WAILUKU, Maui — Kaiser Basis Well being Plan has reached settlement with Maui Island Holdings, LLC to buy the 6.28-acre Maui Information campus simply northwest of Maui Memorial Medical Middle (which is operated by Kaiser Basis Hospitals subsidiary Maui Well being) and adjoining to the Kaiser Permanente Wailuku Medical Workplace.
The property being offered is at 100 Mahalani Avenue in Wailuku and consists of three buildings totaling greater than 43,000 sq. ft which might be house to The Maui Information and the press the place The Maui Information and different publications are printed.
The acquisition settlement permits The Maui Information to proceed working on the website for as much as a 12 months, however Normal Supervisor Jenni DeFouw stated the newspaper is working to establish new workplace house and transfer as shortly as doable. She stated the property sale and subsequent transfer will launch a brand new, extra fashionable period on the newspaper, which is revealed day by day on-line at mauinews.com and weekly on Thursdays in print.
“We’re excited to maneuver into a brand new house that higher fits our wants and is extra accessible to our readers and advertisers,” stated DeFouw, who famous that greater than half of the present constructing house is just not occupied. “That is an funding in our future that may enable us to focus all of our power on delivering the content material and promoting the larger Maui neighborhood expects and deserves.”
The sale additionally will enable Kaiser Permanente to raised serve the neighborhood with expanded well being providers.
“For greater than 50 years, the physicians, suppliers, and workers at Kaiser Permanente Hawaii have had the privilege of caring for the folks of Maui,” stated Ed Chan, RD, FACHE, Hawaii market president for Kaiser Basis Well being Plan and Hospitals. “This house for growth helps our rising wants, in addition to our dedication to delivering high-quality care to Valley Isle residents and is an funding to make sure we meet our Maui members’ well being care wants for generations to return.”
Kaiser Permanente and Maui Island Holdings, LLC have been in discussions relating to a possible sale of the property for fairly a while earlier than reaching settlement this week.
“We acknowledge and honor The Maui Information’ 125-year historical past of offering information and knowledge to Maui residents and we’re grateful that this transfer will enable each our organizations to proceed serving the Maui neighborhood for years to return,” stated John Yang, MD, president and medical director, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, which oversees care supply for Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii.
With the sale of the buildings, The Maui Information plans to shut its printing press throughout the subsequent 12 months and transition printing of The Maui Information and its different shoppers to a different press.
The Maui Information is an affiliate of West Virginia-based Ogden Newspapers, a family-owned firm with neighborhood newspapers in additional than 50 markets stretching greater than 4,800 miles from Lake Placid, New York, to Maui.
