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Posted on: Friday, February 17, 2006
By Lee Cataluna
Advertiser Columnist |
A renter hangs out in a
closet
There are more and more examples of just how
tight the local housing market is, from
tales of simple homes in regular
neighborhoods going for close to a million
dollars to stories of families tripling up
in shoebox apartments.
But the one making the rounds this week is a
high-water mark.
Among listings of rooms for rent was a
closet — a closet! — in a Kailua house, for
$100 a month. There were 33 replies and the
closet was rented immediately.
U.S. and foreign ships will be lining up
again at Pearl Harbor for the Navy's
biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise, which
begins in June.
The Pacific will see a spike in aircraft
carrier exercises this summer, with an
unprecedented amount of training — at least
for the past decade — planned off Hawai'i's
waters and elsewhere.
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Posted on: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
By Andrew Gomes
Advertiser Staff Writer
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Land offer may give
Kapolei its own
Ala Moana Center
The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
is offering to lease land in Kapolei to a
developer interested in building what the
agency envisions could one day rival the
size of the state's largest mall, Ala Moana
Center.
The agency has begun advertising 67 acres
for lease in hopes of attracting an
interested developer to join the retail
expansion under way in O'ahu's growing
"second city."
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