01-09-2016, 04:06 AM
It isn't Puna, but it sure is the East side of Hawaii, and many in one are concerned about the other...
I had more than one email in my inbox this morning pointing to an article in Pacific Business News entitled:
Hawaii's Bishop Museum to sell Big Island properties valued at $10M+
which in part reads:
The Bishop Museum plans to sell two properties on the Big Island of Hawaii valued at more than $10 million as part of its new operating model, the Honolulu-based museum confirmed with PBN on Friday.
Museum executives assessed the institution’s assets and have identified its 537-acre Waipio Valley land and Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden garden property as the first to be sold.
The move will allow the museum to expand its engagement and outreach focus at its main Kapalama campus on Oahu, Bishop Museum President and CEO Blair Collis told PBN.
more at link:
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/...sland.html
It's been coming for a long time, but with a lot of hemming and hawing, and this is the first time that I know of that it's been clearly stated. A few years ago, as the article points out, a few in state politics were trying to move a bill through to fund the purchase, but then Bishop Museum wouldn't clearly say what they intended to do.
More recently there has been a lot of back door maneuvering at the county level to consider using the Open Space funds to buy out Bishop Museum's Waipio Valley land, with both Valerie Poindexter and the mayor floating the idea to those that would be directly effected in an initial effort to see what sort of response they got. It will be every interesting to see how this all plays out.
The humbug with the Museum's lands in the valley is that it isn't in a consolidated chunk but rather is all over the valley with lots of private land in-between as a patchwork. You can see this graphically on the colored version of the consolidated Hawaii County Tax Map as seen here:
http://bigislandmappingproject.com/waipiotax.html
By clicking on the color map it will open a larger version and the Museum's lands are in green. Plus they own most of the gray, and a few others. That map's coloring is based on the county's notes on the map itself and are not conclusive, but rather give the viewer a good idea of what is the situation.
I had more than one email in my inbox this morning pointing to an article in Pacific Business News entitled:
Hawaii's Bishop Museum to sell Big Island properties valued at $10M+
which in part reads:
The Bishop Museum plans to sell two properties on the Big Island of Hawaii valued at more than $10 million as part of its new operating model, the Honolulu-based museum confirmed with PBN on Friday.
Museum executives assessed the institution’s assets and have identified its 537-acre Waipio Valley land and Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden garden property as the first to be sold.
The move will allow the museum to expand its engagement and outreach focus at its main Kapalama campus on Oahu, Bishop Museum President and CEO Blair Collis told PBN.
more at link:
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/...sland.html
It's been coming for a long time, but with a lot of hemming and hawing, and this is the first time that I know of that it's been clearly stated. A few years ago, as the article points out, a few in state politics were trying to move a bill through to fund the purchase, but then Bishop Museum wouldn't clearly say what they intended to do.
More recently there has been a lot of back door maneuvering at the county level to consider using the Open Space funds to buy out Bishop Museum's Waipio Valley land, with both Valerie Poindexter and the mayor floating the idea to those that would be directly effected in an initial effort to see what sort of response they got. It will be every interesting to see how this all plays out.
The humbug with the Museum's lands in the valley is that it isn't in a consolidated chunk but rather is all over the valley with lots of private land in-between as a patchwork. You can see this graphically on the colored version of the consolidated Hawaii County Tax Map as seen here:
http://bigislandmappingproject.com/waipiotax.html
By clicking on the color map it will open a larger version and the Museum's lands are in green. Plus they own most of the gray, and a few others. That map's coloring is based on the county's notes on the map itself and are not conclusive, but rather give the viewer a good idea of what is the situation.