The Zigfield Troy Golf Course Is Becoming Dunham Green. Here's What 75th Street Gets, and What It Keeps

In late 2025, the first plan for the Zigfield Troy golf course called for 220 townhomes for rent or sale behind a row of commercial lots on 75th Street. On October 15, 2026, the Woodridge Village Board approved a different plan for the same 34 acres. It has 96 duplexes restricted to residents 55 and older, a Sprouts Farmers Market, a wider Dunham Road, and Lost Mountain mini golf still standing where it stands today.

The housing count dropped by more than half between the first pitch and the final vote. That happened because of a review step Woodridge built in 2024 so residents could weigh in before a developer files formal plans. Dunham Green is the clearest test of that step so far, and the same hearing calendar is now deciding several smaller changes along 75th Street.

The plan that passed was the second draft

The Village's Zigfield Troy update page is direct about the Village's limits. The course at 1535 West 75th Street is privately owned by the Troy family and has been on the market for four years. The Village says it has no control over whether the course stays open, and it can't turn down a proposal just because people don't like it.

The Village can still request revisions, set conditions, and require studies. Developer Kensington Woodridge LLC went through each of those steps on the way to approval.

According to Downers Grove Wire, 36 residents spoke at the joint Village Board and Plan Commission meeting on November 13, 2025, and about 70 Dunham Road residents signed a petition. The petition said they would be "directly and disproportionately affected" because their street has only one way in and one way out. The concerns raised included traffic and the loss of green space.

The November 2025 session was a concept plan review. Woodridge created that step in May 2024 to bring proposals before the public before a formal application is filed. Kensington submitted formal plans on June 29, 2026. By then, the 220 townhomes had become 96 Pulte duplexes for the 55+ market.

The rest of the approval followed:

1. May 21, 2026: The Board approved a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with Kensington. It set the general terms for a development agreement and a TIF redevelopment agreement.
2. September 17, 2026: The Board voted 5-0 to amend that memorandum. The amendment added the Pulte age-restricted housing, expanded the intersection improvements at 75th and Dunham, and updated incentives tied to the 75th Street TIF district.
3. September 28 and October 5, 2026: The Plan Commission held its public hearing, then met again to question staff and the developer before voting to approve.
4. October 15, 2026: The Village Board approved the planned unit development, the subdivision, and the map amendment.

Pulte is calling the residential section The Landings of Dunham Green. Kensington's approval announcement describes it as a 96-unit active adult duplex community.

Dunham Road roughly doubles in width

The extra intersection work came from the same back-and-forth. In September, the Village asked the developer for $1.5 million more in intersection work as part of the amended agreement, as Citizen Portal reported.

On October 15, Louay Abuna of the traffic consultant KLOA walked the Board through the road package, according to Citizen Portal's account of the meeting:

• Dunham Road widens from about 40 feet to about 81 feet
• Several turn lanes are added at the 75th and Dunham intersection
• Two access drives open onto 75th Street
• A new right-in/right-out drive is added
• Internal driveways on the site are widened

The consultant also said the county's signal warrants don't support another traffic light at the west access drive. For anyone who uses 75th Street every day, that means the new traffic will be handled mainly at the existing Dunham intersection, which is the one getting the extra lanes.

The Village also has a deadline to work around. At a June 18 workshop, Director of Community Development Kimberly Clarke described deadline pressure tied to Sprouts' intended 2027 opening, according to Downers Grove Wire. Kensington says it expects to break ground in late 2026.

What stays is the mini golf

Of everything on the old golf property, Lost Mountain is the piece the approved plan keeps. The Village's summary says the course "will remain," and the site plan describes it as preserved and built into the new development.

Lost Mountain has been open into November this year. Its hours page listed Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. Late-season hours there depend on the weather, so check that page before you go.

Under the new plan, Lost Mountain will sit beside a grocery store, a bank, and a coffee drive-thru. Before, it sat beside a golf course.

The same hearing calendar is reshaping the rest of 75th Street

Dunham Green is the largest item in the Village's development pipeline, but several smaller ones nearby are going through the same steps of Plan Commission, Village Board, and permits. The Village's current development projects map tracks each one.

Woodridge Plaza, 75th Street and Janes Avenue. Red Mountain Group has proposed a Dunkin' drive-through on a new 0.45-acre outlot between Walgreens and the BMO bank. The plan is a building of about 1,800 square feet. The Plan Commission approved it on October 19, and the Village Board took it up on November 5.

The same shopping center already went through a facade amendment in March. That approval covered a new entrance for Dollar Tree at 2429 75th Street and an added dormer at the Anytime Fitness unit at 2457. Dollar Tree is open; the Village featured it in its October 2 E-News.

Dog Stop, 2441 75th Street. Also in Woodridge Plaza, Dog Stop received approval in March for a kennel with overnight boarding, grooming, daycare, training, and retail. That approval included a variance for an outdoor play area behind the building. Its building permit was under review as of the Village's October update.

Luxe Purr Lounge, Hobson Plaza. A short drive from 75th Street, Alina Sziler has applied for a pet-care special use to run a cat café at 3046–3054 Hobson Road, in the former Riding Store space. Downers Grove Wire reported that the business would take about 5,000 square feet and house 25 to 30 cats. Sziler has said she hopes to open in February. The Plan Commission held its public hearing on November 2.

All of these businesses go through the same public process that turned 220 townhomes into 96 duplexes. Plan Commission and Village Board meetings are at 7 p.m. in the Werch Board Room at Village Hall, 5 Plaza Drive.

One more connection is going in at the east end of the corridor

Near Route 53, Pulte's Rivers Edge development is adding a link that shoppers will use. Work on Mulligan Drive, between Main Street and Seven Bridges Golf Club, started October 5 and is expected to run through the end of November. Mulligan Drive isn't expected to close completely, and Main Street access stays open. The Village has suggested other routes into Seven Bridges Shopping Center to avoid delays.

A pedestrian bridge over the creek is scheduled to be set in December. It will connect the Rivers Edge neighborhood to the Seven Bridges Shopping Center by a multi-use path for walkers and cyclists. A second path running north along Route 53 to the signal at Summerhill Drive is planned for spring 2027, once ComEd finishes burying the power lines there.

If you live off Dunham Road, own a home near 75th and Janes, or are wondering how Dunham Green will affect your block's appeal to future buyers, Wenzel Select Properties can walk you through the approved site plan and what the road work means for your street. Request a personalized consultation with Lisa Wenzel and her team.