HVNP grows

[AaronM]

private company for decades and they made many attempts to build a resort there

Maybe the next owner knows which palms to grease, and I don’t mean coconut palms?  Times change, administrations change, people in Ka’u might lose their government benefits which keep many of them in groceries and homes.  Then a job offered by a resort could look a lot different to people down there who protest any attempt at building anything.

Nice try. 

You would hard pressed to find more than 25% of people living in Miloli'i, HOVE, Ranchos, Disco Harbor, Wai'ohinu, Na'alehu, Green Sands or Pahala who would be willing to trade their quiet, peaceful neighborhoods for the kind of dubious economic security that resorts offer.

Mo bettah to drive to Kona or Hilo for work in spite of gas prices in order to keep things pastoral and uncrowded at home.

There is a reason why multiple attempts to develop a resort over many decades have all failed. 

There are some things that money just can't buy.