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Forest City Hawaii’s Kapolei Lofts on track to be complete by summer 2016

December 10, 2015 By Mark G. Howard Leave a Comment

The clubhouse for the 499-unit Kapolei Lofts rental community being developed by Fores

The clubhouse for the 499-unit Kapolei Lofts rental community being developed by Fores

It has been nearly seven years in the making, but the developer of Kapolei Lofts marked a new milestone last week when some of the first tenants moved into the rental apartment complex.

Jon Wallenstrom, president of developer Forest City Hawaii, told PBN that the first building in the 499-unit rental housing project was completed earlier this month, paving the way for the first group of tenants to move in last week.

“If you take a look back at housing construction in Hawaii, production of new rental housing on Oahu has been scant over the last few decades,” Wallenstrom told PBN in an email. “Kapolei Lofts meets a niche that hasn’t been filled, and helps to alleviate the state’s housing shortage as well, filling the need for more quality and reasonably priced housing for West Oahu residents.”

He said the first of the four blocks that make up Kapolei Lofts, consisting of 100 apartments, will be completed by Oct. 30. The rental housing project’s 14 residential buildings, totaling 499 apartments, is slated to be complete by next summer.

“Kapolei Lofts has no special subsidies but uses some important government programs that have long been on the books,” Wallenstrom said. “Kapolei Lofts mainly needed belief, persistence, approval that had been achieved by the Campbell Estate decades ago and a private sector developer who understood market-rate rental housing.”

He said rents in the $140 million mixed-use, residential community are based on the City and County of Honolulu’s area median income, which is currently set at $86,900.

In all, 100 homes are set aside for renters who earn 80 percent of the area median income, or $76,650 for a family of four. Another 200 homes for those who earn 140 percent of the area median income, while the remaining 199 homes will be offered at market rate.

And the demand for those rental units has been significant, Wallenstrom said.

Forest City Hawaii staff handed out nearly 2,000 application packets during a two-day period in June when rental application were first made available. At that time, Wallenstrom said some prospective renters started lining up at 6:30 a.m.

“This tremendous response signifies that there is clearly strong demand for quality rental housing in Kapolei,” he explained.

Darin Moriki
Reporter
Pacific Business News

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Blog, KAPOLEI, kapolei Tagged With: Forest City Hawaii, Kapolei, Kapolei Rentals

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