ICE Planning to add More San Antonio Office Space

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for even more office space in San Antonio.

The agency is looking for 65,000 additional square feet in the city, within the boundaries of Loop 1604. The agency filed a pair of requests April 1 that add up to roughly 65,000 square feet, and were marked inactive as of May 15, according to the San Antonio Business Journal. No award announcements have been made. ICE spokesperson Leticia Zamarripa said they would not confirm specific buildings to the outlet due to increased threats to personnel.

The agency maintains two offices in San Antonio: In the Northwood Tower at 1777 Northeast Loop 410 and 1015 Jackson Keller Road according to the outlet.

Earlier in 2026, ICE purchased a near 640,000-square-foot warehouse with plans to convert it into a detention center. The goal is to have the facility, which the agency claims can hold 1,500 detainees at a time, up and running by the end of 2026. Local advocacy groups and city leaders fought back against the purchase.

“This is something our community never wanted,” said Tommy Calvert to KENS5 News, who serves as a Bexar County commissioner. “This is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.”

Calvert went on to cite studies that allege property values decline near federal prisons.

ICE has seen resistance across the country as it ramps up leasing to deal with its planned 120 percent workforce increase. According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s budget has swollen by nearly $80 million in funding.

“These will not be warehouses — they will be very well-structured detention facilities meeting our regular detention standards,” ICE spokesperson Nina Pruneda said in an emailed statement to the publication when asked to comment on the warehouse purchase.

At the time, Calvert said the use of the site is “the most disreputable commercial activity since World War II,” referring to American policy to detain Japanese-Americans in internment camps during the war.

— Hunter Cooke