by Dick Hall-Sizemore

Jim Pattison Developments, the Vancouver-based owner of the warehouse in Hanover County which the Dept. of Homeland Security was proposing to purchase and renovate into an ICE processing center, has pulled out of the deal, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

The company issued a brief statement, “The transaction to sell our industrial building in Ashland, Virginia, will not be proceeding.”

There had been reports that one of the Canadian political parties was calling for a boycott of a supermarket chain owned by the same company.