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A Costco distribution center will be built in Port St. Lucie, providing hundreds of jobs.
According to the Economic Development Council of St. Lucie County, it will be constructed off I-95 and Becker Road in the Tradition neighborhood and will employ more than 500 people.
This new facility will replace a current Costco distribution center in West Palm Beach after a Costco official said that facility near 45th Street and the Turnpike has "maxed out their growth."
The first phase of the project is expected to take about a year and a half to complete. There would eventually be two facilities, totaling nearly 2 million square feet.