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The proposed Commonwealth Medical College will soon own a 3-acre lot to build a $75 million headquarters beside the Northeast Intermediate School.  Medical school officials reached perhaps their biggest milestone yet tonight when the Scranton School Board unanimously approved the nearly $1 million sale of the Pine Street parcel.  Commonwealth administrators now expect construction of the future college’s headquarters to begin as soon as this fall and completion is set for early 2011. Before construction begins, they hope to secure the necessary state and city permits by this summer.  [Times-Tribune]