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The owners of Loulen’s Restaurant in Kalihi are holding a comprehensive auction of their restaurant equipment on Saturday.

Mark Glen Auctions is handling the sale, which includes kitchen equipment like grills, a rotisserie oven, refrigerators, furniture and catering equipment.

The restaurant, located at 1125 N. King St., opened in 2005 and closed about a decade later. The owners then converted the space into a different bar and restaurant, named Gerry’s Grill, which closed earlier this year.…

Oregon's second-largest brewery will delay the planned start of work on a Virginia location.

The Roanoke Times reported that Deschutes Brewery won't go forward with a June 2019 construction start on its East Coast efforts. The paper noted that Deschutes President Michael Lalonde had cited a slowing of craft beer industry growth earlier this year when the company chose to “re-evaluate the scale and timing of its expansion.”

“At this time, we continue to watch trends in the craft beer market for…

Nearby business and property owners have expressed concern about the dispensary moving into the neighborhood.

A pub chain featuring miniature golf will fill a large retail vacancy near Golden 1 Center.

Washington state-based Flatstick Pub has signed a lease to occupy part of the ground floor and the entire basement of 630 K St., with a planned opening in late spring of next year.

The lease, of about 15,000 square feet, takes up all of what was formerly craft brewery Ruhstaller’s tasting room in the basement of 630 K St. Rushtaller has since opened a tasting room in the nearby mixed-use project on the…

One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies is bullish on bud.

Altria, parent company of New York-based Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) and maker of Marlboro cigarettes, invested $2.4 billion into a Toronto medical and recreational marijuana company.

The deal gives Altria (NYSE: MO) a 45 percent stake in Cronos Group.

Cronos (NASDAQ: CRON) said Friday that the Richmond, Virginia, tobacco company will pay another $1.4 billion for warrants that, if exercised, would give Altria a 55 percent majority…

Dana Marie Roquemore came up with the idea when she returned home to Orlando after a wanderlust adventure across the globe.

It was a good problem to have: A few months into the buildout of Mighty Squirrel's Waltham brewery in March, its popularity was climbing faster than expected.

The brewery, which sold less than 1,000 barrels of beer in 2017, had planned a facility with capacity to brew 7,000 barrels annually. But as work began on the 18,000-square-foot space, sales for their product — then brewed at Peabody Heights Brewery in Baltimore — outgrew those expectations.

The owners scampered to ordered more tanks…

Baba Yega Cafe, which occupies a converted bungalow in Montrose, suffered a fire the night of Dec. 7.

The restaurant, at 2607 Grant St., is closed for the time being, but the owners plan to reopen sometime in 2019, according to a statement from the company.

Per the statement, the fire broke out around 9 p.m. and is believed to have started near the front entrance. Media reports show flames coming from the roof.

All employees and guest got out safely, and the owners are working with officials…

If you have a family, or come from a family or just know a family — you know a big concern is where to plunk that family down for years to come. You want the best neighborhood you can afford, but there are more factors than just housing costs to sift through.

You might want the schools to be academically solid for the kids, and you want your own plentiful night life, or shopping and restaurants to be relatively easy to access. Often this process is arduous and difficult to implement on your own,…

“She (or he) said.”

These words, which sort of melt into the background while reading an article, are vitally important to us at the Business Journal. That's because the best stories aren't the ones we tell you, but the ones where our reporters allow business people to explain the news.

This week's recommended stories are driven by the people interviewed. There are a group of area entrepreneurs paying tribute to all that Pipeline CEO Joni Cobb has done for them and entrepreneurship in the region.…