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Titusville Annexation at 3080: 5-Acre Comp Plan Amendment Filed
Titusville is processing an annexation request for 5 acres at 3080, paired with a comprehensive plan amendment to change the parcel's future land use designation. The proposed land use has not been published in available records. For anyone tracking north Brevard land, the direction of that designation is the number that matters.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago5 min read
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Amped Fitness Opens First Brevard Location in Melbourne
Amped Fitness opened its first Brevard County location in Melbourne, marking a first-market entry for the Florida-based fitness chain on the Space Coast. The move adds to a pattern of large-format fitness tenants pursuing expansion across Florida. For landlords holding anchor and junior-anchor bays in Melbourne, it is a data point worth tracking.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago4 min read
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Berkadia Closes $37M Bridge Loan for Palm Bay Waterfront Multifamily
Berkadia secured a $37 million bridge loan for Astor Pointe, a 171-unit waterfront multifamily project in Palm Bay. Institutional capital at that scale, in south Brevard, is worth paying attention to. Here is what it signals for the submarket.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago5 min read
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SpaceX Natural Gas Pipeline: 32.4 Miles Across Brevard by August 2027
A SpaceX subsidiary asked Florida regulators to approve a 32.4-mile, 16-inch natural gas pipeline inside Brevard County, with service projected for August 2027. The route depends on what right of way the company can get.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago5 min read
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Brevard Deed Records: Week of October 9, 2026
Fourteen deeds hit Brevard deed records this week, none big enough for its own story. The entity names tell you who just bought the building they used to rent.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago5 min read
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Embraer Eyes $500M KC-390 Factory at Melbourne Airport
Embraer is considering a roughly $500 million KC-390 factory at Melbourne Airport. Melbourne has not been selected, and a U.S. production line depends on a U.S. government order that has not been placed.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago2 min read
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Viera Hospital Adds 20 Beds, Tightening Viera Medical Office Demand
Health First opened a 20-bed fifth-floor expansion at Viera Hospital on October 5, 2026, bringing total capacity to 118 beds. A planned patient tower and ambulatory surgery center are already in the pipeline. For medical office landlords and healthcare-adjacent tenants in the Viera/Rockledge corridor, this is the kind of anchor activity that reshapes submarket demand.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago5 min read
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Emerald Lakes Palm Bay: 1.1M SF and 652 Apartments Clear P&Z
Palm Bay's Planning and Zoning Board recommended the Emerald Lakes East Phase I final development plan on October 7, 2026. The city staff report puts it at 1,106,700 square feet of nonresidential space and 652 multifamily units east of I-95, with infrastructure scheduled from the second quarter of 2027 through the first quarter of 2031.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago5 min read
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Health First Rockledge Medical Office Opens December 2026
Health First broke ground in January 2026 on a 13,500-square-foot freestanding emergency room at 3300 S. Fiske Blvd. in Rockledge, its first facility of this type in the county. The building carries 12 beds and a December 2026 opening target. For medical office landlords and tenants along the Fiske Boulevard corridor, the arrival of institutional-grade outpatient infrastructure changes the calculus on nearby space.
Cassandra Hartford
11 hours ago5 min read
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Brevard County Entertainment Pipeline: Topgolf, Dave & Buster's, Lynora's, and a Pro Soccer District
Orlando Business Journal interviewed Cassandra Hartford for its September 27 story on entertainment development in Brevard County. Four projects are behind it: Topgolf and Dave & Buster's in Viera, Lynora's in Downtown Melbourne, and the pro soccer district near the Melbourne airport.
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11 hours ago2 min read
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Cocoa Brightline Station Gets $57.5M Federal Grant for a 2030 Opening
Federal and state officials marked a $57.5 million FRA grant for the Cocoa Brightline station on October 6. The station goes on 33 acres Brightline bought at US 1 and SR 528 in 2021 for $12.5 million. Service is targeted for 2030.
Cassandra Hartford
1 day ago6 min read
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Cape Canaveral Industrial Space: Blue Origin Asks for 50 Launches a Year
Blue Origin has asked the FAA to raise its New Glenn limit at Launch Complex 36 from 12 launches a year to 50. Public comment runs through October 30. Here are the filings, the dates, and the Brevard industrial numbers to read them against.
Cassandra Hartford
2 days ago4 min read
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Rockledge Flex Space: 18,000 SF Warehouse Planned at Aspinwall Ave
Cirrus Properties plans an 18,000 square foot flex warehouse on 2.4 acres at Aspinwall Avenue, just west of US 1. The county's planning board recommended the zoning change it needs, and the County Commission heard it October 1.
Cassandra Hartford
5 days ago3 min read
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Cocoa Village Apartments: 242 Units, $93M Proposed at 430 Brevard
The Framework Group is asking the Cocoa CRA for about $6.23 million in tax increment reimbursement to build 242 apartments and 2,800 square feet of retail at 430 Brevard Avenue. The board reviews the final application on October 5.
Cassandra Hartford
5 days ago4 min read
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Brevard County Commercial Real Estate Market Update: September 2026
Industrial led Brevard County in September with nine deeds of $1 million or more, $31.6 million in total. Retail sold within $10 of its second-quarter price per square foot. Office had one sale above $1 million, and no apartment community recorded a sale.
Cassandra Hartford
6 days ago5 min read
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Melbourne Airport Approves 39-Year 'Project Sky' Ground Lease
Melbourne Orlando International Airport approved a 30-acre ground lease running 39 years for an undisclosed company operating under the codename 'Project Sky.' The deal is projected to generate $23.85 million in revenue and reactivates the site previously designated for Aerion Supersonic's headquarters. The tenant's identity has not been publicly disclosed.
Cassandra Hartford
Oct 24 min read
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Relativity Space Picks Brevard for Aerospace Manufacturing
Relativity Space is bringing a manufacturing operation to Brevard County, confirmed by Governor DeSantis at the Farnborough Air Show on July 20, 2026. No site, square footage, or job count has been disclosed. For industrial landlords and developers in the aerospace corridor, that gap is exactly the problem.
Cassandra Hartford
Oct 15 min read
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SpaceX Seeks 76 Starship Launches a Year From Cape Canaveral
SpaceX has formally asked the FAA to permit 76 Starship launches per year from Cape Canaveral, and the FAA has opened a public comment period as part of its environmental review. Starship has reached orbit. The question for the KSC corridor is what a permitted cadence that large actually does to industrial and flex demand near Exploration Park and LC-39A.
Cassandra Hartford
Oct 15 min read
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SpaceX Crew-13 and Falcon Heavy Launch from Cape Canaveral October 1
SpaceX is scheduled to launch both NASA's Crew-13 astronauts and a Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on October 1, 2026. Two major missions on the same date is not unusual for SpaceX anymore. That cadence is exactly what drives industrial and flex demand in the North Brevard corridor, even when no single lease or sale gets the headline.
Cassandra Hartford
Sep 305 min read
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Lennar Absorbs Riverwood at Everlands Lot for $1.94M
A deed recorded September 24, 2026 transferred Lot 7, Block A of Riverwood at Everlands Phase 2 from Millrose Properties Florida LLC to Lennar Homes LLC for $1,937,123. The transaction, indexed in Brevard Clerk Official Records OR Book 10733, Page 2877, continues a pattern of homebuilder lot absorption in an active Brevard subdivision. What it signals for adjacent landowners and competing builders is worth watching.
Cassandra Hartford
Sep 295 min read
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