{"id":149958,"date":"2026-02-04T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149958\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:03:07","slug":"mayor-gina-ortiz-jones-discusses-potential-ice-purchase-of-east-side-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149958\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones discusses potential ICE purchase of East Side warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined KSAT for its weekly Q&amp;A Tuesday night during the 6 O\u2019Clock News. Jones discussed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/30\/ice-eyeing-east-side-warehouse-for-potential-buy-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/30\/ice-eyeing-east-side-warehouse-for-potential-buy-sources-say\/\">potential purchase of an East Side warehouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The San Antonio Business Journal originally reported that ICE is considering the acquisition of the Oakmont 410 warehouse, which is located at 542 SE Loop 410. The warehouse was built in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones said the city has not received \u201cformal confirmation\u201d of the sale but said she reached out to a local ICE official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI think that\u2019s indicative of the ways in which we\u2019re not always communicated on very significant things,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to Jones, the 639,595-square-foot building is the largest industrial complex in the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cAnd so my real concern is &#8230; what ultimately that could be used for,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones said she is also \u201cquite concerned\u201d about a school across the highway being in close proximity to the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThe city attorney is looking at some additional options for the council to consider,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get ahead of that, nor frankly raise anybody\u2019s expectations of what\u2019s in the realm of possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Watch the full interview in the above video player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Related coverage of this story on KSAT.com: <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined KSAT for its weekly Q&amp;A Tuesday night during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,2112,1829,1724,12132,82,84,83,7392],"class_list":["post-149958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-east-side","tag-gina-ortiz-jones","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-ksat-qa","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-saq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}