[Editor's note: This story has been updated since its first posting. This is the version that ran in our Jan. 3 print edition.] To hear the hosannas from members of Maui’s progressive community, Christmas came early this year with Alexander & Baldwin’s sale of some 41,000 acres of former sugarcane lands to a mainland company for $262 million, or about $6,400 an … [Read more...] about Who Are These Guys? Enthusiasm over the new owners of A&B’s agricultural lands runs high, though almost nothing is known about them
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What Will Be the Fate of Maui’s Central Valley? Amid reports that it is selling Maui holdings, A&B receives permits for continued water diversion. Sierra Club is contesting the decision
Alexander and Baldwin has a potential partner who wants to grow various crops on “the entire footprint,” of A&B’s agricultural holdings on Maui, a company official said Friday. “We’re pursuing and have had inquiry from a farming partner out of California, and they have an interest in farming nearly the whole footprint of land. We’re in discussions with them looking at … [Read more...] about What Will Be the Fate of Maui’s Central Valley? Amid reports that it is selling Maui holdings, A&B receives permits for continued water diversion. Sierra Club is contesting the decision
Alexander and Baldwin in final stages of land sale, high-ranking state official told farmer group
A Canadian pension fund is completing the due diligence process in the final stages of a 55,000-acre purchase of Alexander and Baldwin’s Maui land holdings, a high-ranking State of Hawai‘i official told a group of farmers at the Hawai‘i Farmers Union Convention in October. Individuals who overheard the comment told MauiTime Friday that the state official said the … [Read more...] about Alexander and Baldwin in final stages of land sale, high-ranking state official told farmer group