On January 10, 2026, the Choctaw Nation Tribal Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing any ICE detention facility at the former Big Lots distribution center at 2306 Enterprise Drive in Durant, Oklahoma. The 1.24-million-square-foot warehouse sits approximately 1,073 feet from the Choctaw Nation Child Development Center and within 1,000 feet of Choctaw Nation governmental headquarters. District 12 Councilor Regina Mabray called the proposed site "unacceptably close to the nation's governmental headquarters."
The same day, the Durant City Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance restricting property sales to ICE and requiring a conditional use permit to operate a detention center within city limits. The Tribal Council's resolution also called on other governments to oppose any approvals linked to an ICE facility there. The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Tribes subsequently adopted its own resolutions opposing detention-facility placement on or near tribal lands and called on DHS to engage in formal government-to-government consultation with tribal nations.
The warehouse was owned by Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Property Fund, the same Blue Owl vehicle that held the vacant Tremont, PA warehouse sold to DHS for $119.5 million on January 29, 2026. The coordinated tribal and municipal action prevented the Durant transaction that would have paralleled Tremont, and set the stage for the Choctaw Nation's outright purchase of the warehouse in March 2026. This is the sharpest documented example of local/sovereign intervention foreclosing a WEXMAC-TITUS transaction before it could close.