Hawaii
With more consumers looking to reduce their carbon footprint, living a more eco-friendly lifestyle extends to their housing choices.
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I’ve been in Hawaii for about a month and it’s interesting. Oahu and Waikiki are very quiet. There are zero tour busses trundling around Diamond Head. Traffic on Waikiki roads, sidewalks, and beaches is exceptionally light. I would estimate that roughly a third to half of Waikiki businesses are temporarily or permanently shut. The restaurant…
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Hawaii has been effectively closed to tourists since March 26th. I say “effectively” because while you could visit, all visitors had to quarantine for 14-days – in your room for two weeks, food and toilet paper had to be delivered (here). And even if you could go out, most businesses and recreational activities (e.g. beaches)…
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We found a Kauai compound that is exactly what buyers are dreaming of amidst the pandemic. More and more destinations across the world are seeing second homeowners flee to their retreats in far-flung areas in response to COVID-19. With how hard New York City has been hit, the Hamptons has become full of part-time residents.…
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If you have a few million sitting around and have been jonesing for a North Shore estate in Kauai, Craig T. Nelson has listed his Haena Point home, and what a beauty it is. And if you want a little more celebrity in your celebrity home, you’ll be happy to note that Beach Boy Brian…
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Alfred Preis almost didn’t become an architect. More accurately, Alfred Preis almost didn’t survive to become the highly regarded architect he became. He survived tuberculosis at age four, then World War I in Vienna, then managed to acquire passports that allowed him and his wife to leave Nazi-occupied Austria. When they arrived in Hawaii in…
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