Dolphin Pointe, the proposed 120-bed skilled nursing center north of Jacksonville University, is an $18 million construction project.
Developer Colonnades Management Group Inc. landed a $25,000 site-work tree-removal permit Aug. 3 for 13.4 acres for Dolphin Pointe at 3412 University Blvd.
It applied this week for a construction permit for the project, a two-story 94,139-square-foot center and a single-story 7,535-square-foot support building for the kitchen, maintenance and housekeeping. The site is shown at 14 acres.
No contractor is specified.
Colonnades Management Group, based in Dayton, Ohio, is led by Greg Nelson, who is listed as the contact on the permit applications. He leads OLT II, the property owner of the nursing-center site. Colonnades Management is a hospital and health care company.
The plans refer to the nursing facility as Building I. Previous plans also show Nelson wants to develop an assisted-living facility on the property.
Nelson is a 1971 JU graduate who bought the property in July 2014. He did not respond Wednesday to two telephone calls.
He previously took the proposed Dolphin Pointe Landing before City Council in 2011, proposed a nursing home and assisted living facility that didn’t go forward.
Dolphin Pointe, whose name references JU’s dolphin mascot, is expected to work with the university’s Brooks Rehabilitation College of Healthcare Sciences, which includes the School of Nursing.
Building plans dated Aug. 3 describe the project as a senior living facility for Dolphin Pointe Health Care LLC at Colonnades Management Group’s Dayton address.
Baker Barrios Architects Inc. of Orlando is the architect.
The design team includes Baker Barrios as well as The Stellar Group of Jacksonville as the civil engineer, landscape architect Janet O. Whitmill of Jacksonville and structural engineer Lou Pontigo & Associates of Jacksonville Beach.
It is near a privately owned residence hall that was completed for the 2015-16 school year for JU students.
JU President Tim Cost could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.
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