{"id":53282,"date":"2025-11-19T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53282\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:32:07","slug":"habitat-for-humanity-to-close-these-restore-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53282\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat For Humanity to close these ReStore sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 An affordable place to shop for furniture and other household items along the Treasure Coast is closing its doors for good this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After many years of serving its customers, Habitat for Humanity ReStore locations in Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce are <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.habitatslo.house\/restore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">closing on Saturday, Nov. 22.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WATCH BELOW: 2 Habitat for Humanity ReStores closing in St. Lucie County<\/p>\n<p>2 Habitat for Humanity ReStores closing in St. Lucie County<\/p>\n<p>Bob Calhoun, the CEO for Habitat of St. Lucie and Okeechobee, said it was a very tough decision to close after more than a decade. <\/p>\n<p>However, the stores were losing money, and consumer re-selling patterns are changing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to sell this chair, (so I) take a picture, post it on a multitude of websites. Someone comes, gives you a little bit of money and away it goes,&#8221; Calhoun said.<\/p>\n<p>Purchases at the ReStore location in Port St. Lucie have helped build 89 homes in St. Lucie County. <\/p>\n<p>Calhoun insists their mission is not changing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is going to allow us to free up to allow us for our true mission, which is providing home ownership opportunities and critical repairs to low-income homeowners,&#8221; Calhoun said.<\/p>\n<p>While the St. Lucie County stores are closing, Habitat ReStores in Martin and Indian River counties will remain open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 An affordable place to shop for furniture and other household items along the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3886,33451,171,173,172,1402],"class_list":{"0":"post-53282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-fort-pierce","9":"tag-habitat-for-humanity-restore","10":"tag-port-st-lucie","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","13":"tag-st-lucie-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53282","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=53282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}