro Company Enterprise Park complex immediately received divided attention.
A piece of property north of the Eastwood Mall, the would-be Enterprise Park, is a medical, educational, and residential campus with a $250 million state-of-the-art hospital at its heart.
If brought to fruition, the project has been estimated to create as many as 2,200 jobs for local residents, generate approximately $99 million in annual payroll taxes, $443,000 per year in state sales taxes and more than $6 million per year in real estate taxes, Bell said previously. Youngstown State University and Kent State University at Trumbull have expressed support of the site as a potential educational hub.
Environmental group Friends of the Mahoning River as well as some residents, however, have opposed the project from its inception — pointing to 16 acres of previously undisturbed wetlands and 1,727 feet of Mosquito Creek tributaries that would be destroyed in construction. The group has pointed to concerns about flooding, an increase in contribution to global warming and destruction of biodiversity, among other environmental impacts.
With holiday traffic at its peak, FOMR recently said that community members have called, worried ambulances would not quickly reach a hospital located at the mall.
“It has also become increasingly apparent that the proposed Enterprise Park project goes absolutely counter to the governor’s new H2O Initiative to restore and create more wetlands in Ohio, to maintain and improve the quality of water supplies, which impact everything from wetland habitats to healthy neighborhoods, schools and recreation,” reads the most recent statement from FOMR. “This is paramount to ensure future generations of Ohioans can enjoy fishable, swimmable and drinkable water as well as control community flooding issues.”
Recently FOMR filed an appeal of an Army Corps of Engineers permit for the site, granted in late September with the “special conditions” that the developer build only the buildings outlined in its application, beginning with the hospital identified as the “purpose” of the project.
The FOMR appeal points to an apparent “lack of commitment” by any medical entity to occupy Enterprise Park. Mercy Health submitted a letter of interest for the site in May 2018, and Bell recently said at last check the Cafaro Company is “still deeply in discussions” with Mercy. However, an October statement released by Mercy stated that the process for selecting sites for potential expansions “has yet to move past the evaluation phase.”
Another FOMR appeal targets the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and director Laurie Stevenson’s decision to grant the site a permit in July.
A FOMR spokesperson said the group continues to actively gather new information in support of its appeals.
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