Growing Hawaii - Progress 2011

New projects, developments and retail centers around Oahu will change the fabric of our communities Central Oahu PAGE 4

West Oahu PAGE 14

North Shore PAGE 31

Windward Oahu PAGE 47

East Oahu PAGE 55

About Town PAGE 61

Islandwide PAGE 77 PROGRESS EDITION

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AlohaCare’s CEO, John McComas, in front of the Kalihi-Palama Health Center on North King St., one of the 14 Community Health Centers in Hawaii.

Q: How does AlohaCare strengthen Hawaii’s health care safety net?

JM: As Hawaii’s only health plan that offers statewide a QUEST plan

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How is AlohaCare improving access to health care in our community?

John McComas (JM): AlohaCare was created out of community health centers (CHCs), such as Kalihi-Palama Health Center, to ensure low-income families access to comprehensive health care. Nearly 20 years later, we hold true to our mission. For example, we’re one of the key players in bringing a new CHC to the underserved Wahiawa community. The grant for the proposed CHC was recently submitted to the federal government for review and approval. We have also helped fund the startup of two other CHCs—West Hawaii Community Health Center (Big Island) and Koolauloa Community Health and Wellness Center (Oahu). And, through our Access & Availability Funding, we’ve proudly dedicated more than $1 million to recruit and retain medical staff on the Neighbor Islands.

With the down economy and cutbacks in state and federal funding, many of our providers are facing tough times. AlohaCare offers help through its Quality Improvement Incentive Program. Last year, the program distributed more than $1.6 million in incentive awards to 14 CHCs and clinics statewide. The program gives the tools needed to measurably improve clinical care, services and access to care.

and a Medicare plan, we are the voice for our 75,000-plus plan members.

We participate in the legislative process to protect our members’ benefi ts and offer the state our expertise in serving Hawaii’s most medically fragile populations.

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How is AlohaCare preparing for Health Care Reform?

JM: Health Care Reform will be a fundamental shift in how care is to be delivered in the future. Hawaii needs to be ready. AlohaCare is engaging in a number of innovative health care transformation projects geared to improve quality outcomes while reducing costs.

The Patient-Centered Medical Home is a key concept of Health Care Reform. AlohaCare is supporting a local Medical Home pilot project to test how its team-approach to care benefi ts patients and providers.

Another critical part to Health Care Reform is the Hawaii Health Information Exchange (HHIE). The Exchange will allow doctors to share data and patient information—quickly and accurately. Ultimately, the HHIE will feed into the national health information network.

AlohaCare is determined to transform the state’s current health care system into one that coordinates care and reduces costs for patients and providers. Health care technology is vital for cost-effective quality care. To keep Hawaii’s providers in step with national technology standards, AlohaCare is developing the state’s first and only Managed Service Organization (MSO). The MSO will meet the technological and business management needs of our CHCs, which includes connectivity with the HHIE. Over time, we expect to expand the MSO support services to private practice physicians, hospitals, labs and small group practices.

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A housing development called Koa Ridge planned for Waiawa struggles with legal challenges while a pair of parcels that sat unused for years in Mililani Mauka will enable a Longs and affordable housing for seniors to join the community.

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to develop an initial phase of Koa Ridge on 576 acres for 3,500 homes, a hotel, medical campus, a school, parks Building homes on farmand commercial space. land between Waipio and Castle & Cooke submitted Mililani got the green light from a state commission last an application for a zoning change with the city and year, but a potential red county in June. If that gets light recently arose and approved, the developer had could stop the estimated $2.2 billion project known as anticipated beginning infrastructure construction next Koa Ridge. year, and delivering initial Project developer Castle homes by the end of 2013. & Cooke Homes Hawaii reThat timetable was ceived state Land Use Commission approval in October revised from an earlier

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However, a legal challenge to the commission’s approval filed by the Sierra Club was largely upheld on July 19 in Circuit Court.

The environmental group appealed the LUC decision to Circuit Court in November, arguing that one of the six votes by LUC commissioners approving the land-use change was invalid because one commissioner was an improper holdover member.

The now-former commissioner in question, Duane

Kanuha, had been rejected for reappointment by the state Senate in April 2010 after his four-year term expired in June 2009. But Kanuha stayed on the commission as a holdover member of thenGov. Linda Lingle even after the Senate rejection.

Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto ruled in favor of the Sierra Club, but a new argument raised by a deputy attorney general during oral arguments challenged the Sierra Club’s ability to have Kanuha disqualified.

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If the Sierra Club prevails, it would prevent Castle & Cooke from seeking a new LUC approval for Koa Ridge for at least a year.

If Koa Ridge is allowed to proceed, the developer expects it can meet its stated timetable for an initial phase.

Developer Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii envisions a spacious village center, above, at the heart of the Koa Ridge community.

A village market, next page, will provide places to shop.

WAIAWA A second phase of Koa Ridge known as Castle & Cooke Waiawa was more uncertain under the LUC’s October decision.

Phase 2 involves 1,500 homes and one school

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planned for another 192 acres on the Diamond Head side of H-2 freeway across from the initial phase of Koa Ridge.

The LUC made its approval of phase 2 conditioned on the developer starting construction on expensive road infrastructure, which would need to span a gulch, within 20 years. Castle & Cooke also must have construction bonds in place for the work and any costsharing agreements with neighboring landowner Kamehameha Schools.

OTHER concerns over the project included the displacement of farming, lost farmland and increased traffic.

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leases about 325 acres of the project site to grow vegetables and seed corn, to 667 acres in Wahiawa.

Taking the land out of farming cannot be undone, but Castle & Cooke said the site once planted in pineapple is within the city’s urban growth boundary that designates where urban growth should be directed so that farmland elsewhere can be protected.

Other mitigation measures to which the developer committed include building an H-2 freeway interchange at Pineapple Road and H-2 interchange connections at Ka Uka Boulevard.

The state Department of Transportation is also expected to implement a number of transportation

improvements that should reduce traffic impacts of Koa Ridge, including an afternoon zipper lane, shoulder lane use and a direct connection linking H-2 to a planned park-and-ride rail station at Pearl Highlands.

