- Prologis acquired 69 acres in Minooka, Illinois, for a logistics development totaling just over 1M SF.
- Minooka Exchange will feature a 40-foot clear height, 290 car spaces and a 185-foot truck court.
- Chicago-area big-box construction reached 16.9M SF in Q2, up 80% from the same quarter in 2025, according to NAI Hiffman.
Bisnow reports that Prologis acquired 69 acres in suburban Minooka for a 1M SF logistics project. Minooka Exchange is expected to break ground in the coming weeks. The project will add a major new industrial development to the Chicago-area pipeline.
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The Details
Prologis plans a single-story, cross-dock building with a 40-foot clear height. The design includes 290 car parking spaces and a 185-foot truck court. The site sits next to Canadian National Railway’s Chicago Logistics Hub, which is under construction. Prologis investment officer Josh Bauer said the project will provide modern logistics capacity. The company describes the Chicago market as supply constrained. The 40-foot clear height also exceeds the 28-foot minimum in NAI Hiffman’s definition of big-box space.
Prologis Adds to Its Chicago Footprint
The Minooka site follows another recent land acquisition in the region. A few months earlier, Prologis bought 26.2 acres in Glendale Heights in central DuPage County. It plans two Class A logistics facilities there totaling 454K SF. Across the Chicago area, Prologis owns 341 properties totaling more than 79M SF. The new Minooka project adds another large-scale development to that local platform. Prologis reached global scale over the past two decades through mergers and acquisitions. Minooka Exchange, by contrast, is a ground-up project tied to its Chicago development operation.
Why It Matters
Industrial construction has rebounded across the Chicago market. NAI Hiffman reported 16.9M SF of active big-box construction in Q2, an 80% year-over-year increase. Big-box properties in that dataset are at least 200K SF with 28-foot clear heights. Minooka Exchange is far larger than that threshold. It will add more than 1M SF of modern logistics space in one building. Its proximity to a rail logistics hub also places the project beside major freight infrastructure. The construction surge shows that new supply is accelerating. At the same time, Prologis continues to describe the market as supply constrained.
What’s Next
Prologis expects to start construction within weeks. The next milestone is the transition from land acquisition to development of the single-story cross-dock facility. The company will also continue advancing its two planned Glendale Heights buildings, which total 454K SF. Together, those projects expand a Chicago portfolio that already exceeds 79M SF across 341 properties. Minooka Exchange will also develop beside the Canadian National Railway’s Chicago Logistics Hub, which remains under construction. That adjacent infrastructure is a key physical feature of the site as the project moves toward groundbreaking.
