A large stretch of state-owned land along Kualaka’i Parkway in ‘Ewa—currently zoned agricultural—could be remade into thousands of homes, shops, a hotel, and a major park-and-ride near the Keone’ae Skyline rail station.
The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) is seeking board approval for up to $5 million in predevelopment funding to advance the East Kapolei Transit-Oriented Development project, according to the HHFDC board action memo. The project would bring between 2,000 and 4,000 residential units—rental and for-sale, affordable through market-rate—to roughly 170 acres of state-owned land in ‘Ewa, O’ahu, spread across three sites within the East Kapolei TOD area tied to Skyline.
What’s planned, area by area
The largest piece is the Keone’ae Station Area, bounded by Farrington Highway to the north, Kualaka’i Parkway to the west, Ho’omohala Avenue to the south, and the Hoopili community to the east.
That section alone would include 750 multifamily rental units aimed at working families, a 180-room hotel, roughly 124,000 square feet of retail, office, and medical office space, and a 1,000-stall park-and-ride connecting directly to the Keone’ae Skyline station…