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The L-shaped, partially solar powered structure would staff about 65 employees and stand at six stories tall (79 feet in height), exceeding the current four-story code standard.

Maui residents will have three opportunities to offer input on a proposed hotel that would sit on the corner of Main and Market Streets in Wailuku.

Starr and Nielsen, and other project stakeholders, will describe the project and the benefits they hope it will bring to the community.

Landowners Jonathan Starr and Helen Nielsen are hoping a new hotel will revitalize the streets of Wailuku. Others, however, fear it could gentrify one the islandʻs last untouched towns. 

The list includes: Doreen “Pua” Canto (Upcountry); Tony Takitani (Wailuku/Waiheʻe/Waikapū); Tamara Paltin (West Maui); Renee-May “Kehau” Filimoeʻatu (Kahului); Ray Phillips (South Maui); Jonathan Starr (East Maui); Paula Friel (Molokaʻi); Kay Okamoto (Lānaʻi); Kimo Haynes Jr. (Makawao/Haʻikū/Pāʻia); Dave DeLeon (At Large); and Madge Schaefer (At Large).

Water management and resources, and the role they play in the South Maui community, will be the focus of discussion at a Kīhei Community Association meeting, scheduled for tonight.

The Hawaii State Senate on Tuesday confirmed Maui residents Jonathan Starr and Ted Yamamura to the Hawaii State Commission on Water Resource Management.

When she’s not busy as a bee with local community initiatives, Helen Nielsen is creating a buzz with her Maui Natural Bee honey.

Governor Neil Abercrombie visited the ReWailuku studio on Maui today: “I just think this is tremendous. I did not comprehend when I came, that it would be this exciting, and this comprehensive, and this original in terms of attracting people’s attention. You certainly got mine.”