Site for Judiciary Complex a costly mistake
I’ll say this again and again, how ludicrously stupid is to spend $55,000,000, count the zeros, (with overruns, $60,000,000) building a much-needed judicial complex on one’s neighbor’s land when the government (we the people, the taxpayers) has hundreds if not thousands of acres in the same immediate area (like next door). If this sounds fishy, wait till the wind shifts and we all get a good whiff of it.
If there is one thing that I did learn at the schools I attended was, that if you are going to spend your money developing something of value and have “uka pile” land, you develop your lands not your neighbor’s. That is right out of the books, econ 101-104. One can visualize the development prospects that materialize, once this judicial complex is begun, for that property owner and for his other lands in that area. Yes, there will be a mall of sorts with space to rent or lease out with all proceeds going into our neighbor’s pockets. Tell me, where else do things like this become a reality? Hilo just got done with their judicial building, on government land.
Even the state Department of Land and Natural Resources is going about it in the right manner by hiring a consulting group to steer them it in the right direction by suggesting that the DLNR complex be built on government lands adjacent to Honokohau Harbor. The Kona Judiciary Complex could easily go there also.
If the fish don’t smell “hauna” by now, you betta go blow your nose and no squawk no more.
Hugo von Platen Luder
Holualoa