Source: Pacific Business News
Published: June 15, 2020
Moss Construction, [teaming with architecture firm Design Partners Inc.], recently completed a 120-unit affordable rental project on Maui called Kaiwahine Village, where the first residents moved in last month.
The two-story Kihei project was developed by the nonprofit Ikaika Ohana, with two- and four-bedroom units for families earning 30%, 40%, and 60% of the area median income.
Source: Pacific Business News
Published: June 17, 2020
Design Partners had a very good year in 2019 — it’s No. 1 on PBN’s List of architectural firms on Oahu with $34.77 million in billings last year — and President Vernon Inoshita and his partners were looking for a way to give back to the community.
Source: Pacific Business News
Published: June 5, 2020
Locally Researched by: Lucy Tuitupou, Pacific Business News
Source: Honolulu Advertiser
Published: November 15, 2019
The first 10 tiny homes aimed at housing homeless military veterans are scheduled to go up next month in Kalaeloa as part of a new, wider approach to quickly develop permanent housing communities for homeless adults who have been living the longest on Oahu’s streets.
As part of our ongoing community outreach programs, Design Partners Incorporated has been working with Home Aid Hawaii board members to design the tiny homes in Waimanalo.
Source: Punahou Magazine
Published: Fall 2019
Punahou recently unveiled its stunning new learning environment - the Sidney and Minnie Kosasa Community for Grades 2-5 - with its state-of-the-art classrooms, a K-8 Junior School Learning Commons, as well as expansive outdoor spaces [which was designed by Design Partners Incorporated].
Source: Star Advertiser
Published: September 29, 2019
No one is redrawing the edge of Waikiki, but a growing number of planned hotel projects on Kapiolani Boulevard promise to stretch the primary urban zone for vacation accommodations on Oahu.
A local high-tech entrepreneur is the latest developer to propose a hotel on Kapiolani — and it’s the biggest one to date by far.
Fred Chan of KC Rainbow Development Co. unveiled plans last week for a 45-story hotel with 785 units close to the Hawaii Convention Center on a site next to the planned Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Residences tower slated for 125 hotel rooms and 99 residential condominiums [in partnership with Design Partners Incorporated].
Source: Star Advertiser
Published: October 5, 2019
The city is on the verge of signing a development agreement with a nonprofit organization that is designed to transform the former Aiea sugar mill site into an affordable rental housing complex for seniors.
City officials and others involved with the project, including the nonprofit developer EAH Housing [in partnership with Design Partners Incorporated], were on hand today at the property to announce the 140-unit complex, which will be called Halewiliko Highlands, or “house of sugar.”
The project is designed to charge rents affordable to seniors – those 62 and older – earning no more than 60% of the area median income. Some of the units will be reserved for those earning 50% and 30% of median income.
Source: Pacific Business News
Published: September 3, 2019
A P-3 Orion is seen taking off from Marine Corps Base Hawaii to leave for a scheduled deployment in this 2017 photo. The base is among the Navy facilities where Honolulu architecture firm Design Partners Inc. will perform architecture and engineering services under a $50 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Aug. 30, 2019.
Source: The Garden Island
Published: August 29, 2019
Design Partners Incorporated was present and named at the blessing for the Waimea Huakai project. About a hundred people collected at the site for a blessing ceremony coordinated by Kaiwa Construction to prepare the land where 67 units of homeownership and affordable rentals will rise. The project, the Waimea Huakai Housing Development, is a partnership with Kauai Habitat for Humanity, the Ahe Group and the County of Kauai.
Source: Hawaii Business Magazine
Published: August 2019, Page 42
Design Partners Incorporated ranked #2 in this year’s Hawaii Business Magazine’s list of Biggest Gains companies (highest percentage change in gross annual sales). Increasing over 85% in gross annual sales from 2017 to 2018.
Source: AIA Honolulu
Published: 7/19/2019
Design Partners Inc. entered Zukeran Elementary School for this year's AIA Design Awards. One of the categories is People's Choice Award. Go to the AIA Honolulu website to vote for Zukeran !!
Spread the word to everyone you know. Members and non-members can all vote once daily, until August 2nd.
ONE vote, per day, per person.
Three clicks (Click link, Select “Institutional: Zukeran Elementary School”, Click Submit)
https://www.aiahonolulu.org/page/2019PeoplesChoice
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser
Published: 4/23/2019
The developer of a planned residential tower with condominiums and rental apartments on Keeaumoku Street near Ala Moana Center held a blessing for construction Monday.
An affiliate of ProsPac Holdings Group held the event for its Azure Ala Moana project featuring 330 market-priced condos and 78 affordable rental apartments.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser
Published: 4/13/2019
Demand for new high-rise homes around Ala Moana appears to be keeping good pace with a recent boomlet of planned towers in the area, based on interest in the latest project to hit the market.
Prospective buyer interest has exceeded availability at the planned 390-unit Sky Ala Moana condominium at 1388 Kapiolani Blvd. mauka of Ala Moana Center.
Source: Pacific Business News
Published: January 2019
Since opening our doors in 1979, it has been our goal to create great architecture that enhances the lives of the people in Hawaii. We accomplished this within a people friendly environment that reflected the unique culture and values…
Source: HawaiiAthletics.com
Published: 1/9/19
HONOLULU – The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Athletic Department held a blessing and celebration for completed renovations to the Les Murakami Stadium baseball clubhouse and Gym 2…
Source: Pacific Business News
Published: 12/10/2018
Kapiolani Residence, SamKoo Pacific’s mostly affordable 484-unit condominium tower near Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, opened to residents on Monday, nearly two years after the project sold out. The 45-story tower…
Source: khon2
Published: 12/3/2018
"Ala Moana is probably the most heavily used park in the state of Hawaii," said Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell. "There's no playground in this huge park of 127 acres, so how do we provide another activity for our keiki…
Source: Honolulu Civil Beat
Published: 11/29/2018
Ala Moana Regional Park might be home to a 1-acre playground with six mini-zip lines, fountains and a snack concession if a local nonprofit group of developers and parents is able to raise enough money for the project. The fenced-in playground would be free…
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser
Published: 11/14/2018
The Honolulu City Council gave final approval today to concessions that will allow for the construction of the Sky Ala Moana condo-hotel on Kapiolani Boulevard at the site of the current Kenrock complex. The $510 million project is expected to deliver 300 condominium…
Source: Honolulu Civil Beat
Published: 11/1/2018
The idea of building affordably priced apartments above a state court-run shelter for underage runaways and other minors in custody for noncriminal offenses puzzled members of the Ala Moana-Kakaako Neighborhood Board. “I’m just really…
