With PGA Championship coming, is anything planned for the ‘hole’ at Park & Gleneagles?
When some 200,000 spectators flock to Quail Hollow Club for the PGA Championship next month, many of them will drive past a curious Charlotte landmark : The long- stalled commercial development at Park and Gleneagles roads. The site has sat vacant for years, surrounded by green- sheathed construction fencing while a hole originally dug for a parking garage slowly fills in with water and trees. Dee-Dee Harris, CEO of the Harris Land Company , declined to comment this week about where plans stand for the site. She and husband Cameron Harris , a Charlotte businessman and brother of prominent real estate developer Johnny Harris , own the site through their company. The Harris Land Company also developed the adjacent Seven Eagles at Quail Hollow gated community in Charlotte. The 19-acre site has been controversial for a generation in Charlotte, with a development history that stretches back to 1989. That’s when City Council approved a rezoning request to allow commercial instead...