Once more, a massive development is being proposed on a site near Waikoloa Village. If the plans of landowner Waikoloa Green, LLC, move forward, over the next two decades, some 400 apartments and around 300 single-family houses will sprout on … Continued
Coco Palms in Court: This past summer, Utah-based Reef Capital Partners, which owners the former Coco Palms resort site in Wailua, Kauaʻi, secured $431 million in redevelopment financing. Whether that will be enough for the company to fulfill its plans...
‘Good Cause’ Challenge Upheld: On June 26, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court upheld the right of a Hawaiian group, Mālama Kakanilua, to challenge a decision of the Maui County director of Public Works to grant a time extension of a grading...
(Above chart credit: Petition to designate Kamaʻole aquifer system area.) Last year, when the Commission on Water Resource Management voted to accept a petition by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply to designate the Waiʻanae aquifer sector as a groundwater...
Two years ago, Wayne and Tara Hu beat a lawsuit filed against them by companies owned by the developer of an agricultural condominium project at Marconi Point on O‘ahu’s North Shore. The companies had sued them after the couple’s attorney,...
(Above photo: Ke Kīpuka o Kalaeuila.) Oceanfront acreage on O‘ahu’s North Shore! A rare opportunity to own over 170 acres of land fronting miles of white sand beach. This is one of the last beachfront tracks of land that has...
Cats’ Role in Dolphin Deaths: Robin Baird of the Cascadia Research Institute has published a brief report on the relationship between cat populations and the deaths of cetaceans, including false killer whales and dolphins, that inhabit the ocean around Hawaiʻi....
Above map credit: Trust for Public Land We had a chance to buy it in 1983 for $6 million. … We got a second bite at the apple. We gotta do this,” David Smith said last month of a proposal...
To Protect Native Species, Habitat at Marconi, Land Board Seeks Revised Settlement Agreement Complete removal of an unauthorized fence in the Conservation District at Marconi Point may not be the best outcome for the surrounding habitat and protected species in … Continued
Rudo Statement: Alan Rudo, the former Hawaiʻi County employee at the heart of a scheme to profit from the sale of housing credits, was scheduled to be sentenced in federal court on May 28. In anticipation, he has submitted to … Continued