Development Update – April 2025

  • Surveying and monitoring activities are ongoing, with Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) conducting shoreline monitoring seven days a week and AECOS performing monthly site visits to ensure the construction site remains compliant with safety and environmental protection standards
  • Yellow-faced bee surveys continue in the RR3 work area, shoreline, and adjacent habitats. No native, yellow-faced bees were detected during the most recent survey on April 18, but our entomologist will maintain regular survey intervals. We ensure that surveys are timed to coincide with favorable weather and seasonal flowering of potential habitat plants, such as the currently blooming beach heliotropes, to maximize detection opportunities
  • Test piers were completed on April 7th 
  • Brett Hill is conducting test piling from April 17-21 with foundational work to follow 
  • Hui Ku Maoli Ola is continuing invasive tree removal on the property

Recent News

Development Update June 2026

Development Update June 2026

Construction continues, primarily focused on pads 3 and 4 of RR3 and Kaihalulu East Drive.
Selective tree trimming on H2 and RR3 paused at the end of May and will resume after September 15, when the ‘ōpe’ape’a (Hawaiian hoary bat) pupping season concludes.
Mauka basins work is nearly complete.
Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of shoreline restoration and native planting.

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Development Update May 2026

Development Update May 2026

Work continues at Kaihalulu East Drive with utilities being installed.
Most of the grading work on the mauka drainage basins has been completed.
Selective tree trimming on H2 (next to Ocean Villas) continues to remove hazardous ironwood vegetation.
A monitoring survey was recently completed by our biologist to assess habitats and species across Areté’s property.
Nordic PCL resumed vertical construction at RR3 phase 1 with a targeted completion in early 2027.
Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of shoreline restoration and native planting.
Continuing removal of invasive ironwood trees and mowing of undergrowth on RR3.

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