The Kona Seaside Shops is quite popular as the home of Big Kahuna Beach Grill, Ka‘ū Coffee Roasters Café, the surf shop Pacific Vibrations, the ice cream shop Homegrown Cone and the jewelry store Sparked with Aloha.
But the shopping center, at age 55 and one of the oldest in the Historic Kailua Villages, is showing its decades of wear and tear.
Now, the Edmund C. Olson Trust, owners of the shopping center, have plans to create an “inviting gateway” to the Ali‘i Drive retail corridor by renovating the 33,411-square-foot parcel of prime real estate…