• Local retailers to open doors at Kukui‘ula Village • The Eastside is expanding • Belt Collins acquires Colorado consulting firm • Aqua Engineers honored for improving environment • Marriott Vacation Club celebrates 25 years Local retailers to open doors at
• Local retailers to open doors at Kukui‘ula Village
• The Eastside is expanding
• Belt Collins acquires Colorado consulting firm
• Aqua Engineers honored for improving environment
• Marriott Vacation Club celebrates 25 years
Local retailers to open doors at Kukui‘ula Village
Familiar Kaua‘i retailers, including Kela’s Glass Gallery, Palm Palm, Taro Fields, Bubba’s Burgers Hawai‘i and Lappert’s Hawai‘i Coffee and Ice Cream are opening new doors this summer at Kukui‘ula Village in Po‘ipu. Hawai‘i’s newest shopping center will have a mix of Hawai‘i regional cuisine-centric restaurants by popular island chefs, open-air cafes and a selection of retail shops.
For more information visit www.kukuiula.com
The Eastside is expanding
Lending a deaf ear to the country’s economic woes and implicit messages of “pull back and down size,” co-owners Chef Jon and Dylan Scott of Kapa‘a’s “The Eastside” restaurant have announced the expansion of their dining establishment that will include a 10-seat full-service bar and additional dining area to accommodate large groups and private parties.
To show their appreciation for the community’s support, they are introducing a 10 percent kama‘aina discount for a limited time.
No doubt receiving their liquor license had something to do with their expansion, or maybe it’s the fact that the culinary artistry of “Chef Jon” will be featured in the up-and-coming Taste of Hawai‘i, but since opening their doors six months ago on the corner of Kuhio Highway and Niu Street (across from First Hawaiian Bank) in the old Beezer’s ice cream parlor location, the brothers have consistently given locals and visitors alike a dining experience well worth remembering, a release says.
Chef Jon’s penchant for using fresh, locally grown ingredients is even finding its way into the new bar menu. Bar selections will feature top shelf alcohol, hand squeezed and mixed, fresh natural fruit juice infusions that produce refreshing signature cocktails like Mai Tais with fresh papaya, pineapple and coconut water.
The Eastside’s eclectic and engaging menu features unique signature dishes that draw from the taste of local island favorites interpreted with Chef Jon’s casual, yet sophisticated style.
Dinners are served Tuesdays through Saturdays from 5:30 to 9 p.m., with local musicians providing nightly entertainment. To access their full menu, visit www.theeastsidekauai.com
Belt Collins acquires Colorado consulting firm
Belt Collins, a Honolulu-based planning, civil engineering, landscape architecture, and environmental consulting firm, announces the acquisition of Love & Associates, Inc., a Louisville, Colorado water resource consulting firm. This recent move continues Belt Collins’ strategy of strengthening its position with additional resources and fields of expertise.
Love & Associates, Inc., now known as Belt Collins West, is a full-service water resource consulting firm with a staff of seven. Founded in 1985, it specializes in storm drainage and flood control, water resource planning and management, civil engineering, water-based recreation, wetland solutions and construction management services.
The acquisition of Love & Associates is Belt Collins’ second acquisition in the state of Colorado. In November 2007, Belt Collins acquired Shapins & Associates, located in Boulder, Colo.
Aqua Engineers honored for improving environment
Kaua‘i-based Aqua Engineers, Inc., Hawai‘i’s largest water and wastewater management company, was awarded The Secretary of the Army Sustainability Team Award by the US Army Garrison-Hawaii recently for its role in providing sustainable solutions.
This is the third award the 28-year-old company has received in the past three years for helping improve the environment. In 2007 and again in 2008, Aqua Engineers was awarded the GE ecomagination award, a release says.
The latest award recognizes Aqua Engineers for its work with Schofield Barracks’ Directorate of Public Works, Utilities Division, for developing an R-1 In Plant Water Reuse System at the Schofield Barracks Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Treatment Plant produces a high quality treated wastewater, while creating a sustainable benefit to Hawaii, in an economical way. The In Plant Reuse System, which began operating in September 2008, now recycles about 100,000 gallons of wastewater a day that is used for the benefit of the military and community at large.
In building the R-1 Reuse Plant, Aqua Engineers recommended new technologies that reduced the plant’s output of nitrogen and phosphates and enabled it to provide premium recycled water (R-1) that is being used for in-plant operations and various landscape watering systems instead of potable water. If 100 percent of the recycled water is used, R-1 projects could reduce the Army’s demand for potable water by more than one million gallons per day.
The wastewater treatment plant at Schofield Barracks became one of the first plants under the US Department of Defense Privatization Program and is the largest privately owned R-1 facility in Hawaii.
Marriott Vacation Club celebrates 25 years
Marriott Vacation Club International, the vacation ownership division of Marriott International, Inc., proudly celebrates 25 years of preserving one of the oldest family traditions — the family vacation.
There are among nearly 400,000 owner families at more than 50 distinct Marriott Vacation Club resorts throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Europe and Asia, a release says.
The American Business Awards has taken notice of Marriott Vacation Club International’s winning ways, naming MVCI “Best Sales Organization” three times in the last six years and “Best Customer Service Organization” in 2007.
Hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars,” The American Business Awards’ Stevie is the first national, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business and positive contributions in the workplace.
