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background, and then maybe it will kind of facilitate your deliberation not only on this
<br />application but the subsequent application.
<br />In summary, the staff’s recommendation and the proposed conditions on both applications were
<br />reviewed by the applicant and found them to be acceptable. The applicant, Hawaii Brewery, the
<br />principal is this guy named Marcus Bender. Mr. Bender, you know, he’s right now, he
<br />apologizes for his absence, he’s in Asia right now. And I’ll just give you some background as
<br />far as like what he has done. He was one of the co-founders of the existing water bottling plant
<br />that is currently in operation right now. It’s called Hawaiian Springs. He has since sold off that
<br />portion. He also was the developer, one of the co-founders and developer of the now defunct
<br />restaurant brewery in Honolulu. It was called Blue Moon. Finally, after he sold it, then the new
<br />operators, I guess, ran it for about a year; and it just kind of like closed down, maybe given the
<br />market conditions or operational inefficiencies, I don’t know the reason.
<br />But the other thing that was kind of interesting, you know, over the last couple of years he went
<br />to Viet Nam and he did this, he’s one of the co-founders of this vodka. It’s called KAI vodka. If
<br />you see it in the market right now, KAI vodka. So, it’s a very good one. It has lychee product
<br />and all that kind of stuff. So he’s a very interesting person to know. I found him to be very
<br />interesting. Anyway, so, you know, he started this project. It was like a 14 some odd acre area.
<br />He did the bottling portion; and then subsequently he sold off that portion, you know, he
<br />relinquished his interest. There is a very deep well on the property that services the bottling
<br />plant. And although the well is situated on the site, that’s where the bottling plant is, it’s kind of
<br />like, you know, it abuts his property, and he reserved also the rights to that same water as well.
<br />So his ultimate plan is, and so the special permit required the complete development of the entire
<br />project, you know, not only the bottling but there was going to be a brewery and the visitor
<br />facility. So he applied for the, a plan approval for the visitor facility and the brewery in, I
<br />believe was in April of 2006, thereabouts. He got the approval. He was getting ready to apply
<br />for the permit. But I think everybody knows over the last two or three years, you know, that the
<br />market kind of fell off. So, and that’s the reason why he needed this extension.
<br />The reason why he’s going for the change of zone, he wanted to create like 2-acre size
<br />properties, so that his plan is to, of the remaining area that he controls which is like about 7
<br />acres, he eventually wants to have like three different operational entities. One of which would
<br />be, and it started at 10 o’clock, this is full but it’s gone now. It’s like this Vita-water that you
<br />guys can kind of all see. You know, it’s sold at different markets. So that’s one of the kinds of
<br />components, you know, vitamin type of water. The other one would be like his really heart, and
<br />that is the standard brewery, the beer brewery, with the visitor facility. And the third one, he is
<br />also thinking about doing the alcoholic beverage portion, which conceivable could be something
<br />like this, you know, with alcohol inside or something along the line of his distillery, like the
<br />vodka or like a sake. So he’s looking at all these different options. But as he develops each
<br />component, you know, with other investors, then there is a potential for him to be able to sell off
<br />a portion. And so to be able to do that you need to have the land subdivided. But we can’t
<br />subdivide it under the current situation cause it’s zoned five acres. With the 2-acre zone that
<br />would make that possible.
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