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(Updated) Well, it looks like the reports are true. The Burn has confirmed that plans are moving forward to turn a large portion of the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly into a new Ikea home furnishings store.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that we told readers about the possibility of an Ikea store coming to the area. The news was first reported by the team at the Washington Business Journal.

At the time, it was unclear exactly where the store might go or how big it might be.

Now, The Burn has seen documents that show Ikea is not going “near” the Dulles Expo Center – a large convention center in Chantilly. It will actually be the Expo Center.

The South Hall building at the Expo Center will be refurbished and turned into the new store.

The North Hall portion is not currently part of the project and there’s no word yet on whether that building will still operate as a smaller Expo Center, or become something else.

The square footage of the Ikea space will be 109,000 s.f. – making it a mid-sized store for the Swedish company.

While that square footage will be far smaller than the 325,000 s.f. Ikea store in Woodbridge, it is certainly much larger than the small “plan-and-order” Ikea stores that have been popping up. Those hover in the 5,000 s.f. range.

And for those of you wondering – yes, the plans include one of Ikea’s famous in-store restaurants.

The exact address of the future store is 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center Drive.

Work on the plans is just getting underway. Permits have to be obtained. Contractors have to be hired. Right now, the construction start date is still listed as TBD, or to be determined.

(Image at top: File photo)

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office in Chantilly, Virginia, “is failing to maintain safe and lawful conditions” for immigrants held at the facility, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the National Immigration Project.

In an interview with WTOP, Sophia Gregg, a senior immigration attorney with ACLU of Virginia, said the ICE field office, which is designed to process immigrants, is instead serving as a makeshift holding facility.

“We’re hearing of reports of upwards of eight days people are being held there in overcrowded rooms with anywhere from 12 to 100 other people,” she said, adding there have been reports of no beds, no showers and inadequate toilet facilities.

The ACLU of Virginia also alleges that people being held at the Chantilly field office have been barred from having contact with their attorneys.

“There’s very limited information coming out about the conditions because ICE is prohibiting attorneys from witnessing, viewing and advocating for their clients who might be held there in unsafe and inhumane conditions,” Gregg said.

“They’re being told that you can’t talk to your attorney until you get to a long-term holding facility. They’re being told that attorneys can’t visit them there. This is patently unconstitutional,” Gregg said. “Everyone, regardless of immigration status, is afforded access to counsel.”

Gregg’s organization and the National Immigration Project have sent a letter to ICE officials demanding the conditions be rectified.

At minimum, Gregg said, the immigrants being held should be released or detained at a long-term facility “that has an entire infrastructure to address medical needs, to address attorney access and can provide them with safe conditions, presumably.”

WTOP has reached out to the ICE Field Office in Chantilly. The facility is described on ICE’s website as having the District of Columbia and Virginia as its “Area of Responsibility.”

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