Founder/President/CEO shares details about his Aquarium Plaza Resort
The Proposed Aquarium Plaza Resort & Spa Project
The Heart of the AngelPreneur Passion & Dream Project
The Aquarium Plaza Resort & Spa (Aquarium Plaza), was originally conceived by our Founder, aka: The Shark, for a 500 acre site around the Kapalua, West Maui airport on the Island of Maui, Hawaii in 2017. By the time he was ready to introduce the conceptual design seen below to Maui officials in 2020, the Covid pandemic would derail the project,
This was not just another mixed-use commercial center or tourist attraction. This was to become a special place with purpose, love, passion, and progress—built to educate, inspire, and unite those committed to a sustainable future. At the same time it was to be built as a public tribute, within a working entrepreneurial showcase - where sustainability, entertainment, clean food, water, energy and people come together in a heartfelt legacy converge.
The Aquarium Plaza was to become a spiritual place where innovation meets inspiration in a signature destination developed by The Shark's AngelPreneur Venture Group (APVG) It was also designed to serve as his flagship Marissa's Reef For Heavenly Helpers (Marissa's Reef), an aquatic memorial exhibit to honor his granddaughter, and serve as the corporate headquarters for APVG, its non-profit Clear Blue Oceans Foundation (CBO Foundation) and related companies.
At the heart of Aquarium Plaza is Marissa’s Reef for Heavenly Helpers (Marissa’s Reef), a 80-foot round by 80-foot tall saltwater aquarium - with an awe-inspiring tropical reef ecosystem in its center. Built in memory of Marissa Reyes, our Founder’s 7-year-old granddaughter, born on his birthday on June 24, 1998, and tragically lost in a flash flood in Carefree Arizona on August 9, 2005. This project has
taken many turns over the years, starting in Maui, back in 2008, and is looking at the California coast as its home.
This immersive exhibit will feature over 100,000 tropical reef fish and marine life, lovingly referred to as SpiritFish, named in honor of other children lost to natural disasters around the USA and world. The aquarium will also feature a ReefShark to protect Marissa and her Spiritfish helpers, representing Grandpa Petey our founder, and reason he is tagged with The Shark nickname. The Reef stands as a living, breathing memorial of hope, healing, and remembrance, anchoring the soul of Aquarium Plaza.
Depending on location and whether it will become the signature feature of a future resort project, where the Aquarium will include a full walk-through aquarium experience, or just a smaller version within a corporate center as yet undetermined. Ideally, our Founder hopes to build an Aquarium Resort project, with a golf course and Spa without all of the added commercial, senior living, apartments and related projects shown in the original older above rendering.
APVG is currently seeking suitable land to build its proposed Aquarium Resort, in partnership with ClubZERO Hospitality Group, a division of ClubZERO Rewards, both APVG companies currently in development. Although our preferred target site is along the slopes of Southern California Newport Coast, since it would be close to the Newport harbor where the CBO Foundation will seek to establish other operations, we are also looking at a Santa Barbara County vineyard site, and one on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
The videos here share a taste of why any of the three sites would work well for our proposed Aquarium Plaza Resort model. The Newport Beach, Santa Barbara County wine region or West Maui, Hawaii - despite the fires of August 2023, which destroyed most of the Lahaina front street and harbor area, all offer a great setting.
We plan to incorporate a new or existing golf course into the Aquarium Plaza Resort project, however, it is not necessary. It will feature retail, an aquarium themed full service restaurant & virtual golf center as shared below.
Aquarium Gallery Restaurant & Lounge
Integrated within the Aquarium Plaza is the Aquarium Gallery Restaurant that will feature the items listed to the right. The restaurant will become a must visit destination venue while o Maui in its own right, for locals, visitors and for hosting events or private gatherings, all within view of the mesmerizing Marissa’s Reef.
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Multiple saltwater aquariums for an immersive reef-side dining experience
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Sustainable seafood and full service sushi bar restaurant section featuring local fish
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Indoor and outdoor patio lounges with tropical design influences, with sunset views
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Themed food and beverage service inspired by Hawaiian and South Pacific coastal regions
SunStar Virtual Golf Club & Lounge
Maui is home to many golf tournaments and has many courses for visitors. However, golfing enthusiasts of all ages alike can play on over 250 virtual courses using the GolfZon simulators in the
SunStar Virtual Golf Club, which will redefine the indoor urban golfing trend as a part of family entertainment model.
