I think you're right.
The church's main exposure to the community was that it ran a small private elementary and middle school on the adjacent property. A couple of years ago it "sold" the school to another secular private high school that wanted a "feeder" school. That school has now constructed a new campus for the elementary and middle school students.
The school was really the only "mission" of the church. As a result, the church and its school now basically sit empty. There's nothing to attract people to worship there.
Though I'm not going to rag on ECUSA, especially because I personally know some of the faithful remnant there still... I'm inclined to say that you are correct in multiple ways.
Are you talking about St. Mary's in Baltimore?
Just wondering.
I knew of the Priest who left St. Mary's ot go to St. Mary's, Honolulu. He left there, to go to a Church in SE FL, then left that Church to go back to Hawaii. He left THAT Church again, and has now become a CEC.
No wonder I think all CEC's are "troublemakers". The guys who went CEC originally usually had something dogging them, adultery, infidelity, money mismanagement, etc.
But this jerk destroyed 3 parishes before it was over, and I mean destroyed.