Florida will have five Buc-ee's by 2029 — and a sixth is already planned
No tease, here is the whole map. Florida has two Buc-ee's today, both on I-95. Three more have dates: Tallahassee in 2027, Fort Pierce in 2028, and Ocala in 2029, once the state finishes building its interchange. A sixth, at Port Charlotte on I-75, is on the company's books with no date yet. Every location, every date, and what is holding each one up — below.
- Open now (2): St. Augustine (200 World Commerce Pkwy, opened Feb. 2021) and Daytona Beach (2330 Gateway North Dr., opened March 2021) — each about 53,000 square feet with 104 fueling stations.
- Tallahassee, 2027: 30-plus acres bought in November 2025 near Capital Circle Northwest and I-10 — 75,000 sq. ft., 120 pumps, 24 EV chargers. The chain's first Panhandle store.
- Fort Pierce, 2028: I-95 and Indrio Road (Exit 214), St. Lucie County. About 46 acres bought in March 2024; 76,245 sq. ft., 120 pumps, 18 EV chargers, 778 parking spaces, 175-plus jobs. County approvals were completed this month; final state permits are what remain.
- Ocala, 2029: southeast corner of I-75 and Northwest 49th Street, about 74,000 sq. ft. with 120 fueling stations — but the store waits on FDOT's new $59.4 million diverging-diamond interchange, now under construction and estimated complete in fall 2028.
- Port Charlotte, no date: I-75 in Charlotte County near the Harborview development, planned at about 74,000 sq. ft. The company lists it as planned; that is all anyone honestly knows. (A rumored Lee County site fell through and is not counted here.)
This is a progress report, not a scavenger hunt: Florida's Buc-ee's count is two today and five by the end of 2029, with a sixth location formally planned. The Texas chain's two existing Florida travel centers both opened in 2021 on I-95 — St. Augustine in February and Daytona Beach in March — and for five years that was the whole story. The next five years roughly triple it.
Next up is Tallahassee. Buc-ee's bought more than 30 acres near Capital Circle Northwest and Interstate 10 in November 2025, on plans for a 75,000-square-foot store with 120 fuel pumps and 24 EV charging stations. It will be the chain's first Panhandle location, filling the I-10 gap between the Alabama line and Jacksonville. The company's targeted opening is 2027.
Then the east coast: Fort Pierce, in St. Lucie County — the southernmost of the dated locations, and the closest Buc-ee's to South Florida. The company bought about 46 acres at I-95 and Indrio Road in March 2024, won unanimous county rezoning that September, and as of early October 2026 the county says every local approval is complete. What remains is final sign-off from the Florida Department of Transportation and the Department of Environmental Protection before construction starts. The plans: 76,245 square feet — announced in 2025 as a would-be world's largest convenience store — 120 fuel pumps, 18 EV chargers, 778 parking spaces, and 175-plus jobs. The targeted opening is 2028.
Ocala is the biggest store with the longest wait, and the reason is concrete: the Buc-ee's planned for the southeast corner of I-75 and Northwest 49th Street — about 74,000 square feet, 120 fueling stations — depends on a brand-new interchange that does not exist yet. FDOT is building a diverging-diamond interchange there now, a $59.4 million project the agency says will specifically facilitate access to the store; Gov. DeSantis attended the groundbreaking in February 2025. FDOT estimates the interchange complete in fall 2028, and Buc-ee's confirmed this year that the store's opening has slipped to 2029 — the company's website still shows a 2028-2029 window, so treat 2029 as the plan and 2028 as the hope.
The sixth location is Port Charlotte, in Charlotte County on I-75, planned as part of a village development near Harborview at about 74,000 square feet, per the company's national director of real estate and development, Stan Beard. Buc-ee's lists the status as planned and offers no date, and neither will we — it is real enough to count in the pipeline and nowhere near real enough to put on a calendar.
The pattern across all six is the same formula Florida drivers already know from I-95: interstate interchanges only, stores in the 74,000-76,000-square-foot range at the new sites, 120 fueling positions, and parking lots measured in the hundreds. By 2029, a driver crossing Florida on I-10, I-75 or I-95 will pass a Buc-ee's on every corridor — which appears to be precisely the idea.