BUSINESS BRIEFS
Target buys Kapolei store land
Advertiser Staff
Target Corp. has purchased the land under its planned Kapolei store as part of a real estate deal completed by the developers of the Kapolei Commons shopping center, which is scheduled to open in March 2009.
Target, the center's main anchor, bought 10.44 acres of land under the project from MK Kapolei Commons LLC, a partnership between The MacNaughton Group and Kobayashi Group developing the project.
MK Kapolei sold the parcel after acquiring 28 acres from an affiliate of James Campbell Co. Prices for the two transactions were not disclosed.
The Campbell affiliate earlier sold roughly 23 acres to MK Kapolei for $11.6 million in an initial deal for the 610,000-square-foot, open-air retail center on roughly 50 acres.
HAWAIIAN AIRLINES FLIGHTS 84.2% FULL
Hawaiian Airlines said its planes were 84.2 percent full in February, down from 87.3 percent in the same month a year ago.
The state's largest airline served a total of 557,008 passengers last month — up 8.1 percent from 515,094 in February 2007.
Revenue passenger miles totaled 608.1 million in February, up from 576.9 million miles a year ago.
AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP TRAINING
The Agricultural Leadership Foundation of Hawai'i is recruiting applicants for the next class of its Agriculture Leadership Training Program.
Applications are available on the organization's Web site: www.agleaderhi.org. ALFH provides a statewide multidisciplinary leadership training program for people working in rural businesses and organizations in sectors that overlap with agriculture.
The deadline for applications is Friday. For more information, call Donna Ching at 956-225 or Kim Coffee-Isaak at 947-2914.
UH HALL TO GET WIND-ENERGY TURBINE
The Manoa campus of the University of Hawai'i will be the demonstration site of a newly designed energy-generating wind turbine.
The PacWind SeaHawk vertical axis wind turbine is being donated by the Energy Management Group to UH-Manoa for installation on the roof of Saunders Hall, home to the Sustainable Saunders Initiative — a collaborative effort among faculty and students to pursue workplace sustainability.
The small turbine will provide an opportunity for students to study the potential of wind-generated power in an urban environment. And coupled with a solar PV array, the system will demonstrate the potential benefits of solar/wind renewable energy power systems.
NANAKULI CESSPOOLS TO BE REPLACED
Gov. Linda Lingle released $723,882 to replace nine stand-alone cesspools at the former Nanaikapono Elementary School campus in Nanakuli.
The cesspool replacement project is being undertaken to comply with an Environmental Protection Agency mandate. Construction is scheduled to begin in April and be completed in July.
The project involves connecting the existing cesspools with nearly 2,000 feet of sewer lines to create a new on-site sewer system, and linking this system to the city's sewer collection main that runs along Farrington Highway.
The project will also restore sidewalks, pavement, fencing and landscaping impacted by the construction.
