Overview
- The state-owned Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb (BLB) confirmed it has signed a purchase contract with the federal government for part of the former JHQ site in Mönchengladbach to house a second Abschiebehaftanstalt.
- The sale is not final because the Bundestag must still confirm the federal side of the transaction before ownership transfers.
- Mönchengladbach city officials are preparing the municipal planning-law steps needed to permit the project and related local decisions are expected before construction can start.
- The BLB is already preparing construction tenders but has declined to disclose the purchase price for contractual reasons, and no firm construction start or opening dates have been set.
- NRW currently operates one deportation detention centre in Büren and decided to add a second facility after the 2024 Solingen attack; the next milestones to watch are the Bundestag vote, municipal approvals and the outcome of BLB tenders, which will determine timing and local impacts on residents and people held there.