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A multi-bay virtual golf simulator lounge setting with PGA-quality software
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Play over 100 top golf courses virtually in an amazing golf experience
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Golf gear, apparel & accessories for sale, including clubs and carts
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Golf lessons/training/seminars by certified PGA golf-pros
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Local tournaments, and ClubZERO member leagues
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Premium drinks, bar food, and entertainment in a modern golf-inspired atmosphere
Aquarium Plaza Partnerships
APVG will likely partner with land owners, if not outright acquiring land or leasing it directly. Regardless of the final average or room count, we will partner with our affiliated companies and non-profits in the operation of a future Aquarium Plaza Resort They are briefly outlined below:
ClubZERO Rewards
ClubZERO Rewards is building an online membership of like-minded entrepreneurs that will help us fund our many projects, non-profit initiatives, and serve as a built in guest base.
The ClubZERO membership base, although global in scale with an estimated 5 million paying members by 2028, will come mainly from Southern California, Nevada, Hawaii, Arizona and Utah. Designed as a luxury travel club model, members earn BitZERO$ - the virtual club currency monthly to redeem for luxury travel, lodging and related discounts, including private jet services, luxury cruises and yacht charter vacations.
This mandates a growing need to develop lodging products and third party lodging offers for key destinations of Las Vegas, Hawaii, and Southern California, cruise cabins, air travel, plus for select ski resorts in Mammoth Lakes, Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada, and Park City, Utah, to satisfy member redemption demands.
This offers us a strong marketing advantage in that the Aquarium Plaza Resort will serve as a private membership-based signature resort, filling rooms, keeping our restaurants and golf course busy. The ClubZERO Hospitality Group a future division of ClubZERO Rewards will own, build and operate our proposed resort .
ReefShark Apparel & Accessories
APVG will establish, and operate its ReefShark Apparel & Accessories retail store within the Aquarium Resort, which will include a coffee, pastry and sandwich bar. They will offer Marissa Reef gift items, logo-branded apparel and accessories, personal items like brushes, bags, reusable bottles, sunscreen, sun glasses, hats and other common items found at any luxury resort property. fF a golf course is aded, and to be managed by APBG, then we will also add a retail golf shop store there. If built within a vineyard setting, we will conduct wine tastings and sell estate made wines.
Clear Blue Ocean Foundation
The CBO Foundation, a Hawaiian 501 c(3) non-profit organization will manage and oversee the Marissa's Reef exhibit, operate an information awareness office onsite, and scheduled video presentations of the building of Marissa's Reef for guest. The exhibit is open to the general public and will be promoted locally as a Must Visit attraction. Depending on the size of the land parcel, CBO Foundation may establish its ClearBlue Agricultural Resilience Research & Training Center on 60 to 80 acres. The goal will be to plant fruit bearing citrus trees within the center as well as place 6 to 8 - 60,000 sf bifacial solar roof canopy structures over similar crops to research the growth and yield patterns of open air vs under canopy.
Building the Dream in Real Time
Aquarium Plaza is inspired by The Shark’s original Maui Aquarium Plaza Golf & Spa Resort design - a dream deferred, now reborn in 2026. His full vision is detailed in his upcoming book: “The AngelPreneur: Building The Dream in Real Time” and also within his web series by the same name – launching in May 2026.
Aquarium Plaza: A Tribute, A Vision, A Movement
The ClubZERO Hospitality Group will be established to acquire existing hotel properties and build multiple semi-luxury hotels under its proposed ClubZERO Suites brand. Destinations will include, but are not limited to Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. Scottsdale, Arizona, San Diego, Newport Coast, Long Beach, Malibu, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez, California. The Islands of Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai, Hawaii.
ClubZERO Hospitality will also manage the CBO Foundation - Destination Resort Interval Lodging Assets, that get donated to the foundation by owners seeking to exit their timeshares in exchange for tax deduction and then repurposes them as lodging offers exclusively to ClubZERO members for family vacations.
NOTE: ClubZERO Rewards intends to become a dividend paying public company, conducting a direct listing onto the Nasdaq stock exchange in 2028,