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    Another hotel may be coming to Kapolei in West Oahu, according to public records. The new 240-room hotel project, which would include 140 rooms with kitchens and 100 rooms without kitchens, is being looked at by Alakai Development. The Honolulu-based firm filed an infrastructure application with the city on Wednesday for the hotel, which would be located in Ewa Beach as part of the Hoopili master-planned community by D.R. Horton – Schuler Homes. The new hotel would be built near Alakai’s newly-built The Element Apartments rental complex and the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus on a three-acre site. The new hotel would join other existing hotels in the area such as Embassy Suites by Hilton, Residence Inn by Marriott and Hampton Inn & Suites. Kapolei, known by some as Oahu’s “Second City,” has gained more new hotels in the last several years than in Waikiki, which is the top tourist destination market in Hawaii. The growth of such hotel properties has be...

Paia Fish Market is expanding on Oahu with a new location in the former Boots and Kimo’s Homestyle Kitchen space in Kailua, Shimogawa Scoops has learned. The popular Maui-based eatery already has a Waikiki location along with three Valley Isle restaurants in Kihei, Lahaina and Paia. Paia Fish Market, one of the top seafood restaurants in Hawaii, was established in 1989.  Its newest location in Kailua will be located along busy Hekili Street that’s adjacent to a Target store. This new location is a smart move by Paia Fish Market, which is popular with visitors, and with Kailua’s strong tourism draw, this should be one of its top-performing eateries.   Another location could be coming soon to Oahu’s North Shore, likely in Haleiwa. 

Chick-fil-A’s future in Kaneohe in Windward Oahu is not so certain anymore, as a property that the popular chicken restaurant chain once was looking to buy for its new eatery is now back on the market, Shimogawa Scoops has learned. The Atlanta-based restaurant chain still has pending building permits for the former Kaneohe Bakery property that’s located along Kamehameha Highway. It’s not clear if it will go after another site in Kaneohe or if this means that Chick-fil-A is not opening a new restaurant in Kaneohe anymore. Either way, it is scheduled to open its first restaurant on Maui with other restaurants slated for Honolulu at a former Burger King site on Beretania Street, as well as in Kapolei and at least three others in Hawaii. 

  Terry Bradshaw, a Hall of Fame quarterback turned television superstar, continues to score Hawaii real estate properties with another recent purchase of a luxury home on three acres of land on the Big Island, according to public records. The four-time Super Bowl champion with the National Football League’s Pittsburgh Steelers purchased the 2,576-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bedroom home on the northwestern side of the Big Island in Waimea last month for $1.85 million. The property has a total assessed value of $873,700. The Fox NFL Sunday television analyst has been throwing around Big Island properties during the last several years including a 12-acre estate and another property in the Waimea area. Bradshaw, who has a “bigger than life” persona, has carved out quite a career after his football playing days, including starring in films and TV shows including one last year on the TV network E! called “The Bradshaw Bunch” about he and his family.

  Could Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg be the buyer of a beachfront Hawaii estate? The purchase would add to his already sizeable collection of properties he owns on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The billionaire tech titan, whose net worth is more than $100 billion, could be the “secret buyer” of the one-acre estate called “Wailana Malie” for $10.5 million. The property, which includes a 3,133-square-foot, four-bedroom, 4.5 bathroom residence, won HGTV’s 2020 Ultimate House Hunt competition in the Curb Appeal category. Winston Welborn of Hawaii Life was the listing agent. He did not respond to a request for comments.  The property is located in the Kilauea area on Kauai’s North Shore, which has been a red-hot area for high-priced residential real estate transactions. The property has a total tax-assessed value of about $6.6 million. Zuckerberg has utilized San Francisco tax consultancy firm executive Tom van Loben Sels for other real estate purchases, and the tax firm ex...