On March 25, 2026, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma announced it had purchased the former Big Lots distribution center at 2306 Enterprise Drive in Durant — a 1.24-million-square-foot warehouse that ICE had moved to acquire for a detention facility. Chief Gary Batton framed the purchase as supporting operational growth adjacent to tribal headquarters. The purchase price was not disclosed.
The sale removed the property from the federal market entirely. Project Salt Box, the volunteer research organization tracking ICE's warehouse-to-detention pipeline, estimated the purchase foreclosed approximately 8,500 potential detention beds. The warehouse had been owned by Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Property Fund — the same Blue Owl vehicle that, two months earlier on January 29, 2026, had sold the vacant Tremont, PA warehouse to DHS for $119.5 million at double market value.
Durant is the control case for Tremont: same Big Lots sale-leaseback portfolio, same Blue Owl ownership, same federal interest. The difference was that a sovereign tribal government with the legal capacity and political will to intervene — combined with the City of Durant's January 10 emergency ordinance restricting sales to ICE — foreclosed the transaction before it could close. Pennsylvania had no Choctaw Nation; Schuylkill County commissioners learned about the Tremont sale when the deed was recorded. This purchase is the single most consequential documented act of local resistance to the WEXMAC-TITUS program to date.