The Evanston Land Use Commission voted May 28, 2026, to recommend City Council approve an Amazon mini-fulfillment center at 2310-12 Main St. The facility would offer what Amazon calls 30-minute delivery on roughly 3,500 grocery and household items, operating around the clock with gig-style drivers using their own vehicles.

Commissioner Luke Harris-Ferree cast the lone dissenting vote. The remaining commissioners voted in favor.

Nathan Eady, a senior manager at Amazon, told the commission the Evanston site would be one of about 30 in a national "Amazon Now" rollout. The application was filed by Matt Marek of Graphite Design Group LLC on Amazon's behalf, classifying the facility as a "Wholesale Good Establishment" under Evanston's zoning code.

The traffic numbers drew the sharpest scrutiny. Amazon's initial application listed about 240 daily car trips. Eady corrected that figure at the meeting to 750 to 1,000 outbound driver trips per day, with seven to 10 drivers on site at any given time.

"I don't want our clerical error to misstate our traffic to be lower than what we expect it to be," Eady said.

Harris-Ferree said he drives the road multiple times a day and his children attend daycare near the site. City zoning administrator Jeremiah Bebo countered that the stretch of Main Street is intentionally zoned for commercial use and built to handle higher traffic loads.

The facility would occupy space in a multi-tenant building where, according to Albert Ferguson, a tenant who rents two units in the same complex, the other occupied storefronts see very little foot traffic and the front parking lot is frequently empty. The shared lot has 21 spaces in front and 12 in back; the warehouse model typically needs about 10 designated spaces to operate.

The commission attached conditions: Amazon must submit a traffic study and a delivery driver flow pattern before the proposal reaches City Council for a final vote. No Council vote date has been set.