The Trump administration is reportedly scrapping its plan to open a sprawling immigrant detention center in Salt Lake City, a massive about-face coming months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement bought a vacant warehouse on the city’s west side.

The New York Times reported Thursday that, based on documents it had obtained, ICE intends to either sell or give away to other federal agencies seven of the 11 warehouses it purchased and planned to turn into detention facilities that would house thousands of immigrants lacking permanent legal status.

That, according to The Times, includes the Salt Lake City building, as well as warehouses in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It is unclear whether the agency plans to sell the Utah warehouse or transfer it within the federal government.

The mayors of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County — who recently filed a lawsuit seeking to block the detention center — had not received word of the change from ICE or its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security.

“We do not have a confirmation from DHS on the release of this facility,” Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said Friday. “However, we hope the reports are true as we would support a sale of the warehouse by DHS.”

A spokesperson for Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said the mayor has no information on the potential sale of the building. A spokesperson for Gov. Spencer Cox, who supported the proposed facility and has said the city needs a detention center, declined to comment and referred inquiries to DHS.

In a statement, the federal department did not specifically address the Salt Lake City detention center but said: “From day one, DHS has remained singularly focused on removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the United States and is always evaluating the best methods to do so. These heinous criminals, once arrested, should be removed at lightning speed, not housed on American soil at the taxpayer’s expense. DHS is moving swiftly to utilize EXISTING detention space with our state and county partners.”

ICE paid $145.4 million in mid-March to purchase the vacant warehouse located at 6020 W. 300 South, inside the inland port, with plans to turn it into a detention center that could hold more than 7,500 people.

The mayors and other local officials fought back, saying a facility of that scale would strain the utility infrastructure and require oversight from local health departments. They insisted DHS coordinate with them before moving forward.

This month, the city and county filed a lawsuit in federal court to shut down the project.

“This kind of facility has no place in Salt Lake City, not only due to its inhumane nature but also because of our limited water supply, the increased strain on public utilities systems and the potentially drastic public health and safety impacts it would have on our residents,” Mendenhall said at the time.

A separate nonprofit organization, Uproar Utah, had also notified DHS of its plans to sue over the proposed center.