If you live on Interlachen Boulevard, Merilane, or one of the wooded cul-de-sacs that curl toward the Interlachen Country Club, the map you have carried in your head for the last decade is about to be redrawn. Not the streets themselves. The rhythm. Three separate projects, none of them individually dramatic, are landing on top of each other between now and 2027. Together they change what a Saturday morning looks like from a driveway in Rolling Green.
This post is a working calendar for people who already live here. What's opening, what's closing, and what's getting torn up next, with the dates that matter.
The one claim worth holding onto
The quiet edge of Rolling Green is the noisiest planning file in Edina right now. Interlachen Boulevard, the Grandview parcel at 50th and Highway 100, and the restaurant lineup at 50th & France are all resetting on public timelines that overlap in late 2026 and 2027.
Every section below is evidence for that one sentence.
Interlachen Boulevard is on the clock
The stretch of Interlachen Boulevard that carries most of Rolling Green in and out of the neighborhood, roughly from 400 feet east of Blake Road to Mirror Lakes Drive, is scheduled for full reconstruction in 2027. This is not a mill-and-overlay. The improvements include rehabilitation to the water main, storm sewer, and sanitary sewer systems, installation of concrete curb and gutter with on street bike lanes, bituminous street pavement, and concrete sidewalk construction along the south side of Interlachen Boulevard.
The dates on the city's project page are the ones to put on the fridge:
| Milestone | Timing |
|---|---|
| Final design complete | November 2026 |
| City Council public hearing on scope and special assessments | December 2026 |
| City Council authorization of construction | March 2027 |
| Construction begins | April 2027 |
| Substantial completion | October 2027 |
| Final assessments approved | October 2028 |
Two numbers worth pausing on. The overall construction cost is estimated to be $6.1 million. This project will be funded using Municipal State Aid funds, local utility funds, and property owner assessments as well as a donation from Interlachen Country Club. And estimated assessments per REU are $4,500 to $6,500. There are 13 properties impacted by assessments.
Thirteen properties is a small number. If yours is one of them, the December 2026 public hearing is not a formality. If yours is not, the sidewalk going in on the south side is the detail to watch, because a new south-side walk changes how you get from the neighborhood to the country club's west campus on foot for the first time in decades. Details and updates live on the city's own Better Together Edina project page.
The club itself is a partner in the funding, which is unusual and worth naming. The 170-acre Interlachen Country Club, founded in 1909, includes the membership of 820 families, 70% of which live in Edina, and employs 325 people during the summer, the club's project documents said. A road that carries members and residents in equal measure is finally being rebuilt with buy-in from both.
Grandview breaks ground this summer
Drive east from Rolling Green on Vernon and you hit the Grandview district at 50th and Highway 100. For most of the last decade that corner has been a fenced storage yard. That ends this year.
The Edina Housing and Redevelopment Authority has selected a Hempel Real Estate–led team to redevelop the former public works site at 5146 Eden Avenue. Hempel proposed a mixed-use development plan featuring 38 owner-occupied townhomes and 32 owner-occupied condominiums within six buildings. A family-friendly restaurant is planned for the public space on the corner of Arcadia and Eden Avenues.
A few things to know before the fencing goes up:
- The restaurant is a Jester Concepts project. That's the group behind Butcher & the Boar, P.S. Steak, and Parlour. The concept for Grandview has not been publicly named.
- The Hempel team's purchase price is $4 million.
- Groundbreaking is expected summer 2026.
- The site is not flat. He notes the biggest challenge so far is the 30-plus-foot grade change from south to north, requiring leveling. Expect a longer than usual site-prep phase before anything vertical goes up.
For Rolling Green, the practical read is that the corner you have used as a shortcut through Jerry's parking lot to reach 50th & France is going to be a construction zone for the balance of 2026 and most of 2027. The upside on the other end is 70 owner-occupied units and a full-service restaurant walking distance from Grandview Square.
Jester's other Edina project, Starling, is already open across from City Hall. The new Starling restaurant will be located on the ground floor of the Maison Green luxury apartments at 4917 Eden Ave., across the street from Edina City Hall. Though Starling will feature elevated food, Frederick said his group is focused on making the restaurant approachable and welcoming to Edina residents. Except for large parties, Starling will not take reservations. Worth knowing before you drive over on a Friday.