Castle & Cooke said benefits of the project include satisfying a growing need for housing, job creation and a new medical facility operated by the Wahiawa Hospital Association.

The developer said Koa Ridge should generate two jobs for every three homes, or 2,500 jobs within the community. At least 30 percent of homes, or 1,500 homes, would be affordable to lowand moderate-income households under present city guidelines.

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Two parcels long left vacant are being developed, one by Longs and one as housing for senior citizens

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After more than two decades of unuse amid the suburbs of Mililani Mauka, two major parcels of land are closer to being developed.

Near the entrance of Mililani Mauka on a 1.9-acre site next to a McDonald's restaurant, a gas station and convenience mart, Longs Drug Stores is well under way in building its fifth Hawaii location with a drive-through pharmacy.

The Longs store, designed to be 23,000 square feet and include a two-lane drive-through for pharmacy orders, is expected to open next summer.

Longs owner CVS Caremark Corp. bought the parcel from Mililani's master developer Castle & Cooke Hawaii, which has an option to build up to 30,000 square feet of retail space that would expand the tenant mix on the site at the corner of Meheula Parkway and Ainamakua Drive.

Rock Tang, regional director of real estate for CVS Caremark, said Longs will have approximately 50 stores in Hawaii by the end of 2012.

“We found, based upon our market research, that there was a need for pharmacy services in Mauka,” he said.

“We’re responding to customer interest; certainly there are a lot of folks very excited to have Longs in that community.”

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Construction workers, above, grade the site of a future Longs store on the corner of Meheula Parkway and Ainamakua Drive in Mililani Mauka. At left, a rendering shows how the finished store will look.

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M MILILANI I LI LAN I MA MAUKA U KA PROPOSAL PROPOSAL This 7.5-acre site in Mililani Mauka zoned for commercial commer rcial use is proposed prroposed oposed for a 301-unit affordable afffor forrdable senior rental complex.

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A separate tract of land that also has been undeveloped for more than two decades is moving closer to being developed as an affordable housing project for seniors called Meheula Vista.

Local affordable housing developer Gary Furuta won conditional support in February from Mililani Mauka’s neighborhood board to build rental housing for seniors with a recommendation that the project include a height reduction.

Community representatives staunchly opposed more homes — 301 units spread over four buildings each featuring two-story and three-story wings — being built in the already tight suburban development.

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That parcel, zoned for commercial use, has been vacant for more than 20 years because of the lack of interest among small retail tenants, according to Carleton Ching, Castle & Cooke’s vice president of community and government relations.

“Any time you have a large store like Longs it’s an attraction — it’s a magnet for other smaller retailers and vendors to venture up there,” he said.

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the project to two stories and adding a traffic light at the intersection of Meheula Parkway and Kuaoa Street.

The Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Corp., a state agency that facilitates affordable housing

development, has approved lending $9.7 million to Furuta to buy the land and pay for design work. The agency is reviewing the developer’s affordable housing application and is expected to forward its recommendation to the City Council by the end of July or early August, according to Keith Kurahashi, a Meheula Vista consultant with planning firm Kusao & Kurahashi Inc. The developer intends to seek additional agency funding for construction.

The City Council will hold public meetings on the project.

The project site was originally slated by Castle & Cooke for commercial use and a nonprofit performing arts center.

But Castle & Cooke, which drew up the master plan for Mililani Mauka, said businesses weren’t interested in the 7.5-acre site and that the Oahu Arts Center failed to meet a deadline to demonstrate it had the financial means to build and operate a facility, though the nonprofit disputes this claim.

Furuta partnered with Catholic Charities Hawaii, which would own and manage the housing project for a minimum of 60 years for seniors earning no more than 60 percent of Oahu’s median income.

——— Andrew Gomes contributed to this report.

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The once fledgling city of Kapolei continues to transform the urban core of West Oahu, with a number of projects under way that will add to the myriad of restaurants and shops in the growing community.

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The developer of a regional mall planned for East Kapolei won final approval in March to build a small part of the estimated $400 million project, known as Ka Makana Ali‘i.

The landowner, the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, approved final terms for leasing 67 acres — and deferring rent on most of the land for up to six years — to an affiliate of Florida-based DeBartolo Development LLC, moving the long-planned project closer to fruition.

The proposed center includes 1.1 million square feet of retail space integrated with 200,000 square feet each of hotel and office buildings.

Construction on the initial phase — a 200,000-squarefoot neighborhood mall — could begin next year if an environmental assessment and state Land Use Commission approval are completed without delay, according to company representatives.

WALMART Meanwhile, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is beginning construction of a long-planned store in Kapolei now that major road improvements, including the North-South Road and first phase of a new Kapolei H-1 freeway interchange, are substantially complete.

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Nearby Kapolei Commons, anchored by a Target store, is leasing its second phase, which will measure more than 200,000 square feet. Once completed, the Kapolei center, which is estimated to cost more than $200 million, will total 650,000 square feet.

Groundbreaking on a second phase is expected in 2012, with completion in 2013, according to Jeff Arce, a partner at The McNaughton Group, the project developer.

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Ho‘opili to try anew

A development proposed for Ewa was shot down in 2009 but the builder has revised its master plan

original petition deficient because it didn’t adequately split the project into phases.

The commission two years ago heard a lot of testimony in which passions for and against the project ran high. CritiThe regulatory stage has been set — again — for a state commission to determine whether prime farmland in Ewa is cism was largely focused on traffic and farmland impacts, while support focused on a suitable site for a community with roughly as many accommodating population homes as Mililani or Hawaii Kai. Hearings are slated to begin this fall at the state Land Use growth with homes and Commission on the merits of Ho‘opili, an estimated $4.6 bil- jobs.

But the deficiency ruling lion project with 11,750 homes, five public schools and prevented any vote on the 3 million to 4 million square feet of commercial space promerits of the project, which posed by the local Schuler Division of Texas-based develalso had drawn concerns oper D.R. Horton.

Previous hearings began in early 2009, but were derailed from three state agencies — the Department of Agriculin August 2009 after the commission deemed Schuler’s

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ture, Office of Planning and Department of Transportation.

