Brooke Chau, WPTV News

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Along Orange Avenue and Kings Highway in Fort Pierce sits a massive twisted and torn apart warehouse.

“It was something that was finally going to be mid-county that some of the residents from Fort Pierce and out west could have been able to come in here and have a job," said St. Lucie County Commissioner, Cathy Townsend.

The 1.1 million square-foot warehouse was called the South Florida Logistics Center 95. It was meant to be a distribution facility for e-commerce and third-party logistics users.

Here is what the warehouse looked like on Oct. 10, 2024, after the tornado outbreak ahead of Hurricane Milton:

Nearby neighbors remember that afternoon all too well.

"Everything got tight and drier and cooler, and it was almost like a high-pitched f

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