{"id":184431,"date":"2026-03-09T17:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:29:24","slug":"port-st-lucie-leaders-vote-unanimously-in-favor-of-purchase-and-sale-agreement-for-costco-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184431\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie leaders vote unanimously in favor of purchase and sale agreement for Costco store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Port St. Lucie leaders met today to discuss a land sale for a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/top-request-from-residents-for-years-port-st-lucie-moves-closer-to-landing-a-costco-retail-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new Costco retail store<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City leaders voted unanimously in favor of a purchase and sale agreement with Costco Wholesale for about 22.8 acres of land in Southern Grove, an area located west of Interstate 95. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH: PSL leaders meet today regarding Costco<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Costco is proposing a 170,000-square-foot retail store and gas station on the land. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If approved, the retailer will be able to move forward with its plans to build a new retail store, which city officials say has been a &#8220;top request from residents for many years.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A new <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/costco-distribution-center-in-port-st-lucie-expected-to-open-march-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Costco distribution center in Port St. Lucie<\/a> was slated to open this month, though construction on the facility is ongoing. The distribution center is expected to <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\">employ<\/a> more than 500 people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A meeting of the Governmental Finance Corporation \u2014 governed by a board comprised of all five City Council members \u2014 is happening now. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WPTV&#8217;s Tyler Hatfield is there listening, check back here for updates. <\/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":"Port St. Lucie leaders met today to discuss a land sale for a new Costco retail store. City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3692,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-184431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-costco","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\/184431","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=184431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}