Kona Kohala Blog

Another sign of the times. the once exclusive Hualalai and Kukio developments are now in MLS.  The Multiple Listing Service is a vehicle that allows brokers to cooperate with each other and agree to share a commission.  These two resorts have always kept to themselves and would actively fight to keep outside brokers and agents from working in "their territory".  Now that things have gotten tight, they need our help and the exclusivity is gone.  Once the market picks up things will go back to how they were but in the meantime, we can help you with properties in these two beautiful properties and you can deal with the broker of your choice, let's say Ferrari Pacific Realty as an example.  Having spent a good deal of time with friends who lived at Hualalai, I am familiar with the property and the benefits of ownership there.

It's Friday so just for laughs, let's look at public works projects in Hawaii county, specifically west Hawaii.  Did you know that the Alii Parkway (also has many other names none of which is final) has been on the drawing table for 40 years?  Did you know there have been 20 surveys done in that time and it still isn't finalized?  It is such a boondoogle that the Public Works Director, a public employee, won't even return phone calls anymore.

$6.3 million  has been spent to date along with an expected $70 million price tag to build (yeah, like that will come in at budget) makes it the single most expensive 4.5 mile stretch of highway in the country and we haven't even broken ground yet.  And now that they've found 14 previously undocumented archeologically significant sites, you'd think they'd have found them all after 20 surveys, there is no end in sight, no pun intended.

Here's another amazing tidbit of stupidity available only from politicians.  There is another road way on the books no where near as complete as the Alii Parkway, that is being given priority.  This road known as the Kahului to Keauhou Parkway does not have a final plan and the county hasn't acquired at least one parcel of land needed to complete the road but is going ahead with trying to get funding even though they've been told projects have to be "shovel ready".  So much to do and so little thinking.  Stay tuned for further bottle necks to any constructive development in West Hawaii.