US EditionPattison firm says it did not know warehouse was to become ICE facility
Jim Pattison Developments accepted a government contractor's offer but only later learned the warehouse would serve as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
- Jim Pattison Developments, the property arm of Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group, said on Jan 28, 2026 it did not know the Virginia warehouse was intended as an ICE holding facility when it agreed to sell and that the sale remains subject to approvals.
- Near a hotel and local businesses, the planned warehouse sits on a 43.5-acre parcel in Hanover County, Virginia, near Ashland, Va., a small town with just under 8,000 people.
- The DHS letter to Hanover County planning department detailed plans for `holding and processing spaces`, offices, cafeterias, and potential additions like `tentage and a guard shack`.
- The union Local 1518 wrote to the Jim Pattison Group urging it to decline involvement, citing devastating consequences of ICE infrastructure expansion, and Niki Sharma urged leaders to consider their role in the U.S. immigration crackdown.
- With recent protests after shootings in Minneapolis this month, the involvement of the Jim Pattison Group, owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison, draws cross-border attention amid the U.S. immigration crackdown.
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Hanover pushing back against proposed ICE processing facility in Ashland
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Hanover County leaders are strongly against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) turning a local warehouse into a processing center. During a Jan. 28 meeting of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors, the board expressed its disapproval of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) plan to convert a more than 550,000-square-foot warehouse into an ICE processing facility. "A facility of this nature w…
The real estate branch of the Jim Pattison Group, based in Vancouver, stated that it did not know that the warehouse it owns in Virginia was intended to serve as a detention centre for the immigration police in the United States (ICE) at the time it agreed to sell it.
The real estate branch of the Jim Pattison Group, based in Vancouver, stated that it did not know that the warehouse it owns in Virginia was intended to serve as a detention centre for the immigration police in the United States (ICE) at the time it agreed to sell it. Jim Pattison Developments stated in a press release [...]
Pattison firm says it did not know warehouse was intended to become ICE facility
A gigantic warehouse across the street from an outdoor equipment store has become a flashpoint in Virginia as the United States grapples with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown — and a British Columbia company has been pulled into the controversy.
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