Whole Foods Pulls Out Of Ward Project
National Retail Grocer Looks For New Site
POSTED: 4:05 pm HST December 2, 2009
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HONOLULU -- Whole Foods Market on Wednesday announced it is pulling out of the stalled Ward Villages project and is looking for a new Honolulu site.The project was stalled when the owner of the Ward Centers, General Growth Properties, went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.GGP failed to pay two local contractors, Hawaiian Dredging and AC Kobayashi, for work completed on the Ala Moana Center and the Ward Village shops.Whole Foods opened a store in Kahala. It is scheduled to open a Maui location in February and another store in Kailua in 2011.
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