Salt Lake City and County Sue DHS/ICE to Block $145M Warehouse Conversion into 7,500-Bed Detention Hub

Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County filed a joint federal lawsuit on June 8, 2026 seeking a temporary restraining order against DHS’s plan to convert an 833,000-sq-ft warehouse — purchased for $145.4 million in March 2026 — into a 7,500–10,000-bed immigration detention facility at 6020 W. 300 South. The suit alleges Administrative Procedure Act violations for failure to consult local government and NEPA violations for the absence of environmental review before the conversion.

This is the litigation stage following the warehouse’s acquisition (2026-03-11–dhs-purchases-deutsche-bank-salt-lake-city-warehouse, the $145.4M purchase from Deutsche Bank/DWS/RREEF at a 49% markup). It joins a documented wave of local-government suits against warehouse-to-detention conversions: Romulus, Michigan (2026-03-24–michigan-romulus-sue-ice-dhs-detention-warehouse) and Roxbury, New Jersey (2026-03-20–nj-roxbury-sue-ice-dhs-detention-warehouse), plus municipal ordinance counter-moves like San Antonio (2026-04-17–san-antonio-restricts-detention-facilities-ordinance). The APA/NEPA failure-to-consult pattern is the recurring legal hook across these suits — the warehouse-conversion buildout outruns the administrative process that would normally gate it.