Anyone who drives Golf Road through Schaumburg has watched the northwest corner at Meacham sit empty since the Macy's Furniture Gallery came down in 2023. For a while it was just a graded lot behind orange fencing. Then, in the spring of 2025, cranes showed up. Now, more than a year later, the corner has restaurants in it. But if you last checked the tenant list back when it was first announced, you're working from an outdated map.
That's the part worth knowing before you plan your next trip past Golf and Meacham: the lineup that finally opened this August is not the lineup that got announced. Names have swapped in and out for two years, and at least one storefront is still deciding what it wants to be. That kind of churn rarely makes it into a roundup post, because most roundups get written once and never updated. This one is current as of this month.
What's actually open right now
Piccolo Buco, Cava, and Dave's Hot Chicken share one building at the Crossroads of Schaumburg development, and Dave's held its grand opening on Friday, August 14. That's three concepts open, in one building, on one corner that was a vacant furniture store three years ago.
The rest of the five-building project is still catching up:
- Paris Baguette is set to occupy the space originally leased to Naansense, a swap the developer confirmed this August.
- A high-end fast-casual sandwich shop, not yet named publicly, is now the leading candidate for the spot that was supposed to go to Crisp & Green when the project broke ground in April 2025.
- Vannie's House, a bubble tea and coffee lounge with existing locations in Aurora and Bolingbrook, is still working through permits.
- Velvet Taco has no announced opening date, even though construction on its building continues.
- Lazy Dog, the dog-friendly restaurant chain that drew applause at a Village board meeting when it was first announced, is being redesigned before ground is even broken on its freestanding building.
Two non-restaurant tenants round out the project: an AT&T store relocating from nearby, and Intuit, the tax software company, taking office space in the same development.
The swap nobody made a big announcement about
Here's the detail that separates this corner from a typical shopping center opening: developers usually lock in a tenant list and build to it. Crossroads of Schaumburg has instead spent more than two years quietly renegotiating its own lineup while under construction. Naansense, an Indian fast-casual concept, was part of the original eight-tenant announcement back in 2024. It's gone now, replaced by a Korean bakery chain. Crisp & Green, a salad concept that was part of the same original announcement, may end up replaced by a sandwich shop that hasn't even been named yet.
Savas Er, the project's developer, has been candid about this in his updates to the local paper. He described the project as being worked out "in close communication with village planners" from the start, and that back-and-forth appears to still be happening tenant by tenant, well after the buildings themselves went up. If you've been waiting for this corner to feel finished, the honest answer is that it's finished enough to eat at, but not finished deciding what the last two or three storefronts will be.
Two more corners filled in the same year
The timing gets more interesting when you zoom out past this one intersection. Golf and Meacham isn't the only place in Schaumburg that spent 2026 turning empty plans into open doors.
A few minutes northeast, at 1441 Thoreau Drive, Andretti Indoor Karting & Games opened on March 10, its first Illinois location and the anchor of a new entertainment district next to the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel. The 98,000-square-foot building holds a multilevel electric kart track, laser tag, duckpin bowling, and a 7D motion theater, and it replaced a parcel that had been earmarked for a performing arts center for nearly two decades before Andretti signed on. Village officials expect the karting venue to generate more than $16 million in annual sales, according to figures Mayor Tom Dailly cited in his State of the Village address in January.
And in Town Square, the long-delayed British and Indian pub Hopscotch finally opened in mid-May at 40 South Roselle Road, a project that had been proposed back in 2022 and kept slipping. It sits alongside longtime Town Square tenants like Walker Bros. Original Pancake House and Lou Malnati's, but brings something none of its neighbors do: golf simulators, a cricket and batting cage setup, and a walk-up "Tuck Shop" selling 99 Flake soft-serve cones, a British staple most Schaumburg residents have never had a reason to try before.
Three separate developers, three separate timelines, one calendar year. None of these projects were planned together, and none of them reference each other in the paperwork. But if you live in Schaumburg, the practical effect is the same: within roughly a ten-minute drive, you gained a karting venue, a pub with lawn games indoors, and a restaurant row that's still filling in, all inside the same nine months.
What this actually changes about a Friday night here
If your usual rotation has been Woodfield Mall's restaurant row or a drive to Arlington Heights for something different, you now have real alternatives that didn't exist at the start of the year. Dave's Hot Chicken and Cava give you a lunch option that wasn't there in July. Andretti gives you somewhere to take a group on a weeknight that isn't a movie theater or a bowling alley you've been to fifty times. Hopscotch gives Town Square, a shopping center built in the early 1990s, its first genuinely new food concept in years.
None of this is finished. Velvet Taco could open next month or next spring. Lazy Dog is still redesigning a building it hasn't broken ground on. The sandwich shop replacing Crisp & Green doesn't have a name yet, and Vannie's House is still waiting on the Village for permits. If you want the freshest read on what's open, the Village of Schaumburg keeps a running list of new businesses on its economic development page, and it's worth a bookmark if you're the type who wants to know before your neighbors do.
What's changed is that this corner of the northwest suburbs stopped being a place you drove through to get somewhere else. For most of the last three years, Golf and Meacham was defined by what used to be there. Now it's starting to be defined by what actually showed up, even if the developer is still filling in the last few blanks.
We live in this market too, which is why we pay attention to the small stuff, like which storefront just swapped tenants or which corner finally broke ground. If you're curious what a home near any of this looks like right now, or you're just weighing whether Schaumburg still fits what you need, reach out to Zamudio Realty Group and get your free home valuation. We're happy to talk through the neighborhood in English or Spanish, no pressure attached.
