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Ala Moana Center Tenant Turnover Leads to Unique Sale
August 9, 2021

Fellows mentioned in this story: Quinn Vittum, Cohort VI

From Honolulu Star-Advertiser:

An unusual sale is happening with four retail stores that used to be neighbors in one wing of Ala Moana Center.

Instead of cookies or ice cream from the former Aloha Confectionery store, hardwood flooring and display cases are being served up. Where employee chefs once presented food samples to sell cookware, kitchen accessories and other items at Williams Sonoma, the exhaust hood from the store’s demonstration cook-top is being harvested for sale along with marble counter tops, cabinetry, flooring and other fixtures. And instead of women’s apparel from Ann Taylor and children’s clothing from Janie and Jack, oak-framed mirrors, dressing room doors, shelving, flooring, crystal chandeliers and light fixtures are available.

Local construction materials recycling firm Re-Use Hawaii for the past month has been harvesting remnants of the four adjacent retail spaces on one side of Ala Moana’s third-floor mauka wing walkway that leads to Target as the mall makes way for a “candy department store” called IT’SUGAR expected to open in November.

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