The end is in sight for the rail project.

Wait a minute: No, it’s not. However, March 9 was picked as a date to discuss the end — the development plan for the terminus point at Ala Moana Center — in a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Washington Middle School cafeteria.

The Ala Moana Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Plan, the product of several earlier meetings, is being finalized for review and adoption, planners say.

The overview will cover the urban mixed-use development envisioned there, as well as the new transit plaza, new height limits and other elements.

This plan and all the others can be found online, todhonolulu.org, where visitors will read that “Ala Moana will become Honolulu’s most livable urban community and a model for encouraging walking, biking and transit usage.”

Will it live up to that billing?

Cancer Center looks for a leader

The candidates to lead the University of Hawaii’s Cancer Center no doubt have heard all about the center’s financial and political tribulations. That they still want the job is a sign of hope.

The center could be a vital addition to cancer research and care in Hawaii and the Pacific, if it can overcome complaints of mismanagement and a lack of money.

The four finalists will be in Hawaii to meet with stakeholders and make public presentations at late March and early April (see manoa.hawaii.edu/executivesearch/uhcc).

We wish them all the best of luck and much aloha.