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Prologis presents Army Trail Exchange plan; committee moves rezoning and PUD to board amid neighborhood concerns
Summary
Developers told the Committee of the Whole they plan two Class‑A light‑industrial buildings at 375 E. Army Trail Road with stormwater ponds, a 6‑ft berm and 8‑ft sound wall, and a private connector drive into Highrove Business Park; the planning commission recommended approval and the committee moved the rezoning/PUD to the village board with conditions. Neighbors raised questions about traffic, drainage and fencing.
The Committee of the Whole on May 21 heard a detailed presentation from Prologis and its consultants on the Army Trail Exchange, a proposed redevelopment of 375 East Army Trail Road that would remove existing radio towers and construct two Class‑A industrial/light‑manufacturing buildings totaling about 450,000 square feet on roughly 26 acres.
Mitch Carroll, speaking for the applicant, said the plan includes new roadway and infrastructure improvements within the adjacent Highrove Business Park and seeks rezoning from Agricultural Estate to Light Industrial plus final planned unit development (PUD) and subdivision approvals. Carroll said the property’s future land use already designates it for industrial uses and that the proposed design responds to access constraints on Army Trail Road.
Prologis representatives said the site is constrained for full Army Trail access by DuPage County rules, so the project includes a private Regency connector drive providing full access through Highrove. The applicant also proposed park and entrance improvements in Highrove (the team cited a near‑$1 million commitment), lane widening, curb revisions and traffic signal resequencing intended to improve ingress and egress for the park and the new development.
On neighborhood mitigation, project engineers described two large stormwater ponds along the site’s southern edge, upgrades to downstream drainage capacity, and a tiered buffer that includes a roughly 6‑ft earth berm topped by an 8‑ft structural sound wall and dense evergreen plantings. "We intentionally site the storm water management at the southern end of the site between our buildings and the neighborhood," the presentation said; the applicant estimated initial plantings at 6–8 ft tall that would mature over time.
Prologis emphasized that the project is not planned as a high‑throughput distribution hub. "This project is not designed to be a high truck facility," a Prologis representative said, adding that truck activity would be oriented into internal truck courts and screened by 60x60 bumpouts. The applicant also said tenant identities and job counts were not identified at the meeting.
Residents and trustees asked detailed questions about setbacks, lighting, sound and staging. One resident asked for additional neighborhood briefings on fencing type, landscaping species, and stormwater protections. In response, the applicant and staff committed to follow up with technical detail and to share contact information with neighbors.
The planning and zoning commission’s positive recommendation (staff report dated 4/29/26) was read into the record; after the presentation the Committee of the Whole voted to move both the rezoning/PUD request and a related Highrove PUD amendment to the village board with a recommendation to concur.
Next steps: the village board will take up the PUD and rezoning in a future meeting where formal votes would be recorded.
