Then PeaceHealth announced, with great fanfare, a plan to relocate in Eugene on a large vacant site on Coburg Rd just north of Crescent.  It would have to be annexed to the City, and they knew the Council would be opposed to taking that action.
They had made no agreement to purchase the land from the land owners:  the main owner, Wildish Corporation, and Lane Transit District and the Eugene School District 4J, and Eugene city parks.
The Council wanted the hospital to stay in the city core where public costs would be minimized and transit would be more available for hospital employees.
The details of the play by play get complicated, but PeaceHealth was merely playing a game with everyone.  They had no intention of going to Crescent.  They did not negotiate on a city core site in good faith.
They took everyone through enough gyrations that the stakeholder groups said okay, go to Springfield.
The Council caved on the Crescent site.  But PeaceHeath went to  RiverBend anyway.