Larry Ellison and Lanai - good for Hawaii?

[quilcene]

And do not forget Chuck Bundrant, Founder and Owner of Trident Seafoods, one of the Biggest Seafood Companies in the World.
They have the abalone farm by the airport in Kona. He has a place down on the beach on Captain Cooks Bay.

[bananahead]

most of the people on Lanai live in the very middle of the island... Lanai City

Lanai is a dump... and was permanently ruined (clearcut) by the pineapple industry....

not many tourists will pay a premium to visit an inferior island.... unless they like crappy beaches with shipwrecks or golf

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[OpenD]

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Originally posted by LaurelJ

Not to mention Oprah's home on Maui and her PRIVATE little road she is putting in somewhere between Ulupalakua and Wailea, just so when she is "on Island" she doesn't have to drive the long way around.

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According to what I found, Oprah paid $5.3 mil for the house, a rehabbed former B&B, and an adjacent land parcel in 2003. Since then she has bought more surrounding land parcels for $3.3 mil, $4.4 mil, and $4.5 mil which included a couple of small residences. The road, contrary to some perceptions, is an easement on private land she does not own, and was long a funky gravel road. She paid the ranch owner for the right to pave the easement road, and spent a helluva lot to turn it into a 12' wide paved road with drainage ditches on the sides.

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Quilcene: And do not forget Chuck Bundrant, Founder and Owner of Trident Seafoods, one of the Biggest Seafood Companies in the World. They have the abalone farm by the airport in Kona. He has a place down on the beach on Captain Cooks Bay.

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It's not in the same league. That house is worth about $1.5 mil, and according to one account was purchased by Bundrant at foreclosure sale for about $750,000. His house in Seattle is worth more. The transaction wound up in court when a previous winning bidder claimed he had been cheated out of his deal, but the Bank counter claimed that his deal was canceled when he didn't come up with the cash in time, and they and the Burandts won the case. Most recently he had to get a variance to install a gate across his road to stop unauthorized cars, but which would allow pedestrians continued access to the beach. It was approved.