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A service center for
Native Hawaiian children will be added to a 40-acre
development in Kapolei
anchored by rental apartments for seniors and a
hotel.
The Queen Liliuokalani Trust has bought 2 acres at the mixed-use development site called Leihano, and plans to open a children’s center, according to the project’s real estate brokerage firm, Colliers International. A purchase price was not disclosed.
“West Oahu is one of the faster-growing areas for Hawaiian families,” Ku‘ulani Keohokalole, the trust’s research manager, said in a statement. “Our Kapolei center will be a base for innovative programs to better serve our beneficiaries.”
The center will offer programs and services to improve the welfare of Native Hawaiian children based on cultural values and practices that underpin the trust established by Hawaii’s last ruling monarch.
The children’s center will join a collection of uses slated for Leihano, including an 84-unit senior rental apartment project called ‘Ilima at Leihano slated to open by the end of this month, a 180-room Embassy Suites hotel that broke ground last month, and a C.S. Wo furniture store in the early stages of construction. A First Hawaiian Bank branch, a St. Jude Catholic Church and a National Kidney Foundation facility are also slated for development on the site.
About half the 40 acres remains available for other uses envisioned by owner California-based Kisco Senior Living, including restaurants, medical services and more housing.