Business notebook

Advertiser Staff

• SAINT-GERMAIN BAKERY will continue operations of its coffee, pastry and sandwich shop as a subtenant on the mall level of the Ala Moana Shirokiya store as it opens a stand-alone store in the center. The new location, on the mauka ground level near Foodland and Sears, will feature a self-service selection of baked goods, including Saint-Germain's specialty French breads and Danish pastries. The new store will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Saturday and from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

• Finance Realty Ltd., which developed Makakilo as O'ahu's first planned residential community four decades ago, has donated approximately 1 1/2 acres of ocean-view property for the development of the PAlehua Community Association community center. The parcel is suitable for a 5,000-square-foot community-use center and meeting place, as well as headquarters for the association. Plans include space for parking and passive recreational activity under existing shade trees. Palehua is in the upper part of Makakilo, which now includes about 15,000 people in about 5,000 single- and multi-family homes, overlooking O'ahu's "second city" of Kapolei.

• Heald College has named PAGODA HOTEL AND RESTAURANT its Employer of the Year, in recognition of the Pagoda's support of the school's internship program and full-time employment opportunities.