Community board backs Seacoast Bank headquarters plan, recommends conditional-use approval to city commission

Stuart’s Community Redevelopment Board voted unanimously on July 1, 2025, to recommend that the City Commission approve Seacoast Bank’s major conditional-use petition and major development plan for a new 58,647-square-foot, three-story headquarters and a detached private parking garage on the southeast corner of South Colorado Avenue and Kindred Street.

The plan, presented to the board by Jody Kugler, the city’s development director, seeks conditional-use approval for a detached private parking garage and three design deviations from the Creek District form‑based code: permitting the building’s primary entrance to face an interior plaza rather than US 1 or Colorado Avenue; allowing the existing 7‑foot sidewalks along US 1 and Colorado Avenue to remain instead of immediate replacement with 10‑foot sidewalks; and permitting a parking structure horizontal length of 246 feet, exceeding the 200‑foot maximum in the code.

Kugler told the board that the 8.13‑acre parcel is in the Creek South zoning district within the city’s community redevelopment area and that…