In May, Schuler announced revisions to the master plan, and has worked to increase public support in advance of what amounts to a retrial of the project before the LUC. The revised plan designated 251 acres within the 1,554acre Ho‘opili site for commercial farming, community gardens and home gardens.

Other additions included a 5-megawatt solar power plant, photovoltaic systems on at least 10 percent of homes and wiring all homes for photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle chargers.

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Corn plants on the eastern edge of Ewa Fields of Aloun Farms are in an area that may eventually be home to D.R. Horton’s Ho‘opili project. Renderings of the community are shown above.

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HO‘OPILI PLAN The master-planned community Hoopili by developer Kunia D.R. Horton would contain Road 11,750 homes, 3 million square feet of commercial H1 space, five schools, 159 acres of commercial farms and two transit stations.

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The purpose of the boundary is to accommodate population growth and protect

farmland elsewhere from development.

The site is near three ongoing development projects — the University of HawaiiWest Oahu, a Salvation Army Kroc Center and a Department of Hawaiian Home Lands subdivision — that support Schuler’s view that Ho‘opili would be the final piece of the decades-old vision for creating a “Second City” on Oahu.

Though the project would have a negative effect on traffic, Schuler said it will be minimized with two rail stations at Ho‘opili and businesses employing 7,000 people, which would help reduce the number of

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ing, dozens of supporters mostly wearing construction trades shirts, displayed signs of support inside and outside the meeting. Far fewer opponents of the project attended the meeting, but also brought signs.

The LUC voted to allow Schuler to present its case again, with revised project elements.

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In June, the MakakiloKapolei-Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board voted 8-0 to support Ho‘opili.

Many people in the audience wore Ho‘opili T-shirts or “Ho‘opili Now” stickers.

Previously the board had not taken a position on the plan.

One day before a June 30 LUC meeting to determine whether a new round of Ho‘opili hearings should be held, Pacific Resource Partnership, an alliance between contractors and the Carpenters Union Local 745, announced results of a commissioned poll of 600 Oahu residents stating that 62 percent of respondents support Ho‘opili.

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Continued from Page 19 people commuting to work in Honolulu via automobile.

Schuler said 27,000 construction and developmentrelated jobs are expected to be generated over a projected 20-year build-out.

OPPONENTS of the project contend that Oahu needs to preserve prime farmland for growing food, and that jobs shouldn’t be the main motivation for paving over land once used to grow sugar cane and now leased to truck crops and seed corn farmers, including Aloun Farms.

Traffic is another major concern, especially for

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Seedless watermelon is tagged and ready for harvest in the Ewa Fields of Aloun Farms, may soon be replaced by housing and retail development, right.

people living farther west of the Ho‘opili site.

Community organization Friends of Makakilo, led by area resident Kioni Dudley, challenged Ho‘opili with expert testimony before the LUC in 2009. In the renewed case before the commission, the Sierra Club and state Sen. Clayton Hee intend to join Dudley to contest the case.

Upcoming hearings to approve or reject Ho‘opili could take six months to a year. If all approvals, including a city and county zoning change that Schuler would need if it prevails at the LUC, are obtained without unexpected delay, the developer anticipates it could deliver initial homes in 2013.

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Mickey’s magic Disney’s new resort provides construction jobs that are giving way to 1,200 full-time positions The estimated 3,000 construction jobs generated since groundbreaking in late 2008 are winding down but will give way to more than 1,200 Walt Disney Co.’s Aulani Resort, nearing comple- permanent positions as the resort is opened in tion at Ko Olina, already has provided a boost to three phases. the state’s struggling construction industry and is A study conducted last year by CBRE Consultpoised to bring long-term economic benefits to ing and the University of Hawaii Economic ReOahu’s Leeward Coast. search Organization estimated that Aulani could Disney’s much-anticipated foray into the Hawaii generate roughly $270 million in annual economic activity, including jobs at the resort plus direct vacation market is set to open Aug. 29 with a mix of 840 time-share and hotel rooms, two restaurants and indirect economic impacts.

Interest by local job seekers has been strong at and a host of other features, including a wedding a time when the local labor market is still shaking lawn, kids club, swimming pools and a tube-floatoff the ill effects of the recent recession. Disney ing water course.

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Aulani, which is operated by the company’s Disney Vacation Club subsidiary, represents a departure from the Disney tradition because it is the only major resort not connected to one of the company’s theme parks.

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That effort was recognized by the Hawaii Tourism Authority marketing director, David Uchiyama, who said he was impressed by the work done by Disney to connect with the Hawaiian culture.

Aulani also will include a bit of Disney’s usual fare.

Characters such as Mickey Mouse will make daytime appearances at the Makahiki restaurant. Mickey also is COURTESY PHOTOS featured in the base of carved wooden lamps inside The crew from Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. the rooms, and guests can formed Mickey Mouse’s familiar silhouette on the search for hidden Mickeys beach fronting Disney’s Aulani Resort, where they within the pineapple-patjoined Mickey, his pals and Disney employees in April to celebrate the end of major structural work on terned Hawaiian bedspreads. the resort.

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Kamehameha Schools will redevelop the Haleiwa town site of Matsumoto’s and Aoki’s shave ice stores, and the Turtle Bay Resort plans more than 2,000 condominium and hotel units, while the Mormon Church has a big vision for the future of Laie.

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Scaled-back plans for the future of Turtle Bay Resort are under development while Kamehameha Schools plans to overhaul a historic

block on the opposite end of the North Shore.

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There would also be a rear parking lot with 110 parking spaces, including a bus loading area.

Matsumoto Shave Ice cusUNDER the plan, Kameha- tomers would continue to meha Schools wants to keep enter through the existing entrance, but new interior the rural look of the buildspace would allow more ings and provide space for customers to line up inside products made and grown in Hawaii — while increasing the store, Kamehameha the amount of leasing space Schools spokesman Kekoa Paulsen said. by nearly 100 percent to Customers would then about 30,000 square feet.

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Kamehameha Schools hopes to revitalize a block of historic Haleiwa Town including the popular Matsumoto Shave Ice store, left. A rendering of the envisioned changes are shown below left. At right, tourists and locals alike enjoy the treat that made the mom-and-pop shop an isle must-see spot.

leave Matsumoto’s from the side porch area instead of the front entrance, Paulsen said.

