We noticed that Mandarin Oriental Hotels was recently taken private by its majority owner, Jardine Matheson. Which got us thinking: what’s going on with the Mandarin Oriental Honolulu?
There was a flurry of press releases a few years ago, but the last update we could find was back in 2023. Since then, radio silence, and the last time I drove by the site, I didn’t see a whole lot of activity.
If any of our well-informed readers have intel on the status of this project, we’re all ears. Otherwise, we may need to go into Keith Morrison reporting mode: “It was a bold announcement…. Two parcels. Billions of dollars. Five years, they said. But now? Just a concrete slab and questions.”
