diff --git a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtils.kt b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtils.kt
index 68480b6016bc7e..c8760f644d8dbe 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtils.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtils.kt
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ internal object DependencyUtils {
     project.rootProject.allprojects { eachProject ->
       with(eachProject) {
         if (hasProperty("REACT_NATIVE_MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO")) {
-          mavenRepoFromUrl("file://${property("REACT_NATIVE_MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO")}")
+          val mavenLocalRepoPath = property("REACT_NATIVE_MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO") as String
+          mavenRepoFromURI(File(mavenLocalRepoPath).toURI())
         }
         // We add the snapshot for users on nightlies.
         mavenRepoFromUrl("https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/")
         repositories.mavenCentral()
         // Android JSC is installed from npm
-        mavenRepoFromUrl(
-            "file://${reactNativeDir}${File.separator}..${File.separator}jsc-android${File.separator}dist")
+        mavenRepoFromURI(File(reactNativeDir, "../jsc-android/dist").toURI())
         repositories.google()
         mavenRepoFromUrl("https://www.jitpack.io")
       }
@@ -83,4 +83,7 @@ internal object DependencyUtils {
 
   fun Project.mavenRepoFromUrl(url: String): MavenArtifactRepository =
       project.repositories.maven { it.url = URI.create(url) }
+
+  fun Project.mavenRepoFromURI(uri: URI): MavenArtifactRepository =
+      project.repositories.maven { it.url = uri }
 }
diff --git a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/test/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtilsTest.kt b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/test/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtilsTest.kt
index 70fba6e60972a9..1b7c728cc4b4f6 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/test/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtilsTest.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/src/test/kotlin/com/facebook/react/utils/DependencyUtilsTest.kt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ package com.facebook.react.utils
 import com.facebook.react.tests.createProject
 import com.facebook.react.utils.DependencyUtils.configureDependencies
 import com.facebook.react.utils.DependencyUtils.configureRepositories
+import com.facebook.react.utils.DependencyUtils.mavenRepoFromURI
 import com.facebook.react.utils.DependencyUtils.mavenRepoFromUrl
 import com.facebook.react.utils.DependencyUtils.readVersionString
 import java.net.URI
@@ -27,9 +28,9 @@ class DependencyUtilsTest {
   @Test
   fun configureRepositories_withProjectPropertySet_configuresMavenLocalCorrectly() {
     val localMaven = tempFolder.newFolder("m2")
-    val localMavenURI = URI.create("file://$localMaven/")
+    val localMavenURI = localMaven.toURI()
     val project = createProject()
-    project.extensions.extraProperties.set("REACT_NATIVE_MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO", localMaven)
+    project.extensions.extraProperties.set("REACT_NATIVE_MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO", localMaven.absolutePath)
 
     configureRepositories(project, tempFolder.root)
 
@@ -110,10 +111,10 @@ class DependencyUtilsTest {
   @Test
   fun configureRepositories_withProjectPropertySet_hasHigherPriorityThanMavenCentral() {
     val localMaven = tempFolder.newFolder("m2")
-    val localMavenURI = URI.create("file://$localMaven/")
+    val localMavenURI = localMaven.toURI()
     val mavenCentralURI = URI.create("https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/")
     val project = createProject()
-    project.extensions.extraProperties.set("REACT_NATIVE_MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO", localMaven)
+    project.extensions.extraProperties.set("REACT_NATIVE_MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO", localMaven.absolutePath)
 
     configureRepositories(project, tempFolder.root)
 
@@ -297,4 +298,13 @@ class DependencyUtilsTest {
 
     assertEquals(URI.create("https://hello.world"), mavenRepo.url)
   }
+
+  @Test
+  fun mavenRepoFromURI_worksCorrectly() {
+    val process = createProject()
+    val repoFolder = tempFolder.newFolder("maven-repo")
+    val mavenRepo = process.mavenRepoFromURI(repoFolder.toURI())
+
+    assertEquals(repoFolder.toURI(), mavenRepo.url)
+  }
 }