(AP) — The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority plans to seek $64 million from the state’s capital improvements budget to fix a leaky rooftop deck at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that’s more than double what the agency had last anticipated it would cost to complete the largest deferred maintenance project at the building, which opened in 1998. It’s a substantial reinvestment in a center that cost $200 million to build. Officials in 2017 requested about $27 million from the Legislature to fix the rooftop deck. But legislators did not approve the improvements.

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