Amazon considering large-format store in Oak Brook

Amazon is proposing to build one of its new large-format stores in Oak Brook.

The Oak Brook village board will hear a preliminary presentation about the plan at its meeting Tuesday night.

It proposes razing seven office buildings in the 2900 block of Butterfield Road. The site is on the south side of Butterfield, east of Meyers Road.

The Amazon building would be about 225,000 square feet. The front of the store would sell groceries and general merchandise; the back would be used to fulfill individual online retail orders for pickup or local delivery.

The site also would contain a 101,182-square-foot Ashley Furniture store.

The memo to the village board says the stores would create about 500 jobs. It does not say if those are full-time, part-time or both.

The site is currently owned by Inland 2905-29067 Butterfield Road and Inland 2901 Butterfield Road. It has a contract to sell to Oak Brook TH LLC.

The three-story office buildings were built in the mid- to late 1970s, according to York Township assessment records.

Orland Park approved a similar development in January, to be located at 159th Street and La Grange Road. That store, the first of its kind for Amazon, is projected to open in 2027.

The Amazon store would be about 1½ miles west of a Costco warehouse club store. The Costco is 180,407 square feet.

A Walmart Supercenter in nearby Villa Park is about 142,347 square feet.

Tuesday’s meeting is to solicit comments from the village board about the idea. If they react favorably, a request for rezoning and a planned development application would need to be submitted to the village’s planning and zoning commission. If the commission recommends approval, the village board would then vote on the proposal.