Lombard gives nod to more townhouses near Yorktown mall

Lombard trustees have approved another phase of a townhouse development in an area intended to serve as a residential gateway to the Yorktown Center shopping mall.

Builder D.R. Horton has received zoning entitlements to extend The Summit at Yorktown community to the west. The second phase of the project calls for 59 additional townhouse units spread across 11 buildings.

With the increase in housing near the mall, Lombard trustees also have hired an engineering firm for a study into pedestrian and bicycle improvements. The cost of the contract with Civiltech Engineering, Inc. totals $126,467.

According to its proposal, Civiltech will deliver a recommended design concept. The firm will review the possibilities of “converting and activating vacant space into parcels that enhance the pedestrian environment.”

Civiltech also will explore ways to repurpose underused parking areas. In addition, the firm will outline an implementation strategy that helps plan the “next stages of Yorktown Center’s transformation.”

Meanwhile, Synergy Construction & Development also has a luxury apartment complex taking shape close to the mall. The former Carson’s department anchor store was demolished to make way for “The Square,” planned green space between the mall and the Yorktown Reserve apartments.

The Fresh Market grocery store also is expected to be complete in 2026, said Lombard Trustee Brian LaVaque, who chairs the town’s economic and community development committee.

As part of the residential construction trend, D.R. Horton secured zoning approvals in 2022 for the first phase of its development, a 90-unit townhouse community at the northwest corner of Grace Street and Yorktown Center ring road.

“We have 20 plus units still to go. The last buildings are currently vertical,” Chris Funkhouser, a Horton land acquisition project manager, told the village’s plan commission last month.

The roughly 3.6-acre property to the west once included a Carson's furniture store. The second phase of The Summit at Yorktown will have one driveway connection to the mall ring road and an additional connection to the Yorktown access drive to the west of the development, adjacent to McDonald’s.