Lahaina Is Rising Slowly - Hawaii Business Magazine

Lahaina Is Rising Slowly - Hawaii Business Magazine

Lahaina – On Maui’s bustling west side, life has returned to normal. Traffic is dense between Lahaina and Kapalua, with people flocking to hotels and businesses. The parking lot of the renovated Lahaina Cannery, about a mile north of the ruined harbor, is jammed with cars. In the hills mauka of the highway that hugs Maui’s leeward coast, new homes are rising on empty pockets of land. But nothing is really normal here. Nearly two years after wild…