Amazon's New Big Box Prototype Orland Park Residents, Officials Weigh In

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Amazon's new big box prototype Orland Park residents, officials weigh in

Coffee Chat: A massive Amazon development is coming to Orland Park. But not everyone is ready to sign off on that big box delivery just yet.

Amazon Plans Second Big-Box Store Near Chicago

Amazon has proposed a second big-box store in the Chicago area, Mass Market Retailers (MMR) reported Tuesday (Feb. 17), citing a paywalled article in the Chicago Tribune. The company submitted to local officials a proposal for a store in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, after doing the same earlier in nearby suburb Orland Park, according to the MMR report. The proposed facility in Oak Brook would be a 225,000-square-foot retail store w…

Second Amazon big-box store planned in Chicago

CHICAGO — Amazon’s large-format retail strategy is gaining momentum in suburban Chicago, with a second major store now proposed in Oak Brook, according to the Chicago Tribune.Village officials are reviewing plans to redevelop a 22-acre office site along Butterfield Road into a roughly 225,000-square-foot Amazon retail store, alongside a 150,000-square-foot, two-level flagship from Ashley Furniture Industries. The project would replace seven agin…

Amazon Proposes Second Big-Box Store for Chicago Area

Amazon has proposed developing a site in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook that would raze existing office buildings and replace them with a 225,000-square-foot Amazon store and a 150,000-square-foot Ashley Furniture flagship location, according to the Chicago Tribune. If approved, this would be the second big-box store in the Chicago area; in January 2026 Amazon cleared a local planning hurdle for a proposed 229,000-square-foot big box store in t…