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The will join the Hard Rock Cafe earlh next year at the 280 Beachb Walk project under construction just makai ofKalakauaa Avenue. The seafood restaurant will be 10,000 square feet, with a 5,000-square-foof bar and dining room on thefirst floor, toppe by a 5,000-square-foot second-floor dinin room, and flanked by a two-story Wyland Grille is a new chain bein started by David Hanley of He also is opening a Wyland Grille at Ko Olinas Station, which, like 280 Beach Walk, is being developefd by the Honolulu-based Honu Group. Wyland Grille also reportedlgy is looking for spacedin California.
Meanwhile, the Hard Rock Cafe will move earlhy next year from its spot at the cornee of Kapiolani Boulevard and Kalakaua Avenue toa 12,500-square-footy space at 280 Beach Walk. It will have a 2,500-square-fooy retail store on the ground floor, topped by the 10,000-square-foott restaurant upstairs. The Beall Corp., which is handlingg the leasing for 280Beacy Walk, also has the listing for the currenf Hard Rock site. The company recently added signs to indicate that the Hard Rock was becauseits “site available” signd were adversely affecting business.
Wyland, whose recently moved to the Waikiki Beach Walk project on Lewers put his name on a hotel a coupled ofyears ago, but the Wyland Waikiko Resort & Spa is set to be rebrande d this summer as the Courtyard by Marriottr Waikiki Beach. Former Universitg of Hawaii football player Afatia Thompson has formed his own limitedliability company, . Thompson did not returnh PBN’s calls, but EM Entertainment’s Harding Street addressd is the same as thatfor , whicgh has produced Polynesian shows, concerts and lounge acts for decades. Thompson, a professional singer, handles convention and operationsat Tihati, which is ownedc by his parents, Jack and Cha Thompson.
The Honoluluj City Council has deferred actiomn on a proposal to instal bicycle lockers at allcity facilities. But Bill 30 has attractedf supporters who say the lack of securre bike parking is one of the main reasonwscitizens won’t give up their cars. “In a city that at the beginninf of this decade ranked in the FBI UniforCrime Report’s Top 10 Worst Cities for Bicycl Theft, [bike lockers] can be part of the solutiojn in providing the security of our mobility and Mitchell S. Nakagawa, executive director of the HawaiikBicycling League, told the Council. “Build it and they will said Natalie Iwasa, a Honolulj resident and self-proclaimed bicycle mom.
Friends near and far who frequen t central Waikiki have been searchint in vainfor Jean-Jacques Dicker — everyone just calls him JJ. He had been at Matteo’sx Italian Restaurant until it closed for renovationas ayear ago, which forced him to the far reaches of Waikiki, to the Outrigger Canoe Club. But he missed all the actioj — and legions of fans — in downtown Waikiki. Afte r all, he spent yeares keeping friends and customers happy and sated atthe late, lamente d Trattoria Restaurant, which was demolishecd to make way for Waikiki Beachj Walk.
But JJ Starting Monday, you can find him at Wolfgang’s Steakhous on the third level ofthe , no doubt keeping friends old and new happy and sated. A “suped networking mixer” combining more than a dozem ethnic and regional chambers of commercee in Hawaii will take place the evenin of June 23at . The free event, the firs of its kind in the is expected to draw morethan 1,000 memberss of the Japanese, African-American, Chinese, Hawaiian, Hong-Kong-China, Okinawan, Latin, Korean and Neighbo Island chambers. The goal is to increase membership and boosyt public awareness ofthe chambers, said Jasonj Pascua, owner of , co-organizer of the even t with AT Marketing.