{"id":460623,"date":"2026-10-09T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460623\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T00:02:09","slug":"feds-sign-51-million-leases-for-ice-space-on-south-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460623\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds sign $51 million leases for ICE space on South Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

Records show the government awarded the lease agreements this week to a company affiliated with WatersEdge, the name of a pair of office buildings at 7515 and 7611 Inner Circle Drive at Brooks.\u00a0Brooks is a former Air Force base that the Brooks Development Authority has converted to a mix of businesses, apartments, schools, hotels and medical facilities.<\/p>\n

The contracts don\u2019t describe who would be using the space, but the government\u2019s original solicitations for offices<\/a> described seeking 65,824 square feet for ICE.\u00a0Rent is $42.5 million for one lease and $8.8 million for the other lease. The deals were first reported by Project Salt Box, a Substack publication focusing on federal immigration contracts and purchases.<\/p>\n

ICE has an office at Northwood Tower at 1777 N.E. Loop 410 and another at 1015 Jackson Keller Road in Castle Hills, according to its website.<\/p>\n

The new leases are ICE\u2019s latest expenditure in San Antonio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The agency in January paid Oakmont Industrial Group $66 million for a vacant industrial building on the East Side that it plans to convert to a detention facility. The building at 542 S.E. Loop 410 Access Road would house up to 1,500 people a day during immigration proceedings.<\/p>\n

Vienna, Va.-based Cambridge Holdings LLC in 2023 developed the four-story buildings, which total 200,000 square feet and are largely vacant. The Brooks Development Authority leases a portion of the space, as well as a handful of medical and real estate tenants. A listing describes about 121,000 square feet as available.<\/p>\n

Cambridge Holdings and the Brooks Development Authority didn\u2019t immediately respond to inquiries Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records show the government awarded the lease agreements this week to a company affiliated with WatersEdge, the name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-460623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460623","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=460623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}