The White House-message

...so we ask, why Target?

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The White House Blog on Small Business
"President Obama is committed to helping small business succeed"

--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Austan Goolsbee, The White House info@messages.whitehouse.gov wrote:

Good Afternoon,

Did you know that small businesses are the backbone of our economy, creating two out of every three new jobs in America?

President Obama is committed to helping small businesses succeed by making America the best place in the world to do business. He has signed into law 17 new tax cuts for small businesses. He launched the National Wireless Initiative to help bring high-speed wireless Internet access to 98 percent of Americans. And he launched Startup America, an initiative to celebrate, inspire and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation.

It's also important to take the time to listen to folks on the ground about the challenges they face every day. That's why we went to Cleveland this week to talk directly with small business owners, and it's why your "Advise the Advisor" feedback is so important.

If we out-innovate, out-educate and out-build our global competitors, the future is ours to win. That's a challenge that we will tackle together, and I look forward to the work ahead.

Sincerely,

Austan Goolsbee
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

P.S.  To find out when the next "Advise the Advisor" opportunity is posted, sign up for the Daily Snapshot email: http://www.whitehouse.gove/daily-snapshot

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--- On Fri, 2/25/11, Kailua Resident wrote:

Mr. Goolsbee,

I received your e-mail and video visit from President Obama regarding small businesses.  You may not be aware we who live in Kailua, O'ahu, Hawai'i are in a battle to save our Town from the extinction of small businesses.  Plans are in the works for Target, a big box store to build very soon.  The property was sold by Kaneohe Ranch Land, the largest  business properties landowner of Kailua.  I am so disappointed knowing it will be the end of some small "Mom and Pop" stores which gives our Town a uniqueness and individuality. We are becoming "Any Town U.S.A."  I know it's happening on the mainland too.  Someone is allowing the big box stores to rule the country(world).   Save our "Mom and Pop" stores!!! They are definitely the backbone of the world. Allow them to thrive and continue to be creative and keep the entrepreneurial spirit in us!  We don't need to keep the wealth only amongst  a few and the rest of us working for them.  In fact I would say that the majority of the  small businesses are happy with their earnings, that they don't expect to become another conglomerate or big box store.  Just give them the financial breaks to survive and take care
of their family.  There are big box stores in Hawai'i so it's not like we don't have a choice whether to shop there or not, just help us to keep our "Mom and Pop" stores too.

Mahalo for your time and consideration,
Helen T. W.

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Additional links:

President Obama speaks -- Online Forum on Small Business (video):

 http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/02/23/president-obama-drops-online-forum-small-business?utm_source=email99&utm_medium=image&utm_campaign=advise

Here's the website:

 http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/02/16/advise-advisor-austan-goolsbee-and-small-business

MORE tour buses

How many MORE tour buses does Kailua Town really need??

Were you aware that Kaneohe Ranch is behind the influx of all those large motorcoaches we've seen meandering through our residential streets?  We see them on Mokapu Boulevard, Oneawa Street, Kalāheo Avenue, throughout Kailua Town and Lanikai.  We see them squeezing through the Macy's/Long's parking lot, and Kailua Beach parking lots where they can be found reversing and parking in public AUTOMOBILE parking spaces; thereby forcing all of us off the road to manuver around the protruding behemoths.

We love and appreciate our tourists!  And we continue to welcome them on our CITY BUSES.  This is revenue for our government.  It is WRONG that a private entity as Kaneohe Ranch -- motivated by MONEY can wreak so much havoc in our community.  We've had ENOUGH of Kaneohe Ranch!

Alas, Kaneohe Ranch is turning Kailua into a "mini-Waikīkī" tourist shopping destination -- that's why the increase from SIX to now EIGHT Waikīkī motorcoaches descending on our hometown EACH DAY!

Its time to STAND UP and FIGHT BACK.  Traffic backups, vehicular accidents, and pedestrian safety is compromised.  We say "Stop this NOW!"

