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California co-working and office space firm buys Honolulu building

Edit Business Journal 23 Apr 2016
A California-based co-working and office space company has recently purchased the property that houses its Hawaii project, which includes a mix of co-working and offices spaces and restaurants, the firm handling leasing for the project confirmed to PBN ... The property, which was previously owned by JS Kuwada… ... ....

Park Lane Ala Moana luxury condo project buyers mostly from Hawaii

Edit Business Journal 22 Apr 2016
The $1 billion Park Lane Ala Moana luxury condominium project being built at Hawaii’s largest shopping center is 77 percent sold, with the largest pool of buyers being Hawaii residents, an executive from the development team confirmed to PBN. Located at 1388 Ala Moana Blvd. in the mall's new Ewa wing, the seven eight-story buildings will each be 100 feet tall, offering a total of 215 units ranging in size from 850 to 6,000 square feet....

Commercial real estate group expanding to Hawaii

Edit Business Journal 21 Apr 2016
A California-based networking group that targets the commercial real estate industry, specifically the construction sector, is expanding to Hawaii and looking for board members, one of its members told PBN ... Ryan McGuire, a board member of Recon Nexus, told PBN that it has already filled… ... ....

Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa to undergo $13M renovation

Edit Business Journal 21 Apr 2016
The Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa will spend some $13 million on renovations this summer that include an upgrade to the hotel ballroom and adding meeting space to the Kaanapali resort property. The hotel's 18,400 square-foot ballroom will be refashioned in order to break into six different parts, rather than two, Allan Farwell, the resort’s general manager, told PBN ... ....

University of Hawaii pharmacy school to start construction, announces possible opening date

Edit Business Journal 21 Apr 2016
The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s pharmacy school is set to begin construction this summer, the university confirmed Wednesday. UH Hilo added $1.3 million more from its funds to cover the project, and reconfigured research laboratories into teaching laboratories, which saved approximately $1.6 million, UH spokesman Dan Meisenzahl told PBN ... “We’re happy that… ... ....

15-foot shark, humpback whale figures sold at Jimmy Buffet’s Waikiki auction

Edit Business Journal 21 Apr 2016
Items ranging from a 15-foot shark to a humpback whale the same size were auctioned off at the former Jimmy Buffet’s at the Beachcomber restaurant, as part of the effort to clear all of its contents to make way for the opening of Maui Brewing Co.’s first Oahu restaurant, the company holding the auction told PBN. More than 90 percent of the items were sold at the auction held earlier this month by Oahu Auctions ... ....

Former bank exec's Waikiki development moves ahead

Edit Business Journal 21 Apr 2016
The 200-seat Diamond Head Denny’s project, which was first reported by PBN, will also include a 40- to 50-seat banquet room with state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment to be used for birthday parties, local civic clubs, condominium board meetings… ... ....

Solar Impulse 2 departs Hawaii for solar-powered flight to California

Edit Business Journal 21 Apr 2016
The Solar Impulse 2 lifted off from a Hawaii airport shortly after sunrise Thursday to continue its around-the-world flight, more than nine months after the solar-powered aircraft broke all records for solar-powered flight on a five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan ... PBN photographer… ... ....

Sale won’t affect Chevron fuel supply contract with Hawaiian Electric (State of Hawaii)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Pacific Business News) Hawaiian Electric Co.'s fuel supply contract with Chevron Hawaii is not expected to be impacted by the sale of Chevron to New York's One Rock Capital Partners LP, a spokesman for the state's largest utility confirmed to PBN ... Peter Rosegg, spokesman for Hawaiian Electric, told PBN that its contract with Chevron is expected to be assigned to the new owner....

Sale won't affect Chevron fuel supply contract with Hawaiian Electric

Edit Business Journal 20 Apr 2016
Hawaiian Electric Co.’s fuel supply contract with Chevron Hawaii is not expected to be impacted by the sale of Chevron to New York’s One Rock Capital Partners LP, a spokesman for the state’s largest utility confirmed to PBN ... Peter Rosegg, spokesman for Hawaiian Electric,… ... ....

Hawaiian Electric interested in renewable energy projects on A&B;’s Maui sugar lands

Edit Business Journal 19 Apr 2016
Hawaiian Electric Co. and Alexander & Baldwin Inc. may be working on a deal where the Honolulu-based utility would utilize A&B; subsidiary Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co.’s land for possible renewable energy projects as the 36,000-acre plantation shifts out of farming sugar, the head of HECO confirmed to PBN ... ....

New pizza restaurant planned for Chinatown will feature oven from Italy

Edit Business Journal 18 Apr 2016
A new craft pizza restaurant is opening in Honolulu, joining other restaurants on the ground floor of the Real Office Centers Chinatown co-working and office space, an owner of the pizza eatery confirmed to PBN. Brick Fire Tavern will specialize in handcrafted Neapolitan pizza paired with craft wine, beer and other seasonal dishes, Matthew Resich, an owner of Mint Restaurant Group, the parent company of the new restaurant, told PBN ... ....

Virginia firm scores new contract to help Hawaii conserve energy

Edit Business Journal 16 Apr 2016
Hawaii regulators have chosen to go with Virginia’s Leidos Engineering to continue running the state’s ratepayer-funded energy conservation and efficiency program called Hawaii Energy, which serves Oahu, Maui, the Big Island, Lanai and Molokai, a spokeswoman for Leidos confirmed to PBN ... ....
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