The city issued a site-clearing permit March 6 for the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine near Jacksonville University.
RH Constructors Inc. is the contractor for the $846,000 project to clear 9.87 acres at 5415 Dolphin Point Blvd., on land north of the JU riverfront campus in Arlington.
Another permit is in review for Danis Construction LLC to put in the estimated $2.7 million concrete foundations and structural steel required for the 72,000-square-foot medical school.