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Pacific Business News (Honolulu) 
The International Council of Shopping Centers meets this week in Las Vegas, and a highlight will be a
Japanese retail project with Hawaii involvement.
Japanese developer RECRM Research Co. Ltd. is working with Honolulu-based Chaney Brooks & Co., PacRim Marketing Group Inc., and the Honolulu brand consultancy Bedrock, to sign up American
retailers to open stores in Harajuku District, the most fashionable shopping
area in Tokyo.
Harajuku is the area that singer and fashion designer Gwen Stefani
sings about in her song, "Harajuku Girls." Omotesando Avenue, sometimes
called the Tokyo version of the Champs-Elysees, has a mix of high-end
shops to the seven-story Kiddy Land toy store.
At the ICSC conference Monday-Wednesday in Vegas, the partners will
unveil plans for the Paradox Project, a nine-level 123,500 square foot
retail center, near Harajuku's original Imperial rail station, the
popular
Yoyogi Park and Meiji Jingu Shrine and Omotesando Avenue.
The area attracts 58,000 pedestrians daily and 140,000 passengers commute daily through the adjacent train station.
Chaney Brooks Hawaii is seeking interested U.S. anchor tenants.
Construction is scheduled to start in October with a tentative opening
date of May 2009.  Printable Version (193.33 KB)
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