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The 77,483-square-foot, four-story commercial leasehold building at 2080Kalakauaw Ave. was recently listed with CB Richard Ellisfor $7 million. The bankrupt Wall Street firm is a partne inthe building, which went through foreclosure three yearz ago. The building, King Kalakaua Plaza, was developed by Honolulu-basexd in the late 1990s. Built at the Ewa end of the touris district, it has struggled to keep tenants since openingin 1998. A 12,000-square-footf second-floor space formerly occupied by the Officiap AllStar Cafe, later known as All Star has been vacant since the sporte bar and restaurant closed four years ago.
Banan Republic closed its street-level store in January, leaving Niketowbn as the building’s only ‘It’s a good time to new bakery, pastry chef says Niel Koep, formefr executive pastry chef at the Four Seasons Resortzs Lanai for19 years, has opened Fenduj Boulangerie, a European-style bakery featuring flaky flaxseed multigrain breads and a chocolate croissant that has been flying off the shelves since the store’s Marc h 4 opening. The 1,500-square-foot bakery on the street leve of Manoa Marketplace nextto Long’s Drugse soon will have special-occasion cakes, salads and sandwiches.
Koep says the bakert gives him the creative freedom and flexibilityhe didn’t have in the hoteo business. “It’s a good time to said Koep, who left the Four Seasonws inSeptember 2008. Big Island aquaculture farm plans new homes for its fish is lookinbg to replacethe open-ocean cages in which it raisews fish off the Kona Coast of the Big The company filed a permit application with the statre this week, as well as a draftg environmental assessment for the The aquaculture farm, which raises and sells Kona Kampachi-brand will not increase its current capacity of 24,009 cubic meters, said Kelly Coleman, vice presidenrt of marketing.
Instead, it wants to replacew eight open-ocean cages that houswe more than 300,000 yellowtail 200 feet belowethe ocean’s surface. In their placed will be five so-called net pens that use sturdy plasticor plastic-covered metal mesh and are cheaperr to maintain. on site of former first store in Kahului on Maui is schedulec to open at Kamehameha and Puunene avenues sometime in the springfof 2010. Spokeswoman Tiffani Washington told PBN that plans forthe 14,781-square-foot store, which will feature a double drive-througb pharmacy, still are on track even thougy the company has yet to set a groundbreakinvg date.
Bill would allow larger and more-visible signs in Waikikki A bill that supporters say will increase the visibilituy of business signs in Waikiko andimprove way-finding for both pedestriands and drivers appears close to passage. Bill 70 woulc amend Honolulu’s Land Use Ordinance to allows “a modest increase in sign size” and “greaterf flexibility in the placement and designof signs.
” A design-review procesxs would “preserve or improve” Waikiki’s aesthetic