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In January, Kamehameha Schools won a national award from the American Planning Association for its plans involving 26,000 acres of agricultural, conservation, residential and commercial property it owns.

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Mattoon, a member of the Koolauloa Neighborhood COURTESY HASTINGS & PLEADWELL Board, have called PCC’s and crosswalk to get to the Church officials hope the plan to reduce rental cars beach on the other side of coming into the center hotel reduces the need for Kamehameha Highway. “wishful thinking.” visitors to travel back and Out of 125 expected job “Common sense tells you forth to the Turtle Bay Reopenings at the new hotel, that people here on vacasort and as far away as 75 are planned as part-time tion are going to rent cars,” Waikiki for lodging. The training positions for he said earlier this year.

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Kaneohe Ranch is developing Kailua Town Center Phase III. The complex at Kailua Road and Hinano Way will contain various retail outlets and will feature Whole Foods as the anchor tenant. Just a block away, a new and controversial Target store will emerge in the space once occupied by Don Quijote.

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What once used to be a sleepy beach town (population: 55,000) with clusters of old, single-story buildings is now being redeveloped into a newer, more contemporary-looking destination — with an artsy touch.

Opportunities for redevelopment have arisen in the last five to six years as the land leases for 16 acres of land came up, according to Mitch D’Olier, CEO of Kaneohe Ranch Co., which manages property for the Castle family trust.

“There’s improvement and investment replacing blight, and there’s modern, energy-efficient facilities replacing 50-year-old buildings that have gone through their useful life,” he said. “We’ve

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been doing improvements on a project-by-project basis pursuant to the communitybased plan we did in 2003 and 2004.”

Those plans are being carried out, according to D’Olier.

Fast-forward to 2011, and that means a brand-new building to house Whole Foods Market, along with smaller retailers.

It’s all part of Kailua Town Kailua Road and Hinano Way. Center Phase III, which is Whole Foods Market will right in the heart of town at measure about 32,000 square feet, and is expected to open in early 2012 between Longs Drugs and Mike McKenna’s Windward Ford dealership.

Another 8,000 square feet of retail space is included for smaller retailers. Executive Chef, a local retailer offering high-end cookware and gourmet food, will open a brand-new store at the corner next to McKenna’s, while fashion boutique Fighting Eel will occupy space next door to Longs.

What used to be a collection of smaller buildings measuring 70,000 square The pedestrian throughways connecting the shopfeet at the site was consoliping complexes get the approval of Debbi Glanstein dated to 40,000 square feet of Kailua’s neighborhood board, shown with project in the new building. Parking developer Kimo Steinwascher of Kaneohe Ranch spaces increased to 209 Management Limited.

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stalls, up from 167.

Road to Hekili Street, home Just a block away, Target to a few new restaurants as is also being built behind a well, including the relocated construction fence at the Boots & Kimo’s. former Don Quijote site. TarD’Olier also points with get is expected to open a pride at the mosaic art pieces that tie the newer 130,000-square-foot store buildings together with the (including a stockroom) in fountain plaza near Califormid- to late 2012.

Walk around Kailua town nia Pizza Kitchen. Besides a “living wall,” which is basiwith D’Olier, and he’ll point cally a garden on a wall, a out all the ways the place stone sculpture designed by has become more pedestrian-friendly. local artists representing a The new Whole Foods of- mo‘o, or gecko, will flank the fers outdoor dining and a entrance to the new Whole shaded walkway above the Foods Market fronting public sidewalk that will Kailua Road. make it easier for pedestriWhile Target was welans to travel. A new sidecomed with wide-open arms walk has gone in alongside in communities like Salt the parking garage behind Lake and Kapolei, several Longs Drugs. opposition groups formed in Hinano Way, next to the new Whole Foods Market, will now connect Kailua Please see next page

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bought the site.”

Kailua is still home to a collection of small, locally owned Kailua when the Minneapolis boutique shops, including surf shops, arts galleries and chain struck a deal to take BookEnds, one of the few inover the Don Quijote lease. dependent bookstores that Groups like Keep It Kailua and Choose Kailua started pe- still exist on the island.

Many of the businesses are titions and showed up to relocated due to new develprotest at public meetings, saying a big-box, mainland re- opments, while others, like tail chain just doesn’t belong the popular Brent’s Deli, bein Kailua. came history.

Their concerns: mainly Still, no changes have been traffic and competition for ex- made to Kailua’s 40-foot isting small businesses. height limit.

Before Don Quijote there There are still remnants of was Daiei, and before Daiei the old Kailua, including Pali there was Holiday Mart, so all Lanes, a dated bowling alley along, said D’Olier, “it’s been on Hekili Street, which will exist side by side with the large-format merchandise through that period of time. It newer, more contemporarywas zoned at the time Target looking Kailua.

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Hawaii’s recent past has seen many conflicts over the use of land, usually pitting environmentalists and/or Hawaiian cultural advocates on one side and developers and business interests on the other. But a new Hawaii Kai project swaps conflict for cooperation.

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They gathered just off the corner of a busy intersection, a small, diverse group of people whose connection to the place where they stood put them at a philosophical crossroads.

Until recently, they had feuded about the future of the area. On one side, community activists. On the other, a developer. For years, neither could agree on what should be done on the last undeveloped parcel of land in Hawaii Kai. Now they stood together as a Hawaiian cultural practitioner blessed their efforts: They promised to protect the 8-acre site, which will see both the construction of a high-rise condominium and the preservation of an ancient heiau complex, petroglyphs, a grove of coconut trees and a wetland.

The $300 million luxury condo — Hale Ka Lae — will be built at the base of Mariners Ridge where Keahole Street meets Hawaii Kai Drive. It will have a 10-story building and a four-story building for a total of 242 units. The units are expected to sell for between $700,000 and $3.8 million.

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Liveable Hawaii Kai Hui, a nonprofit community group that will maintain the area for the public. The hui was able to persuade the landowner to sell a 5-acre portion that contained the most sensitive features of the site instead of destroying much of them for a gated community.

