04-16-2011, 05:57 AM
The logic of "high visibility" for stores works most everywhere, not so much for lower Puna. We don't get a lot of highway traffic being that we live on a dead-end. The few day-trip tourists we get are most likely to do their shopping at 7-11 or a gas station, not at a supermarket. Why not develop one or more of those 20 acre parcels in HPP. 11,000 people and just one (semi-legal?) grocery in somebody's garage. Where else but Puna would this be the case. I'd love to have even just a Kwikimart here in Leilani to save on gas when all I want is something like a quart of milk. I think corner stores would prove popular in many of the subdivisions.