Here are a couple photos of some tour buses (below) parking across multiple public automobile spaces.  This may work now, but with Whole Foods and all the other commercial development in the works, WHERE WILL THESE LARGE TOUR BUSES PARK?  What is Kaneohe Ranch planning next?  Kailua certainly does NOT NEED or WANT a Bus Transit Station!  (re: City's presentation at a recent Kailua Neighborhood Board meeting)





and look... one of the many tour VANS found around Kailua Town:

Trade Area Profile

Kaneohe Ranch once posed as a member of the Kailua Community. They funded a community survey ostensibly to determine residents’ desires for their community.  No surprise that one of the 2004 survey findings was 86% of the respondents stated Kailua had traffic congestion problems.   In February, 2005, KR presented their “Community Planning Process” to the Kailua Neighborhood Board: http://www.kaneoheranch.com/planning/group-70.cfm

The Sub-Themes promoted by Kaneohe Ranch, resulting from their survey and promotes as key to their redevelopment, included:
•            Residential character
•            Lively, not crowded
•            Central gathering place
•            Community friendly to small business           
•            Cultural stewardship
•            Historic continuity

Behind the scenes, Kaneohe Ranch developed a Trade Area Profile, identifying Kailua as within a 10-mile radius of 442,000 people -- while the Kailua zip code only holds 53,000 people!  KR has since pulled the document from their website, but we’ve got a copy for your reference.

click on image (partial report) to view larger

Sign Waving

THIS SATURDAY
February 19th
1:00pm-3:00pm

Hahani Road (sidewalk in front of Don Quijote)

We continue to ask for your time, help and support in this effort!  Please join this effort doing what you can -- if not sign-waving -- by emailing, calling, writing letters, etc.

Ask the MAYOR for a Comprehensive Traffic Study!

Past sign waving events in this month:

Saturday, February 12th
1:00 - 3:00pm

Saturday, February 5th
1:00pm - 3:00pm

new vs old

Have you seen it? Leaking roof of the NEW Kailua Longs Drugs building. It was built just 5 years ago! (Don Quijote was built 50 years ago) 

Since the last "big rain" in early JANUARY, on aisle 15, you can find big blue tarps hanging from the ceiling, funneling water from the leaky roof into a grey trash can on the store floor.

This Kailua Long's building was built in 2006, and just a few years later Long's management now deals with a leaky roof and a month later, still awaits repair work!

Leaky roofs, noticeable wear and tear, etc.  Such poor quality construction should not be occuring with newer buildings of our time.

Look at the multitute of older buildings around Kailua Town that are structurally sound, a bit tired-looking perhaps, but they still stand with dignified character and charm.  (ICONS like: Pali Lanes, Wallace Theater fronting Don Quijote, and the old Foodland store which currently houses the present Island Snow)  This is what Kailua must preserve! So why are these buildings being demolished and replaced by poor quality buildings like this NEW Longs? 

So the question is: Where will Longs Kailua be in 50 years?

 

Call the MAYOR

It is important that we all contact the MAYOR (ph #768-4141)

We need to hold the CITY responsible to conduct a Comprehensive Traffic Analysis for ALL of Kailua -- not just the roads fronting Don Quijote.  This traffic study should be funded strictly by the City, and NOT by a private entity!

The City failed to codify our completed Ko'olaupoko Sustainable Communities Plan into the Land Use Ordinance (even after repeated requests from our Neighborhood Board) since 1999.  The Ko'olaupoko Sustainable Communities Plan states: no big box stores in our community, and no store larger than 90,000 square feet! At 130,000 square feet, the Target store is larger than two football fields combined!

In the last few years, Kaneohe Ranch has developed a large area of Kailua Town which has brought in a significant amount of traffic.  With the development of the new Whole Foods building and the selling of the old Don Quijote property, how much more traffic can Kailua Town really take?

The City needs to look at Kailua's traffic problem BEFORE they issue any building permits for Target or for any other future development in Kailua Town!!!

television media coverage

Don Quijote in Kailua closing its doors for good
KHON2
http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/Don-Quijote-in-Kailua-closing-its-doors-for-good/10vkks8xJUWZifwrPUUZGA.cspx

Loyal customers turn out for Don Qujote's last day in Kailua
KFVE
http://www.k5thehometeam.com/Global/story.asp?S=13977429

Kailua Don Quijote Closes Doors
KITV
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41438165/ns/local_news-honolulu_hi/

Star Advertiser-article

February 6, 2011

Kailua laments the final day of Don Quijote

By Gordon Y.K. Pang

Kailua residents yesterday said goodbye to a family friend and lamented the loss of an era when their town was simpler and slower.

The Don Quijote department store's Kailua branch closed its doors for the final time last night, making way for a new Target store scheduled to open in July 2012.

