Memoirs Hawaii owner/chef Peter Foster plans new restaurant in 2016

Hawaii chef Peter Foster, who has owned his Honolulu catering company, Memoirs Hawaii, for about eight years, plans to open a restaurant sometime next year, he recently told PBN.

The California native, who once worked under Hawaii chef Alan Wong and at Le Mer at the Halekulani, one of the state’s most well-known high-end restaurants, said that catering will always part of any restaurant concept he decides to pursue.

“You can provide food to 500 people in one shot,” he said. “But a restaurant…

Alfred James Clark, founder of Clark Construction, dies

Alfred James Clark, a contracting titan whose Bethesda-based Clark Construction Group evolved into the one of the nation’s building powerhouses, died Friday of congestive heart failure. He was 87.

The Clark name is synonymous with the Washington region’s economic and building boom, having tackled a dizzying number of projects — among them 28 Metro stations, the World Bank headquarters, Verizon Center, FedEx Field, Nationals Park, Arena Stage, Washington Harbour and the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters…

Disgraced real estate exec suspected of recording women, again

Disgraced former real estate executive Michael Lyon improperly recorded encounters he had with eight different women in 2014 on a total of 16 occasions, according to a criminal complaint against him released Friday.

Lyon, formerly of Lyon Real Estate and under probation for the same offense when he was arrested last fall, was arraigned Friday on the new felony counts in Sacramento County Superior Court. He pleaded not guilty and will post bail next week, to be released April 2, said his attorney,…

Valero board asks stockholders to reject greenhouse gas proposal

Valero Energy Corp.’s board of directors is recommending that its stockholders reject an investor’s proposal for the company to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The San Antonio-based company is holding its annual stockholder meeting April 30 at its corporate headquarters.

The shareholder meeting’s agenda includes voting on Valero’s board of directors, ratifying KPMG LLP as the company’s independent public accounting firm and the proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Cheniere Energy gets green light for Port of Corpus Christi construction

Houston-based Cheniere Energy Inc. (NYSE: LNG) is expected to start $12 billion worth of construction within the next 60 days to build the first liquefied natural gas export terminal in the Port of Corpus Christi.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the LNG plant on Dec. 31. Board members with the Port of Corpus Christi voted on March 17 to approve the third and final reading franchise for Cheniere liquefaction plant. Cheniere is now on track to be the only company with two LNG export…