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New Pizza joint in PSL West called Rossatis. Family run place from the Chicago burbs that began franchising. I was ordering from this place when I was a kid in the early 80s and grabbed one last night. Thin crust sausage and onion just as i remembered.
There’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to pizza! Square cut, slightly sweet sauce and crispy crust, give it a try folks.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — The federal government will reimburse St. Lucie County more than $9.5 million to help pay for the restoration of beaches and dunes damaged by Hurricane Irma.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday it will pay at least 75 percent of the $12.7 million the county spent to place 682,000 cubic feet of sand along 3.3 miles of beaches and planting sea oats, panic grass and sunflower on the dunes.
St. Lucie County and the state both are chipping in about $1.6 million, said county spokesman Erick Gill.
Irma’s waves and storm surge caused severe erosion in September to St. Lucie County beaches, washing the sand offshore, Gill said.
"Fort Pierce Beach and South County beaches exhibited damage that will likely not recover without beach renourishment," Gill said.
The federal disaster declaration for Irma made all 67 Florida counties eligible for reimbursements. More than 1,000 government entities and nonprofts throughout the state have applied for reimbursements for Irma damage.
St. Lucie County's beach- and dune-restoration effort was the first local-government project on the Treasure Coast to qualify for reimbursement for Irma-related costs, said Crystal Payton, a FEMA external-affairs officer.
Local-government agencies on the Treasure Coast submitted 128 applications for reimbursement.
St. Lucie County has identified 26 projects that could bring in an estimated $21.7 million in reimbursements, Gill said.
Martin Health wants to build $30 million neuroscience facility at Tradition Medical Center
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PORT ST. LUCIE — Martin Health System wants to build a $30 million neuroscience facility near Tradition Medical Center to meet rising needs for stroke treatment, brain and spine surgery and neurology, Hospital President Rob Lord said Monday.
Martin Health needs $1.3 million in property-tax breaks over 10 years and about $2 million in impact-fee relief to jump-start the proposed Neuroscience Center of Excellence.
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Martin Health neuroscience center
Construction and equipment: $30 million
New jobs: 150 in five years
Average salary, including physicians: $88,000
Requested 10-year property-tax break: $1.3 million
Requested impact-fee mitigation: $2 million
Treasure Coast neurological in-patient treatment needs
For 2017
Spine surgery: 1,649
Neurosurgery: 765
Stroke: 2,197
Neurology: 3,381
Total: 7,992
Source: Agency for Health Care Administration
City Council has partnered with St. Lucie County to include a Proposed Half-Cent Sales Tax Increase on November’s Ballot. To learn more about this proposal and see what projects will be funded, check out www.pslhalfcent.com. If the sales tax is passed, I’d like you know that your City Council is committed to getting projects done that our residents want and have requested via our City survey. We will also be passing an ordinance that addresses these projects to make further assurances to you that they get done.
There will be two Community Information Meetings to discuss the proposed ½ Cent Sales Tax Referendum that all residents are invited to:
St. Lucie County Board of Commissioners will hold one at the Fenn Center on Sept. 26th from 5:00pm -8:00pm.
City of Port St. Lucie will hold one at the PSL Community Center on Sept. 27th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm.
City Council will be adopting the FY 2018/2019 Budget on September 24th at 7:00pm.
City Center land in Port St. Lucie will be sold to Hollywood developer for $750,000
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A federal Judge has approved the sale of 21 acres at City Center to a real estate investment firm for $750,000, setting the stage for a long-awaited downtown entertainment district with restaurants and shops.
The City Council is to discuss the City Center deal Monday.
City Center has been tied up in court since 2015, when the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the previous owner, Lin "Lily" Zhong and EB 5 Assets LLC, alleging she made misleading and false statements to international investors.
The 21 acres at U.S. 1 and Walton Road has a market value of $5.5 million, property appraiser records show.
The City Center project started in 2001, when the city adopted a community-redevelopment plan for the 41-acre site.
The city entered a redevelopment agreement in 2005 with DeGuardiola Properties, one of the developers of Abacoa in Jupiter, in hopes the company would recreate the mixed-use downtown.
