Dragonfly Commerce Park milestone celebrated with old Irish tradition Dragonfly Investments executives and their guests celebrated a milestone Oct. 30 in the construction of the company’s Dragonfly Commerce Park with the old Irish tradition of tossing pennies into a building’s foundation to ensure prosperity for the tenants and community. “A penny toss is the perfect way [...]
EDC promotes Kadian Knight, welcomes new business manager Kadian Knight The Economic Development Council of St. Lucie County (EDC) announced the promotion of Kadian Knight to the position of director of business development, and the addition of Glexi Garcia as the organization’s business manager. Knight joined the EDC in 2023 as business manager [...]
SLC County Update The Fenn Center will be packed on Thursday, February 29th for the Annual County Update Luncheon. George Landry,County Administrator for the St. Lucie Board of County Commissioners will be sharing an update and state of the county beginning at 11:30 a.m. To reserve your space for this event, please visit St. Lucie [...]
TCFB plans $30M warehouse Treasure Coast Food Bank is another step closer to breaking ground on a state-of-the-art 113,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility at the Orange 95 Commerce Center in Fort Pierce. The new facility will enable the regional nonprofit to consolidate its multiple properties and grow its operating capacity. Treasure Coast Food Bank [...]
St. Lucie EDC wins international award The International Economic Development Council honored the Economic Development Council of St. Lucie County (EDC) with a 2023 Excellence in Economic Development Award for digital media in markets with populations between 200,000 and 500,000. The EDC's #WorkLocalStLucie advertising campaign using the navigation app Waze was recognized during the international [...]
Leadership expert Dr. Rick Goodman kicks off local speaker series The highly anticipated EXCEL Speaker Series is set to kick off on Thursday, Sept. 28 at the Indian River State College Pruitt Campus in Port St. Lucie Presented by the Economic Development Council of St. Lucie County's EXCEL members, the half-day seminar will feature renowned [...]
Russ Blackburn, Port St. Lucie’s recently retired city manager, was presented with the Pete Hegener Leadership Award by the Economic Development Council of St. Lucie County at its ninth annual leadership dinner on May 18.
Kings Logistics Center tops off Celebrating the installation of the roof and the near-completion of the Kings Logistics Center warehouse in Fort Pierce, the project's general contractor Catamount Constructors hosted a "topping off" event on March 28. "Roofing a 664,176-square-foot building is a substantial undertaking and well worth celebrating," said construction superintendent Thomas Naumann. "A [...]
Port St. Lucie welcomes innovative human milk processing company LactaLogics co-founder Glenn Snow (at right) during one of the company's three human milk processing pilot runs at the TetraPak Pilot Plant in Denton, Texas. The TetraPak technology will be installed in LactaLogics new processing facility in Port St. Lucie. LactaLogics, a mission-driven company [...]
Total Truck Parts breaks ground in PSL Total Truck Parts executives Marc Karon, Tom Gibson, Leo Cordeiro and Dennis Imbody break ground for the company's new 47,000-square-foot facility on Glades Cutoff Road in Port St. Lucie. Officials from Total Truck Parts and local dignitaries broke ground in Port St. Lucie, Florida, for [...]