LIHU’E – Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc., new owner of the property where the Waiohai Hotel still sits along Po’ipu Beach, has applied for various county permits necessary for it to demolish the existing hotel and construct a new resort on
LIHU’E – Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc., new owner of the property where the
Waiohai Hotel still sits along Po’ipu Beach, has applied for various county
permits necessary for it to demolish the existing hotel and construct a new
resort on the property.
A Kaua’i Planning Commission public hearing on the
company’s Special Management Area Use Permit, Project Development Use Permit,
Shoreline Setback Variance and Class IV Zoning Permit is Thursday, Jan. 27,
around 1:30 p.m. or later at the Lihu’e Civic Center.
The company plans to
tear down the existing, 461-room hotel and replace it with a 234-unit
apartment-hotel of mostly timeshare units, to be called the Marriott Waiohai
Beach Club.
The new resort will have eight buildings, including a central
facilities building to house apartments, hotel units, lobby and front-desk
area, timeshare sales office and timeshare resale office, administrative
offices, children’s room, fitness center, restaurant and convenience
store.
The apartment-hotel buildings will encircle two interior
courtyards: An upper courtyard with a tropical garden and ponds; and a lower
courtyard with swimming pool and beach garden.
An operations building will
be located on the mauka side of the property, to include staff and public
parking areas. A majority of the parking spaces for guests will be located
underground, beneath the building complexes.
Marriott will replace and
reconstruct the public pedestrian paths leading to and along the shoreline, and
two public shower areas along the public pedestrian paths.
An existing
swimming pool along the shoreline will be repaired and renovated. The company
will also construct underground utilities and facilities, and install new
landscaping.