A vocal segment of the Kailua community had raised strong objections to the big-box store's impending arrival. Last week, Target closed a deal to purchase the Hahani Street property from Kaneohe Ranch.

Yesterday's shoppers were more focused on the departure of a store that many felt had a small-neighborhood charm, despite having changed ownership and names several times. It is now owned by a Japanese department-store chain.

Maunawili resident Ken Sitch, 60, and his daughter Moani, 34, brought ti leaf lei in a show of appreciation for several of the clerks who have served them over the years.

Sitch said he had been shopping at the store for more than three decades and estimates that clerks "Doris, Tammy and Linda" have each worked there at least 20 years.

"I love the employees. They're wonderful, loving people," he said. "They took such great care of us."

Sitch said he will also miss the selection of Asian and local foods, including "stuff like chung choi," a type of pickled cabbage.

As for the arrival of a Target, Sitch said it's another step away from the Kailua of yesteryear.

"It's very touristy," he said. "Kailua's changed a lot. It's become more like the mainland or Waikiki."

Keolu Hills resident Pat Dilliner, 71, agreed.

"You can see what's happening to Kailua," she said. "It's becoming like another Waikiki, almost. But I guess if you have the money, you can do as you please."

Dilliner said she won't forget shopping at the then-Holiday Mart store in the 1970s when she turned her head and saw Elvis Presley, decked out completely in black, shopping with an entourage in tow in the music section.

He waved, but people were too polite to approach the superstar for a picture or autograph, she said.

"Everybody just stopped and watched him," she recalled.

Dilliner said she will also miss buying Asian gift items that can't be found elsewhere at reasonable prices, such as black lacquer bowls and bamboo products.

Pohakupu resident Keith Fujikawa, 41, said he has lived in Kailua all his life and has been going to what was once Holiday Mart, and then Daiei, and then Don Quijote nearly as long.

"There are a lot of things we really enjoy you don't find anywhere else," he said.

Fujikawa said he and his wife, Lisa, have been to Target at Salt Lake and expect to go to the Kailua Target once the Don Quijote is converted.

But Illinois native Lisa Fujikawa, 42, said, "It won't have the same community feel."

Don Quijote officials declined comment. They also asked reporters to stay out of the store and to not interview employees.

Arnold Aguilar, 48, a nurse at Castle Medical Center, had bought his lunch at Don Quijote nearly five days a week.

"I like their warm food," he said of their saba and salmon bentos in particular.

About 120 people worked at the store. An undisclosed number of them will be working at one of Don Quijote's three other Oahu locations.

Others have chosen to retire and some are being laid off.

Honolulu Weekly-letter to editor

February 2, 2011

Community First

Kaneohe Ranch has put great effort into portraying itself as a proper steward of its lands in Kailua–the only question is what constitutes “proper” stewardship [Cover story, Jan. 5: “Off Target”].

The ranch is marching forward with a strategy of maximizing profits from its land holdings in Kailua. Contrary to its goal, the ranch’s resulting impression is of a for-profit entity that says it cares about the Kailua community but acts with blatant disregard for the values and goals of the community.

The list of improper acts of stewardship committed by the ranch continues to grow: ignoring community input acquired in its own visioning process, disregarding the intent of the Ko’olaupoko Sustainable Communities Plan that says “no big box,” and trying to hide behind its tireless efforts to bring box to Kailua. This is not pono.

No matter how much the ranch denies it, the community has come to understand it is behind the push to bring Target to Kailua. Many of us consider this action to be in conflict with good environmental stewardship and contrary to supporting the long term wellbeing of the community.

The ranch could and should pursue a mixed-use redevelopment of the Don Quijote site.

That redevelopment should place a priority on creating a community gathering place and a cultural center. In addition, the allotment of space for a mix of retail shops should include a food cooperative that will support the community, including local producers and customers; a symbiotic and supportive relationship that would honor Kailua’s rich agricultural history and provide a meaningful way to support local agriculture and food production.

Furthermore, preservation of the Kailua Theatres and/or the American Savings Bank building would offer a way to not only preserve the history of Kailua through its buildings, but also to avoid having to demolish buildings that could be repurposed to preserve history and pursue progress at the same time.

The time has come for the community to articulate its preference for progress on the Don Quijote site that is rooted in support for the community and support for the landowner. This approach does not require the entry of a big box.

