General Discussion

orangecrush

(29,439 posts) Tue Feb 3, 2026, 09:31 AM Feb 3

ICE buys $87M warehouse in Pennsylvania as it plots expansion of immigration detention centers

UPPER BERN, Pa. — The Trump administration has quietly purchased a nearly 520,000-square-foot warehouse in Berks County as it plans to convert such facilities into immigration detention centers across the U.S.

The warehouse, located at 3501 Mountain Road in Upper Bern Township, was sold to the U.S. government on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security and ICE for $87.4 million, deed records show. The purchase was recorded Monday.

.......

The deed finalized on Monday shows the property was sold to ICE by an LLC connected to PCCP, a national commercial real estate equity firm. The firm purchased the warehouse in 2024 for $57.5 million, deed records show.

Reached by phone Monday afternoon, PCCP partner Greg Eberhardt — who is the authorized signatory for 3501 Mountain Road Owner LLC on the latest deed — denied knowledge of the property and its sale, and refused to comment further.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Mr. Eberhardt said before hanging up on a Spotlight PA reporter. “I’m not making company comments.”

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2026/02/02/berks-county-pennsylvania-ice-facility/stories/202602020091

3 million dollar profit on a warehouse sale.

Wash that money!

Probably going right into Pa. Repub pockets.

Click here to purchase valentine hearts!

8 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

ICE buys $87M warehouse in Pennsylvania as it plots expansion of immigration detention centers (Original Post) orangecrush Feb 3 OP

NO, our tax dollars just bought another concentration camp. Ferrets are Cool Feb 3 #1

Hint orangecrush Feb 3 #2

Thank you for not calling it a detention center gab13by13 Feb 3 #6

;-{) Goonch Feb 3 #3

From a couple of days ago UpInArms Feb 3 #4

That's a $30M profit. Setting up concentration camps will become Trump's latest grift. sop Feb 3 #5

Thank you for not calling them detention centers gab13by13 Feb 3 #7

They will add the smokestacks later orangecrush Feb 3 #8

Ferrets are Cool

(22,624 posts)

1. NO, our tax dollars just bought another concentration camp.

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 09:34 AM

Feb 3

Click here to purchase valentine hearts!

orangecrush

(29,439 posts)

2. Hint

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 09:35 AM

Feb 3

It's not just for migrants.

Click here to purchase valentine hearts!

gab13by13

(31,664 posts)

6. Thank you for not calling it a detention center

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 09:58 AM

Feb 3

Click here to purchase valentine hearts!

Goonch

(4,413 posts)

3. ;-{)

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 09:37 AM

Feb 3

Click here to purchase valentine hearts!

UpInArms

(54,459 posts)

4. From a couple of days ago

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 09:38 AM

Feb 3

At WP

ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals

One industrial building the federal government plans to overhaul into an immigrant detention center, in Roxbury, New Jersey, draws groundwater from a small town that uses nearly all of its daily limit.

Another proposed detention site is a warehouse in Oklahoma City that would hold up to 1,500 people a little more than a mile from an elementary school and a Pentecostal church.

A third location, previously an auto parts distribution center in Chester, New York, became so unbearably hot during summer months that two people who used to work there said it was akin to being stuck inside an aluminum shed.

Those are a few of the logistical and humanitarian concerns raised by residents and local officials in some of the 23 towns where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to convert industrial buildings into detention centers that would combined hold up to 80,000 people. ICE has offered few details about its plan since The Washington Post first reported on it last month.

More at archive link