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New look at Aloha Stadium District Image: NASED

The goal – have a venue that people can visit 365 days a year. That’s what developers of the New Aloha Stadium in Halawa, Hawai’i (US) said recently as they gave the people a glimpse of what’s being planned.

‘khon2.com’ stated that these are the first preliminary conceptual designs for the New Aloha Stadium released by the developer. Of course, there’s a stadium there but it wants the area to be so much more.

The New Aloha Stadium is a proposed 25,000-35,000 seat multipurpose stadium to be built in Halawa, Hawai’i for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football program with demolition of the old stadium to begin in 2025.

The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represents the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (US) in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football. It was part of the Western Athletic Conference until July 2012 when the team joined the Mountain West Conference. From 2000 until 2013 the team was known simply as the Warriors. The 16,909-capacity Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex in Honolulu serves as their home field.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States and 1 in Canada. It also organizes the athletic programs of the colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana (US).

New look at Aloha Stadium DistrictImage: NASED

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as the Division I-A, is the highest level of college football in the United States. The FBS consists of the largest schools in the NCAA. As of the 2024 season, there are 10 Conferences and 134 schools in the FBS.

Arlington (US)-based the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is a NCAA Division I Conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the Western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

Colorado Springs (US)-based the Mountain West Conference (MW) is a collegiate athletic Conference located in the United States participating in the NCAA Division I. The MW covers a broad expanse of the Western United States with member schools located in California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Hawai’i.

The 50,000-capacity Aloha Stadium is a closed multipurpose stadium in Halawa, Hawai’i (US) and is a Census-designated place that is a Western suburb of Honolulu. It is the largest stadium in the State of Hawai’i. As of December 2020, the stadium ceased fan-attended operations indefinitely and placed a moratorium on the scheduling of new events. It is located next to the Hālawa Station of the Skyline rail system (mass transportation system). It served as the home facility of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team.

New look at Aloha Stadium DistrictImage: NASED

The New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District (NASED) will be a vibrant, community-centric mixed-use district anchored by a new sports and entertainment venue that celebrates Hawai’i’s culture and embodies the aloha (love and fellowship) spirit for the community and the visitors alike.

Stated Stanford Carr, Aloha Halawa District Partners, “It’s a 98-acre piece of property that was formally just used as a stadium. What we’re transforming that 98 acres is into a 21st century urban community with a lot of amenities, open space, park both passive and active.”

The Aloha Halawa District Partners (AHDP) is the new stadium’s developer. In its presentation to the Stadium Authority the group talked about the community missing a gathering place. So, the New Aloha Stadium would be a place to live, work, play, thrive, and learn.

NASED will be managed by the Stadium Authority (an attached agency of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism [DBEDT – State Government office in Honolulu]).

Added Dick Riegels, Aloha Halawa District Partners, “That’s what we’re trying to focus on – have this be a gathering place for the community not necessarily focuses on tourism whatever but to present Hawai’i to its own people.

Remarked Brennan Morioka, Stadium Authority Chair, “We’re really excited because it really falls in line to what we had envisioned for the community, what the community had been saying back to us and so you know Stanford and his team are very much in tune with where we believe we need to be going and so it was a very exciting day for us.”

Commented Carr, “We gotta do this right. We’re looking at this long term, not for short-term gains. Society is gonna have to live with this for the next 100 years. I wanna be sure we’re autographing our work and the community and the society will be praising us for what we’re doing here.”

‘khon2.com’ further stated that the Stadium Authority says it did not want to demolish the old stadium yet because developers will look at reusing some parts for the new construction.

Up next – the developer will have community meetings to get more input on design. And officials say everything is still on schedule.

Maintained Morioka, “So right now we’re still on track to execute a contract by June and then hit the University of Hawai’i versus Kansas State in Fall of 2028.”

The Aloha Halawa District Partners (AHDP) includes the Development Ventures Group (real estate developer in New York), Stanford Carr Development (a development firm based in Honolulu), Ameresco (leading renewable energy company based in Framingham), and the Aloha Stadium Community Development as the Lead Equity Members as well as a design team featuring the RMA Architects (architecture firm based in Texas), Populous (celebrated design firm), SB Architects (based in San Francisco), Henning Larsen (an experienced studio with a global presence based in Copenhagen, Denmark), Alakea Design Group (a Hawai’i-based architectural design firm), and WCIT Architecture (design firm in Honolulu).

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