Blue Origin Announces Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral
Blue Origin announced on August 12 that it is developing Launch Complex 36B, a second launch pad at Launch Complex 36 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, alongside a new Vertical Integration Facility and a Payload Processing Facility. Per the announcement, LC-36B is intended to support the larger New Glenn 9x4 vehicle.
What Blue Origin Is Building at Launch Complex 36B
The release lists three projects: the LC-36B pad, a Vertical Integration Facility already in steel erection per the announcement, and a Payload Processing Facility that Blue Origin says was funded under a U.S. Space Force contract. The company frames the work as returning Launch Complex 36 to two pads.
Blue Origin's Space Coast Numbers
The same release puts numbers on the company's Florida footprint, per Blue Origin: 4,500-plus employees on the Space Coast and more than $3 billion invested across 500-plus Florida suppliers. We covered the company's Titusville manufacturing facility as a North Brevard industrial signal, in a market where demand has been outrunning available space and the Q2 2026 industrial vacancy report showed how little sits available.
RCRE Take
If you own industrial or flex buildings between Port Canaveral and Melbourne, this release is worth a slow read before your next renewal conversation. A pad, a VIF, and a PPF under construction at the same time means general contractors, subs, fabricators, and vendors needing shop space, laydown yards, and short-term warehouse while the work runs. Blue Origin's own release puts 500-plus Florida suppliers behind its operation. When a tenant tied to that supply chain asks about an early renewal, that context belongs in your pricing.
On the supplier and contractor side, if you need to be near the gate, tight inventory is the standing problem in this market. We keep a running list of industrial and warehouse product for sale in Brevard, and off-market owner calls are part of the job.
If this build-out touches your building, your lease, or your site search, call me at 321-514-0876, email cassandra@reachcommercialre.com, or use spacecoastcre.com/contact. Reach Commercial Real Estate, 909 E New Haven Ave, Suite 300, Melbourne.
Sources
Blue Origin, Returning Launch Complex 36 to Two Pads, August 12, 2026
U.S. Space Force contract award for the Payload Processing Facility, October 2025, as cited in Blue Origin's announcement
Cover image: Blue Origin, Launch Complex 36 two-pad rendering, from the company's announcement
What happened to Launch Complex 36A?
Per Blue Origin's announcement, LC-36A is being rebuilt after an explosion on May 28, 2026. The rebuild is running at the same time as construction on the new 36B pad, which is how the complex ends up with two active pad projects at once.
Who paid for the new Payload Processing Facility at Cape Canaveral?
Per the announcement, the Payload Processing Facility was funded under a $78.2 million U.S. Space Force contract awarded in October 2025.
Where is the new Vertical Integration Facility being built?
Blue Origin says steel erection is already underway north of the skid strip inside Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, alongside the LC-36B pad work.
Written by Cassandra Hartford, founder and CEO of Reach Commercial Real Estate. She has worked in Brevard County commercial real estate for 18 years, representing buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants across Florida's Space Coast.
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