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Remove Images Maui County The Maui 10 Who’s the county’s most powerful player? by By Anthony Pignataro March 15, 2007 RANK   PREVIOUS   COMPANY    1               1            Dowling Co.    2               2            Weinberg Foundation    3               3            Maui Land & Pineapple Co.    4               9            Alexander & Baldwin    5               6            Goodfellow Brothers    6               4            Maui Electric Co.    7               5            Monsanto Hawai`i    8               7            Tesoro Hawai`i    9               8            Wailuku Water Co.   10             10           Hawaiian Telcom HOME SWEET HOMES Can you imagine how great it must be to be A&B? How much easier it is to get up in the morning knowing that you're one of the most powerful land owners and developers in the state who happens to share a seat on the Maui Chamber of Commerce with the publisher of The MauiNews? Couldn't say it was a surprise when The Maui News ran the front page, above-the-fold story "A&B files for new residential project in Kihei" on Mar. 7. The company is years away from breaking ground, but that didn't stop the paper from giving maximum play to A&B Vice President Grant Chun–A&B's representative on the Chamber–and his wish to build "68 acres of multifamily units" (condos), "25 acres of single-family residences" and "1.4 acres of commercial space" near the intersection of Pi`ilani and Mokulele in North Kihei. The amount of money A&B would make off such a project is conspicuously absent from the story, but it must be quite a bit, given the righteousness of the last line in the story: "But he [Chun] said A&B's preference would be to provide housing aimed for the local resident sooner rather than later." FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOODFELLOW Goodfellow Brothers moves up a notch because in the very same story, they're mentioned as the contractor doing the $22.5 million project to widen and realign the whole Mokulele-Pi`ilani intersection. This work is so important that without it there's no way A&B could bring about the grand residential development plans cited above. Right now, as residents are only too aware, the intersection is confusing and nearly always jammed with traffic. But once Goodfellow finishes its work, A&B's Grant Chun says the intersection will have even more "capacity and efficiency," according to The Maui News. MTW