Town issued a site-clearing allow March 6 for the Lake Erie School of Osteopathic Drugs close to Jacksonville College.
RH Constructors Inc. is the contractor for the $846,000 challenge to clear 9.87 acres at 5415 Dolphin Level Blvd., on land north of the JU riverfront campus in Arlington.
One other allow is in assessment for Danis Development LLC to place within the estimated $2.7 million concrete foundations and structural metal required for the 72,000-square-foot medical faculty.
The permits are the newest in building approvals wanted for the challenge.
Civil engineer Taylor & White Inc. submitted plans to town Oct. 16 for the Lake Erie School of Osteopathic Drugs, which introduced a partnership with JU on Nov. 30, 2022, to ascertain a four-year medical faculty in Northeast Florida that can change into LECOM at Jacksonville College.
The college is predicted to start lessons in fall 2026.
“After we introduced this historic partnership, in November of 2022, we estimated that LECOM would full its obligatory accreditation, choose a web site and break floor earlier than mid-year 2025 — conserving them on observe to welcome their top quality within the fall of 2026. We proceed to believe in that timeline and look ahead to seeing their progress within the months forward,” JU President Tim Price stated in an emailed assertion March 3.
Earlier plans present the three-story, 72,100-square-foot constructing is deliberate on about 9.9 acres north of Dolphin Pointe Well being Care and west of the JU Well being Sciences Advanced.
Venture plans present the undeveloped web site is owned by OLT II Inc. of Ohio.
The 55-acre JU Medical Mall is owned by Dayton, Ohio-based OLT II Inc., which was led by JU graduate Gregory Nelson, who died in February 2021 on the age of 71.
Rimrock Devlin Improvement of Lake Metropolis is the developer, applicant and proprietor’s consultant.
Kasper architects + associates is the architect.
LECOM stated it formally filed its formal utility with the business’s governing accrediting physique, the Fee on Osteopathic School Accreditation, on Oct. 12, 2022, to ascertain its fifth campus.