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1925 — present
The Erskine gift made the south side's anchor: Erskine Park Golf Course, at 4200 Miami Street, opened on 27 June 1925 — the History Museum's photograph caption and the Venues Parks & Arts record agree on 1925; the museum's caption adds that the Erskine family "stated that it was their intention that the course be a golf course forever," and the horse barn became its clubhouse. The course celebrated its centennial in 2025, members of the Erskine family returning for it, the city's account calling it a 100-acre park built in memory of the donor's wife and son — against which the Tribune's 1933 account and the 2021 inventory's 120 acres stand as the record's other figure, the conflict carried in the parks file as well. One telling in the course's own 2026 promotional record dates a framed display to "the course's opening on June 22, 1935"; the 1925 date governs on the museum and Venues Parks & Arts record, and the 1935 telling is printed as the conflict it is.
The neighborhoods around the course filled in the postwar decades — the parks file counts Erskine Park, Miami Hills and Southmore among the subdivisions built inside the limits in that era — and the ground's modern course includes the development fight of 2001 to 2005, when the Erskine Hills Development Plan proposed a tax-increment district and prepared studies toward redeveloping the course's site; the episode ended with Mayor Luecke's statement of 9 March 2005 that the course was not for sale and would not be redeveloped. The retail the era brought stands south of the course: Erskine Commons and Erskine Village on Ireland Road, their names carrying the estate's into the commercial map. The Scottsdale ground adjoins to the east — the Scottsdale subdivision and the 1973 mall that took its name, in the malls file of this record.
Sources:
- The History Museum, photograph caption and Erskine Park account; South Bend Venues Parks & Arts — the opening of 27 June 1925 and the 2025 centennial
- South Bend Tribune, 2 July 1933 and March 2005; Erskine Hills Development Plan documents — the 2001–2005 episode
- Parks & Plans and Malls, this record — banked fragments