PORT ST. LUCIE – Municipal offices may soon move into the former QVC building, owned by the city since July, city officials confirmed.

No timeline has been established by the city and a decision as to which offices would take up the two-story, 56,000 square-foot building, built in 1999, on 300 NW Peacock Boulevard, Port St. Lucie has not been finalized.

The building is east of I-95 and north of St. Lucie West Boulevard, about seven miles northwest of the Port St. Lucie Municipal Complex at 121 SW Port St. Lucie Boulevard.

“We are in the planning stages for the new building, so a timeline for when it would be operational is not complete and we have not solidified which departments would relocate,” Scott Samples, strategic communications team leader, wrote in an email.

The city bought the building on July 30 for $10.06 million from Agli Realty, LLC, Samples confirmed. “Because it was purchased with money from the Building Department Fund, which is generated by permit fees, no taxpayer dollars were used,” Samples wrote in the email.

Although it has been vacant since 2016, when QVC closed the call center, the city’s police department uses it regularly for training by its SWAT and drone teams, Sgt. Dominick Mesiti confirmed.

The police department plans to move into whatever buildings on the municipal complex campus are vacated, once departments are in the former QVC building, Mesiti said.

Currently, the police department, overseen by Chief Leo Niemczyk since November of 2024, has 307 sworn officers and added 28 more from a pool of cadets, sworn in on Oct. 9, to help meet its total allocation of 356 officers for this fiscal year, Mesiti said.

A 54,000-square-foot, three-story training center, currently under construction by H.J. High just northwest of the police department on the municipal complex grounds, is expected to be completed and open by March. It will include an indoor shooting range and be used by the SWAT and drone teams. Ground was broken for the $28.8 million facility in July of 2024.

A grand opening/ribbon-cutting is planned for when the training center does open, Mesiti said.

Currently, the police department uses off-campus firearms ranges, defensive tactics rooms, simulators and classrooms owned by other entities in Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties for officer training.