diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 87031c255..8698ee37d 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ allprojects {
 
     group = 'com.uber.jaeger'
     version = '0.18.0-SNAPSHOT'
+    
+    repositories {
+        mavenCentral()
+    }
 
     task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
         gradleVersion = '2.12' //version required
@@ -44,10 +48,6 @@ subprojects {
 
     [compileJava, compileTestJava, javadoc]*.options*.encoding = 'UTF-8'
 
-    repositories {
-        mavenCentral()
-    }
-
     task listJars(description: 'Display all compile jars.') << {
         configurations.compile.each { File file -> println file.name }
     }