Posted on: Thursday, February 3, 2005
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Pearl workers due poison tests
Advertiser Staff and News Services
The Hawaii Federal Employees Metal Trades Council is urging an estimated 10,000 active and retired Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard workers to be screened for possible welding fume poisoning.
The poisoning can result in a disease known as manganism, which has symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. Screenings will be offered from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Moanalua Middle School, and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the conference center on the seventh floor of the interisland terminal at Honolulu International Airport. For more information, call 734-4855.
A New York commercial real estate firm specializing in luxury retail projects has acquired the complex of stores leased to haute couture retailers in Waikiki known as 2100 Kalakaua.
Metropole Realty Advisors Inc. recently purchased the property occupied by seven tenants, including Tiffany & Co., Gucci and Chanel, from investment firm Lehman Bros. The new owner will try to fill two tenant spaces that have remained empty since the project opened in November 2002.
The purchase price was undisclosed. Honolulu-based Honu Group Inc. developed the 110,000-square-foot, three-story retail complex with Lehman at a cost of $140 million.
2100 Kalakaua sold to N.Y. firm
