St. Lucie West Boulevard Projects, Port St. Lucie

Port St. Lucie lists intersection and widening projects on or next to St. Lucie West Boulevard, plus the state's I-95 bridge and ramp project, on two city pages that each record a status.

The middle column comes from the Public Works St. Lucie West Blvd. Projects page, which sorts the work into upcoming and completed lists and points readers to the Capital Improvement Projects tracker map for phases and schedules. The right column comes from the status legend and cost lines on the Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects page, where the St. Lucie West group as a whole carries $18.3 million.

The city calls St. Lucie West Boulevard one of the busiest corridors in Port St. Lucie and says its intersections need added turn lanes to improve traffic and pedestrian safety.

The Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects page describes the boulevard as connecting several commercial districts, shopping centers, institutional uses and residential developments from Bayshore Boulevard to Interstate 95, and states that the corridor is in need of major intersection improvements. The same page says California Boulevard, south of St. Lucie West Boulevard, needs widening from two to four lanes because the corridor is failing at peak hour travel times. Its stated solution is the set of intersection projects plus the California widening, which the city expects to raise traffic capacity and pedestrian mobility.

Planning money has been set aside for the boulevard itself as well. The city's FY 2023-24 Adopted Budget Book included a Project Development and Environmental (PD&E) study and design for widening St. Lucie West Boulevard and Southbend Boulevard, and listed Saint Lucie West Blvd Widening Improvements at $3.5 million within its five-year capital program.

At California Boulevard, the Port St. Lucie project adds a second left-turn lane on all four approaches and upgrades the signal mast arms, and a separate project widens SW California Boulevard to four lanes south to Crosstown Parkway.

The St. Lucie West Blvd. Projects page spells out the intersection work: a second westbound and a second eastbound left-turn lane on St. Lucie West Boulevard at California Boulevard, and a second northbound and a second southbound left-turn lane on California Boulevard. The half-cent page describes the need the same way, saying all four legs of the intersection need an additional dual left-turn lane, and lists the intersection at $2 million (Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects).

The widening covers SW California Boulevard from Crosstown Parkway to St. Lucie West Blvd., going from two lanes to four with drainage improvements, sidewalks and landscaping (project list). The half-cent page carries California Widening at $15.1 million, and the FY 2023-24 budget lists the same $15.1 million figure for California Widening in its five-year capital program.

The Peacock Boulevard project in Port St. Lucie adds turn and through lanes at the intersection nearest the I-95 interchange, designed to complement the state's new St. Lucie West Boulevard bridge over I-95.

The St. Lucie West Blvd. Projects page lists an additional southbound turn lane, a westbound through lane, an eastbound left-turn lane, a westbound right-turn lane and a northbound through lane to Courtyard Circle. A city notice published April 24, 2025 described the same work for residents: a third westbound travel lane connecting directly to the I-95 North on-ramp, and NW Peacock Boulevard expanded from NW Courtyard Circle to St. Lucie West Boulevard with a third northbound lane and a third southbound lane, along with upgraded sidewalks, drainage and landscaping.

Three city records give timing for this St. Lucie West project. The April 2025 notice said construction was scheduled to commence in May 2025 with completion anticipated by Spring 2026, while the project page states completion was anticipated in February 2026, and the half-cent page marks the Peacock intersection completed at $204,754. The FY 2023-24 budget had listed beginning the design of the St Lucie West Blvd / Peacock Blvd intersection improvements among that year's Public Works objectives (budget book). The residents' coffee meeting on the project was held Monday, May 5, 2025, from 8 to 10 a.m. at South County Regional Stadium, 560 NW University Blvd. (city notice).

Both city pages list the Cashmere Boulevard and Bayshore Boulevard intersections in St. Lucie West as completed, and the Florida Department of Transportation reported its St. Lucie West Boulevard bridge and ramp project complete in December 2024.

At Cashmere Boulevard, eastbound St. Lucie West Boulevard gained its own right-turn lane and northbound Cashmere gained a second lane for left turns. At Bayshore Boulevard, it extended the southbound right-turn lane at Prima Vista/St. Lucie West Boulevard and added a southbound through lane. Both descriptions are on the city's St. Lucie West Blvd. Projects page, and the half-cent page lists Cashmere at $829,883 and Bayshore at $462,096.

The same two cross streets were rebuilt farther north as well. The Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects page marks roundabouts at Torino Parkway and California Boulevard ($1,081,866) and at Torino Parkway and Cashmere Boulevard ($1,096,404) as completed, explaining that those three-legged Port St. Lucie intersections were failing at peak morning and evening hours as drivers backed up waiting to turn left. The same page lists those roundabouts under Torino Intersection Improvements at $2 million.

The I-95 work was a state project. The city page says FDOT managed the work, which added a new eastbound bridge carrying the boulevard across I-95, turned the older span into a crossing for two lanes of westbound traffic and added new I-95 entrance and exit ramps. FDOT's year-end news release of December 20, 2024 listed the completion of the St. Lucie West Boulevard Widening Project in St. Lucie County, with a new bridge over I-95, the widening and rebuilt I-95 ramps. Questions about city intersection work go to 1PSL at 772-871-1775. Last verified: October 22, 2026, with each figure traced back to the St. Lucie West project list, the half-cent status legend and costs, the April 2025 Peacock notice, the FY 2023-24 budget objectives and FDOT's 2024 year-end release.