From Golf Course to Multigenerational Community: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram Charts the Evolution of Hillcrest Greens in Altoona, Wisc.

A former 18-hole golf course — located along U.S. 12 just east of Eau Claire — is being converted into the Hillcrest Greens planned community development which will offer a variety of multigenerational housing options.

On the 178-acre site of the former Hillcrest Golf & Country Club in Altoona, single family homes and senior housing are under construction.  “What we’re hoping to have within the development is a community or neighborhood where people can rotate through as they grow,” Bill Albright, vice president of Heartland Contractors, told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram in this story that explores the site’s evolution.

Hillcrest Greens will be home to The Classic, an Ecumen-managed four-section building on the campus devoted to senior citizen housing, with independent and assisted living apartments and memory care, which will open in July.

The community is adjacent to more than 65 acres of public park, with 6,000 feet of frontage on Otter Creek (a Wisconsin Class II Trout Stream), 3.5 miles of bike and walking trails and sidewalks, three ponds and park amenities that include a playground area, a pavilion, basketball court, pickle ball court, and a putting/chipping green.