What could be Schaumburg’s last subdivision nears halfway point
Entering its fourth year of construction, a 149-home development in Schaumburg is nearing its halfway point to completion.
Meanwhile, Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 continues to allocate the $17.7 million it received for selling the land where it’s being built.
Nitti Development’s Summit Grove of Schaumburg project is continuing its eastward expansion from Summit Drive to Plum Grove Road on 62 acres that had been reserved by District 211 for a high school. Officials ultimately decided that a sixth District 211 high school wasn’t needed and put the site up for sale.
The village has issued building permits for 93 of the homes so far, with 70 approved for occupancy.
“This project has really done everything we expected,” Mayor Tom Dailly said. “The number of homes being sold has just skyrocketed. They estimated it would take five years. I’ll be surprised if it takes five years.”
The land was sold to Nitti in the autumn of 2020, after the developer received village approval for the project. Site preparation began in the spring of 2021.
Using the sale money to benefit District 211 students was an early goal of the board of education. But the allocation plan has since become more specific.
The board has approved a combined $7.5 million of the sale money for public address system improvements and modernization at all five high schools, as well as cooling for applied technology areas at four of them. Hoffman Estates High School already received such cooling.
Last month, the board approved $2.15 million in auditorium upgrades at Hoffman Estates High. They include improved accessibility called for under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the replacement of lighting, curtains and flooring, and new carpeting and dressing rooms.
An additional $10 million in proceeds from the land sale is expected to be spent on auditorium improvements at Conant, Fremd, Palatine and Schaumburg high schools.
The property was the last significant parcel of vacant land in the village zoned for single-family homes, Schaumburg Community Development Director Julie Fitzgerald said.
Though there were anticipated issues like dust with the start of construction, they were minimized and confined to the initial phase of development, Dailly said.
“It’s all behind us now,” he added. “I’d love to have more land available to build things like this.”
Nitti also is proposing a residential redevelopment of the 33-acre former Loeber horse farm on the west side of Meacham Road bordering the International Village and The Treehouse of Schaumburg apartment complexes.
But that’s seens as a quite different project, with the proposal calling for 357 apartment, townhouse and rowhome rental units and no single-family homes. The proposal remains under the review of Schaumburg village planners.