Penthouse in Howard Hughes’ Ward project in Honolulu priced at record $50M

Dec 12, 2013, 2:59pm HST UPDATED: Dec 13, 2013, 10:24am HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter – Pacific Business News A penthouse with its own swimming pool in one of The Howard Hughes Corp.’s planned luxury condominiums in Honolulu’s Kakaako neighborhood is priced at $50 million — a record for the highest asking price ever for a […]

An Intense Influx of Housing for a Honolulu District

The flat, low-slung neighborhood of Kakaako near downtown Honolulu was once an alluvial plain dotted with fish ponds that deteriorated into a gritty area with auto repair shops and warehouses. During an era of urban revitalization in the 1970s, the state formed the Hawaii Community Development Authority to oversee neighborhood redevelopment in Kakaako, which lies […]

Howard Hughes Corp. Hawaii project gets LEED-ND Platinum rating

Nov 27, 2013, 12:45pm HST Duane Shimogawa Reporter | Pacific Business News The Howard Hughes Corp.’s plan to turn 60 acres in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako into Ward Village, a 4,000-unit mixed-use community encompassing more than 1 million square feet of retail and other commercial space is now one of the nation’s largest green-building […]

Pier 1, Nordstrom Rack to open new Honolulu stores in November

Oct 22, 2013, 7:13am HST Staff Pacific Business News The Howard Hughes Corp. said it has finished building a new two-story building at the Ward Village Shops in Honolulu’s Kakaako neighborhood, in time for Nordstrom Rack and Pier 1 Imports to open next month. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports Pier 1, which closed its old store […]

CEO says Howard Hughes Corp. still working on best mix for Honolulu development

Oct 2, 2013, 2:52pm HST Updated: Oct 2, 2013, 4:22pm HST Duane Shimogawa  |  Reporter- Pacific Business News The head of The Howard Hughes Corp., one of the bigger private developers of Honolulu’s Kakaako neighborhood, said Wednesday that the company is determining what the best and right mix is for its second phase of its […]

Howard Hughes Corp expects pre-sales to start soon for Honolulu condos

Nov 7, 2013, 2:50pm HST Duane Shimogawa |  Reporter- Pacific Business News The Howard Hughes Corp. said Thursday that it expects to begin pre-sales of its first three residential condominium towers in Honolulu’s Kakaako neighborhood by the end of this year, or early next year, as it awaits Real Estate Commission’s approval of its condo […]

Howard Hughes CEO says Ward Village condos will be in high demand

Oct 3, 2013, 5:53am HST Updated: Oct 3, 2013, 7:24am HST Duane Shimogawa  |  Reporter- Pacific Business News Howard Hughes Corp. CEO David Weinreb, who was in Waikiki for an event this week honoring Hawaii’s top businesses, talks about why he feels that the planned Ward Village residential units in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako […]

Think Howard Hughes Corp. is Kakaako’s largest landowner? Guess again

Sep 6, 2013, 12:52pm HST Duane Shimogawa  |  Reporter- Pacific Business News Who owns the most land in Kakaako? If you answered Dallas-based The Howard Hughes Corp. or Kamehameha Schools, you’d be dead wrong. I actually thought the same thing, too. Instead, there are nearly 200 small landowners, mostly industrial-type businesses, that own about 20 […]

State approves two new condo towers near Ward Theaters

State approves two new condo towers near Ward Theaters By Andrew Gomes POSTED: 12:07 p.m. HST, Aug 21, 2013 LAST UPDATED: 12:27 p.m. HST, Aug 21, 2013 The Hawaii Community Development Authority voted 7-0 today to approve the building of a 177-unit luxury condominium tower on the parking lot makai of the Ward Theatres  and […]