Breaking: Coco Palms Plans Explode In Emotional Hearing

Breaking: Coco Palms Plans Explode In Bizarre, Emotional Hearing

A wild meeting just took place on the future of a hotel or cultural park at Coco Palms Kauai.

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37 thoughts on “Breaking: Coco Palms Plans Explode In Bizarre, Emotional Hearing”

  1. I truly hope they don’t open another hotel as if we need more I like the idea of a cultural center of some sort or something referring to the indigenous history

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  2. It seems like many people express their opinion that a hotel should Not be built on the Coco Palms site. It seem that developing it into a cultural site is one of the options that people feel is desirable, however, no one has come forward with a feasbile financial plan to make that happen. The current owner of the property seems to want to make it a hotel and a cultural site and they have the financial backing to make that happen. Instead of just saying no someone in leadership needs to come forward with a feasible plan for the site. That may be with or without the financial help of the current owner of the property.

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    1. Each of the previous owners/developers of the property have claimed they had the financial backing to complete the project, but time and again nothing had happened. I don’t know why we should expect this is any different.

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      1. That may be the case, but is there any expectation that the funding to buy the property and turn it into a park or cultural center will materialize? I think if the public can show a plan for having the funding required to make the cultural center plan happen then the arguments against the Coco Palms development will have the appropriate strength needed to prevail.

  3. I join the many families who have visited the Coco Palms Hotel
    from the 70s…..it was a Most Enjoyable week long visit with 6 of our Family…We recall
    fondly the nightly event of lighting torches as the Words ” Over 100 Years Ago” were sounded along with the Conch Shell sound….Our children were in Awe of it all…
    A Special Place that definitely should be Preserved in some Way to the delight and Benefit of All. Very Sad to see it in this state of Decay for years now….Surely there is
    a way to Retain the Traditional Hawaiian Atmosphere that it conveyed to so many for so many years…….No Greed should be allowed to ruin this Property….Mahalo,
    Don S

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  4. The reality is that we live in a capitalist society that is largely based on the belief and affirmation of private ownership of land–and government support of that principle. So… what the “natives” want or think about who owns that land–or even what they think should be done with the land–is irrelevant. That ship has sailed. But there is a little thing called eminent domain that could potentially be used in a situation like this… where the gov’t condemns and “takes” the property (i.e. buys it) for the public good. The taxpayers of Kauai would just have to pony up fair market value–$22,000.000+–to compensate the owners. That’s a drop in the bucket… right?

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  5. It seems like the best solution might be for the locals to pool together enough money to buy the property. Then they could demolish the buildings and let the site go back to its original natural sacred setting, or build a cultural center, or whatever they want. Then they could restrict the access to locals only if they wanted, thereby reducing any traffic, congestion issues too.
    Thanks for your interesting newsletters!

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  6. It’s to bad it wasn’t restored to its original design. It could still be and it would take people back to a different time. Don’t build some big hotel.

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  7. A Layton Construction Executive is part owner and Layton Construction (same company recently locked out of both 1 Hotel and Timbers projects) is slated to be GC.

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