Blue Origin has invested about a billion dollars in its manufacturing facility and Pad 36 on Florida's Space Coast.

Judged as of 20 September 2018. True: credible figures show Blue Origin's total investment in its Florida rocket manufacturing facility at Exploration Park and in Launch Complex 36 (refurbishment and infrastructure) came to roughly $1 billion by that date (about $0.8–1.2bn counts as 'about'). Mostly true: the reported total is within about $0.7–1.3bn, or the figure includes closely related Space Coast spending. Mostly false: the documented investment is well below this (e.g. about $0.5bn), or $1bn was only planned rather than already invested. False: the documented investment was a small fraction of $1bn, or the facilities did not exist or were not Blue Origin's.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Governor Rick Scott Announces Blue Origin to Build New Launch Facility Space Florida (state economic development agency), reproducing Gov. Rick Scott's office announcement · 15 September 2015

   “The project will create 330 new jobs and a capital investment of $200 million in the region over the next five years.”

2. E2 [PDF] north brevard economic development zone (nbedz) North Brevard Economic Development Zone (NBEDZ) Special District Board, Brevard County · 9 March 2018

   “Blue Origin debt of approximately $6.6 million.”

3. E3 North Brevard Economic Development Zone (NBEDZ) Special District Board minutes, March 9, 2018 North Brevard Economic Development Zone, Spaceport Commerce Park Authority (Brevard County Clerk records) · 9 March 2018

   “Blue Origin debt of approximately $6.6 million”

4. E4 North Brevard Economic Development Zone (NBEDZ) Special District Board minutes, March 9, 2018 North Brevard Economic Development Zone, Spaceport Commerce Park Authority (Brevard County Clerk records) · 9 March 2018

   “the Zone board and the BOCC approved previously that the Zone would be in the position to provide at least a portion of the grant this year in the amount of $1,379,296”

5. E5 Jeff Bezos says he will invest $1 billion next year in Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket program San Diego Union-Tribune · 19 September 2018

   “Blue Origin opened a 650,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Florida and has been constructing its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The two represent a total investment of about $1 billion, Bezos said Wednesday.”

6. E6 Blue Origin continues New Glenn puzzle progress for Cape Canaveral launches Orlando Sentinel · 14 August 2022

   “Blue Origin took over the lease for LC-36 in 2015, investing about $1 billion in the pad site alone.”

The only figure for September 2018 is in E5, where the San Diego Union-Tribune reports Bezos's own statement that the factory and the pad together came to about $1 billion. The paper does not check that number itself. E1 records a planned $200 million capital investment over five years, announced in 2015. That was a plan, not money already spent by 2018. E6, a 2022 article, says about $1 billion went into the pad site alone, but it does not say how much had been spent by September 2018. E2–E4 cover incentive grants and debt, not total investment. No independent or official record confirms the total as of the judgment date.