Golf course next to Medinah up for sale as redevelopment play
As thousands of golf fans converge on Medinah Country Club for next week’s Presidents Cup, an adjacent golf course is hitting the market as a potential redevelopment opportunity. Chicago-based Arbor Lodging has hired brokers from Jones Lang LaSalle to seek a buyer for the 102-acre Eaglewood Resort & Spa golf course at 1401 Nordic Road in northwest suburban Itasca, according to a marketing flyer. The course itself is up for sale, while Arbor intends to retain the 295-room hotel on the resort property, which it bought out of distress last year for $28 million. The listing comes amid a post-pandemic surge in golf participation that has turned many courses from money-losing investments to profitable ones. But JLL frames Eaglewood as something else: a prime candidate to be transformed into a residential subdivision — with the hotel and resort property as a neighboring amenity.