Many community members believe this is the most prudent and viable path of action. It allows our community to support the local economy, and at the same time, pursue progress that is respectful of the community. The way forward requires mutual respect between landowners/managers and the community.

Rosie Goo
Kaneohe

Sprawl-Busters

Sprawl-busters.com has posted our community story on their website. We would like to thank Mr. Al Norman (the guru of the anti-Wal-Mart movement) for his support and guidance with this effort!  Mr. Norman has helped dozens of communities keep big box stores out of their hometowns.  Visit the sprawl-busters.com website to continue to educate yourself on the negative impacts big box stores have on other communities like ours.

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February 2, 2011

Kailua, HI. Target Buys Into Opposition On Hawaii

Last month, the Target corporation told the media that it would open up 21 new stores in 12 states, which is about one-seventh of the growth pace of its largest rival---Wal-Mart. But when you are expanding in ‘only’ 21 sites, there are only 21 opportunities to run into fierce opposition.

Target hit the bullseye in Kailua, Hawaii, a community of roughly 50,000 residents, where locals have been waging a pitched battle to stop the Minnesota-based retailer for well over a year. There are at least three separate community groups now opposed to the Target.

On the list of new Target stores this year is a site in Hilo, Hawaii, slated to open in July of 2011. The Hilo site will be the fourth Target in Hawaii.

The list for 2012 stores will include a site in Kailua, which Target hopes to open by July of 2012. The 7 acre site in Kailua is located on Hahani Street, on the site of a Don Quijote store, which will be torn down. The property was owned by the Kaneohe Ranch. The existing building on the site is just under 90,000 s.f. Target says the store will create 250 ‘new’ jobs—but has not calculated how many existing jobs will be destroyed by their project.

To help convince local residents to support the store, the retailer has created a website just for the Kailua project, where the company claims that it carefully selected the site. “We evaluate and approve investment in new store opportunities, like Kailua, one-at-a-time,” Target explains, “after analyzing extensive data on existing store performance, demographics, competition and market potential. The Don Quijote site was chosen because we are confident Target will have a long-term home in the community and believe we complement existing retailers, providing high-quality, well-designed merchandise plus life's essentials at affordable prices.”

Target says it understands the “village feel” of Kailua, and so has proposed a “significantly smaller” store of 130,000 s.f. which is bigger than two football fields. “That is a significant change to what we would normally do in a market like Hawaii,” a Target spokesperson said. “That was in direct response to the fact that we knew Kailua wanted a smaller store.” Even the colors of the store will “blend in,” Target claims---using dark wood, lava rock, and beige and sand colored paint.

But opponents are not buying this 'lava rock' public relations gibberish, and have launched their own website too: nokailuatarget.blogspot.com. Opposition to the store began as letters to the editor as early as October of 2009, when rumors of the project began to appear in the media. The group No Target Kailua says it was originally comprised of a small group of individuals concerned about the scale of a store like Target coming to Kailua, O'ahu.

“Our grassroots effort,” the group says, “has grown to include hundreds of individuals who have connected via email, informational blasts, and is continuing to expand every day. Our goal is to catalyze action, consolidate efforts, and create effective communication as we TOGETHER work to preserve and maintain Kailua's 'small town' feeling.”

In an email to Sprawl-Busters at the end of November, 2010, opponents expressed their major concerns over the traffic impact of this project. “Target's plans to mitigate traffic address only the street immediately fronting the site,” the group wrote. “It will do nothing to improve the congested roadways that lead into Kailua, most of them narrow, two-lane streets winding through residential neighborhoods -- bumper-to-bumper traffic even without the addition of 20 percent more cars coming to a Target.”

Target has promised to spend more than $1 million in traffic improvements---but most of that money will be spent on improvements right at the site to give cars easier access to the store. Target will pay for a new traffic signal at Hahani Street, and new left-turn lanes and crosswalks. These are all investments Target is making on itself.

Although opponents have clamored for a real traffic impact study, Target insists that it will only do a traffic study after the store has opened---which is tantamount to waiting for an accident to happen to determine how badly people have been injured.

The opponents note that Target's proposed 130,000 s.f. store is 40,000 s.f. over the “Koolaupoko Communities Sustainable Plan,” which set a big-box limit of 90,000 for Kailua. The landowner produced two reports in 2004-5, in which the biggest issue raised by 86% of the Kailua residents was traffic. “Years later,” says No Target Kailua, “our traffic situation continues to get progressively worse! Yet before our eyes, we see continued out-of-control and out-of-scale development occurring in Kailua.”

