Paul Brinkmann: SpaceX submits plan for rocket hangar.

SpaceX is leasing more land at Port Canaveral for rocket storage and has submitted a plan for a new rocket hangar, according to documents filed with the Port’s board of commissioners.

The new lease would be for a 2.2-acre site next to SpaceX’s existing hangar, 620 Magellan Road, for which it signed a five-year lease in April. The Port Canaveral board of commissioners is set to vote on the new lease Wednesday.

“The land will be used by Space X to construct a hangar totaling approximately 67,222 square feet,” according to the new lease information, which identifies Atkins as the engineering firm on the project. That’s slightly larger and longer than the current facility, which is the former SpaceHab building, about 50,000 square feet.

The company has been landing its spent Falcon 9 rocket boosters routinely at Cape Canaveral, or on an ocean barge that then sails back into the Port. The hangar is needed to store and refurbish the boosters for relaunch, and the company currently has multiple boosters in storage. Relaunching the used boosters is a key to SpaceX’s plan for lowering the cost of space exploration. When its boosters land at the Air Force Station, SpaceX transports the rockets about 20 miles back to the Port.

A SpaceX spokesman did not immediately comment on the new lease.

The lease being considered Wednesday would run through March 2022. According to the port documents, the new lease will cost SpaceX $236,798 per year, including a port infrastructure fee.

CardWorks jobs

A New York-based financialservices company and credit-card call center, CardWorks, plans to hire 240 people for a new location in Lake Mary during the next two years, according to an announcement from Orlando Economic Partnership.

Lake Mary will be CardWorks’ third operational center in the U.S.; the company expects to invest about $4.2 million in its 30,000-square-foot office buildout at 100 Colonial Center Parkway. The company provides 24-hour support services for credit-card issuers and lenders.

“Orlando, with its strong economy and diverse population, was the top choice for CardWorks when deciding where to open our new office, and we look forward to becoming a part of the community,” Harold Baldauf, COO of CardWorks, said in a news release.

The company is receiving an incentive package totaling $102,000 from the state and Seminole County, which chipped in $20,400. But that’s because only 34 of the new jobs are higher-paying jobs with average pay of $50,500.

The remaining positions are expected to pay an average of $32,500, according to CardWorks application for incentives under the state Qualified Target Industry program.

CardWorks, headquartered in Woodbury, N.Y., has offices in Pittsburgh and Horsham, Pa. Interested candidates can apply online at CardWorks.com.

Pulse vigil

Gov. Rick Scott made an unannounced visit June 15 to a church service for the Pulse shooting victims at Christ Church Unity in Orlando, which focused on healing.

Scott had attended a service at the church in the days after the attack in June 2016, and had said he would return. The visit was not publicized and was not on the governor’s official schedule.

Several survivors who made it out of the nightclub after the attack were also in the congregation. Community leaders there included Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan and executive director of the LGBT Center of Orlando Terry DeCarlo.

During the service, a giant bouquet of 49 red roses stood on the platform for each of the victims. Pastor Cynthia Alice Anderson surprised many in the congregation when she pointed out another solitary rose on the side of that platform, which she said was for the shooter. The only reason I know about it is, I’m a member of the church and I was there.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean condoning bad behavior, Anderson said: “Forgiveness means I’m subtracting my angry toxic energy from the situation, because he’s got his own hell.”

“Hatred is not the answer. Meeting resentment with resentment is not the answer,” she said. “We’re called to love, to forgive, and we’re all in process.”

At least one person spoke out during the message that they could not forgive, at least not yet. Anderson said she honored their feelings and would stand with them in their grief. But the message, and the music, also brought applause and tears.

Music included a solo performance by singer Brandon Parsons, whose single “Forty-Nine Times” is a heartfelt tribute to the Pulse tragedy.