The project on the record

The land is public, so start there. Eleven contiguous parcels in southeast Fort Wayne — along Tillman and Adams Center Roads — all name the same owner of record: Hatchworks LLC. Read the deeds as a sequence rather than a snapshot and the assemblage tells you it was deliberate: four parcels in January 2024, around the April 2024 $2B groundbreaking, and seven more on a single day, 2025-10-31, the Phase 3 expansion. One buyer, one purpose, bought quietly enough that the operator’s name appears nowhere on the deeds. [verified]

The shell, and the tell

Hatchworks LLC is a Delaware entity, and ten of the eleven parcels list the owner’s mailing address as 2801 Centerville Road, Wilmington, DE 19808 — a registered-agent address, the kind a company uses precisely so the deed doesn’t say who it is. [verified]

One parcel breaks the pattern. The situs anchor, 6015 Adams Center Road, mails its tax notices to Mountain View, California 94043. [inference] A single clerical inconsistency in a property-tax field is the first thread connecting the Delaware shell to its operator — and on its own it is exactly that, a thread, not a finding.

The caption that says the quiet part

The confirmation comes from a different agency. When Hatchworks applied to IDEM for a §401 water-quality certification to expand the campus, the administrative record stopped hiding the name^rec : every page of the 90-page hearing transcript and the response-to-comments is captioned “Hatchworks LLC — Google Data Center — Fort Wayne: Project Zodiac Phase 3,” and the hearing itself was noticed as “PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING PROJECT ZODIAC PHASE 3 (GOOGLE DATA CENTER).” [verified]

That upgrades Hatchworks = Google from an inference to a document-grounded fact. The same record names the humans: the applicant Marc Stern of Hatchworks LLC, and the agent Heather Dardinger of EMH&T. [verified]