Warehouse In Newburgh Signed Lease To Become ICE Facility For Detainee Buses and Vans To Store People

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Project Salt Box, a series on Substack that produces investigative reporting on the money and contracts behind immigration detention and grounded in the public record, has reported that a warehouse at 800 Corporate Blvd in Newburgh, NY, just blocks away from Stewart Airport and Healey Kia, has been leased to a Texas-based developer that has previously contracted with DHS for 15 years to the federal government for $35.5 million to be used for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The lease was signed on June 24, 2026.

First revealed on May 12, 2026, Project Salt Box reported then that this warehouse seems to be used for storing people, and has been in the works since April 2024: "ICE appears to be seeking a new facility near Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., according to federal leasing documents describing a building with a dedicated sally port for 'detainee buses and vans,' secured parking and small arms storage — requirements that point to enforcement or detention operations rather than a conventional office lease. The procurement process began in April 2024, more than a year before the current administration took office, with estimated occupancy by spring 2027."

Congressman Pat Ryan issued an urgent warning on his federal government web page: “Congressman Pat Ryan Raises the Alarm on Reports of Potential ICE Facility in Newburgh, Sends Urgent Inquiry Seeking Answers.” He says he is “recommitting to the fight to keep ICE out of the Hudson Valley – in Chester, Newburgh, or anywhere else.”

According to Project Salt Box, federal contracting and property records show that National Realty & Development Corp. as an owner of the Northeast Business Center, the complex that is located at 800 Corporate Blvd. The winner of the bid is listed as Leverage Enterprises who specializes in construction and real estate leasing arrangements. It is a minority- and service-disabled veteran-owned business with one other contract for Customers and Border Protection offices in Arizona.

The General Services Administration signed the lease on June 24, 2026 under solicitation Notice ID 2NY0894 for 42,377 rentable square feet. "The most the solicitation allowed," Project Salt Box noted. "Ten of the 15 years are firm." The building has a total of 60,143 square feet on 10 acres and is listed on LoopNet.

The original file revealing the ICE connection had been deleted. That solicitation "called for a sally port big enough for detainee buses and vans, secured parking and small-arms storage, under Level III security standards," Project Salt Box reported.

An interior build-out is proposed for the warehouse and is estimated to be $343 a square foot, "$282.58 above GSA’s standard allowance, and near $12 million across the minimum space sought, Project Salt Box reports of the information it got from Planning documents.

In May 2026, Project Salt Box reported that "The link to ICE emerged from the portal’s own file history. When an amendment was posted on October 24, 2025, a document briefly appeared under the name '2NY0894 ICE Newburgh - RLP Amendment No 1 10232025 (1) (1) (1).pdf' before being replaced with a generically titled file. The underlying solicitation remained public." A screenshot was posted of that file history.

This is not the first warehouse in New York that ICE pursued. There was "the proposal to convert the former Pep Boys distribution warehouse at 29 Elizabeth Drive in Chester, N.Y. into a detention facility capable of housing up to 1,500 detainees," Project Salt Box reminded readers. But ICE declined to pursue "after more than 30,000 people signed a petition against the plan and elected officials on both sides of the aisle came out in opposition."

While ICE retains offices to conduct administrative work, including one at 15 Governor Drive in Newburgh that is 9,074 square feet since 2015, these large warehouses with loading terminals indicate the transfer and storage of people under with the action of enforcement.

Is this why Stewart International Airport can't keep hardly any useful domestic flights, maintains its International status? Is it merely a front for Enforcement business? And airplane maintenance for private plans of wealthy individuals and corporations?