Kakaʻako

The City Center Guideway and Stations contract, which also includes six rail stations, has been awarded to the California-based Tutor Perini Corporation, one of the biggest construction companies in the country.

Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs voted unanimously Thursday to reject a proposal by House Speaker Scott Saiki. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz spoke with OHA Chair Carmen Hulu Lindsey about why.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs rejected House Speaker Scott Saiki’s offer to drop the plans for residential towers in Kakaʻako in exchange for a deal worth more than $190 million. This comes after a bill that would have brought OHA a step closer to developing housing died during the legislative session. HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi has more.

There's an offer on the table for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees to bring resolution to the dilemma of whether to allow residential development makai of Ala Moana Boulevard, an area known as Kakaʻako Makai. The proposal would pay OHA $100 million for an easement over their nine parcels of land to restrict residential development and preserve the area's open spaces.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs said it is not receptive to reopening the 2012 ceded lands settlement with the state because it is not giving up its Kakaʻako Makai lands. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi has more.

Two Senate committees advanced a measure Thursday that would allow the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to develop residential buildings up to 350 feet high on its Kakaʻako lands, makai of Ala Moana Boulevard. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports.

Former Gov. Neil Abercrombie said he wants to set the record straight after hearing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs mischaracterize a ceded land settlement, dating back to a decade ago, as a deal that swindled Native Hawaiians.

State Rep. Scott Saiki has represented the Kakaʻako-Ala Moana district for nearly three decades. In 2012, he voted for a ceded lands settlement that gave the Office of Hawaiian Affairs land in Kaka’ako Makai. Now as the House speaker, does he see things differently?

State Sen. Sharon Moriwaki is calling for a “meeting of the minds” over a bill that would reverse a ban on residential development in Kaka’ako Makai, an Oʻahu area in her district.

Hakuone. Kakaʻako Makai. Kewalos. Whatever you know it as, the last open public shoreline in Honolulu is in a tug of war, mirroring a fight of close to a decade and a half ago. The Conversation spoke with two of the early organizers of a grassroots effort in 2005 that led to a ban on residential development in the area