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.

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.

CREW Orlando's Beyond the Launch panel at the Citrus Club put master planned development, Kennedy Space Center, the Space Coast Chamber, and commercial real estate on one stage. Notes from the panel.

Florida ranks fifth in the nation for semiconductor manufacturing employment and Brevard County is the anchor. The director of the Florida Semiconductor Institute named the one thing the state is not putting up: cash incentives that other states are matching at $100 million.

Three Brevard mayors made their pitch to a room of developers: Palm Bay grew its commercial base 13 percent in six years and now collects impact fees up front, Titusville has a certified spaceport and a free trade zone, and Cocoa sells the water everybody else drinks.

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