Alexander & Baldwin says The Collection condo project in Honolulu is nearly sold out
Alexander & Baldwin is reporting that most of the units in The Collection residential condominium tower and mid-rise building, now being built on the site of the former CompUSA store in Honolulu, have been sold. The Honolulu-based company, in its earnings report released on Thursday, noted that about 98 percent of the project’s 451 tower […]
OliverMcMillan pays $26M for Symphony Honolulu condo project land
OliverMcMillan has purchased the little more than three-acre parcel across from the Neal S. Blaisdell Center where the San Diego-based developer is currently building the Symphony Honolulu luxury condominium tower, according to public records. OliverMcMillan, which formed Honolulu-based OliverMcMillan Pacific Rim LLC, paid JN Group Inc. and Casti Family LP $26 million for the property […]
Symphony Honolulu’s glass facade not transparent enough
HONOLULU —The Symphony Honolulu highrise at the corner of Kapiolani and Ward is on track to open next spring. 90 percent of the units already sold. Crews have installed glass up on the 35th floor with just a few stories remaining. But as it turns out, the glass doesn’t meet the proper transparency standard set […]
Hawaii agency approves Howard Hughes’ Kakaako residential project
The Hawaii Community Development Authority gave its final approval Wednesday on The Howard Hughes Corp.’s Kakaako residential project at 988 Halekauwila St. The Texas-based developer plans to start construction on the mostly affordable for-sale condominium tower across from Sports Authority by late 2016, according to its senior vice president of development, Nick Vanderboom. “We have […]
Luxury Honolulu condo Waiea foregoes … trash chutes?
The Howard Hughes Corp.’s Waiea luxury condominium, currently under construction in the Texas-based developer’s 60-acre Ward Village in Kakaako, was designed and is being built without trash chutes, the developer confirmed to PBN. The 36-story, 171-unit condo going up on a former parking lot across from the Ward Consolidated Theatres is one of the first […]
Kakaako mixed-use development Keauhou Lane to begin construction in August
Hawaii developer Stanford Carr’s Keauhou Lane Kakaako mixed-use residential project should begin construction in August, the developer said Thursday at an industry event in Waikiki. Last month, Carr told PBN that the project, which is located on the bloack at 500 South St. and 500 Keawe St. and includes 388 residential units in a 400-foot […]
OliverMcMillan’s Symphony Honolulu high-rise condo 90 percent sold
San Diego-based developer OliverMcMillan, which began construction on its Symphony Honolulu luxury condominium project in late 2013, has sold 90 percent of the units in this project, which is expected to be completed in less than a year, the firm’s CEO said this week. The project, being developed on 3.35 acres at 888 Kapiolani Blvd. […]
YES, LOCALS LIVE IN KAKAAKO
WITH ALL THE TALK OF $20 MILLION PENTHO– USES AND OFFSHORE INVESTORS PARKING THEIR MONEY IN KAKAAKO CONDOS, IT’S EASY TO BUY INTO THE WATER COOLER CHATTER THAT HONOLULU’S URBAN CORE ISN’T ATTAINABLE FOR LOCAL FAMILIES. Count the cranes popping up along or near Ala Moana Boulevard and check out Howard Hughes’ interactive model of […]
Kakaako development plan includes hotels, high-rises
The Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako — one of the communities that’s a part of the city’s transit-oriented development plan — could be getting a limited number of hotels and a maximum of three high-rise residential condominiums with heights up to 700-feet, according to public documents. The Hawaii Community Development Authority, the state agency regulating development […]
Hawaii Community Development Authority shelves Kakaako economic accelerator project
The Hawaii agency charged with overseeing the redevelopment of the Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako has shelved a proposal that would have created an economic accelerator in the former World Gym building on Queen Street. At a Thursday special meeting, the Hawaii Community Development Authority denied the authorization of a memorandum of understanding for the project, […]