Seefried Advances 520,000-Square-Foot O’Hare Logistics Center in Des Plaines

• Seefried Industrial Properties is advancing a three-building, 520,000-square-foot Class A industrial project on roughly 35 acres in Des Plaines.
• The speculative development will include buildings of approximately 106,000, 152,000 and 260,000 square feet, replacing obsolete office properties.
• Premier Design + Build Group is the general contractor, with delivery expected in Q2 2027. The project is Seefried’s 17th, 18th and 19th industrial developments in the O’Hare submarket.

What Seefried Is Building

Seefried Industrial Properties has completed demolition and construction is moving forward at its latest O’Hare-area redevelopment in Des Plaines, Illinois. The project sits at the northeast corner of Algonquin Road and Mount Prospect Road, transforming approximately 35 acres previously occupied by three functionally obsolete office buildings into a modern industrial park. The three buildings will total about 520,000 square feet, with the largest measuring 260,400 square feet. CBRE is marketing the properties for lease, with all three being developed on a speculative basis.

What The Industrial Development Offers

The buildings are designed for logistics, distribution and manufacturing users, with modern loading and circulation features intended to support large-scale industrial operations. Seefried's development team includes Premier Design + Build Group as general contractor, Harris Architects as architect and SPACECO as civil engineer. CBRE's Jason Lev, Jimmy Kowalczyk and John Suerth are handling leasing. Project-level specifications from the development team show the buildings will feature substantial dock capacity, including 22 dock doors at Building 17, 34 at Building 18 and 49 at Building 19, plus drive-in doors.

What The O’Hare Location Means

The redevelopment puts new Class A industrial space directly into one of the Chicago region's most important logistics corridors. The properties offer access to major expressways, O'Hare International Airport cargo facilities and the area's established labor base. Seefried has already completed 16 industrial developments in the broader O'Hare market, including the recently completed 190,606-square-foot O'Hare Logistics Center 16 in nearby Mount Prospect. That building was fully preleased to Accelerated Global Solutions before completion. The broader Chicago industrial market also showed improving fundamentals in Q2 2026. CBRE reported an 8.6% availability rate, 6.1 million square feet of quarterly net absorption and 7.4% year-over-year growth in average asking rents. That backdrop gives Seefried's speculative strategy a stronger leasing environment, although tenants will still have multiple new-build options across the region.

What The Redevelopment Signals

The project is another example of office-to-industrial redevelopment in the O'Hare market, replacing outdated commercial buildings with facilities designed around modern supply-chain requirements.

Doug Houser of Seefried said the company is focused on delivering “best-in-class projects in supply-constrained locations,” while emphasizing the collaboration among the city, brokerage team and capital partner. 

For landlords and industrial investors, the strategy is straightforward: reuse well-located land, remove obsolete office product and deliver institutional-quality logistics space near critical transportation infrastructure.

What Comes Next

Construction is underway, with delivery anticipated in Q2 2027. The three buildings remain available for lease, giving Seefried time to secure tenants before completion. For the O'Hare submarket, the development adds more than half a million square feet of modern industrial inventory while demonstrating continued investor confidence in strategically located Chicago logistics properties.