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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...

An aerial view of the boatyard building pad in the foreground. Photos via Harbor Point Development , LLC D avenport Landing, a new boatyard and apartment complex at Stamford’s Harbor Point, is on its way to completion by 2018. But the approved project, which follows nearly five years of legal action and negotiations between the city and Harbor Point’s developer over the demolition of another boatyard that has blocked further redevelopment, has sparked another lawsuit from an environmental opponent this year. “We expect the boatyard to be finished this fall,” said Ted Ferrarone, chief operating officer at Harbor Point Development LLC , a subsidiary of the Stamford- based developer Building and Land Technology (BLT). “The second phase of the project is a 218- unit apartment complex that is under construction now and will probably open next summer.” Ferrarone said the Davenport Landing project at 28 Southfield Ave. contributes to a “renaissance to the waterfront.” The boatyard, on ...