Brightline station: Terms of two proposals submitted by Fort Pierce, private developer

Gianna Montesano, Treasure Coast Newspapers

Now that Stuart has rejected a Brightline station, will the high-speed rail company have a station in Fort Pierce?

The Sunrise City and Audubon Development Inc. have submitted proposals to build a Brightline station in downtown Fort Pierce and lease it to Brightline for $1 per year. Here are the highlights of each proposal:

Audubon Development Inc. proposal

This image, provided by Audubon Development and produced by PGAL architects, shows how the 300 block of North Second Street, Fort Pierce, would be transformed into a Brightline station complex next to Audubon's King's Landing Development on an old power plant site.
This image, provided by Audubon Development and produced by PGAL architects, shows how the 300 block of North Second Street, Fort Pierce, would be transformed into a Brightline station complex next to Audubon's King's Landing Development on an old power plant site.

  • Location: 300 block of North Second Street, owned by Palm Beach-based Audubon Development Inc. and adjacent to the private developer's delayed King's Landing project

  • Cost: $17 million, funded by co-partners CGHP Developments and Premier Community Investment Group

  • Contractor: Hensel-Phelps

  • Size: 2.23 acres

  • Proposal: Mixed-use development with a $30 million Indian River State College Culinary Arts Cafe and Treasure Coast History Museum; $36 million in residences; and a $21 million parking garage with 465 spaces.

Fort Pierce city proposal

This rendering shows the location of a Brightline train station proposed by the city of Fort Pierce in the 200 block of South Depot Drive.
This rendering shows the location of a Brightline train station proposed by the city of Fort Pierce in the 200 block of South Depot Drive.

  • Location: South Depot Drive between Orange Avenue and Citrus Avenue, running behind the Sunrise Theatre. Of the four parcels, the city owns two, the county owns one and a private landowner owns one

  • Cost: Fort Pierce would borrow $20 million to build the station

  • Contractor: Unknown

  • Size: 2.37 acres

  • Proposal: 6,400-square-foot station with 568-foot-long train platform. $4.5 million for furniture, fixtures and equipment for the station and platform. 210 parking spaces in the City Hall parking garage on Orange Avenue and in a vertical expansion of the St. Lucie County parking garage on South Second Street.

  • The St. Lucie Tourist Development Council will contribute $250,000 in rider vouchers for the first three years and Indian River State College said it will ask its foundation to buy 5,000 passes for full-time students

Poll: Where do you want the Brightline station to be?

Brightline: See all the proposals for a Brightline station

Financial woes: $82 million price tag for Stuart Brightline station worrying some city, county officials

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Gianna Montesano is TCPalm’s trending reporter. You can contact her at gianna.montesano@tcpalm.com, 772-409-1429, or follow her on X @gonthescene.

This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Brightline: Stuart backs out, see Fort Pierce station proposals

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