H?na Pier is Coming Down

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)

Published January 7, 2016 at 12:00 PM HST

On Maui, a piece of history is scheduled to be destroyed….on purpose.

The Hana Pier was built in the early 1920’s. It was fenced off in 2010 after falling into disrepair with exposed holes and rebar in the deck. The Department of Transportation reviewed various options for rebuilding the pier but settled on its removal following public feedback.

Tim Sakahara is the spokesperson for the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation.

Demolition is expected to cost around $3.5-million –with the remaining $16-million of unused funding being returned to the DOT Harbors Division.

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Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)

Nick Yee’s passion for music developed at an early age, as he collected jazz and rock records pulled from dusty locations while growing up in both Southern California and Honolulu. In college he started DJing around Honolulu, playing Jazz and Bossa Nova sets at various lounges and clubs under the name dj mr.nick. He started to incorporate Downtempo, House and Breaks into his sets as his popularity grew, eventually getting DJ residences at different Chinatown locations. To this day, he is a fixture in the Honolulu underground club scene, where his live sets are famous for being able to link musical and cultural boundaries, starting mellow and building the audience into a frenzy while steering free of mainstream clichés.

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