> ICE’s purchase of New Jersey warehouse for detention center sparks concern

ICE confirmed it purchased a 470,000-square-foot vacant industrial property, the Roxbury Logistics Center, at 1879 Route 46 in Roxbury. The building was sold by DG Roxbury Property Owner, an entity that includes a Goldman Sachs asset management fund and Dallas-based Dalfen Industrial, which said it is a minority owner.

"This property, which sat vacant for two years, was held in a real estate investment fund that we manage," a Goldman Sachs spokesperson said in an email to CoStar News. "We had a fiduciary obligation to investors in the fund to sell it."

News of the sale also drew the ire of several state lawmakers and New Jersey's two Democratic U.S. senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim. On social media, Booker said ICE's plans "to warehouse human beings ... betrays everything this community stands for and then hands them the bill."

Booker said he had toured the site and met with local leaders and residents.

"And the opposition is unanimous — this is wrong morally, fiscally and for the sake of this community," Booker said. "ICE has ignored every concern."

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