50th & France is turning over faster than anyone expected
Farther east, the strip most Rolling Green households treat as their default dinner corridor is in the middle of the biggest restaurant reshuffle it has seen in ten years. A quick map of what's landing:
- Americana, 5036 France Ave S. Replacing Cocina del Barrio. By fall 2026, Americana will replace Cocina del Barrio and will feature a glass-enclosed rooftop patio and redesign by Christian Dean Architecture. Barrio owner Ryan Burnet has teamed with Daniel del Prado for the third restaurant in their partnership. Americana will be inspired by post-World War II American culture and aesthetics, combining Italian and Hawaiian tiki culture, del Prado said.
- General Sports Bar, 5034 France Ave. Hiring is underway at a new sports bar with more than 25 televisions from the team behind Nolo's, opening this summer in Edina inside the former Salut restaurant space.
- Smith Coffee & Cafe, 3948 W. 50th St. This Eden Prairie shop will open a second location in Edina, in the former D'Amico & Sons space. The menu includes coffee drinks, pastries and breakfast items.
- Side Door at Dexter's, 3717 W. 50th St. A new food hall from Daniel del Prado's restaurant group will open soon near 50th and France. Daq Daq will offer Korean fried chicken; Lucia's will serve pizza and salad; and Rose Sushi will focus on nigiri and sushi rolls.
Four openings, three operators, one small commercial district. If you have been sending out-of-town guests to the same two restaurants since 2019, the rotation you know is about to be genuinely different by this time next year.
The parking situation at 50th & France is worth flagging because it may affect how these venues actually feel. In an Oct. 7 meeting, the Edina City Council approved a parking variance for an expansion at the 5036 France Avenue South site, which will add a second-floor gabled glass conservatory. The council waived the additional 14 parking stalls required by code, as the restaurateurs plan to enter a parking agreement with the neighboring BMO Harris Bank. The south ramp is going to be doing more work than it used to.
The trail on your western edge is the quiet win
While all of that shifts, the piece of the neighborhood that gets better without any construction is the west side. Bredesen Park sits just across Olinger Boulevard from Rolling Green's western reach, and it connects into the regional trail network in a way that is easy to underuse.
The park is a 206-acre park that features popular biking and walking trails. The layout is two loops plus an interior nature trail. From Family Fun Twin Cities: There is also a 2-mile bike path (with a stroller-friendly walking area) that encircles the park and has been developed as a nature study area. This path connects to the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail at the southwest corner of the park, Bikers can access the paths either via Vernon Avenue or Olinger Boulevard.
The under-appreciated detail: The City of Edina has recently approved upgrades to make access to the nature trail easier for walkers. These upgrades mainly concern removal of fencing and turnstyles that that may have made it more difficult for pedestrians who were on the main walking trail to switch over to the nature trail. If you have avoided the interior loop because of the awkward transitions, that friction is coming out.
A Saturday, sketched
For a resident who wants to actually use what's here between now and the first frost, one workable ninety-minute route:
- Coffee at Smith Coffee & Cafe on West 50th, once it opens in the former D'Amico & Sons space.
- Walk or bike the paved outer loop at Bredesen from the Olinger Boulevard lot.
- Cross into the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail at the park's southwest corner for another mile.
- Loop back through the neighborhood on Interlachen Boulevard while the pavement is still original. In eighteen months this stretch will be a construction detour.
- Dinner at Starling on Eden Avenue. No reservations, so plan for a wait or eat early.
What to do before December
If you own on Interlachen Boulevard, the December 2026 public hearing is the meeting where the assessment method and project scope get locked in. That's the leverage point on cost, not the March authorization vote. If you don't own on Interlachen but the road is your daily route, the same hearing is where sidewalk placement and bike lane geometry become fixed. Neither is a decision you want made without a Rolling Green voice in the room.
The rest of it, the Grandview groundbreaking, the Americana rooftop, the Side Door food hall, is going to happen on its own timetable. Watching it unfold is the fun part of already living here.
If you're weighing what any of this means for a property you own in Rolling Green, or you'd like a discreet read on where the neighborhood is heading before the sidewalks and restaurants land, Josh Sprague works this corner of Edina every week. Get access to off‑market listings and a Rolling Green–specific market read by reaching out directly.
