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<br />KANUHA: Practice, perform‒‒ <br /> <br />DELIMA: ‒‒practice perform. <br /> <br />KANUHA: ‒‒demonstrations. <br /> <br />DELIMA: Yeah, and then there could be like a living demonstration, cultural. And I <br />think we had that discussion early on. It would bring vibrancy to the area that in itself <br />would be an attraction. So you would walk the Banyan Drive, you would go and visit <br />the, that cultural community aspect, and then it would have a venue for performing arts <br />whether it would be concerts and other activities, and you would have parking and that <br />type of‒‒ That’s how I viewed, so it would be a place for the Merrie Monarch, but at the <br />same time it would be a center for other events and you would have the natural aspect of <br />having the mixed use where you have restaurants and, you know, bars and other type of <br />amenities that would go along with that type of experience. So, I mean, that’s my‒‒one <br />person’s thought. I like the ideas that let’s make comments, and then other people will <br />have some comments and‒‒ But I really like the way this is being fleshed out. So I <br />appreciate all the hard work and the public comments. <br /> <br />Sig, you wanted to‒‒ <br /> <br />KANUHA: I don’t think that has really changed a lot, you know, the concept of what <br />that was. I’m looking at the map now and that resort node is primarily symbolic. When I <br />look at it now, I can see that how the cultural center, community center is oriented with <br />view planes. I can see this hotel intersects that. So visually, that’s an easy correction. <br />We can just shrink the node down, but it’s more conceptual that if a new site were to <br />come in or if there was interest for a new site, that’s the vicinity we would like to see it <br />in. <br /> <br />DELIMA: You know, I’m not a planner, but what I thought might be a‒‒we had this <br />discussion at the last meeting so it’s not something I just came up with, there was some <br />discussion about it, is that area across Reed’s Bay where they have the‒‒is it the water <br />pumping station or the sewage pumping; there’s a little <br /> <br />KANUHA: The park? The park on‒‒ <br /> <br />DELIMA: Yeah. <br /> <br />KANUHA: On the other side of Reed’s Bay, right? <br /> <br />DELIMA: Yeah, the Reed’s Bay Park. So it would be on the Hilo side, Hilo Town side, <br />I thought maybe that could be a potential for a hotel because you would‒‒across would <br />Page 16 of 19 <br />Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency <br />September 28, 2016, Minutes <br /> <br /> <br />