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ROYAL CONTRACTING CO. LTD. royalcontracting.com
T here’s probably a Leeward Oahu devel- opment Royal Contracting didn’t grade in 2022, but it may be hard to find. According to Royal Contracting President Leonard K. P. Leong, the company graded sites and installed infrastructure last year at Kapolei Harborside’s Hanua Street crossing, Ho‘opili parcels 102, 104, 106 and 113, as well as substantially completing Ho‘opili Phase 10A. Royal Contracting sits at No. 15 among Hawaii’s Top 25 Contractors this year, dropping five
based employees, as well as the company’s subcon- tractors, who perform 25 percent of Royal’s work. Royal’s 2023 projects include Ho‘opili Phase 13 Backbone, set to wrap last month; construction of a permanent drainage basin at Ho‘opili and drain channel at Kapolei Harborside, both set to wrap in August; a drain at Coral Creek Golf Course, which was scheduled to wrap in May; Gentry Area 31 Increment 3, set to wrap in December; and Ho‘opili Phase 11 Backbone, slated to finish in April 2024. Founded in 1961, Royal Contracting has prepped home lots for 62 years. The compa- ny’s “most rewarding project of 2022” was Pu‘uhonua O Waiana‘e, according to Leong. “[That project] provided us with an opportunity to … provide shelter for approximately 300 people who were living next to Waiana‘e Boat Harbor. “Elderly adults to children will [all] be living [in] this village,” Leong says. “Royal asked others in the industry to help, and we received responses from Aloha Trucking, Amazon Construction, B & C Trucking and Pacific Pipe to reduce costs.” – Brett Alexander-Estes
2022 REVENUE: $106.4M
YEARS IN HAWAI‘I: 62
EMPLOYEES: 175
spots from 2022. Royal’s revenue also fell, dropping 21.9 percent, from $136.3 million in 2021 to $106.4 million last year. But Leong is unfazed. “Royal expects 2023 to be a busy year for the industry, especially with
“Royal expects 2023 to be a busy year for the industry.” – Leonard Leong
Leonard K. P. Leong
federal funding, Hawaiian Homes, affordable housing and shelter for the homeless,” he says. That’s good news for Royal’s 175 Hawai‘i-
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94-1388 Moaniani Street Ste. 414 Waipahu, HI 96797 (808) 353-8610 www.tradewindsmech.com
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