{"id":195428,"date":"2026-03-17T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195428\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:11:06","slug":"ice-isnt-moving-into-office-building-at-ucf-area-research-park-official-says-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195428\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE isn\u2019t moving into office building at UCF-area research park, official says \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/02\/11\/ice-outside-ucf-agency-may-be-looking-at-office-space-near-university\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rumors that ICE was eyeing an office building<\/a> in the Central Florida Research Park, a federal official told U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost\u2019s Office this week that the agency isn\u2019t planning to move in.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Wired, a science and technology news outlet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported Immigration and Custom Enforcement<\/a> was seeking to ramp up its office footprint across the country as it rapidly hires immigration officers and attorneys to carry out President Trump\u2019s mass deportation agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Among dozens of properties listed in records obtained by the organization was an office building in the defense and technology-focused research park next to the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>But the U.S. General Services Administration, which oversees real estate holdings for the government, stated that ICE wasn\u2019t moving into the reported address in response to emailed questions from Frost\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Wired report in February, the executive director of the 1,000-acre technology and innovation hub had said he\u2019d received no inquiries from the agency about a purchase or lease \u2013 and he would have to approve any such use due to deed restrictions on all of the lots in the property.<\/p>\n<p>The research park, a critical piece of regional efforts to bring high-wage jobs to Central Florida, has 9.500 employees across 68 buildings.<\/p>\n<p>ICE already has an office building in the area at 9495 Delegates Drive, just south of the interchange of Florida\u2019s Turnpike and State Road 528.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is also heavily rumored to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/03\/08\/bipartisan-opposition-blocked-a-dozen-ice-warehouses-can-orlando-do-the-same\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">considering the purchase of a warehouse in east Orlando<\/a> as part of a nationwide initiative to convert such industrial places into detention centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of rumors that ICE was eyeing an office building in the Central Florida Research Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,29,114,266,115,1335,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-195428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}