$50M Medical School Planned for Jacksonville

Jacksonville University and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) are joining up to build a $50 million medical school. The Jacksonville Business Journal reports the school, which will go up at 3412 N. University Blvd will be called LECOM Jacksonville at Dolphin Reef and will be what is described as a medical building with classrooms. It will be 50,000 square feet and is expected to accommodate 75 students when it opens in 2026, eventually housing 150

LECOM is the nation’s largest osteopathic academic health system.

The medical school will be built adjacent to the Health Sciences Complex, creating what JU is calling the Jacksonville University Medical Mall, an expanding mixed-use health care plaza established at the north end of the university’s Arlington.

The medical school will increase JU’s downtown presence for higher learning, joining the school’s law school.