Shimogawa Scoops

A prominent Hawaii psychologist has recently opened an office at the Manoa Marketplace in East Oahu. Dr. Gerald Brouwers, who has more than 25 years of experience working with adolescents and children in the state, struck a long-term sub-lease deal for a roughly 800-square-foot office space on the second floor of the Alexander & Baldwin Inc.-owned shopping center, which is anchored by Safeway and Longs Drugs. Brouwers’ company, KIA Clinical Services Inc., was formerly located near Kahala Mall in East Oahu. He plans to eventually expand his business by adding at least one more psychologist to KIA Clinical. Duane Shimogawa (S) of Avalon Commercial LLC , a subsidiary of noted Hawaii developer Christine Camp’s Avalon Group, represented the lessee in the sub-lease transaction. A&B purchased the shopping center not too long ago, and plans to eventually do some upgrades to the popular center. Manoa Marketplace is in a strategic location near the University of Hawaii M

Provision Staging LLC, a sales and distribution company that provides staging equipment to the entertainment, commercial, corporate and educational sectors, as well as religious institutions, has opened its first Hawaii location across from Ala Moana Center in Honolulu. The company, which provides solutions to various staging projects and applications in the audio/visual field, has recently opened at the 1388 Kapiolani Boulevard building in a little more than 3,000-square-foot ground floor space formerly occupied by a clothing wholesaling company. The lease transaction was brokered by Duane Shimogawa (S) of Honolulu-based Avalon Commercial LLC , a subsidiary of prominent Honolulu developer Christine Camp’s Avalon Group. Provision Staging, which expanded to Hawaii last year, finally found its first brick-and-mortar location at 1388 Kapiolani Boulevard. The company carries such items as towers, hoists, truss equipment, space roofs and crowd barriers.

Southwest Airlines is seeking approval from Hawaii regulators to plant its operations in the state and start flights as soon as later this year, according to public documents. The Dallas, Texas-based airline giant, which flies to more than 100 destinations, is scheduled to ask the state Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue the company a revocable permit for the purpose of opening its airline operations at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu. The board is scheduled to meet on March 9 to discuss Southwest Airlines’ proposal, among other agenda items. Southwest would shake-up the Hawaii market as it goes head-to-head with the state’s flagship airline, Hawaiian Airlines. It’s not known if Southwest will be operating interisland flights yet. However, Southwest’s presence in the Islands only enhances the state’s top industry – tourism – but others as well including real estate. This week, Southwest’s CEO Gary Kelly, speaking to The Dallas Morning News,