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Family-owned Mililani Companies All ‘Revved Up’ To Serve The Community
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Beach, worked as a mechan- “Greg was working for ever, property owner Kan-
“Seeing our happy cus- tomers and them referring us to others means a lot,” Gina shares.
ic for more than 40 years Snap-On when we opened and owned a Snap-On Tools our first repair shop. I had franchise. no choice but to run the
no called Greg and Gina in 2005 and asked them if they wanted to open another re- pair shop in his Chevron gas station.
Gina grew up in Mililani and graduated from Mililani High School in 1985.
“It all started (with him) business, but I learned a lot working on family and about cars and came to love
Greg was born in the Phil- ippines and came to Hawai‘i when he was 10 years old.
friends’ cars on his days off. It started to get busier and we decided to try opening a repair shop. We opened Tai- ra’s Auto Repair,” Gina re- calls.
the business,” Gina adds. She also explains that pre- viously, Roy Kanno and his family owned the Mililani repair and gas businesses for more than 50 years. How-
“At the time, we owned Taira’s Auto Repair in Waipi‘o Gentry, which we owned from 1998 and sold in 2008,” Gina shares.
He grew up in ‘Ewa
“For three years Greg and I ran both repair shops till we decided to spend more time with our family and sell Taira’s Auto,” she adds.
Employees and family members of the Mililani Texaco and Mililani Auto Repair companies gather for a photo outside the businesses. ANTHONY CONSILLIO PHOTOS
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“In 2014, Roy Kanno of- fered us to buy the property and take over the Chevron Gas station,” explains Gina.
Mark Rawlins works under the hood of a vehicle at Mililani Auto Repair, which is located at 95-130 Kamehameha Hwy.
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“That was a huge under- taking and with the help of our daughter Tiffany, we took on the gas station, too, which is now Mililani Tex- aco.”
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