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[Kapoho Joe]

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Originally posted by leo

And they still refer to the Puna side as the wild wild west and are afraid to travel here...

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Good.

[TomK]

Has this project gone through nearly a decade of state-approved approval/permitting processes and the following contested case hearings? Is there an EIS we can all read?

Incidentally, one of my bug bears has always been business jargon. This is now near the top of my list:

"Pinkston added that projects designed by Meridian Pacific are profitable by the time the stores open. By approximately June 2019 they expect to be vertically integrated in the financing, design, construction and management of the property."

I think they need to leverage better content marketing through a hyperlocal reverse fulfillment paradigm so it becomes a touch point before a potential drill-down in client-centric mission-critical co-opetition.

[kalakoa]

a decade of state-approved approval/permitting processes and the following contested case hearings

No need; Waikoloa is pre-desecrated.

This is the same outfit allegedly building the Malama anchored super-strip-mall in Puna.

I drove by there a few days ago. No activity to be seen. Guessing they won't make that "spring 2018" opening.

[MarkD]

How much do they pay people to live over there... because I can't see any reason to live on the crap side of the island... and couldn't imagine anyone wanting to live there.

The beaches are widely considered to be among the most beautiful in the world. Ocean recreation is important to some folks. (And beautiful sunsets over there. A small thing, but of some value nonetheless.)

Let's see, Hilo Bay, once had the largest black sand beach in the state...built a railroad, then a highway directly on topic of it...(now there's a bright idea).....put up a fence so people can't walk from downtown to the sea....wouldn't want to inconvenience bayfront highway motorists by introducing speed limits, would we?

Won't find a similar situation anywhere else in Hawaii. (I won't get into the topic of poor water quality from the breakwater.)

And the unfortunate loss of the giant Kalapana-Left Point ocean recreation area to Madam Pele years ago.

The West and East sides each have their pluses and minuses. East Hawaii Island is hardly in a position to disparage any other areas of the state.....

[DTisme]

I wanna be vertically integrated!

[mermaid53]

I think they need to leverage better content marketing through a hyperlocal reverse fulfillment paradigm so it becomes a touch point before a potential drill-down in client-centric mission-critical co-opetition.

Tom, would you kindly translate? []

[Kenney]

Mermaid, I think Tom's point was that Pinkston's quote needed to be translated. "Vertically integrated?" Huh? It was business speak, which nobody understood.

Right Tom?

[kalakoa]

The awesome thing about this is: same developer, two similar projects, both with aggressive timelines, one on each side of the island. WIth any luck, we'll see evidence of "Puna-specific" delays...

"Vertical integration" is just a fancy way to screw the consumer. Think "movie studio also owns cable tv franchise".

[mermaid53]

Hi Kenney.. [] It was a joke...see the wink?

[Tink]

Be interesting in the architectural style, parking lot flow and general appearance of the completed projects and compare the two along with how long from start to finish as well to see if the Puna side is the screwed side.....
Either way it's the "infrastructure" everybody is barking about so not to complain much.

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