REAL ESTATE
Over 53 Years in Business –
3rd Generation Owned
TRAILERS - AUTOMOBILE | UTILITY | BOAT | AND MORE
REPAIR & SERVICE | TRAILER HITCHES | TRANSPORT TRAILERS
BOAT EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES | TRAILER EQUIPMENT & PARTS
NEW AND USED TRAILERS
OF EVERY KIND
PARTS FOR TRAILERS:
Easy Walk In & Walk Out with Everything You Need
TRAILER REPAIR:
Marine, Agriculture, Equipment Trailers and more!
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TOWING:
Hitches, Wiring and Even Gooseneck Installations!
GREAT WELDING AND FABRICATION DEPARTMENT
FREE ESTIMATES on All Trailer Repairs
Friendly and Knowledgeable Staff
(772) 461-1193
309 S. 3rd St., Fort Pierce, FL 34950
www.meltratrailer.com
ST. LUCIE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Not all companies coming to the Treasure Coast need huge warehouses. Chandler
Bats, which makes wooden baseball bats for Aaron Judge of the New York
Yankees as well as other Major League Baseball players, moved its headquarters
and manufacturing plant from Pennsylvania to Port St. Lucie.
Avenue to west of the interstate.
In northern Indian River County, an existing industrial park that
is home to Triton Submarines has parcels available for development,
TCBusiness.com 7
Matson said.
In Fellsmere, there are several large land owners that have
flirted with sales of large tracts, and some projects are in the planning
stages, said Fellsmere City Manager Mark D. Mathes. Some of
the acreage now devoted to citrus farming may become available,
he said.
Land values are likely to continue to rise, and Fellsmere is located
to take advantage of relatively low land prices and development
expenses in an area close to growing Central Florida.
“If you want to get in, this is the time to get in. It’s about ready
to take off,” Mathes said.
JUST A MATTER OF TIME
Martin County Administrator Don Donaldson said that while
there is industrial activity in the county, there are no 1-millionsquare
foot mega-warehouses going up or in the planning
process. For now, the largest parcels are zoned for agriculture and
do not allow for industrial development.
But Chamberlin says it’s a matter of time that pressure will build
to create those huge buildings along I-95 in Martin County. It may
take longer than in St. Lucie County, but Chamberlin says he still
sees a million-square-foot warehouse at every I-95 interchange
from the Palm Beach County line to Sebastian.
Frannie Hutchinson, St. Lucie County commissioner and lifelong
resident of the county, said she has sought to bring smart
development to the county in her 20 years as commissioner.
She said that there was considerable interest in the county’s
industrial land until the recession around 2008 quelled it for a
decade or so.
“We have been discovered,” Hutchinson said.
The type of industrial development happening will help keep
taxes down for homeowners and create jobs.
“These huge buildings are going to generate a lot of taxes and
they are not going to add to the traffic in town,” Chamberlin said.
However, Dzadovsky is aware of the burden that the growth
might cause homeowners.
“We have tried to focus on taking the pressure off the homeowners
and diversify our tax base,” he explained. “When you are
too reliant on residential rooftops to pay for your infrastructure, it
puts too much of a strain on homeowners.”
/www.meltratrailer.com
/www.meltratrailer.com
/TCBusiness.com
