Amazon has bought the two-story warehouse at 1237 W. Division Street in Chicago for $195 million and will use it as a same-day delivery center, the company confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times. The site will put goods closer to customers so orders can be delivered within hours rather than days, particularly groceries and pharmaceuticals.
Amazon economic development manager Kyle DeGiulio called the site a “sub-same day fulfillment center” that combines warehousing and delivery. Amazon Flex drivers will make the deliveries in their own vehicles. The site will employ about 200 people.
The building was the first modern multistory logistics facility in the Midwest. It was completed in 2024 and has never had a tenant. JLL, the seller’s broker, lists its specifications:
571,423 square feet of warehouse space on two levels
56 loading docks and a dedicated truck ramp to the second floor
135-foot truck courts and clear heights of 34 feet or more
Its parking decks hold 763 vans or 1,590 cars, per The Real Deal.
Amazon has used a similar model in Seattle, where it leases about 500,000 square feet of Prologis’ three-story Georgetown Crossroads warehouse.
Amazon plans to grow from 85 same-day sites to more than 1,000 by 2031, within 10 miles of 80% of US Prime members, according to an internal plan called ‘Project Mercury’ reported by Business Insider. Amazon called the projections preliminary.
The Chicago site will be Amazon’s second same-day center in the city, after one in West Humboldt Park that opened in 2023. Amazon also plans to open a $48 million same-day warehouse near Austin.
Operations on Division Street are expected to start in late 2027 or early 2028, DeGiulio said.
