Blue Origin, the private spaceflight venture founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has a new Florida home to rival Elon Musk’s sprawling SpaceX compound. Bezos announced in an e-mail Tuesday that the company broke ground on a new 750,000-square-foot factory in Florida, a space large enough to manufacture and test full-scale rockets that could reach orbital altitudes and even dock with the International Space Station. SpaceX’s facility, in California, slightly outdoes it, at close to 1 million square feet.

But size doesn’t seem to matter to Bezos in this case. He has bigger things to care about: namely, moving beyond Blue Origin’s current suborbital rocket, the New Shepard, which was the first of its kind to take off, land on earth, and take off again. Such rockets are great for taking passengers on a brief space flight or conducting smaller-scale research, but they are otherwise limited in their capabilities. The real money—and innovation—is in building orbital vehicles capable of carrying payloads into space, which is more in line with SpaceX’s vision.

“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 said in the e-mail, according to TechCrunch.

The entirety of Blue Origin’s rocket will be manufactured in the Florida factory, Bezos explained, with the exception of the engines, which will continue to be be developed in a 260,000-square-foot factory in Washington. The orbital factory is expected to be completed by the end of 2017, while its new BE-4 engine designed for its orbital rockets is scheduled to be ready for flight in 2019. It’s a speedy timetable by any yardstick, but one that still puts Bezos behind Musk. If all goes according to plan, by that point, SpaceX will have already sent its Dragon to Mars.