The Original
CRA
The City’ s Original CRA is approximately 1,600 acres or 2.7 square miles. The Original CRA boundary includes the U. S. 1( Federal Highway) corridor from just north of Village Green Drive, south to the St. Lucie / Martin County line. Lennard Road forms most of the eastern boundary, and the western boundary is predominantly the rear property line of those properties fronting U. S. 1. The major goals of the redevelopment plan for the Original CRA center on the development of a town center at U. S. 1 and Walton Road and a variety of mixed-use, commercial, office, residential, and recreational districts. The original concept plan is shown in Figure 2.
In 2005, the City and the Agency entered into a public-private partnership with a developer to redevelop a 69-acre shopping center at the southeast corner of U. S. 1 and Walton Road into a mixed-use town center consisting of 253,820 square feet of retail space, 247,000 square feet of office space and 1,125 residential dwelling units( including 150 hotel rooms).
By 2008, the City and Agency completed construction of a 100,000 square foot civic center, a public plaza with interactive fountain, a structured parking garage, and other improvements. The civic center includes meeting space, a gymnasium, and art gallery. Infrastructure improvements were also completed in 2008 and include an urban street grid system with on street parking, lighting, landscaping, irrigation and stormwater improvements.
In August 2025, an amendment to the Original CRA Plan was adopted extending the plan to June 11, 2055. Further, the Agency Board recognized many of the initiatives in the Original CRA Plan still needed to be accomplished, more work and updates to the plan proposed by the 2025 Amendment were also needed to implement the City’ s vision for the Original CRA and address the current needs and goals for the Agency. The Agency Board adopted the Revised Original CRA Plan, which includes both the Original and East Lake Village CRAs.
An important attribute of the Revised Original CRA Plan is its mixed-use approach to future development and redevelopment in eastern Port St. Lucie, especially the creation of a destination
Figure 2
known as Walton & One. This breaking of the suburban land use patterns created by the original city developers will correct the strict separation of uses that has affected the Port St. Lucie’ s traffic and growth patterns. The creation of a new destination for Port St. Lucie along US Highway One, as well as the proposed development guidelines, will create a“ parkonce” area for residents and visitors. The“ park-once” area will provide the opportunity to park the car and walk to a variety of restaurants, retail, office, hotels, sports and entertainment venues.
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