Rolling Green has already had its quiet back for about two years. Interlachen Country Club, the private club whose grounds border the neighborhood, finished a multi-year construction push in 2024, and since then the streets nearby have been free of the dump trucks and detours that came with it. What most residents haven't clocked yet is that the calm has a posted expiration date. The City of Edina has Interlachen Boulevard itself on the construction calendar, with a groundbreaking now scheduled for April 2027.
That leaves a specific window, not an open-ended one, and the milestones between now and then are already public.
What the Club Finished in 2024
Interlachen Country Club has been part of this stretch of Edina since 1909, and the golf course carries real history. Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open there on his way to the sport's first Grand Slam, and the club later hosted the 2002 Solheim Cup and the 2008 U.S. Women's Open. The course in play today traces back to a 1921 Donald Ross redesign, with later touch-ups from Robert Trent Jones in 1963, Geoffrey Cornish in 1986, and Brian Silva in 2006.
The most recent overhaul was the biggest of those. Architect Andrew Green spent more than fourteen months rebuilding every green, tee, and bunker on the course, working from Ross's original 1922 blueprints to restore playing angles and sightlines that a century of tree growth had covered over. The course closed to member play through most of 2023 and reopened in August 2024. Green, describing the scale of the dig-up partway through, put it simply:
"It wasn't long ago, a lot of this was dirt."
The restoration didn't go unnoticed outside the neighborhood either. Golf Digest moved Interlachen from 84th to 64th in its national rankings for the 2025-26 cycle, crediting the restored bunkering and expanded greens.
Alongside the course work, the club built an entirely new west campus: a two-story restaurant called The Lodge, a fitness and wellness building called The Fieldhouse with a cafe and youth activities center, and new tennis and pickleball courts that convert to skating rinks in winter. Golf course and buildings together ran to roughly $30 million.
Why the Work Took as Long as It Did
None of this happened without friction, and it's worth remembering why, because the same dynamic is about to repeat with a different builder. When the club brought its west campus plans to the city in 2022, it requested a height variance to 39 feet on the new buildings, well above Edina's standard 20-foot limit. Neighbors immediately surrounding the club raised concerns at a June 2022 public hearing about noise, lighting, and construction traffic on Waterman Avenue. The city council approved the project after the club agreed to move the new structures farther from property lines, upgrade its sound and lighting design, and expand landscaping along the edges.
Rolling Green sits close enough to the club that residents felt that construction era directly, and it's the same proximity that will put the neighborhood inside the boulevard project's radius next.
The Boulevard's Turn
Interlachen Boulevard, the road along the club's edge that many Rolling Green residents use to reach Highway 100 or 50th & France, is now the subject of its own city project. Edina's Better Together Edina page lays out a full reconstruction of the boulevard from about 400 feet east of Blake Road to Mirror Lake Drive: new water main, storm sewer, and sanitary sewer work, concrete curb and gutter with on-street bike lanes, a repaved surface, and a new sidewalk along the south side. The estimated cost is $6.1 million, funded through a mix of state aid, utility funds, property owner special assessments, and a donation from Interlachen Country Club itself.
The city's published milestones:
- November 2026: final design complete
- December 2026: city council public hearing on special assessments and project scope
- March 2027: council vote to authorize construction
- April 2027: construction begins
- October 2027: substantial completion
- October 2028: council approval of final special assessments
The December hearing is the one worth marking on a calendar. That's when the special assessment numbers get discussed in public, months before any equipment shows up.
Reading the Calendar
This isn't the first time construction has clustered around this corner of Edina. A few intersections east, where Interlachen Boulevard meets Vernon Avenue near Gus Young Lane, the city just finished a $28.2 million rebuild of the Vernon Avenue and Highway 100 interchange, with construction wrapping by mid-November 2025. That project sat on a different segment of the same named boulevard, but it's a reminder that this part of the city tends to see infrastructure work arrive in overlapping waves rather than all at once.
For Rolling Green, the practical math is this: the club's construction era ended in August 2024, and the boulevard's begins in April 2027. That's roughly two and a half years of unbroken quiet, and about seven months of it are left as of this fall. The December 2026 hearing is the first real signal that the next wave is arriving on schedule.
If you're weighing what the next few years look like for a home near Interlachen, or just want a clearer read on how these overlapping projects affect daily life in this pocket of Edina, the team at Regan + Hornig follows this corridor closely enough to walk you through what's settled, what's scheduled, and what it means for the streets you actually use. Reach out to schedule your private consultation.