{"id":146063,"date":"2026-02-06T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146063\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:23:10","slug":"st-lucie-county-to-see-costco-port-st-lucie-sports-club-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146063\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County to see Costco, Port St. Lucie Sports Club, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LUCIE COUNTY \u2014 Here’s a sneak peek at some of the massive economic-development projects on the horizon<\/a> for 2026.<\/p>\n

Costco<\/p>\n

Costco Wholesale depot<\/a>\u00a0is a $149 million, 1.7 million square-foot campus expected to complete in 2026. The campus, notably, plans to be 100% solar powered from 22,000 solar panels.<\/p>\n

The facilities are planned to serve Costco’s retail stores throughout Florida \u2014 such as the Costco store that opened in Stuart \u2014 and employ 370 workers at an average wage of $55,350.<\/p>\n

Inkas<\/p>\n

Inkas<\/a>, a multinational armored-vehicle manufacturer, is investing more than $38 million to establish a 190,000-square-foot facility in Fort Pierce, its first in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The company plans to employ at least 294 people at an average wage of more than $53,000.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An artist’s rendering shows some of the armored vehicles produced by INKAS Group, which plans to build a new facility in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n

LactaLogics<\/p>\n

LactaLogics, a human-milk processing and distribution company, plans to open its\u00a0$92 million facility<\/a>\u00a0on U.S. 1 in Port St. Lucie by March.<\/p>\n

Monhark Pharmaceuticals<\/p>\n

Monhark Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Fort Pierce, manufactures various topical creams and other products in a 12,800-square-foot facility. The company is planning to invest $2 million to expand its production by the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n

The company is planning to hire 11 workers at an average wage of more than $53,000.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A rendering of Port St. Lucie’s professional soccer stadium planned to be built at Walton & One, a mixed-use development formerly known as City Center.<\/p>\n

Port St. Lucie Sports Club<\/p>\n

Port St. Lucie Sports Club<\/a>\u00a0is eyeing a kickoff for its first professional team for the 2027 United Soccer League season.<\/p>\n

The club anticipates having 52 full-time employees in team jobs with average salaries of more than $59,000, in addition to 180 other employees.<\/p>\n

Pruitt Commerce Center<\/p>\n

Pruitt Commerce Center<\/a>, which could play a major role in establishing a Kings Highway jobs corridor in Fort Pierce, plans to build 1.6 million square feet of light-industrial space spread across 13 buildings.<\/p>\n

Jack Randall is TCPalm\u2019s economy and real estate reporter. You can reach him at jack.randall@tcpalm.com.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Costco, Port St. Lucie Sports Club, more coming to St. Lucie County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY \u2014 Here’s a sneak peek at some of the massive economic-development projects on the horizon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3692,3886,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-146063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-costco","9":"tag-fort-pierce","10":"tag-port-st-lucie","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146063","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=146063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}