No one involved would ever have predicted the level of coexistence that now governs the site, said Elizabeth Reilly, a member of the Hawaii Kai Neighborhood Board and president of the hui. There was a time when critics of the project were threatened with lawsuits, but now she calls the relationship a role model for developers in Hawaii.

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An artist’s rendering of Hale Ka Lae. show the $300 million luxury condo that will be built at the base of Mariners Ridge and have a 10-story building and a fourstory building for a total of 242 units.

The units are expected to sell for between $700,000 and $3.8 million.

on with a good heart and an open mind,” Reilly said. “As we continue to take care of the land, it will take care of us.”

The site was once a home to a pre-contact Hawaiian village. Henry J. Kaiser did not develop it when he built Hawaii Kai. The area’s Hawea Heiau complex and its petroglyphs, which are about 75 feet from a sidewalk, were hidden by kiawe trees and scrub for decades.

The hui, which is still finalizing the property deal with the help of The Trust for Public Land, will create a preservation plan for the site’s cultural resources and a conservation plan for the wetlands. Both will become a source of pride for the area, Reilly said.

“These are resources you read about and we are now

going to have them in our community,” she said. “I think it will impact us in a favorable way because it is a living example of how development can cohabitate with preservation and conservation efforts.”

PRESERVING the wetland was a precious victory for Mardi LaPrade, a Kalama Valley resident and elementary school science teacher at Maryknoll who fell in love with the endangered Hawaiian moorhens that frequent the area. The birds are endemic to Hawaii and wildlife experts estimate there are no more than 400 left.

“Every little wetland, even one as small as ours, is important,” said LaPrade, who dreams of using the site as an educational resource.

“We have great plans so we

can do everything to ensure the survival of the birds.”

The project began about seven years ago under local developer Mike Klein. Although the property is zoned for 40- and 60-foot buildings, Klein received a permit from the city to build to a height of 90 feet.

It was a contentious period, though. Area residents and neighborhood board members were threatened with legal action if they did not refrain from making critical comments about the project, which at that time was called Hale Ali‘i.

And the developer upset community members in 2009 when grading was done without proper permits and an archaeological monitoring plan. Klein said the work did not harm anything of significance, but hui members and cultural practitioners have maintained that parts of the heiau complex were damaged.

But early last year, the South Korea-based majority investor in the project — Hanwha Corp. — replaced Klein with Mike Greco, a developer with 32 years of experience and projects on w the mainland, in Europe, Mexico and the Caribbean, and most recently in Hawaii.

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came to a halt for six “I think it finishes off what months of re-evaluation and was started here in a grand regular meetings with Livway,” he said. “I think it will able Hawaii Kai Hui. bring a lot to the community Preserving the site’s natu- to have that type of park ral features seemed the only there and I can almost guarlogical thing to do, because antee that we are going to unless Greco was going to raise property values. At the bulldoze everything — end of the day, it will enrich which he personally opHawaii Kai.” posed — he didn’t need 8 acres for a 3-acre project, he THE AMENITIES are ansaid. other part of what makes And there was a responsi- Hale Ka Lae special, Greco bility not only to the commu- said. They include a private nity, but also to the design of dining and wine-tasting Hawaii Kai, said Greco, who room, electric-vehicle charging stations, a golf also lives in the area.

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simulator, a theater, pools and a fitness center. The one-, two- and three-bedroom units will range in size from 980 to 3,065 square feet, not including large outdoor lanais.

“Our condos are like individual homes,” he said. “I think the vision was a sense of place. You have everything you could possibly want. It’s true luxury living.”

Construction is expected to start by the end of this year and take up to 24 months to complete, Greco said.

Hale Ka Lae will have an affordable housing component but not on the same site, as originally planned.

It will now be built elsewhere in Hawaii Kai in a location that Greco said he can’t disclose at this time.

Plans call for 63 units in a pair of two-story buildings not far from the luxury site, he said.

During her blessing ceremony, Kaleo Paik went to all corners with offerings that included kukui nuts, pieces of lama wood, limu, salt, water and pieces of coral.

She also spiritually cleansed everyone who was there, including Greco, Reilly, LaPrade, several construction workers and Hale Ka Lae sales staff. Paik wanted them to move forward with an open heart and an open mind, she said.

It seemed the right thing to do.

“We are making a commitment,” she told the group.

“That is what this blessing means. We are making a commitment that every action will have at its forefront, the blessing of the land.”

In Hawaii Kai, members of the Livable Hawaii Kai Hui gathered in June to bless the property that will become a luxury condo development, Hale Ka Lae. Kahu Kaleo Paik performed a Hawaiian blessing of the property.

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Tourism fuels Hoteliers and retail spots plan good things about the new 7-Eleven and Hard Rock Cafe, which recently opened on Beachwalk Avenue. He Recovery in Waikiki tourism is helping to fuel the expects to see more reposineighborhood’s next devel- tioning there and further changes at the Royal Hawaiopment cycle and promptian Center, which just aning some iconic Hawaii investors to consider bring- nounced that “Legends in Concert,” a celebrity impering new business to the sonator show, will fill the state’s visitor mecca.

21,000-square-foot space left “Developers, investors vacant when “Waikiki Nei” and businesses are talking closed in 2008. Legends will about Waikiki again,” said debut Dec. 8 after the Royal Kim Scoggins, a Colliers Hawaiian’s 700-seat theater Monroe Friedlander Inc. undergoes another multivice president. “Over the million-dollar renovation. next six to eight months, Scoggins said new retailwe’ll see quite a bit going on ers also are likely to turn up there.” at the Hyatt Regency Edward Bushor, coWaikiki Beach Resort and founder of San Diego-headSpa and that there could be quartered eRealty changes at the Waikiki BusiCompanies Inc., said he is mining Waikiki for opportu- ness Plaza and the Waikiki nities. Bushor’s last project, Shopping Plaza, where a the Waikiki Edition, opened four-story, 29,655-squarefoot addition is soon to be in 2010; however, during unveiled. earlier cycles he renovated Several hoteliers have anthe Airport Center and Dole nounced multiyear redevelCannery and transformed opment plans, a sign that the Ohana Waikiki Surf into they too are betting on the state’s first Wyland Waikiki’s long-term Waikiki. strength, he said. Hilton Bushor said that he’s looking to reposition an off- Hawaiian Village just completed the top four floors at Kalakaua Avenue shopits Rainbow Tower, where a ping/entertainment center. $45 million renovation is exHe also is seeking the right pected to be completed location to relaunch the later this year. The comWyland hotel brand, which pany also is seeking apwent into hiatus in 2006 afproval to build two ter he sold that property. additional time-share tow“I’m very positive about this market for the next five ers and expand its superpool, retail and restaurant years,” Bushor said. offerings.

