The closure will eliminate 15 jobs, or about 4% of Pulama Lānaʻi’s 400-strong workforce, but the company said employees can apply for other positions.

Larry Ellison’s management company will close its rock and concrete operations, a unit developed to build luxury vacation homes during the 140-square-mile island’s decades-long transformation from a pineapple plantation to a hotspot for the super-rich.

The Pulama Lānaʻi department’s closure, planned for Nov. 17, will eliminate 15 jobs, or nearly 4% of the company’s 400-person workforce, a spokesman said, confirming the plan in response to a query from Civil Beat.

Pulama Lānaʻi oversees Ellison’s monopoly stake in Lānaʻi after the billionaire tech magnate bought 98% of the island’s acreage in 2012. The rock and concrete department helped

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