PORT ST. LUCIE — After years of anticipation from residents, Port St. Lucie has finalized a deal that clears the way for a Costco retail store to be built in the city.
City officials agreed March 9 to sell about 23 acres of land in the Southern Grove area to Costco Wholesale Corp. for $6 million. The site, located east of Southwest Village Parkway and south of the newly constructed Southwest Marshall Parkway, is planned to include a roughly 170,000-square-foot warehouse store and gas station.
The store will sit next to a massive Costco distribution facility already under construction in the area. The 1.87-million-square-foot cold and dry storage depot was announced about two years ago and is expected to serve as a distribution hub for Costco operations across Florida…