Donald S. Robitzer Jr. grew up on the Village Greens Golf Course operated by his family for more than 50 years.
As a boy, he spent evenings watering the course and days playing golf. Robitzer appreciates the tribute to his family’s legacy at The Residence at Village Greens, a senior living community opening this summer on the former golf course property. “I was born in 1968, and I spent my early summers golfing and working on the course,” said Robitzer, who is senior vice president and COO of the Commonwealth Group in Wilmington, Del.
“It was truly a family affair, with my dad and my uncles working there. Everybody chipped in.” Robitzer purchased Village Greens Golf Course in 2019.
He sold a portion of the property being developed by IntegraCare and Weathervane Capital Partners. Triple Crown Construction is building The Residence at Village Greens, a 130,000-square-foot senior living community with 131 units operated by IntegraCare. “It is bittersweet because all the members of my family have such fond memories of the golf course,” Robitzer said.
“It was the core of our family. Everybody was there. To see it go away — particularly because it was my grandfather’s design, thoughts and dreams — was bittersweet.
But it ran its course and there was another, better use for it.” Appropriately, golf will hold a prominent role at the new senior living community built on a former golf course. Golf-playing residents may work on their short game on a putting green.