Developer Franco Mola and his company, Coastal Rim Properties Inc., has proposed building four new condominium towers in the downtown business district of Kapolei, on the Western Coast of Oahu. According to Mola's plan, each of the four towers will be between 10 to 12 stories tall, and there will be a courtyard in the center of the buildings. One of the towers will be "affordable senior housing" while the other three towers would be considered workforce housing. There will also be some ground-floor retail space planned for each of the towers as well as a community garden, recreation areas, and an open-air pavilion.
Kioni Dudley, the chairman of the Kapolei Neighborhood Board's planning and zoning committee, seems to support the idea in general and commented, "Kapolei is supposed to be a city, but they've never built it. These are the first buildings in the new business district that are of any height whatsoever. It turns out to be condo buildings. Our whole problem out here is that all we get is bedroom communities and we have to depend on jobs in Honolulu rather than in our second city. Our freeway just gets more and more crowded with people going into Honolulu because there's no real business center. The downtown business district of Kapolei is currently pretty much of a ghost town, a skeleton grid of cross streets surrounding 60 blocks of empty property. The city itself is entirely empty. It's a bunch of cross streets with no buildings in them."
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 8-21-2013, www.staradvertiser.com
Posted by Jeff Uyemura-Reyes, Broker-in-Charge, REALTOR®
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Posted by Jeff Uyemura-Reyes, Broker-in-Charge, REALTOR®
Global Executive Realty, LLC
www.myhawaiihomesearch.com
www.myhawaiicondo.com
www.myhawaiidreamhome.com
