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nce a commercial hub filled with
warehouses, Honolulu enclave
Kaka'ako today is a hip, bustling
waterfront district rife with luxe new
residential high-rises, high-end vacation
rentals, plentiful shopping and dining
opportunities, colorful street art, and popular
annual events such as the POW! WOW! mural
festival and Festa Italiana. A piece of the past
still remains intact amid the revitalization
of recent years, however, including SALT
at Our Kaka'ako—where Hawaii's cultural
traditions are celebrated monthly at the Pa'akai
Marketplace—as well as walking paths and
architectural designs complementing the
area's natural surroundings.
"Imagine strolling along the oceanfront
and stopping to have a picnic at a park and
then heading to enjoy a Mai Tai on a rooop
patio," says Mark Howard, broker and owner of
Hawaii Americana Real. "Kaka'ako has it all
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and more, including two stops on Honolulu's
future railway coming soon."
Nestled between Waikiki and Downtown
Honolulu, Kaka'ako has unveiled seven new
completed residential towers bringing more
than 2,000 units into the neighborhood,
with two more towers to be completed at the
beginning and middle of 2019. Among them:
Anaha, a new 38-story, $400 million residential
tower designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz
offering 318 units, a 1-acre ameni deck and
Hawaii's largest living wall boasting 8,000
species of tropical plants, as well as Howard
Hughes Corp's new A'ali'i at Ward Village, a
60-acre mixed-use residential development
featuring 751 turnkey units, street-level retail
and recreational amenities such as Lāna'i 42,
a penthouse-level sky deck offering a rooop
fitness club, outdoor yoga studio, sunset lounge
and ocean-view event spaces.
Many retail and dining establishments also
have joined the scene, including Stokehouse,
in the Hyatt Regency building on Kalakaua
Avenue, which carries brands by Vissla,
Amuse, D'Blanc and Tom Blake, as well as
Chuck Wakeman's Butcher and Bird butcher
shop above Mr. Tea Cafe on Auahi Street;
Maurizio Roberti and Gianpaolo Raschi's
Le Radici Italian restaurant on Kapiolani
Boulevard; and Peter Merriman's farm-to-table
eatery Merriman's Honolulu on Auahi Street,
just to name a few. Also new is the Universi
of Hawaii Manoa John A. Burns School of
Medicine, where Café Kulia offers culinary
student-craed delicacies to the general public
during the week.
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Feverish development has helped transform and shape the
thriving neighborhood of Kaka'ako
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Howard
Hughes Corp's
new 38-story
residential
tower Anaha at
Ward Village.
Vibrant POW! WOW! sreet art by Anna T-Iron.
