{"id":178502,"date":"2026-03-04T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178502\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:35:32","slug":"port-st-lucie-opens-the-preserve-along-the-st-lucie-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178502\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie opens The Preserve along the St. Lucie River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">A new 13-acre park opened at the Port District in Port St. Lucie on Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It&#8217;s called <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofpsl.com\/Government\/Your-City-Government\/Departments\/Community-Redevelopment\/The-Port-District\/The-Preserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Preserve<\/a> and features about a mile of trails and elevated walkways with connections to the boardwalk along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: New 13-acre preserve opens in Port St. Lucie<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;This is what residents have told us they wanted to see,&#8221; said Scott Samples with the City of Port St. Lucie. &#8220;They wanted to see more access to natural areas, and in particular, they were interested in seeing more trails. This was a way for us to bring that to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The park costs about $970,000 to build. Around $400,000 was funded through a grant from the Florida Inland Navigation District. The rest was funded through the Parks Impact Fee Capital Improvement Project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Preserve is located next to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/neighbors-concerned-about-parking-at-the-port-district-in-port-st-lucie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Grove<\/a>, the city&#8217;s planned entertainment district that will feature restaurants and bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;This will fit right into it,&#8221; said Samples. &#8220;It could be a place where, after you finish a meal, you can come for a walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Construction of the park started in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The conservation area and scenic preserve officially opened on Wednesday at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Protecting Paradise<\/p>\n<p>City preserves 105 acres for future generations in $2.5M deal<\/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":"A new 13-acre park opened at the Port District in Port St. Lucie on Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-178502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178502","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=178502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}