{"id":15959,"date":"2007-05-01T03:24:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T03:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/?p=15959"},"modified":"2019-01-27T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T04:55:23","slug":"the-story-of-big-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/2007\/05\/01\/the-story-of-big-mike\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Big Mike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Harrah is a daredevil and a developer. Sometimes, he is both at once. Now, he wants to make a lasting mark in Hawaii<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Harrah can\u2019t help but make a big impression.\u00a0 He\u2019s 6\u20196, 300 pounds and, as numerous writers including this article\u2019s Scott Radway have noticed, he looks like \u201can oversize, high energy member of ZZ Top.\u201d\u00a0 At the time of publication, Harrah was looking to make a big impression once again, this time on the Honolulu skyline.\u00a0 The Pinnacle Honolulu is a 36-story luxury condominium tower located at 1199 Bishop Street.\u00a0 With only one to two units per floor and a penthouse suite taking up the top two stories, prices started at $800,000 and quickly sold.\u00a0 In this article, Harrah was quoted as saying, \u201cAt the end of the day, I want everyone to take a look back and say, \u2018That is a Mike Harrah project.\u2019 It is superiorly built, it\u2019s a great value, and it is a one-of-a-kind landmark.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The Pinnacle project wasn\u2019t Harrah\u2019s first foray into Hawaii\u2014right after his high school graduation he and a buddy bought one-way tickets to Hawaii, planning on living the penultimate beach bum lifestyle.\u00a0 Six months of picking pineapples for 67-cents an hour and he scraped together the money to fly stand-by home.\u00a0 Harrah built a successful career as a real estate developer and by 1980 was ready to take another chance on Hawaii. After working on The Kawai Beach Boy Resort for 2 months without getting paid, Harrah tried to buy the resort, but politics clouded the deal.\u00a0 Harrah finished the work and walked away from Hawaii once more.\u00a0 The Pinnacle project was his successful return to Hawaiian development.<\/p>\n

Read More in the May 2007 Hawaii Business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Harrah is a daredevil and a developer. Sometimes, he is both at once. Now, he wants to make a lasting mark in Hawaii Mike Harrah can\u2019t help but make a big impression.\u00a0 He\u2019s 6\u20196, 300 pounds and, as numerous writers including this article\u2019s Scott Radway have noticed, he looks like \u201can oversize, high energy member of ZZ Top.\u201d\u00a0 At the time of publication, Harrah was looking to make a big impression once again, this time on the Honolulu skyline.\u00a0 The Pinnacle Honolulu is a 36-story luxury condominium tower located at 1199 Bishop Street.\u00a0 With only one to two units per floor and a penthouse suite taking up the top two stories, prices started at $800,000 and quickly sold.\u00a0 In this article, Harrah was quoted as saying, \u201cAt the end of the day, I want everyone to take a look back and say, \u2018That is a Mike Harrah project.\u2019 It is superiorly built, it\u2019s a great value, and it is a one-of-a-kind landmark.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The Pinnacle project wasn\u2019t Harrah\u2019s first foray into Hawaii\u2014right after his high school graduation he and a buddy bought one-way tickets to Hawaii, planning on living the penultimate beach bum lifestyle.\u00a0 Six months of picking pineapples for 67-cents an hour and he scraped together the money to fly stand-by home.\u00a0 Harrah built a successful career as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}