If they move everyone over from Brooklyn, I wonder who takes their current building there. Would Fidelity National or FIS have an expansion need for it? Recruit another big catch to locate here?
Residential conversion is Plan A, with a buyer potentially already lined up.
Really??
All I can say for sure is that what I've been hearing for months is:
1) ICE was planning to bring 500 corporate jobs to Jax for cheaper labor, and planned to ask for city incentives
2) ICE was relocating their headquarters from Brooklyn to Deerwood in the Merrill Lynch spot
3) The Brooklyn Black Knight building was being sold for residential conversion
First two parts seems to be tracking, so I feel pretty good that the third part wouldn't have been pulled from thin air.
There's also a potential not-so-great element to this whole thing (having nothing to do with downtown development or ICE specifically) that may tie in and explain some of the vagueness, but kinda hoping it ain't true and def something I'm not comfortable mentioning without more context or evidence.
All that said, really hoping none of it is true and ICE expands in Brooklyn or picks a spot in the urban area.