Construction begins for Kapiolani’s new $120M hospital tower
Jenna Blakely
Reporter-
Pacific Business News
The new five-story tower will house 70 state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care Units — 24 more beds than before — and add square footage to its current 14 pediatric intensive care units. Those two departments alone will grow to a combined 50,000 square feet from the current 10,000 square feet, as PBN previously reported.
The 200,000-square-foot hospital tower will also house space for training Hawaii’s next generation of health care professionals. Construction is on track to finish by the spring of 2016 and open that fall.
Kalihi-Palama Health Center to break ground on new $9M facility
Jenna Blakely
Reporter-
Pacific Business News
The project, once complete, will give the nonprofit health provider an additional 30,000 square feet of space, allowing it to serve more people and add new services, as PBN first reported in September.
New mixed-use residential project in Kakaako
Melissa Chang
Artist's rendering of 400 Keawe.
Photo: Courtesy of Kamehemeha Schools
On the makai end of the block, the Castle & Cooke project 400 Keawe will occupy 1.52 acres and include a 65-foot, six-story mixed-use building with 75 market priced and 20 reserved housing units in one- to three- bedroom floor plans ranging from the low $400,000s to mid $700,000s. The building will be wrapped with 10,000 square feet of commercial space that will be integrated with the liveable and walkable neighborhood.
Kamehameha Schools is developing the remainder of the 2.81-acre block and has planned for a 65-foot building comprised of four floors of residential rental units and three levels of parking. The 88 residential units will include 40 studios, 16 one-bedroom units, 16 one bedroom units with dens, eight two-bedroom units, and eight three-bedroom units – all of which will be rented to middle-income Hawaii residents.
The two-story, 24,000-square foot building at 458 Keawe, formerly used by Alu Like, will be retained and used as commercial space.
When it’s completed, the entire block will have more than 28,600 square feet of open, public areas that will feature a 14,500-square foot plaza, abundant bicycle parking, a doggie run, mid-block pedestrian passage and activated streetscapes. It will also serve as a public pathway to and from the future Honolulu rail transit station located one block away on Halekauwila Street. All open areas will be finished with specialty paving, landscaping that includes native species, and shaded by canopy trees.
Source: Honolulu Magazine
Blackstone plans new timeshare tower at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki
Stephanie Silverstein
Reporter-
Pacific Business News
Blackstone plans to build a 37-story, 418-unit timeshare tower in Hawaii on property it is buying from the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki, Hilton Worldwide announced Thursday during its first earnings call since going public in December.
Construction cranes alight atop Honolulu
By Andrew Gomes
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 04, 2014
The view from the construction crane at the Symphony Honolulu job site.
It is the Year of the Horse in the Chinese calendar, but in Hawaii's construction industry you might say 2014 is the Year of the Crane.
So far this year, at least 10 of the mostly yellow tower construction cranes are busy building everything from a Walgreens store to high-rise condominiums in Honolulu. And at least eight more are expected to rise by the end of the year as part of a condo development boom in Kakaako.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser