{"id":36379,"date":"2025-07-25T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36379\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:20:08","slug":"new-opening-date-set-for-heart-in-the-park-sculpture-in-port-st-lucie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36379\/","title":{"rendered":"New opening date set for Heart in the Park sculpture in Port St. Lucie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 73-foot, stainless steel sculpture’s opening next month is planned to be a day of celebration, community and heart health<\/p>\n

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What is the meaning of Heart in the Park sculpture in Tradition<\/p>\n

Artist JEFR\u00cb shares his thoughts on what his sculpture, Heart in the Park means<\/p>\n

Heart in the Park will have its opening event 10 a.m. Aug. 23.Heart in the Park is at 11325 S.W. Discovery Way, at the Shoppes at the Heart shopping plaza in the Tradition community in Port St. Lucie.Visitors will have the opportunity to meet JEFRE\u0308, the artist behind the sculpture.<\/p>\n

PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The Heart in the Park<\/a>, the world’s tallest heart sculpture, is set to have its grand opening 10 a.m. Aug. 23 at 11325 S.W. Discovery Way, according to a Facebook announcement<\/a> by Tradition.<\/p>\n

“Thank you all for your patience and continued support as we’ve finalized preparations for the heart and plaza,” Tradition said in the announcement. “We can’t wait to celebrate this special occasion with you.”<\/p>\n

Tradition postponed the $7 million Heart in the Park’s opening, originally planned for July 12, to “allow for additional time to finalize preparations.”<\/p>\n

The 73-foot, stainless steel sculpture’s opening next month is planned to be a day of celebration, community and heart health:<\/p>\n

CPR demonstrations: An opportunity to learn hands-only CPR with the American Heart Association and local firefighters.Selfie spot: A photo booth placed in front of the sculpture.Pledge booth: Mattamy Homes will match donations to the American Heart Association up to $25. A commemorative heart gift comes with each donation.Explore the Shoppes at the Heart<\/a>Meet the artist behind the sculpture: Filipino-American artist Jefre Figueras Manuel, known as JEFRE\u0308.<\/p>\n

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The catwalk across the middle of the heart will not be open to the public during the grand opening, Mattamy Homes spokesperson Britney Ouzts said.<\/p>\n

“I hope the Heart serves not just as a visual icon but a place of gathering, celebration and emotion,” JEFRE\u0308 said July 12 at a private ceremony at the sculpture, where more than a dozen couples<\/a> were married or renewed their vows. “The Heart is here for you.”<\/p>\n

The heart sculpture was paid for by Mattamy Homes, the master developer of Tradition.<\/p>\n

Jack Randall is TCPalm\u2019s economy and real estate reporter. You can reach him at jack.randall@tcpalm.com or 904-466-4755.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 73-foot, stainless steel sculpture’s opening next month is planned to be a day of celebration, community and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[13716,9069,29779,414,1029,228,226,227,22749,3237,229,88,8982,3729,13723,983,21981,6049,3,13470,13471,6107,29780,8887,29778,5573,13708,520,14913,21987,13692],"class_list":["post-36379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-affiliate","tag-american","tag-american-heart-association","tag-and","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-association","tag-county","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-heart","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-local-news","tag-lucie","tag-museums","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-parks","tag-parks-and-museums","tag-port","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-positive","tag-sculpture","tag-shopping","tag-st","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-u0026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}