The Future Aiea Town Community Center

(extracted from a report by Kimberly Mills, Planner, Office of Conservation & Coastal Lands, DLNR)

Once the center of Aiea Town, the site where the old Aiea Sugar Mill once stood is being planned to become the home of the new Aiea Town Community Center.  This town center will include a daycare center for the young and the old, an incubator kitchen for community enterprises, a new library, an art center and civic space for the community.  The Aiea Community Association (not to be confused with the Aiea High School Alumni & Community Association), through the Aiea/Pearl City Vision Team, was able to get the City and County of Honolulu to allocate $9 million dollars to purchase the 6.8 acre site in April 2000 for the proposed Town Center.  Currently, as evident by the picture on the top right, the land has been cleared, graded, and planted with grass.  Being that the land will be used as a gathering place, the next step is to have the land cleansed of the lead contaminates that was left over from when it was an industrial site.  In the meantime, the Aiea Community Association is exploring ways to fund the construction of the town center.