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1988 – TODAY
A subdivision built with its own golf course: Juday Creek Estates — 139 parcels inside the boundary in the parcel file, in Harris Township along the creek the Land file reads at full size — was developed at the end of the 1980s by Linda and Mike Rogers, who built the Juday Creek golf course with it: the course was built in 1988 and opened for its first full season in 1989, designed by Ken Killian of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (the aggregator attributions of the design to William Newcomb and others are not credited; the golf-record sources name Killian). Northwest Indiana Business Magazine's 2025 Granger profile states the joint undertaking in the developer's own family's words: when the golf course was developed, Rogers and her husband also developed the Juday Creek subdivision and its custom homes. Linda Rogers — later a state senator — still owns the course, and the subdivision's houses stand along the fairways on the creek's west ground, inside the CDP; its namesake across Douglas Road, Juday Lake Estates, lies outside the boundary, and is read at the boundary article.
The plat's modern course runs through the city it borders: on 26 August 2024 fire destroyed the course's clubhouse (WNDU); the rebuilding that followed was negotiated with Mishawaka — the city bought a portion of the golf course property for a municipal well field and leases it back to the owners, and the new clubhouse is being connected to Mishawaka's municipal water and sewer, the first municipal service extended to a Juday Creek Estates address. The plat thus stands in the parcel file as unincorporated Harris Township ground whose amenity has become, in part, a Mishawaka utility site — the annexation frontier advancing by purchase and service agreement rather than by ordinance, on the CDP's southwestern ground. The course's sporting record belongs to the Sports leg.
Sources
- Northwest Indiana Business Magazine, "Granger: Close to everywhere" (October–November 2025) — the Rogers development of course and subdivision together; the well-field purchase and lease-back; the clubhouse's municipal connection.
- WNDU (August 2024) — the clubhouse fire of 26 August 2024.
- GolfLink and GolfPass course records — Ken Killian design; opened 1989.
- St. Joseph County parcel record, read November 2026 — Juday Creek Estates, 139 parcels inside the boundary.