This Cape Cod golf course was going to be 300-plus apartments. Now, it’s set to be a private school.

After three years of contentious debate, accusations of wrongdoing by local officials, and a lawsuit, developers have pulled the plug on plans for a 300-plus unit apartment project on a failing Cape Cod golf course. Representatives for the owner of the Twin Brooks Golf Course in Hyannis confirmed that a deal to sell the site to national housing developer Quarterra is off, effectively killing the project. Instead, an anonymous benefactor is buying the 40-acre Twin Brooks golf course site for a local private school to expand. Chuck Carey, a real...