Kamehameha Schools’ $90M Keauhou Lane
Kamehameha Schools’ $90 million Keauhou Lane mixed-use project is scheduled to break ground next month in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako, the developer said Monday. It includes 209 rental units and about 32,300 square feet of restaurant and retail space Oregon-based Gerding Edlen is developing the project on behalf of the state’s largest private landowner, […]
Foodland Farms lease at Ala Moana Center tops $24M
Foodland Super Market Ltd. has signed a lease with General Growth Properties calling for it to pay $24.3 million over an initial 20-year term for what will be its largest store in Hawaii — a 47,395-square-foot Foodland Farms store at Ala Moana Center. The lease, which is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2036, with […]
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 […]
MetroGrow Hawaii: Kakaako’s first urban vertical farm
Tucked away in the heart of Kaka’ako lives a little urban vertical farm. You would never know it unless you enter a second floor door and turn a corner. Smiling and eager to share his passion for plants is Kerry Kakazu. Not only does he have a degree in biology from UH Manoa and graduate […]
Hawaii agencies could join to develop ‘Kakaako Makai Innovation Block’
Two state agencies — one promoting Hawaii’s economic diversification through venture capital investment partnerships and the other that oversees development in Kakaako — are looking to join forces to develop an economic accelerator in the growing Honolulu neighborhood, a spokeswoman for one of the agencies confirmed to PBN. The “Kakaako Makai Innovation Block,” a partnership […]
One of the future plans for Kakaako is to make the area more pedestrian friendly and add more shops and restaurants.
One of the future plans for Kakaako is to make the area more pedestrian friendly and add more shops and restaurants. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNSfJB-VQeHpv5ThtV1VtBA
Honolulu’s Eat The Street to move to Kakaako Gateway Park
After nearly five years at its South Street spot, Hawaii’s monthly food truck tasting event Eat The Street is moving three blocks away to Kakaako Gateway Park. Stanford Carr’s Keauhou Place condominium project at the 555 South St. location will soon begin construction. Street Grindz Owner and CEO Poni Askew said the new location has […]
A New Community Center Will Give New Life to 114-Year-Old Kakaako Pumping Station
PACIFIC GATEWAY CENTER HOPES TO OPEN COMMUNITY CENTER BY NEXT SUMMER. After decades spent closed and dusty, the historic stone Kakaako pumping station on Ala Moana Boulevard began preparations this week for a new role as a community center run by the the Pacific Gateway Center. State lawmakers and Gov. Neil Abercrombie allocated $1 million […]
Honolulu’s Kakaako gains first ‘parklets’ in front of Hank’s Haute Dogs
The trendy Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako, which is in the midst of gaining thousands of new residents in a bunch of high-rise ondominiumss being built in the area, is following a growing trend in Mainland cities such as San Francisco when it comes to public outdoor spaces. Landowner Kamehameha Schools has unleashed a couple of […]