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With PGA Championship coming, is anything planned for the ‘hole’ at Park & Gleneagles?

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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...

Spanish Fort planning commission vote allows controversial condo project to move forward

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During a public hearing at the Spanish Fort Planning Commission meeting Monday night , subdivision residents living adjacent to the proposed Quail Hollow development said they were worried the additional traffic flowing from the planned 147 condominium units would significantly worsen already congested conditions on Alabama Highway 225. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com) With their options limited by a rezoning decision made in 2004, the Spanish Fort Planning Commission voted Monday night to allow Spanish Fort Apartment 2012 LLC owners to move ahead with a planned unit development called Quail Hollow on the west side of Alabama Highway 225 in the city. J.R. Smith, who is the city council representative on the planning commission , cast the only no vote. The Quail Hollow master plan includes construction of 49 two-story triplexes for a total of 147 condominiums on 19.62 acres located on the west side of Highway 225 about one mile north of Alabama Highway 31. It is north of the...