Who is actually building this?
The land is public, so start there. In Allen County, Indiana, every parcel carries an owner of
record — and eleven contiguous parcels in southeast Fort Wayne, along Tillman and Adams Center
Roads, all name the same one: Hatchworks LLC. [verified]
Read the deeds as a sequence, not a snapshot, and the assemblage tells you it was deliberate. The block came together in two waves: four parcels in January 2024 — around the April 2024 $2B groundbreaking — and seven more on a single day, October 31, 2025, the Phase 3 expansion. One buyer, one purpose, bought quietly enough that the operator’s name appears nowhere on the deeds.
The shell, and the tell
“Hatchworks LLC” is a Delaware entity: 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]
But one parcel breaks pattern. The situs anchor — 6015 Adams Center Road — mails its tax notices
to Mountain View, California 94043. [inference] That is Google’s headquarters. A single
clerical inconsistency, in a property-tax field, is the first thread connecting the Delaware shell to
its operator.
The skill: entity resolution across documents. No one record says “Google built this.” You assemble it — the deeds give you a shell and a one-parcel mailing slip; the next record confirms it.
The caption that says the quiet part
The confirmation comes from a different agency entirely. When Hatchworks applied to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for a §401 water-quality certification (WQC001454) to expand the campus, the administrative record stopped hiding the name. Every page of the 90-page public-hearing transcript and the response-to-comments is captioned:
“Hatchworks LLC — Google Data Center — Fort Wayne: Project Zodiac Phase 3.”
[verified]
The hearing itself was noticed as “PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING PROJECT ZODIAC PHASE 3 (GOOGLE DATA
CENTER).” That upgrades Hatchworks = Google from an inference (the Mountain View mailing) to a
document-grounded fact. The §401 also names the humans on the record: the applicant Marc
Stern, Hatchworks LLC (7510 Zodiac Way, Fort Wayne), and the agent Heather Dardinger, EMH&T
(Columbus, Ohio). [verified]
What you’ve established
The campus is 855.8 acres by GIS measure of the eleven parcels — the §401 calls it an
“858-acre parcel,” within 0.3%, a clean cross-check. [verified] It is owned by a Delaware shell,
operated by Google, and locally codenamed Project Zodiac. None of that came from a press release;
it came from a deed chain and a permit caption — two records, from two agencies, read together.
Records read in this chapter (in the library under Records / Reference):
fort-wayne/bosc-site-footprint.yaml— the recorded assemblage (11 parcels, 855.8 ac), fromreference/fort-wayne/bosc-parcels.geojson.idem/fort-wayne/wqc001454.idem.yaml— the §401 caption that names Google + the applicant/agent.