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optimistic climate revitalization efforts that are expected to pump $1 billion into Oahu’s economy new vibrancy to the entrance of Waikiki, adding to the state’s tax base, creating long-term visitor-industry jobs and providing our beleaguered construction industry with hundreds of quality jobs,” said Jerry Gibson, Hilton’s area vice president.

Kyo-ya, which recently completed an $85 million restoration at the Royal Hawaiian, a Luxury Collection Resort, plans to build a

$1 billion into Oahu’s economy,” said Ernest Nishizaki, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts.

new 26-story tower where the eight-story Diamond Head Tower of its Westin Moana Surfrider now stands. Other construction would include a new Pikake Tower on the site of the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani and renovation of the existing Ainahau Tower. Two 11-story towers, the Princess and the Kaiulani, would be torn down.

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IF WAIKIKI’S tourism market remains strong and the soon-to-be opened Ross Dress for Less is a success on Seaside Avenue, Scoggins said businesses might seek opportunities on Waikiki’s outskirts.

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Scoggins said. “It fills from the core. Once that’s saturated, demand moves out.”

Bushor said he’s been eying the Kuhio side of Waikiki since the hotel market turned the corner at the start of the year.

“The hotel market was going to be heaven in 2011 for Waikiki, then the Japanese catastrophe occurred,” Bushor said. “My gut says we’ll be back by summer.”

Randy Schoch, owner of Desert Island Restaurants, which operates five Ruth’s Chris Steak Houses in Hawaii, including one on Lewers Street in Waikiki, and Romano’s Macaroni Grill at

Ala Moana, said his Hawaii restaurants and other wellrun Waikiki businesses will continue to do well despite some visitor fall-off after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan in March.

Given his history as Honolulu’s poster boy for broken dreams and second chances, Schoch’s opinion matters. During the Japan downturn of the 1990s, Schoch lost millions and left Hawaii. He’s been back for some time, and he’s optimistic about Waikiki.

“It’s Waikiki’s golden age,” Schoch said.

The $460 million Waikiki

Beach Walk, which opened in 2007, made Waikiki an internationally competitive destination again, he said.

“Waikiki is becoming cosmopolitan again,” he said. “It lost some of its cache in the ’80s and ’90s to Vegas and South Beach, but it’s coming back.”

Schoch said he would consider bringing a Romano’s Macaroni Grill or a completely new restaurant concept to Waikiki if he found the right location.

Waikiki redevelopment needs to expand mauka, he said.

“Kuhio needs to be freshened up,” Schoch said.

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In November a seismic shift took place in how the 60 acres underlying Ward Centers in Kakaako will be redeveloped, as ownership of the property and development plans transferred from the operator of nearby Ala Moana Center to Howard Hughes Corp.

Results from the shift have yet to be seen on the surface but are expected to emerge over the coming months and years in how the landscape is remade at Oahu’s fourth-biggest shopping complex.

The big change, simply put, is that Ward Centers and Ala Moana are competitors again. This means the two biggest retail projects in Honolulu’s urban core will vie for tenants, which was something that ceased after Ala Moana owner General Growth Properties bought Ward Centers in 2002 from local firm Victoria Ward Ltd. Development plans for the Ward property call for rebuilding and expanding retail, along with adding numerous residential towers containing as many as 4,300 units.

But Hughes Corp. plans in the short term to concentrate on making improvements to existing retail operations.

The biggest priority, according to David Striph, a senior vice president leading operations and development at Ward Centers for Hughes Corp., is to finish Ward Village Shops, a retail addition that initially was to have been anchored by a

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The General Growth plan dubbed Ward Neighborhood called for retail continuing to be a major presence with space for about 400 retail tenants, up from about 300 today. Other elements included residential units in as many as 20 mid- and highrise towers, 5 acres of landscaped pedestrian plazas, 700,000 square feet of industrial space and a connection to the city’s planned masstransit station on part of the property.

General Growth anticipated starting redevelopment last year with a central pedestrian plaza replacing old warehouses and Ward Farmers Market, but the company’s bankruptcy in 2009 in conjunction with the economic downturn put the plans on hold.

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Leasing the empty retail space at Ward Village Shops “The whole company is is a top priority of Howard Hughes Corp., which took focused on this asset,” he ownership of the Ward property last year. said. “It’s truly one of our most exciting assets.”

Striph said Hughes Corp.

Farther out on the horiintends to come up with an today is a 732-stall parking zon, Hughes Corp. will de“inspirational” plan for the garage, which opened in property, and would like to June, and the shell of the velop a phasing plan for former Whole Foods buildwholesale redevelopment of better connect the neighborhood with the legacy of Vicing.

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Striph said the first priorGeneral Growth laid out a toria Ward, the daughter of an English shipbuilder and ity will be to lease the rough plan and obtained empty Ward Village Shops state approval to replace the Hawaiian landowner, who once maintained a 100-acre retail space. Other shortcollection of retail, wareterm priorities will be to house and office buildings in estate, Old Plantation, where Blaisdell Center and give Ward Centre and Ward the area bound by Ala Ward Centers are today.

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Moiliili development looks to historic landmarks in and around the district as a way to revitalize the area

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When recently queried about changes in Moiliili, Derek Kauanoe, the founder of the Moiliili Matters website, was quick to share before and after pictures of the three-story Rainbow Vista on South Beretania at Isenberg streets.

“Improvements to Rainbow Vista Apartments, which include a commercial first floor that now houses Teddy’s Bigger Burgers, is a much welcomed change to the area,” said Kauanoe, a Moiliili resident for more than a decade

who traces his community roots back to his great-greatgrandfather who lived in Moiliili and owned property that was eventually developed into the Moiliili Gardens apartment building near Kuhio School.