On January 28, 2011, Target announced that it had actually purchased the site. “This allows us to make the type of major investment it will take to build a new store…it also demonstrates our long-term commitment to the community of Kailua.”

The Honolulu Star Advertiser newspaper this week asserted that Target will begin building this spring---despite the opposition from “a vocal group of residents who fear the big box giant will change Kailua’s small town charm…and cause further traffic congestion.” One resident was quoted as saying, “If they would consider a smaller store, I think there wouldn't be the depth of resistance to it.”

What you can do: Target has told the community that it “has a deep appreciation for the uniqueness of Kailua and our team members have been working hard to thoughtfully tailored the new store to reflect the town and its residents. This is an important element of the store planning and building process and a tradition we bring to all of our new store sites.” The retailer says: “We can't successfully integrate into the Kailua community unless we hear from you.” But they clearly are not listening.

Kailua is governed by the city council of Honolulu. Readers are urged to contact Mayor Peter Carlisle, District 3 City Councilor Ikaika Anderson, and the rest of the Honolulu City Council at the following emails: mayor@honolulu.gov, ianderson@honolulu.gov, dtanoue@honolulu.gov, wyoshioka@honolulu.gov, rsumitomo@honolulu.gov, emartin@honolulu.gov, schang@honolulu.gov, akobayashi@honolulu.gov, tgabbard@honolulu.gov, rcachola@honolulu.gov, bharimoto@honolulu.gov, ngarcia@honolulu.gov with the following message:

Dear Mayor Carlisle and Council Members, There is no reason why Target cannot produce a smaller bullseye for Kailua. Its competitors, like Wal-Mart, are now building superstores as small as 78,000 s.f. This current Target plan for Hahani Street is out of scale, and out of character with the rest of Kailua. This store will dwarf the new Whole Foods market, and will be twice the size of a football field. This kind of suburban sprawl may be commonplace on the Mainland U.S.---but it has no place in Kailua. The traffic study should be done now---and mitigation proposed now---not after the store is built. Most of the money Target is promising to spend is for roadway improvements right in front of their store.

It’s up to local government to stand up for residents and small businesses, and tell a developer to make Target fit Kailua---not the reverse.”

Star Advertiser-letter to editor

February 2, 2011

Kailua's fate has been sealed

While a Target in Kailua might not be the biggest development ever to take place on Oahu, astute readers should take note of its significance to the character of Oahu's small towns. Both Target and Kaneohe Ranch circumvented significant community opposition, effectively paving the way for a giant shopping destination in a town that has infrastructure that is sorely stressed by the current population.

Kaneohe Ranch leadership and Target officials have said the Target location will improve traffic flow, create jobs and stimulate small businesses in the area while beautifying Kailua. Should these rosy predictions fail to pan out, Kailua's transformation from a quaint beachside community to a busy regional tourist and shopping destination will be sealed. This would be a sad fate for a community whose values are primarily defined by the desire to live in an aesthetically beautiful beachside community devoid of big-city trappings.

John Foster
Kailua

ACTION ITEM

WHAT KIND OF GAME ARE THEY PLAYING?

Simply put, Target and Kaneohe Ranch BOTH are not listening to the concerns of the community --  they don’t care what the community wants or needs -- and proceed forward for their OWN SELFISH INTEREST AND MONETARY GAIN!

Time once again, Community members, to rally the troops -- for ALL concerned, please call Target, Kaneohe Ranch, our Mayor and DPP (Contacts: http://notargetkailua.blogspot.com/search/label/Contacts  )

Write your Letter to the Editor.

Over four months ago, Target told us their TRAFFIC STUDY WAS SUBMITTED – NOT SO !!

We have called our City Dept of Planning and Permitting (DPP) weekly asking WHERE IS IT??

Last Thursday January 27^th, via phone call, Eric Padget was surprised their “CONSULTANT” here in Hawaii did not submit the Traffic Study – WHAT!!? Welcome to corporate America!

Kailua’s TRAFFIC SITUATION REQUIRES A SOLUTION and that solution is a Master Plan for Kailua Town that includes a comprehensive Traffic Impact Analysis!!

