[Dick] Mayer characterized light industrial use as one that would provide full-time, well-paid jobs to local residents and ownership opportunities to local businesses. Retail use, he said, might provide many jobs, but they would be low-wage positions that were likely to be part-time and provide few benefits to employees. He also claimed that monies generated by the shopping centers would mostly benefit off-island owners and that an influx of big-box tenants would be detrimental to the existing locally owned small businesses in Kihei.
State Official: [megamall] “Plan clearly different”
A state Office of Planning official said that developers of two large retail centers and 250 affordable housing units in Kihei should have filed a motion with the state Land Use Commission to amend conditions placed on the parcel that was initially proposed as a light industrial park. “This is a clearly different project than […]
LUC Hearings on Pi’ilani Megamall Continue
Maui Weekly reports: On the face of it, it would seem they are “different,” and in fact, every expert witness the developers called to testify during the two days of testimony only accentuated the differences. The 1995 plan has no resemblance to the 2012 plan, except that they are both zoned M-1…. Witnesses called by […]
Megamall Differences Between proposal and project “profound”
Jesse Souki, director of the state Office of Planning, rebutted the County’s argument that the Pi’ilani Promenade Megamall is in compliance with County rules. Souki said: “It is about whether the proposed project is substantially compliant with the Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Decision and Order issued over 17 years ago on February […]
Mark Hyde to Don Couch Re MegaMall
Don, I read your comments about the malls in today’s Maui News. I agree that the council, the legislative body of county government, cannot do much about the malls at this time. The matter is in the hands of the executive department and, of course, the state Land Use Commission. I disagree with […]
Another MegaMall Challenge Grant!
Help us mount the legal challenge to the Kihei MegaMall (Pi’ilani Promenade) by donating! Maui Tomorrow Foundation is pleased to announce the Piilani Promenade Legal Fund Matching Grant #2 A very generous donor has given Maui Tomorrow a gift of another $5,000 to be used as a Matching Gift if equal funds can be raised […]