“There’s much to be appreciated with these improvements, and Kamehameha Schools should be recognized and applauded for renovating a building while not taking away from the character of the community and some of its older, more historic-looking buildings.”

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However, both Moiliili landmarks have been gone for several decades, as the district evolved into a more ethnically diverse neighborhood that now has 73.5 percent renters, according to the 2010 U.S. census.

In recent years, there has been talk of revitalizing Moiliili, including suggestions to underscore the area’s role was a gateway to neighboring University of Hawaii.

For developer Peter Savio, revitalization would mean more student housing — in what he terms “private dorms” — as he envisions UH growing and admitting more mainland and foreign students. And he is looking to buy properties that can be converted into private dorm buildings, said Savio, who recently renovated his dorm building near Puck’s Alley.

Ron Lockwood, McCully-Moiliili Neighborhood Board chairman and a Moiliili resident for more than 35 years, stands in front of the shuttered Stadium Bowl-o-Drome. Lockwood is hoping the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, owner of the bowling alley site, will agree to a land swap with the city so that the bowling alley land can become an extension of the nearby park.

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force in this special Honolulu neighborhood. The private educational trust’s Moiliili holdings include Puck’s Alley, Varsity Office Building, Varsity Center and various rental properties. Kamehameha Schools’ immediate focus in Moiliili is on the ongoing renovations of 46 rental units in three apartment buildings at 2494 S. Beretania St. and 2724 and 2732 Kolo Place, which are scheduled to be completed by year’s end.

“While there is no master plan in place for Puck’s Alley or (the former Varsity Theater property), we do envision a major revitalization of this area into a vibrant community landmark and hub,” said Susan Todani, the trust’s Moiliili development director. “Timing of future development will depend on prospective tenant demand, rents that can support new construction and the limited sewer capacity.”

For now, added Ron Lockwood, the chairman of the McCully-Moiliili Neighborhood Board, who has lived in Moiliili for more than 35 years, “It is 120 toilets out; 120 toilets in.”

It is primarily the lack of expanded sewer capacity that has prevented 20-story high-rise condo towers from replacing Moiliili’s old one-, two- and three-story buildings that have long defined the character of the district, Lockwood said.

In the late 1890s, Moiliili was an agricultural community.

It was transformed in the early 20th century into a self-contained town center with expanded businesses along King Street by Japanese immigrants who also made Moiliili their home. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, 80 percent of Moiliili’s residents were of Japanese ancestry.

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Both Lockwood and Grant Kagimoto, a long-serving board member of the Moiliili Community Center, which evolved from the tuition-free Moiliili Japanese Language School that was established in 1902, point out that the city’s rail transit project will likely have a significant impact on Moiliili.

And the potential changes could be as great or greater than what H-1 brought, as three rail stations are planned for the community — at the intersections of McCully Street and Kapiolani Boulevard, Kapiolani and near the Marco Polo building, and University Avenue and King Street.

The elevated stations would create “a huge shadow, a huge imprint on the neighborhood,” said Lockwood, who stressed the need for “a thoughtful process” that would welcome community input on the rail plans for Moiliili.

For the people who live or work in Moiliili, having their collective voice heard is important, as well as a respect for the history, traditions and characteristics that shape their sense of community.

That is why even now you can hear community criticism of Evan Dobelle, the ousted UH president. Dobelle recognized the need for UH to connect to Moiliili, but he sought to impose his “M-town” proposal in a top-down manner that even led one UH professor to describe Dobelle’s attitude toward Moiliili as “neocolonial.”

The situation with Kamehameha Schools — “the 800pound gorilla in the room,” as Lockwood puts it — has been quite different. The trust — and in particular Todani, who is a regular presence at neighborhood board meetings and who is known for reaching out to the Old Town Moiliili Business Association and other community organizations — has shown a willingness to share its development proposals beforehand and treat the community as an equal partner.

“They see their investment here as a long-term investment. They’re willing to listen,” said Kagimoto, who is also the owner of Cane Haul Road design shop in Moiliili. “They appear to be looking at the greater good for everyone.”

Regarding rail and related development in Moiliili, Todani said they amount to a significant impact “for the entire community, not just Kamehameha Schools. As these plans and issues emerge, we will definitely take them into consideration in our planning.”

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It’ll be years before rail transit-oriented development becomes a reality, but the planning has already started.

Transit-oriented development “will have long-range impact,” said Rajeev Bhatia, principal of Dyett & Bhatia, one of the consulting firms contracted to create the development plans, and also to create a methodology for changing the city’s current land-use zoning and planning laws. “It’s not going to happen tomorrow, and then it’ll take even more time after that.”

So far, only the wide-open East Kapolei area has the most firmed-up plans set.

Plans for other, more developed areas like Waipahu and Aiea are near completion.

The centerpieces of the East Kapolei plan include the Ho‘opili community project on 1,554 acres of Ewa farmland, as envisioned by the local Schuler Division of Texas-based developer D.R. Horton; the University of Hawaii-West Oahu campus; and the Kroc Community Center.

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The project also includes a program calling for more than 250 acres of land to be dedicated to food production. The program is overseen by Dean Okimoto of Nalo Farms, who says it “takes us back to how we used to live in Hawaii.”

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Plans for a rail station area near Leeward Community College include the development of low-density housing and a Pearl Harbor historic trail.

landowners and developers in recent months than they have in the past.

Transit-oriented development is a key economic component of developing rail lines. In Oregon, Portland’s first rail lines began service in 1986, but officials there “didn’t recognize the power of rail to shape development,” said Jill Detweiler, property development manager for TriMet, the transportation public agency there.

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started, she said.

Terry Ware, transit-oriented development administrator in Honolulu, said that’s no surprise, particularly because developers are adverse to risk.

“Each area where development occurs, it’s going to respond to the most obvious market trend,” he said.

“The more complex development is going to take some time. The big-box retailers — Target, Walmart — that’s probably not going to be what you see initially.”

