Honolulu is handing the long-quiet Dee Lite Bakery site a second act, picking nonprofit EAH Housing to turn the shuttered Kalihi property into transit-ready affordable rentals, city officials said this week. The city-owned parcels sit directly across from the future Mokauea (Kalihi) Skyline station and could bring more than 150 affordable units to a neighborhood already feeling the squeeze of rising rents.
According to Pacific Business News, EAH emerged from the city’s request-for-qualifications process as the preferred negotiating partner for the project. That status gives the nonprofit an exclusive window to hammer out a pre-development agreement and long-term ground lease, sketch out design concepts and financing, and shape a community engagement strategy before anything lands at the Honolulu City Council for sign off…