Fast, free WiFi coming to big piece of Kakaako
Fast, free WiFi coming to big piece of Kakaako By Andrew Gomes The evolving Our Kaka’ako neighborhood in urban Honolulu is going to have some super-fast free WiFi. Kamehameha Schools, which is adding new retail and residential rental and condominium buildings on nine blocks in Kakaako under a master plan called Our Kaka’ako, announced Tuesday […]
ONE Ala Moana luxury high-rise expects 2014 completion date
Feb 28, 2014, 10:33am HST UPDATED: Feb 28, 2014, 11:16am HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter – Pacific Business News The ONE Ala Moana ultra-luxury condominium tower being built atop the Nordstrom parking garage at Ala Moana Center is expected to be completed by the end of this year with units selling for an average of $1.6 […]
High-Rises’ Design Inspired by the Ocean
Two new high-rises in Ward Village look to the sea for inspiration. BY A. KAM NAPIER It’s not your imagination, Honolulu is packed with high-rises. In fact, it ranks sixth in the United States —right behind San Francisco—and 30th in the world among cities with the most skyscrapers, according to Emporis, a building-industry information clearinghouse. […]
Stanford Carr’s Halekauwila Place affordable rentals on track for March completion
Feb 13, 2014, 2:12pm HST UPDATED: Feb 13, 2014, 3:53pm HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter-Pacific Business News Hawaii developer Stanford Carr’s $70 million, 204 affordable rental project in Kakaako, Halekauwila Place, is scheduled to be completed in March, the state agency overseeing the redevelopment of the Honolulu neighborhood said Thursday. The Hawaii Community Development Authority said it […]
Proposed housing/arts complex for Kakaako still in negotiations
Feb 13, 2014, 5:38am HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter- Pacific Business News The Hawaii Community Development Authority is considering extending for one more year its negotiations with a Minnesota developer over a planned mixed-use affordable-housing project in Kakaako. The state agency, which is charged with overseeing the redevelopment of the Honolulu neighborhood, plans to take up […]
Kakaako rental building plans advance
By Star-Advertiser staff POSTED: 01:50 p.m. HST, Feb 07, 2014 LAST UPDATED: 03:01 p.m. HST, Feb 07, 2014 Kamehameha Schools has lined up a developer for a planned apartment building in Kakaako adjacent to a previously announced 40-story condominium tower. Oregon-based firm Gerding Edlen will develop the rental complex with 209 units, a 280-stall parking […]
Developers will discuss plans for two Kakaako condo projects
Feb 12, 2014, 6:15am HST Staff: Pacific Business News The Hawaii Community Development Authority has scheduled public hearings in March and April for two planned Kakaako residential projects that sit on the same parcel. One is at 500 South St. — Hawaii developer Stanford Carr’s Keauhou Lane project — and the other is at 500 Keawe […]
Howard Hughes Corp. to manage Honolulu’s Kewalo Basin harbor
Feb 5, 2014, 6:42pm HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter – Pacific Business News The Howard Hughes Corp., which has plans to add more than 900 residential units in the first phase of its Ward Village master plan in Kakaako, has entered into exclusive negotiations with the Hawaii Community Development Authority to develop and manage the nearby […]
Ultra-luxury project at Ala Moana Center to include 215 condo units
Feb 5, 2014, 2:55pm HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter – Pacific Business News The planned seven ultra-luxury condominium towers to be built on what is now a parking area of Ala Moana Center fronting Ala Moana Boulevard will include 215 units with 109 two-bedroom units, 65 three-bedroom units, 36 one-bedroom units and five five-bedroom penthouses, according […]
Honolulu public space project ‘Kakaako Agora’ designed by Japan’s Atelier Bow-Wow
Feb 4, 2014, 2:19pm HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter – Pacific Business News Kamehameha Schools and Interisland Terminal, a Honolulu-based collective that presents international exhibitions and programs in contemporary art, design and film, unveiled plans on Tuesday for the “Kakaako Agora,” a public space in the Honolulu neighborhood designed by famous Tokyo-based architectural firm Atelier Bow-Wow. […]