PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A new construction project is underway in the heart of a Tradition neighborhood, but instead of being another housing development, it is set to become a new church and preschool.<\/p>\n
The project, led by Kingdom Community Ministries, is being built on three and a half acres of undeveloped land at the corner of Southwest Community Boulevard and Rowley Way. According to the ministry’s website<\/a>, the new facility will span 20,000 square feet and will be one of the last few empty lots to be developed in the area.<\/p>\n Residents in the community appear to welcome the new project.<\/p>\n \u201cI think personally at this time if they\u2019re building a church anywhere, I would take that as a positive sign for the neighborhood,\u201d said resident Todd Walker. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything negative about saying a church is going up anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n See also: Fight and pepper spray incident at Lake Worth High sends dozens to hospitals<\/a><\/p>\n The church will be the third Christian place of worship in a two-mile radius, serving as another sign of the rapid growth in the area.<\/p>\n \u201cTradition as a whole, there\u2019s been a huge amount of growth in this area specifically,\u201d said resident Jim Ricci.<\/p>\n Kingdom Community Ministries was unavailable for an on-camera interview, and the project’s completion timeline remains unclear.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A new construction project is underway in the heart of a Tradition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2302,502,1127,2156,2305,171,173,172,2303,2304],"class_list":{"0":"post-1659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-church","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-construction","11":"tag-growth","12":"tag-kingdom-community-ministries","13":"tag-port-st-lucie","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","16":"tag-preschool","17":"tag-tradition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","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=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}