Ua koho ʻia ʻo Benchmark Hospitality International - nāna e hoʻokele i ka Turtle Bay Resort - i nehinei no ka lawe ʻana i ka hoʻokele o ka Hotel Maui Prince a me ka papa kolepa i kēia pule aʻe.
Ma hope o ka koho ʻana o ka Lunakanawai Kaapuni o Maui ʻo Shackley Raffetto i mea hoʻokipa no ka waiwai i nehinei. Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia kahi hui o nā mea hōʻaiʻē ma ka hōkele ʻo Maui Prince i ka mahina i hala a noi i ka ʻaha e koho i kahi mea hoʻokipa e lawe i nā hana hoʻokipa a mālama i ka waiwai ma hope o nā hōʻike o ke piʻi ʻana o nā poho.
Ua koho ʻo Raffetto i ka loio Hawaiʻi ʻo Miles B. Furutani i mea hoʻokipa; ʻO Steven Mau ka loio o Honolulu ma ke ʻano he loio hoʻokipa; Loio Honolulu Anna Elento-Sneed ma ke ano he loio hana hookipa; a me ka luna ʻoihana ʻo Peter Herndon ma ke ʻano he alakaʻi hokele a me ke kākāʻōlelo hoʻololi. Ua ʻae ka mea hōʻaiʻē moraki e hoʻomau i ka hāʻawi kālā ma ke kuhikuhi a ka ʻaha.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Barry Sullivan, loio no ka mea hāʻawi kālā ʻo Wells Fargo Bank, ua koho ka hui iā Benchmark, i manaʻo ʻia e hoʻokō ʻia i kēia lā i ka ʻaha.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia ua hiki mai ka neʻe ʻana ma hope o ka hōʻike ʻana o nā luna o Prince Resorts Hawaii i nā poho o $1 miliona i ka mahina.
"Ke kakali nei mākou i nā hana hou e hoʻihoʻi i ka hōkele a loaʻa i ka loaʻa kālā," wahi a Sullivan.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Pelekikena ʻo Prince Resorts Hawaii, ʻo Donn Takahashi, ke mākaukau nei kāna hui e hāʻawi i ka hoʻokele o ka hōkele a me kāna mau limahana i ka lā Sept. Loaʻa iā lākou kahi hale hana maikaʻi; he hui nui o na limahana. Makemake au iā lākou i ka holomua nui.
Akā ke kū nei kēlā hoʻololi i kekahi mau pilikia. I nehinei, ʻaʻole e ʻae ka punaewele o Maui Prince i nā hoʻopaʻa ʻana ma mua a ma hope paha o ka lā 16, ʻoiai ke holo nei ka poʻe noho ma kahi o 50 pakeneka:
ʻAʻole loaʻa kēia waiwai no kāu mau lā i noi ʻia. Ua hauʻoli mākou i ka hāʻawi ʻana i kēia mau waiwai no kou noʻonoʻo ʻana, "wahi a ka pūnaewele pūnaewele o ka hōkele.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Sullivan, manaʻolana ʻo ia e noʻonoʻo hou ke Keiki Aliʻi o Maui i kēia neʻe. "Manaʻo mākou e hoʻomaka lākou e ʻae i nā hoʻopaʻa ʻana ma ka waiwai ... e like me ke kuleana o ke kānāwai."
ʻO Bob Boyle, ka hope peresidena a me ka luna hoʻomalu o nā hana no Benchmark Hospitality International, e mālama i nā pilikia a pau o ka hana a me ke kālepa ma ka hale hoʻokipa o Maui. ʻO Boyle ke kuleana no ka mālama ʻana i ka 443-lumi Turtle Bay Resort a me ka Scottsdale Resort & Conference Center ma Scottsdale, Ariz., ʻelua mau ʻāina hoʻokipa nui loa o ka hui.
Ua hoʻokele ʻo Benchmark Hospitality i ka Turtle Bay Resort mai ka makahiki 2001 a he ʻāpana ia o ka hui hoʻomohala nāna i mālama i ka waiwai o North Shore $63 miliona.
Ua lilo ʻo Boyle i nehinei ma Maui e aʻo e pili ana i ka hōkele 310 lumi a me 300 mau limahana maʻamau.
Ua wehewehe ʻo ia i ka manawa e lawe ai i ka hale hoʻokipa 23 makahiki he "manawa kūpono." Ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia he "undermarketed a underperforming" ka hōkele akā he "limahana maikaʻi."
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Boyle e hoʻomaka ka hōkele e hoʻolimalima hou i nā limahana a loaʻa iā ia kahi inoa hou ma Sept.
ʻO ka mea nona ka hōkele, he ʻoihana ma waena o Everett Dowling Co. a me kahi waihona waiwai waiwai Morgan Stanley, i kūʻai mai i ka waiwai ma 2007 mai Seibu Railway Co. Ltd. a ua hoʻolilo ʻoi aku ma mua o $ 200 miliona. Eia kekahi, ua hōʻaiʻē ʻo ia i $227 miliona mai nā mea hāʻawi ʻē aʻe.
