A nearly 85-acre entertainment district is in the works in Port St. Lucie along Village Parkway in the Tradition community, and developers say new restaurants and stores could arrive sooner than expected.<\/p>\n
Gustavo Lumer, CEO of Lumer Real Estate, is behind the property that would become the Tradition Entertainment District. <\/p>\n
WATCH BELOW: New entertainment district planned for Tradition<\/p>\n
The development is divided between four parcels along Village Parkway from Innovation Way to Hegener Drive.<\/p>\n
Lumer said he hopes to bring in around 25 new restaurants and additional stores to the area.<\/p>\n
“There’s a need for diversity, and they keep telling us that they want different options,” Lumer said.<\/p>\n
Development will start on a 5.5-acre parcel off Innovation Way, which will include 40,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.<\/p>\n
Lumer said 60 percent of that space is already leased, and he expects construction to start within six months.<\/p>\n
“The retailers are eager to open yesterday. If we could pop it up next week and have it there, they’re ready to go,” Lumer said.<\/p>\n
The next phase will develop 2 parcels totaling around 60 acres farther south, near the new Stars and Stripes Park.<\/p>\n
Lumer said this section would be the “hub” of the entertainment district.<\/p>\n
Plans include potentially 15 restaurants, a luxury gym, grocery stores, retail and possibly a movie theater.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be a place where you can park or come with your golf cart and spend the afternoon going around different places,” Lumer said.<\/p>\n
Lumer said the district will help keep and attract business in Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n
“The more brands that they keep opening, everybody’s realizing, well, I’m the only one missing out, and so you’ll see a lot of beautiful brands coming in a short, short time,” Lumer said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors in the area said they welcome the development. <\/p>\n
LaVaughn Harvey said he would visit often.<\/p>\n
“I’d be there a lot more,” Harvey said.<\/p>\n
Neighbor Tina Gramata said the district fills a community need.<\/p>\n
“We need more places for people to go on a regular basis to intermingle,” Gramata said.<\/p>\n
Lumer said they are still working on final site approvals for the first parcel off Innovation Way and will begin working on site plan approval for the remaining three sites.<\/p>\n
“That’s a lot of retail and a lot of restaurants, and hopefully we can bring entertainment venues,” Lumer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nearly 85-acre entertainment district is in the works in Port St. Lucie along Village Parkway in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-393985","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\/393985","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=393985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}