Post 1054

Posted Tuesday, 22 June 2004, 09:45 HST @739

Hawaii: Honolulu Weekly - On The Cover: “While the citizens of Inglewood, Calif., voted to keep Wal-Mart out of its city limits, in Hawaii, the retail Trojan horse entered Honolulu’s gates largely undeterred. “There wasn’t very much concern from the actual community. It was clear it was going to happen from the very beginning”, said John Breinich, chairman of the Ala Moana/Kaka’ako Neighborhood Board. How did the big-box budget giant, normally a city-fringe staple, come to erect a beige monolith on 10.5 acres smack-dab in the middle of Honolulu?” And we are talking right in the middle. It’s traffic armageddon.