Hunts Point City Council Meeting Cancelled After Advocates Plan To Protest Mayor For Renting Office Space To ICE

The City of Hunts Point posted the agenda for their upcoming monthly City Council meeting and it turns out there’s nothing to talk about! The agenda simply read “Cancellation due to lack of agenda items.” The cancellation comes the day after flyers circulated social media calling on advocates to “pack the room” at the council meeting — not to talk City policy, but to register their disgust that Mayor Joseph Sabey’s commercial real estate company is renting office space to ICE.

He may have escaped an uncomfortable meeting next week, but advocates seem committed to making sure the C-Suite at this company doesn’t know peace so long as they profit off the kidnapping of our neighbors. 

Earlier this month, WIRED revealed the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to expand ICE’s footprint, exposing dozens of new leases with ICE nationwide. WIRED listed Riverfront Technical Park, an office space at 2811 S. 102nd St. in Tukwila, among those new locations. The owner of that building, commercial real estate Sabey Corporation, at first did not confirm they would rent office space to ICE, but the Mayor of Tukwila said in a recent City Council meeting that Sabey Corporation told the City to take WIRED’s reporting “at face value.”

Because Sabey Corporation isn’t a public agency, there’s no public comment period, no vote to sway, no re-election stakes to consider. Commercial landlords don’t answer to constituents — they answer to tenants and shareholders. That forces advocates to get creative. 

On Wednesday, dozens of organizations drew a large crowd to Sabey Corporation’s headquarters in Tukwila to register their disgust with the company’s collaboration with ICE. It is unclear if any of the Sabey Corporation team members were at the building at the time or if a loud, but overall contained crowd made them reconsider taking ICE’s blood money. 

Then, after advocates realized the President of the Company was also the Mayor of a wealthy enclave along Lake Washington, they planned to use the City Council’s public comment period next week to speak directly to Sabey Corporation. 

But now, with the meeting abruptly canceled, advocates will have to find new pressure points. And there are plenty.

The fact that the President of the company is also the Mayor of Hunts Point is far from Sabey's only political connection if advocates want to still use a familiar, democratic means to express their outrage. As The Burner has previously reported, the company is a regular contributor in state and local races. So far in the 2026 cycle alone, Sabey has made 33 campaign contributions across Washington.

Many of those checks went to Republicans who likely have no qualms about expanding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s footprint in the state. But Sabey Corporation has also donated to Democratic lawmakers who may want to run for re-election without being associated with ICE's landlord.