Early Native Hawaiian homesteaders.
A development that gives everything back.
For more than a century, Prince Jonāh Kūhiō Kalaniānaʻole fought so that Native Hawaiians could return to ʻāina, rebuild their communities, and shape their own future.
Prince Kūhiō Gateway carries that vision forward.
Prince Kūhiō Gateway is a 225,000 SF retail and commercial center — shops, dining, daily needs, and services — at Fort Weaver Road and Old Fort Weaver Road in ʻEwa Beach."
Led by Native Hawaiian beneficiary Patti Ann Tancayo — a 30-year affordable housing developer and one of the only Native Hawaiian wahine developers in Hawaiʻi today — this project is something rare: a privately funded, commercially self-sustaining initiative that generates revenue for DHHL, creates opportunity for our lāhui, and ultimately gifts 22.7 acres of ʻāina back to the Hawaiian Homes Trust at no cost.
No state funds. No cost to DHHL. Just kuleana in action.
THE PROFITS.
Ground lease rent and 50% of net commercial profits goes to the Hawaiian Homes Trust corpus every year the center operates.
A HOME FOR KŪPUNA.
60–80 affordable housing units for Native Hawaiian elders — built into the project from the beginning, not added as an afterthought.
THE LAND.
When the lease ends, all 22.7 acres — built, remediated, income-producing — is gifted to DHHL. No debt. No strings. The land comes home.
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This has never been done before in Hawaiʻi.
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A development that gives everything back.
“Most developments near Hawaiian Home Lands generate wealth for outside investors and move on. We are built to do the opposite. Every year this center operates, revenue goes to DHHL. Kūpuna get housed. Hawaiian entrepreneurs get a foothold. And when it’s done, the land itself goes home. That is a different kind of project. That requires a different kind of commitment.”
— Patti Ann Tancayo, President, Kalanianaʻole Development