ICE Seeks 65,000 Square Feet of San Antonio Office Space Months After Warehouse Purchase

A broker delivery order and matching solicitation identifiers link ICE to two GSA office lease procurements in the San Antonio metro area.

On Oct. 30, 2025, the General Services Administration issued a delivery order to a Washington-based commercial real estate broker, Public Properties LLC, engaging the firm to represent GSA on two linked lease procurements in San Antonio, Texas. The order, placed against Public Properties’ existing GSA broker services contract, was assigned award number 47PH5126F0002 and is marked “Final” in federal procurement records.

The description field reads: “Broker services for lease project number 4TX0983 and 5TX0805, Agency: U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Location: San Antonio, Texas.”

Federal procurement records show the firm has handled numerous federal leasing and property transactions for agencies including ICE, the FBI, ATF, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Defense.

On April 1, 2026, GSA posted a request for lease proposals — or RLP — identified as 4TX0983 to SAM.gov, seeking at least 53,129 square feet of contiguous office space within Loop 1604, the outer ring road surrounding most of San Antonio proper. Because Loop 1604 encircles much of the city, the solicitation effectively allowed offers from nearly anywhere within the broader San Antonio metro area.

That primary solicitation also incorporated a second office requirement identified as 5TX0805. Under the primary RLP’s “Unique Requirements” section, “the building offered must accommodate the space requirements included in Pre-solicitation Notice #5TX0805, for 12,695” square feet “and associated parking.”

In practical terms, any building selected for the larger 4TX0983 lease would also have to house the smaller companion requirement.

In total, the two procurements sought roughly 65,824 square feet of office space.

GSA typically withholds tenant agency names from security-sensitive lease solicitations. The corresponding Request for Lease Proposals refers only to a Level II security facility for an unspecified federal client.

While the lease solicitations themselves described only generic office requirements, the associated project identifiers — 4TX0983 and 5TX0805 — matched those listed in the earlier broker delivery order to Public Properties LLC naming ICE as the requesting agency.

Final offers from landlords were due April 30, 2026. The solicitation was marked inactive on SAM.gov on May 15. As of publication, GSA has not publicly disclosed which offeror was selected or whether a lease has been awarded.

The office lease procurement unfolded alongside a separate ICE property acquisition in San Antonio. On Feb. 3, 2026, roughly three months after GSA signed the broker delivery order and two months before the lease solicitation became public, ICE paid $66.1 million for a 640,000-square-foot warehouse at 542 SE Loop 410.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told local officials in a letter that the agency intends to convert the warehouse into a detention facility holding between 500 and 1,500 people by Sept. 30, 2026.

The requirements for both office leases also sketched out the kind of environment ICE expected to occupy. Outside downtown, the proposed buildings had to sit within modern office, research, technology, or business parks with a “campus-like atmosphere” and “professional and prestigious” surroundings. Restaurants, banks, retail shops and other employee amenities had to exist within two drivable miles of the property.

The lease solicitations do not explicitly reference the warehouse acquisition, and the records alone do not establish an operational connection between the two projects. But both efforts advanced through the federal system within months of each other as ICE moves forward with a broader national detention expansion initiative expected to activate new infrastructure by late 2026.

The San Antonio procurements also suggest ICE continues expanding the operational footprint supporting its mass deportation blitz — which includes the conversion of warehouses into detention space — even as the program faces mounting legal challenges and a federal watchdog investigation. The Washington Post reported this week that the agency is still moving forward with new warehouse detention contracts across the country.