Updates

The Kauai Planning Commission rejected a petition Tuesday from a group of residents who were asking the commission to revoke permits issued to the owners of the Coco Palms Resort property. This means their plans to build a new, 350-room hotel are still on the table....

“We want to restore this in the right way. Do it in a way that the community will be proud of,” stated Jon Day, Reef Capital Partners Chief Financial Officer.The newly modernized resort will be smaller than the original hotel with 350 rooms compared to over 400 rooms....

From the tops of the protective dust screens installed around the perimeter of the former Coco Palms Resort, the only things that can be seen are the tops of excavators and cranes moving against a skyline of concrete skeletons of dilapidated buildings.