Kauai Home Sales

*****Kauai Real Estate Update*****

For the second week in a row we’ve had fewer new listings and about the same amount of sales.  For a list of what has come on the market and what has sold CLICK HERE FOR KAUAI NEW LISTINGS AND SALES FOR SEPT. 8 TO SEPT. 15

*****Safeway Seeking Permits For Puhi Shopping Center***** 

Safeway has plans for a “lifestyle” shopping center in Puhi, across from the Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School.    In addition to a new Safeway Lifestyle store, which includes a wide variety of prepared foods and locally grown produce, there will be two or three sit down restaurants, possible gas station, clothing stores and more.  The company is seeking permits from the Kauai Planning Department and is reaching out to the community for comments and concerns with their new shopping center.  Safeway is also “going green” with their new building and will be using renewable and recycled building materials and will explore renewable energy sources also.   Safeway has been operating in Kapaa for 20 years and in the state of Hawaii for 40 years.  Currently they have 19 stores across the islands.

 *****Gay and Robinson To Exit Sugar Industry***** 

Gay and Robinson, Kauai’s last operating sugar mill, announced to their workers on Wednesday that they will continue to harvest the cane that’s in the ground through August of 2010 but will stop sugar production at that time due to the rising costs and shrinking profits.  Good news is the company is negotiating with Pacific West Energy LLC who intends to grow even more sugar then what is now being produced for ethanol and electricity and they will hire all of the existing 227 workers and will be needing even more.   Pacific West Energy said progress depends on Gay and Robinson ability to acquire even more lands for additional planting.  Currently G&R has 7,500 acres of sugar and trying to round up that much more, without those additional lands the banks and lenders won’t sign on to Pacific West Energy’s new venture.  Governor Linda Lingle and Kauai’s Mayor Bill “Kaipo” Asing said they are both committed to expediting all permits and approvals necessary to facilitate the sale.  

*****Makaweli Post Office Burglarized*****

Sometime during the first weekend of this month the Makaweli Post Office was broken into and thieves made off with the safe which contained about $1000.00 in cash and over $14,000.00 in stamps.  The burglars first tried to break into the safe as evidenced by the broken handle left on the floor.  They wound up taking the entire safe after cutting the telephone lines and an unsuccessful attempt at pulling the electrical box off the wall.  Office computers and other items were left behind.  Anyone with any information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators’ is being offered $10,000.00 reward. Also…..around that same time……$150K was taken from the Gold and Silver Trading Co. located on Hardy Street (right off of Rice street) and a total of four stores were involved to pull off the major heist.  The thieves actually broke into Ray’s Shoe Repair Shop and tried to pry the jewelry stores back door off, that being unsuccessful they kicked in the door to Beltone Hearing Aid and used a tool from the shoe shop to rip a hole big enough for the thieves to get into the jewelry store.  After filling their bags with literally all they could carry the thieves dragged the jewelry stores safe through the Makena Miyaki Inc., a book keeping operation.

*****Courts Uphold Superferry Protestor Ban***** 

The 9^th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision to bar all protestors from Nawiliwili Harbor.  Over a year ago surfers and canoe paddlers prevented the Superferry from entering the harbor where a multitude of protestors waited with banners and signs protesting the Superferry.  There are no immediate plans for the new mode of transportation to come back to Kauai.  There are still two other court cases pending before the state Supreme Court that were brought about by People for the Preservation of Kauai.

 *****Where’s My Stimulus Check?***** 

Well if your behind on your child support the federal and state government has it!  $5.4 million dollars in stimulus checks that were going to parents who have not kept up on their child support payments here in Hawaii have been intercepted and given to the custodial parent.   

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