STAR-BULLETIN / FILE
The contents of the 530-room Kona Surf Hotel will be sold over the next 30 days.
Kona Surf furnishings
to be auctioned offNew owners plan a $40 million
remodel of the property, which has
been closed for three years
All of the furniture and furnishings of the 530-room Kona Surf Hotel will be put on sale Friday by a liquidator, who promises bargains in a 30-day sell-off spree. Ohio-based National Content Liquidators Inc. said the sale will begin at 9 a.m. Friday at the hotel at Keauhou Bay, Kona.
Items for sale include room equipment such as beds, rattan chairs, dressers, mirrors, night stands, sofas, lamps, art work, patio chairs, sheets, towels and bedspreads. Also open for purchase are the hotel's ice machines, washers, dryers, some bar furnishings and many other items related to the operation of a hotel.
A partnership called Koa Hotel LLC bought the hotel for $18 million in a foreclosure sale in 2001 and announced plans to spend $40 million to renovate the property before reopening it as the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort under the management of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Hawaii. The hotel has been closed since its then-owner, Japan-based Otaka Inc., shut it down in July 2000.
For more information about the sale call NCL representative Don Hayes at (808) 322-0177.
