CONCRETE PARADISE: Turtle Bay Expansion Sails Through
Welcome to the new state of Aloha. Please watch the video on the cabin screen and enjoy planning what Oahu has to offer. Not for nothing are we known as "The Concrete Paradise!"
Ignored again: Windward community plea, 2013
Today, Oct 23, 2013 will go down in Hawaiian history as the day the North Shore died: the Turtle Bay expansion has been approved despite an Environmental Impact Statement that is over 20 years old. Two new hotel towers will rise in place of green space, beach and 'iwi burial sites. The 750 new units will be most likely condominiums, since the existing Turtle Bay is nowhere near 80 percent occupancy. The traffic to the North Shore isn't the worst thing--this decision opens the door to Envision Laie and its 875 units, the expansion of the Polynesian Culture Center and also of BYU-Hawaii. Nor is that all. There are plans for the 100 percent Mormon-owned development to add another 2,000 homes in tracts, with a four-lane highway in the works.
So you thought that was exciting? Well, check out Our Incredible Kaka'ako, the keystone of Concrete Paradise. Locals are ecstatic at the prospect of over 29 condo towers going up, and show their loyalty by wearing colored t-shirts with the Logo: "More Maid Jobs, Bra!" Many are retrofitting their mini-vans so that, in additional to providing living space for the keikis, they can cruise the Kaka'ako streets selling designer tacos to residents stranded by flooding.
Please fasten your seatbelts as descents tend to be a little rocky.The city and state bankruptcy and subsequent surge of the unhoused means the pilot often has to dodge homeless encampments using the runways for temporary shelter...
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