Yesterday was the official groundbreaking for The Grove at The Port District, which will be an entertainment district for Port St. Lucie, Florida and located along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, seen in the photograph on the left. Port St. Lucie is the 6th largest city in Florida, and despite being incorporated in 1961, has never had a downtown. It consists of housing development after housing development, stretching west from US 1, near the ocean, into the scrublands of Florida. Parents in the Tradition neighborhood of Port St. Lucie need to keep an eye out when their kids are in the backyard to make sure feral hogs or alligators don't carry off their kids.
In any case, when completed, The Grove will have seven restaurants, a park, preserve, boardwalk, and botanical garden, and will function as the city's downtown. Which is a good thing for the residents - they have needed a central place to gather, dine, and play since 1961. And this area along the river is very pretty, much of it preserved in its natural state. The two photographs on this blog were taken a few blocks north of the site of The Grove but show what the area looks like. As for me, someone who doesn't live in Port St. Lucie, I am not interested in driving 30 to 45 minutes through endless suburbia just to have dinner. Of course, if there was a possibility I could get some photographs of feral hogs and alligators, now THAT would be different.
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