When it comes to being visionary, who says the view must face forward? In fact, company Dearborn 535 LLC is looking backward, into the past, to bring a welcome historical aesthetic amid the glass-and-steel towers cropping up in Kakaako.

The company, affiliated with outdoor-clothing retailer Patagonia, is asking state approval to restore a former warehouse on Ward Avenue to its original 1928 condition and to preserve it in perpetuity as such. Work would entail removing a bank of retail spaces added in 1965 to the Ward Avenue side of the building, to restore a wall of 11 large windows that had been taken out. Who even knew the nondescript building was worthy of preservation? But it all sounds promising.

Women surfers get equal pay, finally

For women professional surfers, equal pay has been a long time coming. The World Surf League announced it will award equal prize money to women and men at all WSL-controlled events beginning in 2019.

It’s a welcome move, although it seems a little odd that equal pay in professional surfing isn’t already the norm. Pay parity is not exactly new.

The U.S. Open tennis tournament has paid women and men the same since 1973. The last of the four major tennis tournaments to award equal prize money, Wimbledon, began to do so in 2007.

The change, said world champion Hawaii surfer Carissa Moore, means being “respected as an elite athlete on the same level as the men.” Indeed.