Ocean Gate General Contractors, Inc. and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection have come together to develop the infrastructure for the Atlantic Ridge State Park in Stuart, Florida.  This park is one of eleven distinct habitats created to preserve threatened and endangered species of plants and animals.  This 5,816 acre park is being carefully developed to eventually provide visitors with trails for hiking and horseback riding, fishing and wildlife viewing.  Currently there are no facilities. 

Ocean Gate is building a pre-engineerred metal building that will serve as a shop for the park employees, and a pre-engineered metal building to house equipment and vehicles.  FDEP selected Ocean Gate for the project because of the close relationship they have developed in managing construction projects on sensitive lands requiring a light footprint. 

The park isn’t open to the public, but can be accessed for hiking by calling the ranger station at Jonathan Dickinson Park.  The most dominant natural community in the park is the wet praire, an important foraging area for herons and egrets, as well as the Florida sandhill crane and wood stork.  The Atlantic Ridge Ecosystem project’s goal is to protect the largest remaining islands of natural land left on the east coast by conserving important scrub, pine flatwoods, narshes, and South Fork’s floodplain on the St. Lucie River.  Protection will also be provided for the quality of water in the St. Lucie and Loxahatchee River  basins and the public will have the opportunity to enjoy the original landscape of Southeastern Florida. 

The area includes the headwaters of the South Fork St. Lucie River, part of the drainage basin of the Loxahatchee River, an outstanding florida water, and is important for water supply to coastal Martin County. 

Other recognizable projects Ocean Gate and FDEP have completed include the Jensen Beach Causeway, The Savannahs State Park, The Mary Brogan State Park, and the Jonathan Dickinson Environmental Center and Campground.  In total there have been thirty throughout the State of Florida.