Hooser: Muddy waters of Coco Palms
Tuesday, Jan. 24, could be a big day for the perennially promised and never fulfilled Coco Palms development.
Kaua‘i Coco Palms development faces new legal challenge
WAILUA — The embattled 350-room Coco Palms hotel development is facing a new legal challenge.
HOOSER: Reclaiming Coco Palms — a just cause
I’ve never donated $2,000 to anything, let alone $10,000. Like most of us, I don’t have a ton of money and after the bills that are due on the first of every month are paid, there’s no shortage of other family needs and wants.
Community group lays out vision for Coco Palms
KAPA‘A — As the plan to develop the ruins of Coco Palms into a 350-room hotel slowly creeps forward, a community group has proposed an alternative vision for the site.
Coco Palms ownership open to sale
LIHU‘E — The current owners of Coco Palms said Tuesday that they are willing to entertain offers to purchase the site of the dilapidated hotel.
VOICES: Hotel on Coco Palms site ‘wrong approach’
Our experience with the pandemic taught us firsthand how important it is for us to better manage our industries in a way that supports the regeneration of our resources and people’s well-being.
VOICES: No hotel at Coco Palms site
Our elected or selected government representatives have been misled and duped by the empty promises of off island developers for the past 30 years since Coco Palms was destroyed by ‘Iniki.
ISLAND HISTORY: Grace Buscher Guslander, renowned manager of Kaua‘i’s Coco Palms Hotel
When Lyle Guslander bought the Coco Palms Hotel and hired Grace Buscher as manager in 1953, the hotel contained only 24 rooms and employed a staff of four.
HOOSER: Coco Palms Resort goes rent-seeking
It’s Groundhog Day, as the Coco Palms Resort development is yet again on the Kaua‘i Planning Commission agenda. It’s been 30 years and the parade of various owners and developers continue to tell us to trust them, everything is on track, and they will soon be restoring the property to its former glory.
New owners, continued opposition to Kaua‘i Coco Palms development
LIHU‘E — A year after the remains of the famed Coco Palms Hotel was purchased at auction for $22 million, a legal challenge has been filed contesting the developer’s permits.
Panel to talk about Coco Palms
A Docomomo online panel discussion about the former Coco Palms Resort is scheduled 10 a.m. Saturday.
6 years later, Coco Palms permits still alive
LIHU‘E — Controversy surrounding the permits for the reimagining of the Coco Palms Resort granted in 2015 has persisted throughout the years. Yesterday was no different.
HOOSER: Time for Coco Palms permit revocation, demolition
Twenty-nine years ago on Sept. 11, 1992, Hurricane ‘Iniki, the most powerful storm to strike Hawai‘i in recorded history, demolished much of Kaua‘i, including that property formerly known as the Coco Palms Hotel.
HOOSER: Money needed to preserve Coco Palms site
The auction of the Coco Palms Hotel held this past Monday at noon on the courthouse steps was at best anti-climatic.
Coco Palms sold for $22M in single-bid
LIHU‘E — What remains of the Coco Palms Resort and the land its built was auctioned off in one bid for $22.231 million Monday to Private Capital Group.
Local preservation group prepares for Coco Palms auction
LIHU‘E — In less than 15 days, over 10% of Kaua‘i residents have signed a petition opposing new resort development at the site of the former Coco Palms Resort.
VOICES: Support builds for cultural site at Coco Palms
In a statement released yesterday and published statewide in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, Kaua‘i residents Pua Rossi-Fukino, Makana Reilly and Fern Anuenue Holland, speaking on behalf of the I Ola Wailuanui Working Group, released a statement: “The place formerly known as the Coco Palms Hotel will never ever be developed again as a hotel or resort property. Of this, we are sure. Elvis has indeed left the building.”
Ige talks legislation, Coco Palms
I think freedom of the press is really, really important. I mean, it’s a bedrock of democracy, and has been throughout our history are such an important part of holding government and elected officials accountable. So I continue to believe that. I do think that one of the challenges today is that everybody has a megaphone, and everybody can be a journalist, right?
VOICES: Coco Palms — Not a good hotel site anymore
Located next to a four-lane highway, in a flood zone, across from a beach that may disappear, in a community that feels we already have more than enough visitors, Coco Palms makes no sense as a hotel site.
Group: No hotel at Coco Palms site
WAILUA —Kaua‘i community residents have mobilized to protect the land of Coco Palms Resort against development as the property heads to auction later this month.