Blue Origin just broke ground on Florida's Space Coast.

In an email Tuesday, Jeff Bezos said his private spaceflight company has begun construction on the new 750,000-square-foot rocket factory it's building in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The factory will be "custom-built from the ground up to accommodate manufacturing, processing, integration, and testing," he wrote.

"It's exciting to see the bulldozers in action— we're clearing the way for the production of a reusable fleet of orbital vehicles that we will launch and land, again and again," Bezos added.

The factory (a rendering of which is pictured above) is scheduled to be complete by December 2017. Then, Blue Origin plans to manufacture its fleet of reusable space vehicles, minus the engines. Bezos said the company will initially begin producing the BE-4 rocket engine it's been working on for more than four years at its facility in Kent, Wash. while it searches this year for a larger site for its engine production facility.

Blue Origin first announced plans to set up shop in the Sunshine State in September. The new manufacturing facility is conveniently located near Complex 36, a launch site Blue Origin is leasing in Cape Canaveral.

"Locating vehicle assembly near our launch site eases the challenge of processing and transporting really big rockets," Bezos said last fall.

Meanwhile, Blue Origin earlier this month won a contract to perform suborbital research flights as part of NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, which tests how emerging technologies perform to see if they might be useful on current and future missions. The deal means Blue Origin can team up with researchers and submit flight proposals to NASA, which decides whether or not to fund them.