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State:     Hawaii

Island:    Lanai

City:        Lanai City

Lanai City is a census-designated place (CDP) on the island of Lanai, in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 3,164 at the 2000 census. Because of the island of Lanai's small population, Lanai City functions as the island's main commerce and business area. Many of the island's restaurants and shops can be found in the town square that surrounds Dole Park.

In April 2009, Lanai City was named one of the top most endangered historic sites in the U.S. It is home to an intact plantation town, something not found on any of the other Hawaiian Islands, dating back to the early 1920s. This historic district is threatened by commercial development, which would involve the demolition of a number of historic buildings.

Lanai City is served by Lanai Airport (LNY).

Lanai was once the home of the pineapple plantation of entrepreneur James Drummond Dole, which spanned over 20,000 acres and employed thousands of workers. Dole owned the entire island for a time, and in the 1920s built Lanai City to house and serve the community of workers^.

The corporation Castle & Cooke, which owns the Dole Food Company, still owns much of Lanai today, and intends to demolish much of what remains of the historic district, including homes, a laundromat, and a jailhouse all dating back to the 1920s, in order to build new commercial structures, including a supermarket described by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as "oversized" and "out-of-scale"^.

Income & Housing Costs Numbers:

Estimated median household income in 2008: $59,123 (it was $43,271 in 2000)

Lanai City:	$59,123
Hawaii:	$67,214

Estimated per capita income in 2008: $24,679

Estimated median house or condo value in 2008: $367,402 (it was $143,000 in 2000)

Lanai City:	$367,402
Hawaii:	$560,200

Mean prices in 2008: All housing units: $384,467; Detached houses: $372,156; Townhouses or other attached units: $297,398; In 3-to-4-unit structures: $599,988

Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Lanai City: 94.5 (less than average, U.S. average is 100)

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http://www.city-data.com/city/Lanai-City-Hawaii.html

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