Source: Star Advertiser
Published: August 11, 2021
A $70 million plan to add housing for 373 students integrated with an entrepreneurship program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is set for development following City Council approval Wednesday.
The project, to be carried out and financed by a private developer, [and designed by Design Partners Incorporated] involves two historic former Atherton YMCA buildings just beyond the Ewa edge of campus, at the corner of University Avenue and Metcalf Street, so a special form of zoning approval for UH to extend its campus boundary was needed.
The Council’s 8-0 approval followed overwhelmingly favorable testimony for the project, which would modify and reuse one building, the three-story Charles Atherton House, and replace the adjacent three-story Mary Atherton Richards House with a new six-story building with student housing and an expanded Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship.