Nanakuli Village Center
In an effort to determine their own destiny, obtain self-governance, and independence from the state's oversight, and after many years of intensive community-based planning, the Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association (NHHCA) with the help of Hawaiian Community Development Board (HCDB) developed a major “village center” project that includes a multipurpose learning center, a 48-unit affordable rental housing complex, a Waianae Comp satellite health clinic with an affordable drug pharmacy, a large renal clinic and a commercial center with Longs as the anchor tenant.
Pursuant to a 65-year general lease to NHHCA from Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) , this exciting community development project which is ideally located on a 13.57 acre site centrally located in the Nanakuli Hawaiian homesteading community (adjacent to the new Nanakuli Library, Nanaikapono Elementary School, Ka Waihona Charter School and the YET Boys & Girls Club).
The Nanakuli Village Center is a community development project with three interconnected and well planned components; a commercial center, affordable housing, and a cultural learning center.
Hale Makana O Nanakuli Affordable Rental Housing Complex
In response to overcrowded households, severely dilapidated houses, and the lack of affordable housing opportunities in the Nanakuli Homesteads, Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association forged a working relationship with the nonprofit Hawaiian Community Development Board and California company Urban Housing Communities to develop a $14.6 million 48-unit affordable rental housing project in Nanakuli. Construction has been completed.
The Hale Makana O Nanakuli project is providing safe, secure transitional and long-term rental housing designed to meet the needs of Nanakuli community, with focus on Nanakuli's low-income Hawaiian families who earn no more than 40% and 30% of the adjusted median income for Oahu. It is providing immediate relief to many Nanakuli families with too many members living in the same household, to families living in dangerous dilapidated houses, and families who have been forced to abandon their homes.
Hale Makana was designed to help the Nanakuli homestead community by providing alternate housing, but within a major "Village Center" that also includes multi-purpose learning, community medical, and a commercial retail center.
For applications see mdihawaii.com/nanakuli or call 735-9099 ext. 1.
Nanakuli Commercial/Medical Clinics Center
Work is finished on the $30 million Nanakuli Commercial Center, which is a collaboration between Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association, HCDB, developers Pupukahi Development, LLC and broker Sofos Realty Corporation. Fronting Farrington Highway, this new one story shopping center has a Hawaiian cultural plantation theme motif. Anchor tenant is CVS Longs Drug Store. It's stand alone store has a drive-thru window and pharmacy. Smaller tenants include Starbucks, Wendy's, Taco Bell, L&L Drive-in, Pizza Hut, Kainalu Surf Shop, Boyd's Fish Market, Aloha Sub and the Pupukahi Office Center.
The community owned and run Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center built a 9,252 sq. ft. single story, stand alone satellite medical facility that offers primary care, behavioral health, nutrition, case management, and a new in-house pharmacy that better meets the needs of the community. With the many health problems plaguing our Hawaiian families in Nanakuli and the Waianae coast, the need for such a centrally located and readily accessible health center was quite apparent. Designed by Architects Hawaii Ltd. with construction by Hawaiian Dredging, construction has been completed and medical services have started.
Liberty Dialysis Hawaii LLC is an affiliated company of Fresenius Medical Care, the nation's largest network of over 2,150 dialysis centers dedicated to improving the life of every patient suffering from kidney disease. This type of health problem affects many people in our Hawaiian communities. Liberty will provide patient-centered care based on the latest technology with innovative and efficient programs. Services have also started.
There is a centrally located area within the shopping center reserved for six kiosks for small community based businesses and special events.
Link for Leasing Information: https://looplink.sofosrealty.com/Listing/89-102-Farrington-Hwy-Waianae-HI/22779294/
Kalaniho'okaha Community Learning Center
Kamehameha Schools designed and is operating the Kalanihoʻokaha Community Learning Center (KCLC) in Nānākuli in recognition of the community’s education aspirations and alignment to Kamehameha Schools SP goals for an improved educational system (Goal 2) and cultivation of a strong Native Hawaiian identity (Goal 3). The learning center has drawn from the work of the Nānākuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association and embodies its intent to honor the legacy of Agnes Kalaniho‘okaha Cope in her championing of Hawaiian culture-based health and education.
Kamehameha Schools is working with community stakeholders and other partners to develop a suite of programs and a learning center that reflects the expressed needs of the Nānākuli community and supports its current and future learning opportunities.
The KCLC will provide lifelong learning and livelihood opportunities in the Nānākuli community that integrates health, education and ‘āina-based knowledge, skills and practices in every aspect of its operations.
Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association has been provided space in the facility and is providing program services for the homesteading community.