{"id":107161,"date":"2026-01-06T03:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107161\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:37:13","slug":"costco-distribution-center-in-port-st-lucie-expected-to-open-march-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107161\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco distribution center in Port St. Lucie expected to open March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Costco&#8217;s 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 class=\"text | article-text\">The announcement comes eight months after Costco opened a store in Stuart. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: Costco distribution center to open in Port St. Lucie<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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 class=\"text | article-text\">Construction is underway in Tradition: walls and steel are going up for the 1.8 million\u2011square\u2011foot Costco Distribution Depot on 200 acres. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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 class=\"text | article-text\">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<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Costco&#8217;s distribution center in Port St. Lucie is expected to open in March 2026, according to the company\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-107161","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\/107161","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=107161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}