The Associated Press has this item on the latest regarding efforts to land a presidential library in the islands. Excerpt:

Hawaii hopes it has an offer Honolulu-born President Barack Obama won’t be able to turn down.

It hopes to build him a presidential library on the ocean, with a dramatic view of his hometown’s famed Diamond Head volcanic crater. The state’s abundant sunshine would generate solar power and support vegetable gardens on site.

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Hawaii officials predicted Thursday that the prime, 8-acre spot on a rocky shoreline between Waikiki and downtown Honolulu, combined with the state’s many tourists, would make the facility one of the nation’s most heavily visited presidential centers.

“You can’t beat waterfront land in Honolulu, with all due respect for the other cities,” U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz said Thursday, the deadline for proposals.

Hawaii is competing with bids from Chicago, where Obama spent much of his adult life, and New York, where he attended Columbia University as an undergraduate. …

The AP says a group supported by Hawaii’s governor, the University of Hawaii and other institutions — including Punahou, where Obama graduated from high school — submitted its ideas to the Barack Obama Foundation.