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Longs backs out as Parker anchor tenant
Longs Drug Stores has withdrawn as an anchor tenant at a renovated and expanded Parker Ranch Center in Waimea on the Big Island. Longs was to have opened a 25,000-square-foot store at the 121,000-square-foot shopping center in spring 2002. Instead, Foodland Super Market Ltd. will increase its planned store by 5,000 square feet to include a full-service pharmacy.
Longs signed a lease four years ago and had originally planned to open in 1998, but expansion plans were delayed. "Although Parker Ranch Inc. and Longs Drugs have been working diligently together to find a means to move forward under the terms of a lease, circumstances have arisen that have precluded that from happening, and Longs has opted to terminate its lease," said Parker Ranch President Carl Carlson in a statement.
Longs has four stores on the Big Island. Foodland operates three Big Island supermarkets under the Sack ’n Save Foods name. It has one other pharmacy at its Pukalani, Maui, Foodland store.
Maui shopping mall modifying name
Maui’s largest shopping center, Ka‘ahumanu Center, is modifying its name to mark a "new era" for the Kahului mall. The center will be known as Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center in honor of the favorite wife of King Kamehameha I, starting March 17, the queen’s birthday.
"When it opened twenty-eight years ago, the center was named for Maui’s own Queen Ka‘ahumanu. ... Now that we’re beginning a whole new era, it’s only right that our name as well should become Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center," said Scott Crockford, general manager.
From March 17 to mid-May the center will undergo improvements to a statue of the queen, the center’s logo, and to exterior signage and decor. Old Lahaina Luau will run half-hour hula performances every Saturday and Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.
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