{"id":284427,"date":"2026-05-26T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:20:20","slug":"amazon-temporarily-closing-warehouse-that-employs-850-in-florida-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284427\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon temporarily closing warehouse that employs 850 in Florida city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated May 8, 2026, 3:29 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A 1-million-square-foot Amazon warehouse in Port St. Lucie that employs about 850 people will close in September for a renovation and expansion project that is expected to take two years, company spokesperson Amber Plunkett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Employees of the warehouse \u2014 located at 7600 LTC Parkway just off Midway Road along the city&#8217;s northern boundary \u2014 were informed May 7 that the facility would be closing September 17 and reopening in the fall of 2028, Economic Development Council of St. Lucie County spokesperson Maureen Saltzer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated May 8, 2026, 3:29 p.m. ET A 1-million-square-foot Amazon warehouse in Port St. Lucie that employs about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1468,47,3638,171,173,172,112816,395,396,5456,493,2997,4957,308,96,397,45620,929,32609,34],"class_list":["post-284427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-accesspremium","tag-fl","tag-inc","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sourcetreasure-coast-newspapers","tag-sstsnewslocalst-lucie-county","tag-sstsnst-lucie-county","tag-tagamazon-com","tag-tagbusiness-news","tag-tagcompany-news","tag-tagfort-pierce","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagport-st-lucie","tag-tagshopping-portals","tag-tagst-lucie-county","tag-tagwarehousing","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284427","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=284427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}