The city is buying two properties where it will add affordable housing, both near a planned rail station on Dillingham Boulevard: one a $51.5 million, 3.8-acre warehouse complex on Iwilei Street, Diamond Head-side of the Dole Cannery complex; the other an $8.4 million former First Hawaiian branch building on North King Street, just south of Liliha.
The pools surrounding Hawaii’s Capitol building suffered from design flaws from their inception, repeatedly allowing water to leak into offices below ground over the decades and causing a stink with repeated algae blooms.
Long-awaited repairs to one of the ground-level reflecting pools at the state Capitol are coming to a close after decades of leaking it caused in the chamber level just in time for the next legislative session.