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Honolulu Cultural Heritage Corridor Report Preview for Community PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
With mass transit routes expected to substantially change older urban neighborhoods located between McCully-Moili'ili and Downtown-Chinatown, area legislators Senator Carol Fukunaga and Councilmember Ann Kobayashi funded a community needs assessment and technical analysis of this transit region between 2007-2008.  Since the City and County of Honolulu's 2006 "Rediscovering Chinatown Honolulu" planning effort already evaluated many of the transit-oriented redevelopment opportunities for downtown-Chinatown, the focus of the "Honolulu Cultural Heritage Corridor" study was on the region from Ala Moana-Kaka'ako to McCully-Moiliili-University.

 

The work products of this effort, which was managed by University of Hawaii's Policy Center and the Hawaii Alliance for Community-based Economic Development (HACBED), occurred between 2007-2010, and included focus group surveys, community outreach meetings and numerous briefings for interested stakeholders.  In November 2009, a draft of the final technical report was presented to community participants at a Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall meeting.

 

The report covers three urban neighborhoods – central Kaka’ako, Ala Moana-Sheridan-Kaheka and McCully-Moi’ili’ili — and explores the best means of:

  • Articulating preferred scenarios for social and economic revitalization,
  • Building these communities’ capacity to implement a strategic plan for their preferred future, and
  • Assisting State and county policymakers in developing a master plan to integrate transit development opportunities with state/federal programs to address needs of urban communities with strong ethnic-historic heritage. The goal of the master planning effort is to capitalize on public institutional assets, and leverage public-private development financing available for urban revitalization.
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