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Goodbye Lanai: From One Billionaire to Another
By Nick Grube 06/20/2012
It’s not every day the governor of Hawaii sends out a personalized welcome note to a new landowner.
That’s usually a task reserved for the realtors who get a cut from selling the property, or the friends and family who want a spot on the housewarming party list.
But on Wednesday, Gov. Neil Abercrombie issued a special aloha to Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Oracle.
Ellison is in the midst of purchasing Lanai — one of eight major Hawaiian isles — from fellow billionaire David Murdock, whose company Castle & Cooke owns about 97 percent of the Maui County island.
More: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/06/20/16124-goodbye-lanai-from-one-billionaire-to-another/
It’s not every day the governor of Hawaii sends out a personalized welcome note to a new landowner.
That’s usually a task reserved for the realtors who get a cut from selling the property, or the friends and family who want a spot on the housewarming party list.
But on Wednesday, Gov. Neil Abercrombie issued a special aloha to Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Oracle.
Ellison is in the midst of purchasing Lanai — one of eight major Hawaiian isles — from fellow billionaire David Murdock, whose company Castle & Cooke owns about 97 percent of the Maui County island.
More: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/06/20/16124-goodbye-lanai-from-one-billionaire-to-another/