Torino Regional Park

Torino Regional Park is a Port St. Lucie park under construction at 5601 North Torino Parkway, which the city describes as a 195-acre destination for sports, nature and community and as the future largest park in the city.

The city's park page, still titled Coming Soon, carries an announcement that the park is under construction and says it was developed with extensive community input and designed with a Play Forest concept drawing on Florida's natural beauty (City of Port St. Lucie, Torino Regional Park). The page describes amenities for all ages, including a playground with forest-themed pods and an interactive water feature designed for different ages and abilities. Its facility snapshot already tags the site as autism friendly, and the page lists 772-878-2277 as its contact number.

On the city's Park Projects listing, the Torino Parkway site appears as a 195-acre nature-focused recreation area offering trails, play spaces, sports features and open green space, with the same under construction notice (City of Port St. Lucie, Park Projects).

The Port St. Lucie park page lists eight planned first-phase amenities at Torino Regional Park, from a nature-themed playground and splash pad to pickleball, covered basketball and a future skate park.

The page says the first phase of development is laying the foundation for future amenities and infrastructure (Torino Regional Park, planned first-phase amenities). The city's groundbreaking announcement repeats the same list of planned amenities and describes a fly-through rendering of the Phase 1 design that highlights the playground and splash pad, the walking and biking trails and the open green spaces (City of Port St. Lucie, Torino Regional Park groundbreaking news).

The City of Port St. Lucie held the official groundbreaking on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, at 11 a.m., after a planning history that the city traces back to a first design and permit in 2007.

According to the planning history on the park page, Torino Regional Park was initially designed and permitted in 2007; the project team engaged the public through meetings and surveys in 2023; and a new conceptual master plan was completed in early 2024 (Torino Regional Park, Planning History). The page lists virtual meetings on Jan. 17, 2023 and Aug. 24, 2023 and a City Council presentation at the regular meeting of Jan. 27, 2025.

The groundbreaking announcement placed the ceremony at 5601 North Torino Parkway, between NW Conley Drive and Delcris Drive, and said the Dec. 9 groundbreaking marked the first phase of development (Torino Regional Park groundbreaking news, ceremony details). For the planned skate park, the city held resident input meetings at the Port St. Lucie Community Center on Dec. 4 and 18, 2024, Jan. 15, 2025 and Nov. 12, 2025, each from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., alongside a survey.

The FY 2023-24 adopted budget set aside $20.5M to build Phase I of Torino Regional Park once City Council approved the conceptual plan, and named it one of four new city parks.

In its strategic project descriptions, the City of Port St. Lucie FY 2023-24 adopted budget book says the conceptual master plan design was being developed for the Torino Regional Park site and that, upon City Council approval of the plan, FY23/24 adopted funding of $20.5M would be used to construct Phase I amenities (City of Port St. Lucie, FY 2023-24 Adopted Budget). The same budget lists Phase 1 construction for Torino Regional Park among the capital projects in the adopted budget, names Torino with Pioneer Park at The Port, Riverland Paseo Park and Tradition Regional Park as the four new parks the city would bring on, and lists a Volucia Trail connection to Torino Regional Park among its bikeway and trail priority corridors. In its summary of the five-year capital improvement program, the budget book lists Torino Regional Park Phase 1 Construction at $22.7 million; the budget presents the $20.5M adopted funding and the $22.7 million five-year line separately.

The Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update adds two money figures. It reports that in FY 2023 the city spent $164,443 in impact fees on Torino Regional Park for a softball field, with the project then in preliminary planning, and its prioritized project list includes a Community Center Hub at Torino Regional Park with a planning-level capital cost of $30 Million and planning-level operations and maintenance costs of $1.225 Million (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, impact fees and Prioritized Project List).

The park page and Park Projects listing call Torino Regional Park a 195-acre site, while the Port St. Lucie parks master plan inventory lists it at 224.01 acres.

The Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update inventory records Torino Regional Park at 224.01 acres with a 2024 date and an Undeveloped type, and a footnote states that Torino Park was in design with an intended type of Regional Park (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, inventory table and footnotes). The city's current park page and listing both use 195 acres.

Theme wording also varies between city pages. The park page speaks of a Play Forest concept, while a city news item published on May 22, 2026 says the park will feature a Fairytale Forest theme for its playgrounds (City of Port St. Lucie, sculpture call news item). The Port St. Lucie master plan's growth chapter notes that high growth occurred west of the Turnpike in existing communities such as Torino, around Winterlakes Park; a separate Digital Towns guide covers Winterlakes Park.

The city has called for artists to create a sculpture for the roundabout that will serve as the main entrance to Torino Regional Park.

The May 22, 2026 news item says submissions should express the unique identity of Port St. Lucie while reflecting the Fairytale Forest concept, and that visual, craft or design artists in all media who are at least 18 and legal residents of the United States could apply (City seeks artists for sculpture that will welcome people to new park). Proposals were due by 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, under a Request for Qualifications that the city says sets out the project goals, artist qualifications and projected budget. The item points readers to the city's Public Art Master Plan for more background.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, by re-reading the Torino Regional Park page with its meeting list and planning history, the December groundbreaking announcement, the May sculpture call, the Park Projects listing, the FY 2023-24 budget passages and the master plan inventory and project list.