Open House: Parkside Place estate offers amenities for just about everyone

Regardless of what you’re looking for in a summer retreat or massive mansion home, the palatial Parkside Place estate in Hartland probably has it. Complete with a basement movie theater, indoor basketball court and two pools, the home possesses some of the most luxurious amenities in the area.

The multimillion-dollar mansion was built by the current homeowners in 2005, and rests on 3.86 acres of Hartland countryside. The house itself is 17,800 square feet and has seven bathrooms, an additional…

Developer plans new 150-room hotel near Kahului Harbor on Maui

The former site of the Maui Palms Hotel at Kahului Harbor will be the location of a new 150-room hotel that will be part of the Pagoda collection, the owner of the property told PBN this week.

Hawaii developer Peter Savio, who owns the iconic Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu, acquired the four acres of land last year as part of the purchase of the 147-room Maui Beach Hotel in Kahului and the Elleair Maui Golf Club in Kihei from a Japanese corporation.

The vacant four-acre site is next door to the Maui…

Hawaiian Electric, NextEra Energy launches statewide ad campaign

Florida-based NextEra Energy Inc. and Hawaiian Electric Co. have begun unleashing an advertising campaign designed to share reasons why the planned $4.3 billion sale of the Honolulu-based utility to NextEra Energy makes sense.

What else is made clear is that Hawaiian Electric, Maui Electric Co. and Hawaii Electric Light Co. customers aren’t footing the bill for these ads.

Rather, they are paid for by NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) and Hawaiian Electric’s parent, Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.…

PBN panel bullish on West Oahu's future: Slideshow

West Oahu has grown from sugar cane fields to a burgeoning second city in the past 25 years and developers see more opportunity and growth in Kapolei than anywhere else on Oahu.

However, a discussion panel at PBN’s West Oahu Means Business event Friday at the Kapolei Golf Club discussed the big concerns, including job creation, housing shortage and, of course, traffic.

Steve Kelly, vice president of Kapolei Properties, Aina Nui Corp., affiliates of the James Campbell Co., said it’s pretty amazing…

Airbnb lands on Donald Trump's radar

The Internet is doing to hotels what it’s already done to everything from music business to journalism: undercutting the traditional business model.

Billionaire hotel developer Donald Trump knows this, and he told me he’s never seen such change in any industry before. It’s a potential generational change for the hotel and lodging industry, given that millennials are growing up in what has been dubbed the “sharing economy.”

Take a service like Airbnb, a website that allows property owners to rent…