DOWNTOWN
Downtown Fort Pierce
Construction
Parking Garage and
Office Tower
Adjacent to City Hall on
Orange Avenue
Size: 33,000 square feet with
465 parking spaces
Cost: $11.8 million
Approximate completion:
April 17, 2008
Clerk of Court Building
201 South Indian River Drive
Size: 57,000 square feet
Cost: $12 million
Completed. Public reception
for Grand Opening April 9
Federal Courthouse
South U.S. 1 at Orange Avenue
Size: 123,400 square feet
Cost: $65 million
Construction not started
Fort Pierce City Marina
Restoration after $13 million
Hurricane damage
1 Avenue A
Replacing slips: 98 on the
south, 39 on the north; add
new breakwater to protect
marina
Cost: $10.6 million for docks,
$9.6 million for breakwater
Design and permitting phase
in progress
Renaissance on the River
20 Orange Avenue (Building
takes up a city block from
Orange to Atlantic Avenue,
and from Indian River Drive
to Melody Lane)
Size: 222,450 square feet
38 residences, 25 retail and
professional office spaces
Cost: $30 million
Completion expected first
week of April, 2008
Sunrise Theatre
117 South Second Street
Size: 40,000 square foot
building including 25,000
square feet of restored space
Year built: 1923
Cost of restoration: $13 million
Reopened: Jan. 14, 2006
Old City Hall
315 Avenue A
Size: 10,000 square feet
Year built: 1925
Cost of restoration: $500,000
Reopened: 1995
A.E. “Bean” Backus House
122A Backus Avenue
Year Built: 1896
Cost of restoration: $600,000
Completion by May 7
St. Anastasia Catholic School
910 Orange Avenue
Size: 13,000 square feet
Year built: 1914
Cost of restoration: about $2
million
Not started but stabilization
of roof damage is underway
Old Post Office
500 Orange Avenue
Size: 6,600 square feet to
become a museum
Year built: 1935
Cost of restoration: $2.8 million
Work in progress
P.P. Cobb Building
100 Avenue A
Size: 15,000 square feet
Year built: 1882
Cost of restoration: $1.4 million
Restoration completed: 1987
Arcade Building
101 North US 1 at Orange
Avenue
Year built: 1926
Restoration completed: 2002
Seven Gables House
482 North Indian River Drive
Year built: 1905
Restoration completed: 1999
Gates & Gates Building
307 Orange Avenue
Size: 10,000 square feet
Year built: 1925
Restoration completed: 2007
Boston House
239 South Indian River Drive
Size: 3 floors
Year built: 1909
Restoration completed: 1985
On the horizon, but no
plans yet:
• Amphitheatre in Veterans’
Memorial Park: old seats
removed, seating on grassy
berm, no further plans at the
moment.
• St. Andrew’s Episcopal
School: High school hoped
for, no plans yet
• Veterans’ Memorial Park
renovations: on hold due to
budget constraints (funding
not identified) except for the
design work for the veteran’s
memorial component.
• Five-story hotel and parking
garage on site of old J.C.
Penney parking lot – under
discussion and contract negotiations
with Signet Corp. of
Jacksonville
Value of construction in
past 2 years:
Private - $125 million to
$150 million
Public - $100 million to $125
million
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town. First the city built a parking garage opposite
the courthouse. Discussions of more parking
garages came and went over the years. Finally,
the city built an $11.8 million combination 465-
space parking garage and office space in the
parking lot next to city hall. It is scheduled for
completion in April. The offices will be used by
city government.
The Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency is in
talks with Signet Inc., a Jacksonville developer,
about construction of a five-story hotel and a
parking garage in the former J.C. Penney parking
lot east of Second Street.
The redevelopment agency’s boundaries include
the area west of U.S. 1 along Orange Avenue,
where the new federal courthouse will be built.
The 1935 former U.S. Post Office on Orange
at Fifth Street is undergoing restoration at a
cost of $2.8 million, and the former St.
Anastasia Catholic School at Orange and 10th
Street, built in 1914, will cost about $2 million to
restore. Currently the roof is being stabilized
after suffering hurricane damage. >>
PHOTO BY GREGORY ENNS
The new 465-space city parking garage on Orange Avenue provides space for
employees and visitors to park.