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But once the reality of rail becomes apparent, developers will hit the tables to strategize how to capitalize on the growth.

“From a geographical perspective, rail has an ability to reach a huge number of people on the island, which is so unlike anywhere in the U.S.,” Bhatia said. “The opportunity for us to integrate land use and transportation is tremendous. That should benefit the quality of life for everyone.”

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Spreading out across the volcanic crater of Aliamanu Military Reservation is a sea of new homes with two-car garages, Corian-counter kitchens, central air conditioning, solar hot water heaters, vaulted ceilings, well-kept white-fenced yards and much happier families dwelling within them.

This used to be the rundown neighborhood where military families complained not too many years ago about shoddy wiring, electrical fires and mold problems.

Across Oahu a $4.4 billion housing privatization initiative started in 2004 has been transforming the military neighborhood landscape, and keeping the Hawaii construction industry out of the depths of the recession in the process.

The massive rebuilding effort by developers Lend Lease and Forest City Military Communities has so far resulted in the completion of 7,150 new Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps homes on Oahu and renovation of 2,915 others. Thousands more are still planned to be built.

The effort may have saved Hawaii’s construction industry along the way. As

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an example of the expenditure levels, Forest City was doing $35 million in construction a month in 2008, officials said.

Lend Lease said it was delivering about 100 homes a month in 2009, and about 50 to 60 now.

Economist Paul Brewbaker said the big economic impact played out as expected, but a delay in the project’s start was

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Dozens of completed homes with more under contruction in the distance can be seen in this overview of the new housing in the Aliamanu Military Reservation.

standards fast enough, turned to the private sector to build, operate and maintain housing through the Military Housing Privatization Initiative of 1996.

A service member’s housing allowance is used to pay fortuitous for the state. est City completed the last of for rent and to cover the “It was a little slower to the Navy homebuilding effort construction of new homes get mobilized, but as it in March, and has about 387 and maintain them under 50-year terms with the deturned out, it did bridge a more new Marine Corps huge valley in private conhomes to build — work that velopers.

Lend Lease, headquarstruction that unfolded and will take it into 2014. became acutely severe after Lend Lease plans to build tered in Australia, is conthe collapse of (investment 1,997 more new Army and structing 6,449 Army and bank) Lehman Bros. precipi- Air Force homes and renoAir Force homes in Hawaii and renovating 2,953 existtated a credit crunch,” Brew- vate 1,545 others into the year 2020. ing homes as part of $2.85 baker said.

The military, realizing it billion worth of expected The military housing projprojects. ects have passed their peak couldn’t build or renovate Forest City, based in but are still going strong: For- its housing stock to desired

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Ohio, is building 3,085 new homes and renovating 1,507.

The projects are projected to cost $1.6 billion.

Will Boudra, vice president of development for Forest City, said the builder was able to complete betterquality homes faster than the Navy could in the past.

“So I think in that instance, we can say that the privatization process has been a success because we’ve been able to build so many homes so quickly,” Boudra said.

Army Sgt. Maj. Dwight Wafford, who lives with his wife, Carolyn, and their 18-, 16- and 13-year-old daughters in one of the new

houses in Aliamanu Military Reservation, said the builder gathered input from military members in designing the homes.

Island Palm Communities is the partnership between Lend Lease and the Army and represents the Defense Department’s largest military family housing privatization project.

“They just seemed to put a lot of thought into how they designed the homes,” said Sgt. Maj. Wafford, 44, who works for the U.S. Army Pacific surgeon division.

The Army family was stationed in Hawaii 14 years ago, and their on-base house was “cinder blocks and no

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Sgt. Major Dwight Wafford and his family, daughters Lindsey, 18, and Hannah, 13, wife, Carolyn, and daughter Grace, 16, in front of their home at Aliamanu Military Reservation. At left, Wafford makes a sandwich for lunch as his wife, Carolyn, keeps him company in the kitchen.

AC — it was quite a different experience,” said Carolyn Wafford.

She added that their current three-bedroom

house “is the best house we’ve ever lived in.”

The new houses are single family or duplexes in the neighborhood.

She likes the island in the kitchen, two built-in computer stations and the fenced-in back yard. Her husband appreciates the

dirt tub next to a side door where he can wash off his gear.

“As a military family, we were very hesitant to accept the changes in going to privatized housing,” Carolyn Wafford said. She expected there to be extra burdens placed on military families.

“But when we got into this house, I think it’s the square footage (that I like). I think it’s an architectural amazement they can put this size house on this lot,” she said.

Wafford also recalls the “housing Nazis” before housing privatization at other Army installations Please see next page

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who weren’t helpful in providing information about when or which housing would be available for the family after it moved to a new location.

Island Palm is “very, very responsive,” she said.

Some of the old quad-unit homes remain in Aliamanu, but construction crews continue to move forward with their demolition and replacement.

Ann Wharton, a spokeswoman for Lend Lease, said between the Army and Air Force projects, $110 million

is expected to be spent on construction in fiscal 2012, $115 million in 2013 and $600 million between 2014 and 2020.

Between 350 and 500 subcontractor personnel are on site every day representing a variety of trades, she said.

Tony Narvaez, owner of Kapolei-based Superior Concrete Services, said his company would probably be a small family-operated business with five or six employees if he didn’t get the work he got on the Army and Air Force projects.

“When the economy had

This old-style housing unit at the Aliamanu Military Reservation is still occupied.

percent of his work.

“I do see it is starting to become more competitive because the private-sector work has really taken a big hit over the years, and a lot of private-sector contractors are coming to the federal side now,” Narvaez said.

He said he has a positive outlook, though, with the continuing housing privatization work, other federal projects, the rail project and with some homebuilders looking to start up some big projects.

“There’s a positive outlook in federal (work), and I see there’s a turn that’s going to be coming around in the private sector, too, with He said he’s averaged its downturn, for us, doing Castle & Cooke and D.R. work for Lend Lease, we actu- about 58 employees on a ally saw steady growth within yearly basis — all Hawaii res- Horton homes,” he said. our company,” said Narvaez, idents — and the Lend Lease “There’s some planned projcontracts represent about 80 ects on their side, too.” who was born in Hawaii.

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