Fact: Hospital is Highest and Best Use for Hospital Building

[Brian Essi]

A Hospital is the highest and best use at the hospital site.

No alternative economic development exists that can match the economic benefits of a hospital.

Despite years of planning for development on the hospital site, Summers and his City Hall planners have no market data, no traffic studies, no estimates of employees, no estimates of tax revenues, no prospective employers, no estimates of numbers of residents, and not even one business that would use, build or occupy ANY of the development scenarios they gave lip service to last year.

Nothing is as viable and valuable as a hospital and everything proposed by Summers is more risky than keeping the hospital open.

A Vote Against Issue 64 will, among other things, return ownership of Lakewood's ER to Lakewood and remove the noncompete.

The Clinic will never leave Lakewood so they will have to pay the $278M they admit they owe to improve our hospital.

They will be in a box-they will never surrender Lakewood's valuable market share.

If they refuse to step back in the 1996 Agreement, their competitors will move in,

Summers has no better plan--Pae claims Summers has no plan at all.