A company that helped ICE buy warehouses for immigration detention has won a $655 million contract to build at seven sites the agency groups under the label “Mega Hub DC.”
SK2 Rudiarius LLC, a joint venture between two firms with past ICE work, was awarded the contract on Monday, according to federal contracting records reviewed by Project Salt Box.
The contract covers Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Broadview, Ill.; Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; Huntsville, Texas; Oakdale, La.; St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands; and Honolulu. It runs through September 2031. The joint venture is registered in Clarksville, Tenn.
The contract does not say exactly what will be built at any of the seven sites. Bid documents stipulated the construction of a 26-cell housing unit at two of them — Aguadilla and St. Thomas. The program’s overarching statement of work, reviewed by Project Salt Box, lists other facilities ICE could order, including clinics, classrooms, training buildings, warehouses, and firing ranges.
Both partners have worked on ICE’s detention expansion from its early days. SK2 LLC, a newly formed Puerto Rico company, received a sole-source contract of about $6 million to help ICE acquire warehouses, Bloomberg reported. When DHS bought two prisons from CoreCivic this summer for $1.5 billion, CoreCivic named James Grossmann of SK2 as the government’s agent.
Grossmann is also tied to Rudiarius Holdings Corp., which is registered at an address in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood that Project Salt Box identified in April as the office of Rise Construction Management, a company Grossmann founded.
Rudiarius paid for the environmental review of a warehouse ICE bought in Roxbury, N.J., and on Sunday won a separate $1.2 billion contract for detention-related construction at a site in El Centro, Calif. Grossmann and his company have faced more than a dozen lawsuits, including two bank suits over unpaid loans of $25 million and $10 million, The Lever reported in July.
When DHS bought two California detention centers from CoreCivic in July for $1.5 billion, the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission named James Grossmann of SK2 as the government's agent.
This is the second time SK2 has formed a joint venture for ICE work. In late 2025, ICE gave KPB Services LLC a no-bid $29.9 million contract for due diligence and concept design of processing centers and mega centers. Bloomberg reported that KPB was a joint venture between SK2 and a company affiliated with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas. After tribal members objected, the tribe fired the leaders of its economic development corporation and gave up its stake in the company, which kept the contract.
Like the five contracts signed Sunday, the new award commits no money yet. Together, the six contracts account for nearly $8 billion of the program’s $10 billion limit.
The continuation of these contracts is frightening at the amount of locations and facilities in total already accumulating.
This is frightening. Disturbing.