Keep calling the Mayor and DPP requesting this! Until then, we must seek a deferment on the issuance of ANY commercial building permits in Kailua Town!!

Please Call – Email - Write your letter!! … NOW!

Star Advertiser-article

February 1, 2011

Kailua's on Target

Community opponents pledge to continue fighting after Kaneohe Ranch sells the site of Don Quijote to the retailer

By Kristen Consillio

After three years of planning, Target Corp. will begin construction this spring on a 130,000-square-foot store in Kailua.

But that will not stop community opponents from lobbying for changes to the plan.

Landowner Kaneohe Ranch said yesterday it sold the 311,000-square-foot Don Quijote USA Co. Ltd. site at 345 Hahani St. to Target on Friday despite opposition among a vocal group of residents who fear the big-box giant will change Kailua's small-town charm, bring more people into the quiet neighborhood and cause further traffic congestion.

"Kaneohe Ranch and Target would like to think this (opposition) is dying away and people are forgetting about it and that's not so," said Lanikai resident Mollie Foti, a member of Keep it Kailua, which she said will continue to lobby the city to delay building permits.

"If they would consider a smaller store, I think there wouldn't be the depth of resistance to it," Foti said.

The Kailua store will be smaller than Target's four other Hawaii stores and is designed specifically for Kailua, according to Target spokeswoman Sarah Bakken.

"That is a significant change to what we would normally do in a market like Hawaii," she said. "That was in direct response to the fact that we knew Kailua wanted a smaller store."

The Minneapolis-based retailer plans to invest $40 million to build what will be its fifth Hawaii store, generating 250 construction jobs and more than 250 jobs at the store, scheduled to open in July 2012. Target will open a location in Hilo this July.

A significant part of the Kailua square footage is to enclose the loading and stocking facilities within the building, which will minimize noise to neighboring businesses and residents, Bakken added.

In addition, Target has tried to assuage the community's fears about traffic, pledging to spend more than $1 million in traffic improvements for the area, including a new traffic signal at Hahani Street, new left-turn lanes and crosswalks, and reducing the number of driveways to the shopping center from five to two. It also will complete a traffic study after the store opens to see whether further improvements are needed.

The retailer has a team working on the merchandise for the store to make sure to incorporate local products and Asian goods, which many Kailua residents say they will miss once Don Quijote closes on Saturday , leaving more than 100 employees jobless.

Another mainland chain, Whole Foods Market, plans to open a 32,000-square-foot store at Kailua Town Center next fall.

"Because it's somehow a natural foods store, it seems more conducive to our small town than a huge big box," said Lanikai resident Virginia Enos, a Kailua neighborhood board member.

Kaneohe Ranch said the smaller tenants on the Don Quijote site will be moved. The retailers include Hakuyosha Dry Cleaners, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Yum Yum Express, Ba-Le Sandwiches & Bakery and Twogood Kayaks Hawaii Inc.

"We are faced with the fact that many of the commercial leases in Kailua town, which were negotiated in the 1950s and '60s as 50- to 60-year leases, are now coming to an end," said Mitch D'Olier, Kaneohe Ranch chief executive officer.

"In quite a few cases, these properties have deteriorated substantially in the final years of these leases, and the current leaseholders cannot or do not want to negotiate a new lease. Don Quijote was looking to sell its lease and therefore was not interested in maintaining or upgrading the property. Target will invest millions in one of the most run-down properties in the center of Kailua town."

Of about 50,000 Kailua residents, opponents estimate at least 4,000 oppose Target, said David Kim, owner of Oiwi Ocean Gear in Kailua, and an organizer of Choose Kailua, one of three groups opposed to Target.

Kim said he was disappointed that Target did not take community concerns into account as much as he would have liked. But now that the sale is finalized, his group will focus on the bigger master plan for Kailua, including traffic issues, he said.

"Target should partner with small businesses in Kailua," Kim said. "So they do become a partner in the community rather than what seems like a threat to small businesses."

Kailua Neighborhood Board Meeting

Thursday, February 3rd

7:00pm

Kailua District Park (Multi-Purpose Building)

21 S. Kainalu Drive

We encourage you to attend this meeting!  We must continue to voice our concerns at these monthly meetings.  Add your name to the "Neighborhood Concerns" list, or email NB chair Chuck Prentiss: prentissc001@hawaii.rr.com