But the Great Recession stalled the project and DeGuardiola Properties sold the City Center land to one of Zhong's companies in 2013.
Florida's Turnpike to be widened to eight lanes from Jupiter to Fort Pierce
PORT ST. LUCIE — The Florida Department of Transportation plans to widen Florida's Turnpike to eight lanes from Jupiter to Fort Pierce and develop a new interchange at Crosstown Parkway in Port St. Lucie.
But the cost and timing of the project has not yet been determined, said Brian Ribaric, the project manager for FDOT's Florida's Turnpike Enterprise.
Ribaric briefed the Port St. Lucie City Council on Monday about the Project Development and Environmental study for the project. He is set to make a presentation about the study to the St. Lucie Transportation Planning Organization.
FDOT won't estimate the cost or timing of the project construction until the study is completed, said Chad Huff, a turnpike spokesman. The project is not in FDOT's five-year plan.
The 37-mile-long project will run from Indiantown Road to Okeechobee Road, where the turnpike is four lanes. The project is needed to handle traffic increases anticipated by 2045 because of growth.
FDOT is considering a full interchange at Crosstown Parkway, in part to relieve congestion at the Port St. Lucie Boulevard interchange. It is also looking into split configuration between Crosstown and St. Lucie West Boulevard.
A full interchange at Crosstown Parkway would be constrained by underground natural gas pipes and the Port St. Lucie/Fort Pierce Service Plaza, which is undergoing a $21 million renovation and reconstruction, FDOT records show. It would also exacerbate traffic safety concerns.
VERO BEACH — Cleveland Clinic has agreed to invest $250 million in Indian River Medical Center during the next decade and assume $102 million in liabilities as part of its takeover of the county-owned hospital.
Hospital consultants disclosed details of the deal Tuesday to more than 200 people at the Richardson Center on Indian River State College's Mueller Campus.
The two boards that oversee the hospital -- the Indian River County Hospital District trustees and the IRMC directors -- are to vote on the deal at separate meetings Oct. 3. If the deal is approved, closing is expected in December.
The IRMC deal consists of several agreements, including a new, 30-year lease and three 15-year renewal options for a total of 75 years.
The deal also includes a member-substitution agreement in which Cleveland Clinic Florida takes over IRMC Inc. The third key component is a new indigent-care agreement between the hospital and the Hospital District.
Indigent care
In a concession from its original proposal, Cleveland Clinic agreed to cover the costs of caring for indigent patients after three years.
The clinic's policy is to provide free emergency and medically necessary care to patients from households with incomes less than 250 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
That's about $62,500 per year for a family of four, said IRMC's legal consultant Louis Glaser.
In the meantime, the Hospital District will continue reimbursing the hospital for up to $15 million worth of indigent care over the next three years. The district budgeted $6.4 million for indigent care in 2017-18.
The Clinic originally had proposed the Hospital District continue footing the indigent-care bill.
More: Indian River Medical Center chiefs voting October 3 on Cleveland Clinic takeover deal
It is the Clinic's policy to provide discounted emergency and medically necessary care to patients with a household income of 250 and 400 percent of the federal poverty guidelines. That's about $104,000 per year, Glaser said.
Cleveland Clinic's indigent-care plan is better than the hospital's, which provides free care for patients from households earning to 150 percent of federal poverty guidelines, said the Hospital District's legal consultant, William Boyle.
Two nursing students from Treasure Coast Technical College told the audience the indigent-care policy is important to their families. “Please help the indigent and let them continue to be serviced, because even though many of us do have insurance, there are many people who don’t have insurance," said Shawnie Anderson, one of the students.
So does anyone know what the big plot of land in Tradition on Meeting Street/SW Waterway Lane is supposed to be? They have the street, some parking spaces, and a dumpster as well as a no trespassing sign. The land on the inside of the road is maintained but all of the land outside the road is overgrown. While the land is just off downtown, I could see it being used for commerical to spread the downtown out a bit. Is there any plan for this area? Commercial, restaurants, more homes?
easiest to ask is Fishkind and Assoc. Phone: (772) 345-5101
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