Shimogawa Scoops

A well-known figure has purchased an oceanfront estate on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai’s North Shore for $8.9 million, Shimogawa Scoops has learned. A Los Angeles business manager, whose clientele includes such Hollywood stars such as Dwayne Johnson, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Kate Beckinsale and basketball legend Magic Johnson, is behind the company that purchased the 1,786-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bathroom mansion that occupies a 2.5-acre parcel of land. The purchase marks yet another real estate purchase on Kauai’s North Shore by a notable person. The long list of celebrities includes Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Oakley and Chuck Norris. Howard Altman, who is consistently on the list of the top 25 business managers in Hollywood, recently formed Chardy North Shore LLC for the Haena property, which was listed at $10.9 million by Hawaii Life.

A prominent Hawaii psychologist has recently opened an office at the Manoa Marketplace in East Oahu. Dr. Gerald Brouwers, who has more than 25 years of experience working with adolescents and children in the state, struck a long-term sub-lease deal for a roughly 800-square-foot office space on the second floor of the Alexander & Baldwin Inc.-owned shopping center, which is anchored by Safeway and Longs Drugs. Brouwers’ company, KIA Clinical Services Inc., was formerly located near Kahala Mall in East Oahu. He plans to eventually expand his business by adding at least one more psychologist to KIA Clinical. Duane Shimogawa (S) of Avalon Commercial LLC , a subsidiary of noted Hawaii developer Christine Camp’s Avalon Group, represented the lessee in the sub-lease transaction. A&B purchased the shopping center not too long ago, and plans to eventually do some upgrades to the popular center. Manoa Marketplace is in a strategic location near the University of Hawaii M

Provision Staging LLC, a sales and distribution company that provides staging equipment to the entertainment, commercial, corporate and educational sectors, as well as religious institutions, has opened its first Hawaii location across from Ala Moana Center in Honolulu. The company, which provides solutions to various staging projects and applications in the audio/visual field, has recently opened at the 1388 Kapiolani Boulevard building in a little more than 3,000-square-foot ground floor space formerly occupied by a clothing wholesaling company. The lease transaction was brokered by Duane Shimogawa (S) of Honolulu-based Avalon Commercial LLC , a subsidiary of prominent Honolulu developer Christine Camp’s Avalon Group. Provision Staging, which expanded to Hawaii last year, finally found its first brick-and-mortar location at 1388 Kapiolani Boulevard. The company carries such items as towers, hoists, truss equipment, space roofs and crowd barriers.