The Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel on Hawaii Island (formerly known as the Big Island) is undergoing a $46-million renovation and transformation, which is expected to be completed this May. Honolulu-based G70 is behind the design. Upon completion, the property will...
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Tourism remains one of Hawai‘i’s economic pillars. And while 2017 was another year of records, the industry faces some new challenges this year. PBN editor in chief A. Kam Napier has more from a roundtable of tourism industry executives. At...
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KIHEI — State Department of Education officials confirmed during a meeting Thursday night that the Kihei high school is on track to open for the 2021-22 school year, but they left some long-suffering parents pleading for it to open with...
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The Queen Kapi‘olani Hotel, Waikiki Beach is set to reopen this summer following a $35 million renovation. Led by Honolulu-based architecture and design firms G70 and Philpotts Interiors, the redesign embraces the 1960s aesthetic of Waikiki’s golden age across 19...
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The city has imported an idea from San Francisco to convert two obsolete Honolulu city buses into Hawaii’s first “mobile hygiene centers” to give Oahu’s homeless a place to use the bathroom and clean themselves. The city is seeking proposals...
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Construction on the new Residence Inn by Marriott hotel in Kapolei in West Oahu could begin as early as in August, an executive with the development team confirmed to Pacific Business News. The hotel will be the third one of...
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Within a few weeks the first homeless families are expected to move into newly renovated rental apartments in the heart of urban Honolulu as the city continues to find homes for people living on the street. The city bought the...
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