Save Lanai City!

May 5th, 2009

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I was shocked to read that despite the beautiful old plantation town being on the National Trust for Historic Preservation that Castle & Cooke “submitted a three-part plan calling for the demolition or alteration of 15-20 historic buildings in Lanai City to make way for large-scale commercial development.  The new development proposal includes an oversized, out-of-scale grocery store, dramatically incompatible with the historic downtown. The grocery store’s parking lot alone would consume an entire city block.”  By the way an entire city block is HALF of the size of the city!  Imagine half of the city you live in being a parking lot!  That is why it is listed on the 11 Most Historic Places Endangered list.  To see more about it, click here for video of the city and leave your feedback of your favorite memories from Lanai.  To read more about where I saw this, you can click here.

If you have ever been to Lanai, you know the biggest draw to this quaint island is the fact that it is a sleepy town and not at all developed except for the resorts and gee, guess who owns those?  If you’d like to let Castle and Cooke know how you feel, here’s their contact information:

Castle & Cooke Hawaii
E-mail: info@castlecookehawaii.com


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