3 companies to turn Mayor Wright into mixed-use project
The Hawaii Public Housing Authority has selected Hunt Cos., McCormack Baron Salazar, and Vitus Group to transform Mayor Wright Homes into a mixed-income and mixed-use residential development, the authority announced Monday.
Hunt Cos., which has overseen 91 similar multifaceted projects and more than 2,000 affordable-housing projects nationwide, will serve as the lead master developer.
HPHA Executive Director Hakim Ouansafi said the three companies that comprise the master developer team promise "to catalyze public and private investment to create a vibrant mixed-income community" that will be consistent with downtown transit plans and will increase affordable rental housing options in the state.
The 60-year-old Mayor Wright Homes, a federal low-income public housing development, was last renovated in 1984.
In a release issued Monday, HPHA said the new multifaceted approach will provide extra capital needed to improve the site and its surrounding area.
Trio arrested in illegal sale of bus passes
WAILUKU » Three people were arrested after allegedly selling stolen Maui bus passes online.
Maui police said an investigation that started Wednesday revealed that stolen $4 Maui bus passes were being sold on a social media site for $2.
Police arranged to meet at the Queen Kaahumanu Center to purchase the bus passes. That’s where a plainclothes officer arrested 23-year-old Cole Santiago of Wailuku.
Police later arrested 53-year-old Anthony Davis of Wailuku and 23-year-old Mikail Honokaupu of Waiehu for their alleged involvement in selling the stolen passes.
Officers recovered 31 all-day passes valued at $124.
All three were charged with third-degree theft and released on bail.
They couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Monday. It’s not clear whether they have attorneys.
Duo sought in bike theft and assault
Hawaii County police are looking for two people allegedly involved in an early morning bicycle theft in Hilo on Monday.
According to police, a woman witnessed another woman removing her bicycle from an apartment building on Kinoole Street and then riding off. The woman pursued the suspect, but a second person driving a black, older-model pickup truck intervened and assaulted her. The incident occurred at about 1 a.m.
The female suspect is described as being about 5 feet tall and weighing 110 pounds, with long black hair. She was last seen wearing a pink tank top and denim shorts. No description of the second suspect is available.
