09-21-2023, 04:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2023, 04:31 AM by Rob Tucker.)
Not many people may know this but an awful lot of county offices are in failed commercial ventures in which the poor local property owners were bought out at inflated prices and the county moved in. The current building department, for example, was once a J.C. Penney. The Price Kuhio Mall killed the downtown Hilo shopping center. County paid, as I recall, over $6 million for the boarded up mall. About twice what it was worth.