Tsunami Update

Here are a few unofficial updates as to what’s happening after the tsunami:

The goal remains to open the Four Seasons Hotel and facilities by the end of April.

• Over 700 truckloads of debris from the Beach House ponds were removed.
• The sod around the hotel will be replaced. Over 80,000 feet of Paspalum sod as well as plant material is being purchased from all over the state to revitalize the landscape at the hotel.
• Preparations are being made to pour the cement to repair the ocean side cart path that was wiped out at the Beach House.
• A Coqui quarantine area has been set up for all the new plants coming in to the hotel.
• Canoe Club is the current location for the Alakai Nalu – it is currently hoped that the RibCraft can be moved over to the Canoe Club within a week.

Palm Grove: The Palm Grove Pool is being redesigned – it will be much larger and include a swim-up bar.

Resident’s Beach House: They are replacing the full kitchen at the Beach House. They are hoping to update the front of the house experience on basically the same foot print. They are hoping to put the storage behind the kitchen to increase the parking area adjacent to the Beach House.

Forms are layed

The Beach Tree: All the kitchen equipment and a majority of the furniture will be replaced and they are expecting it to be accomplished and have the restaurant up and running by the time the hotel opens.

Kona Village: KV continues to be assessed. A jobs fair was held recently for the employees of Kona Village and about 15 employers showed up to interview prospective employees. A few were absorbed into Hualalai employment.

Did you know there are over 2700 Palm trees on the Kona Village Property? Right now, the trees are being irrigated so they won’t have to be replaced.