Entries tagged 'Kahala'

Hawaii Real Estate: Crazy Japanese Billionaire Pushes Forward with Kahala Housing Project Plan: David Geffen Gets the Hoi Polloi

Crazy Japanese billionaire Gensiro Kawamoto is pushing ahead with his plans to turn one of Hawaii's super luxe nabes (home to Hollywood supermogul David Geffen, among others) into his own personal housing project for people of Native Hawaiian descent. So...

NYT Sez Don't Buy in Kahala: The Crazy Japanese Billionaire Next Door Effect

That whistling sound on Kahala Avenue? Local real estate prices dropping even faster as the NYT, the style guide for the liberal monied set, picks up on the wacky doings in Kahala of Gensiro Kawamoto. The eccentric Japanese slumlord who...