Oneloa Cleanup

Invasive mangrove and thorny non-native palm trees will not be impacting cultural sites or taking over the forest area behind Oneloa Beach thanks to the efforts of volunteers who showed up to ”malama Oneloa” (Big Beach) in Makena State park.

Volunteers clean up Oneloa Beach on Maui for Save Makena

Volunteers remove invasive mangrove and hundreds of seed pods before they can take over the forested area mauka of Oneloa Beach.

Mahalo to hardworking volunteers Joseph Allbright, Keith and Charlene Echeverri and Theresa Jensen, all of Kihei. The project was organized by Save Makena, a project of Maui Tomorrow, in cooperation with DLNR and state park staff. If you would like to volunteer for future Malama Oneloa projects email: laluz@maui.net.

 

Thorny, invasive palms are cleared to help protect area around cultural sites.

Thorny, invasive palms are cleared to help protect area around cultural sites.

 

Malama Oneloa

May 18, 2013 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
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Save Makena.org, a project of Maui Tomorrow Foundation, invites visitors and community members to help care for Oneloa (“Big Beach”), at Makena State Park on Saturday, May 18, 2013. The Malama Oneloa morning cleanup will meet at the park’s second entrance parking at 9am.

Volunteers will remove alien plants and clean the beach and wooded areas around a designated area of the park, working in coordination with the Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of State Parks. Cleanup supplies will be provided with volunteers asked to bring work gloves; cold water and watermelon will be served. Save Makena.org provides a voice for citizens coming together to protect and take care of Makena State Park and the lands of Honua’ula. For further information or to volunteer, please call 214-0147

Update: Makena Resort

What’s happening with nearly 1800 acres formerly owned by the Morgan Stanley, Dowling and Goodfellow partnership?  New owners took charge of the former Maui Prince Hotel and Makena Golf course at the end of August 2010.  ATC Makena purchased the property for approximately $190 million, a fraction of the $575 million paid for the same property in 2007. Continue reading →

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Makena Resort Sold at Auction

Sold August 2010

Makena Resort: New Owners or the Same Creditors?


UPDATE: Makena Resort. What’s happing with nearly 1800 acres formerly owned by the Everett Dowling partnership? A new partnership took charge of the former Maui Prince Hotel and Makena Golf Course at the end of August 2010. Comprised mostly of former investors in the project, the new owner’s Trustee, Wells Fargo Bank, purchased the property at foreclosure auction for $95 million in July of last year. This was a fraction of the $575 million price paid by Maui developer Everett Dowling and Morgan Stanley for the same property in 2007 

Accounts claim the Dowling partnership invested at least another $100 million in plans and projects before their investment group failed to keep up the payments on a $192.5 million first mortgage last year.

The new owners include local developer Stanford Carr who has been part of both housing and resort development statewide, as well as Trinity investments, headed by local hotel developer Charles Sweeney. New York investment group, AREA Property Partners (formerly Apollo Real Estate Advisors), who specialize in distressed properties, is the third named partner in the new joint venture.

Both AREA and Trinity were investors in the former Dowling partnership and appeared to be waiting in the wings to snap up the property once foreclosure proceedings began. They currently own the Kahala hotel and Resort on O’ahu and formerly owned the Fairmont Kealani. In Maui.

The new owners have already announced that they find many of the 40 rezoning conditions that are attached to the project’s rezoning approvals too expensive and will try to get them changed.

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