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Just how much bigger will Kapolei get?

February 2, 2016 By Mark G. Howard Leave a Comment

As we pulled together the Aug. 28 cover story on West Oahu’s growing business community, I looked at population projections for Kapolei and Oahu for the next 20 years and pulled together the chart you see here.

The Hawaii state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, projects here that Oahu’s population will grow 9 percent over the next 20 years. Kapolei’s population, on the other hand, is expected to boom by 53 percent, according to City and County of Honolulu projections put out by The City of Kapolei.

But what does that translate into, in terms of Kapolei’s share of Oahu’s population? Not exactly a seismic shift. Kapolei is currently home to just under 11 percent of Oahu’s population. In 20 years, it will be home to just under 15 percent of Oahu’s population.

An argument can be made that development in Kapolei has favored housing over job creation. Some in Kapolei, as you can read in our cover story, are concerned that state government in particular has lost the momentum behind pushing government jobs to the West side.

At the same time, we’re in the midst of a housing crisis. Oahu short more than 12,000 housing units. Consequently, the median price of a single-family home on Oahu is currently a staggering $710,000.

Some “what ifs” leap to mind. What if there isn’t enough housing planned for Kapolei over the next 20 years? What if more, and more varied, housing alternatives were pursued? What if doing so could slow, if not halt, the rapidly escalating price of ordinary homes on Oahu? What if doing so could create more jobs in the area, both sooner (construction, planning, etc.) and later (area services, new business formation, etc.)? What if moving an even greater share of Oahu’s population to Kapolei increased the likelihood that our nearly $6-billion rail system would be used regularly?

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Blog, KAPOLEI, kapolei Tagged With: Kapolei, West Oahu

D.R. Horton gets OK for 11,750-home Hoopili project in West Oahu

May 23, 2015 By Mark G. Howard Leave a Comment

D.R. Horton gets OK for 11,750-home Hoopili project in West Oahu

D.R. Horton gets OK for 11,750-home Hoopili project in West Oahu

D.R. Horton — Schuler Division’s rezoning request for its $4.6 billion, 11,750-home Hoopili master-planned community in West Oahu won unanimously approval Wednesday from the Honolulu City Council, a vice president for the developer confirmed to PBN.

The council voted 9-0 in favor of the Ewa development, said Cameron Nekota, vice president of D.R. Horton — Schuler Homes.

The Texas-based developer, which requested that the 1,289-acres of land be rezoned from agriculture to urban, already has received the approval for the zoning change from the state Land Use Commission.

D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI) hopes to begin construction in 2016.

In the past couple of months, the developer donated five acres at Hoopili to the Hawaiian Humane Society for a second campus and another acre to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center for a new clinic.

The project also is supposed to include a major solar energy farm.

Honolulu firms The MacNaughton Group, Kobayashi Group and BlackSand Capital are under contract to buy 33 acres of land near Hoopili, which could become a retail center, as first reported by PBN.

The companies are well-known developers of retail and residential projects in Hawaii.

Opponents of the master-planned community argue that it will take away prime agricultural lands and cause even more traffic jams along the already congested West Oahu corridor.

Duane Shimogawa
Pacific Business News

Filed Under: DR Horton, Featured Blog, Hoopili Tagged With: DR Horton, Hoopili, West Oahu

OliverMcMillan to develop 400-unit mixed-use residential project in West Oahu

November 24, 2014 By Mark G. Howard Leave a Comment

A sketch of what the project will look like.

A sketch of what the project will look like.

OliverMcMillan Inc., which has developed several residential condominium towers in Honolulu, has been chosen to develop a nearly 27-acre parcel in Kapolei in West Oahu into a 400-unit mixed-use residential project, the state said Thursday.

The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp.’s board of directors selected the San Diego-based developer, which is building the Symphony Honolulu condominium tower across from the Neal S. Blaisdell Center, as the lead developer for the planned 27-acre project within Villages of Kapolei, an 888-acre development that includes affordable housing.

The project is located at the entryway of the community at the corner of Fort Barrette Road and Farrington Highway.

“The Northwest Corner [of Kapolei] is next to the last undeveloped parcel in the Villages of Kapolei, and also the landmark parcel that will define the gateway as a gathering place for the community,” Craig Hirai, executive director of Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp., said in a statement. “We look forward to collaborating with the OliverMcMillan development team to create a vibrant, mixed use urban village.”

More than half of the project will be priced for households with incomes of less than 140 percent of the area median income.

Proposed plans also include 154,000-square-feet of retail space, 6,300-square-feet of office space, community amenities and pocket parks.

“We have just begun our work in creating another special place in Kapolei,” Paul Buss, president of OliverMcMillan, said in a statement. “The very next step is getting feedback from the community and working to create the real vision of what this should be. We have assembled a great team to help us to gain and respond to input from our immediate neighbors and the remainder of the Kapolei community.”

Hunt Cos. Inc. and Urban Housing Communities LLC will develop the proposed affordable housing parcels.

SVA Architects Inc., formerly MVE Institutional Inc. is the lead architect for the proposed project. PBR Hawaii & Associates Inc. is the sustainable planning architect. The civil engineer is Community Planning & Engineering Inc.

In August 2013, the state released a request for proposals looking for developers for the 27-acre state-owned parcel.

The HHFDC is the primary agency charged with overseeing affordable-housing financing and development in Hawaii.

Duane Shimogawa Reporter – Pacific Business News

Filed Under: Featured Blog, KAPOLEI, kapolei, Oliver McMillian Tagged With: Kapolei, Oliver McMillian, Villages if Kapolei, West Oahu

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