The city is reviewing a permit application for demolition at Johnson & Johnson Vision Products Inc. to proceed with the Phase 8 expansion at its Deerwood area manufacturing campus.
Turner Construction Co. is shown as the contractor for the proposed $360,000 demolition project at 7500 Centurion Parkway. Walker Architects Inc. of Gainesville is the architect.
The demolition would involve some portion of the existing campus. Johnson & Johnson would occupy the site and adjacent buildings during construction.
As previously reported, Johnson & Johnson Vision wants to add 9,600 square feet to its total enclosed area of almost 871,000-square-foot Deerwood Park operations.
The contact lens-maker wants to expand its production line in its manufacturing facility to meet demand for its Acuvue brand contact lenses.
The expansion will require about 15 manufacturing technicians who work with robotics, lasers and programmable logic controllers and perform complex analysis, a spokesman said previously.
The company has about 1,800 employees in Jacksonville.
Johnson & Johnson Vision primarily was a contact lens-maker, but expanded in 2017 with acquisitions of several companies that provide other eye-care services.