{"id":106805,"date":"2026-01-05T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:00:07","slug":"costco-distribution-center-in-port-st-lucie-expected-to-open-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106805\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco distribution center in Port St. Lucie expected to open March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 Costco\u2019s distribution center in Port St. Lucie is expected to open in March 2026, according to the company\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.costco.com\/f\/-\/new-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cNew locations coming soon\u201d <\/a>web page.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes six months after Costco opened a store in Stuart. WPTV first reported on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/could-port-st-lucie-get-a-costco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port St. Lucie distribution center<\/a> in May 2025, drawing attention to Costco\u2019s growth on the Treasure Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is underway in Tradition: walls and steel are going up for the 1.8 million\u2011square\u2011foot Costco Distribution Depot on 200 acres. The facility is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/money\/real-estate-news\/costco-depot-to-be-constructed-in-port-st-lucie-employing-hundreds-of-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expected to employ more than 500 people<\/a> and will serve as the distribution hub for all 32 Costco Wholesale clubs in Florida, Wes McCurry, senior vice president of the St. Lucie County Economic Development Council, told WPTV.<\/p>\n<p>The news prompted residents to wonder whether a Costco store might follow. In May 2025, the City of Port St. Lucie told WPTV that while there were no plans for a store at the time, it would not be opposed to the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 Costco\u2019s distribution center in Port St. Lucie is expected to open in March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-106805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}