Ward Centre will be closing its doors for the final time Tuesday. The shopping center’s four-decade-long legacy is concluding as developer Howard Hughes Corp. moves forward with the plan to construct two luxury condominiums at the Kakaʻako location.
The property will become part of the continued expansion of Ward Village and will reduce the 80,000 square feet of retail space. Several longtime businesses relocated or permanently closed as the center prepared for demolition.
HPR went down to Ward during its final days to capture how shoppers feel about the closure, and the new construction to come.
“I really feel like something significant is being lost from the city with it being taken down,” Jake Stowe told HPR. Stowe was a regular at The Box Jelly, a popular co-working space on the second floor. He said that Ward Centre helped him find community here in Hawai’i…