Construction workers put up framing at the Island Courtyards site, a new development in Mililani Mauka. Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii will build 250 homes in Mauka this year, with another 100 homes to be completed next year.

STAR-BULLETIN / FEBRUARY 1977

A LOOK BACK: The H-2 freeway’s Kipapa Gulch bridge got its first stream of vehicle traffic following ceremonies in 1977 that opened the 8-mile freeway. The cost of the freeway was $43 million and included this $13.5 million, 1,910-foot bridge. The off ramps brought some relief for residents in Mililani, Leilehua and Wahiawa.

Mililani

A master-planned community that began growing in 1968 nears completion in Mauka

Planned satisfaction

Dean Hazama’s home used to sit on top of the Mililani Mauka subdivision. Now, 10 years later, it is amid the many houses that have climbed the hillside.

It is a sign of how well planned and desirable the community is, Hazama said: “There were long waiting lists for people to own homes.”

Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii, landowner of the area, will soon finish its master plan for Mililani Mauka with 350 homes. It finished Mililani, makai of the H-2 freeway, in the early 1990s. In Mililani Mauka, residents are finding new home buyers are coming from the Mililani community.
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Pets call center home for 30 years

JONAH, a blue-and-gold macaw, is one of the original icons at Mililani Pets. His feathers are ruffled and he likes to play dead. So it’s no wonder that many onlookers worry about the big bird’s health.

Shop owner David Ferreira assures folks that Jonah is perfectly fine. Kilani Pet Clinic even issued a letter noting Jonah’s clean bill of health.

“He is just old. Jonah has been here as long as I have,” Ferreira said. Jonah is 75 years old and was donated to the store about 30 years ago. Birds mature, similar to humans, with much of the aging occurring beyond the age of 55, he explained.
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With the planned construction of thousands of homes in Waiawa by Gentry, traffic on H-2 will become gridlock, leaving Mililani residents stuck.

MILILANI

MASTER PLAN

Developer: Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii
Community master plan began: 1968
Construction plans for Mililani Mauka:
>> 250 homes in 2007, 100 homes in 2008
>> In the next few years, a commercial site at the entrance of Mililani Mauka; size to be determined
>> Mililani Makai already complete