SPOTLIGHT ON SUCCESS
SPOTLIGHT ON RISE IN MĀNOA
Hunt, Moss ensure student housing is ready for UH students BY PAULA BENDER
A fter some back-and-forth when the YMCA put its fee-simple property at the corner of University Avenue and Metcalf Street on the market in 2015, the organization agreed to sell the property to the University of Hawai‘i (UH) for $8 million a year later. Developing the property without taxpayer dollars was achieved via a public- private partnership (P3) between the University of Hawai‘i Foundation (UHF), UH and Hunt Development Group.
“Following a request for proposals, we contracted in 2017 with Hunt to finance and design-to-build student housing,” says John Han, vice president of adminis- tration and CFO at UHF. THE PROJECT
John Han
Hunt hired general contractor Moss & Associates to build the three-structure project. Featured prominently is the landmark pink Charles Atherton House on the corner of University Avenue. Another previously constructed build- ing, the Mary Atherton Richards House, was demolished to make room for two brand new structures on the 43,107-
A finisher does some last-minute polishing to RISE interiors. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I FOUNDATION / SCOTT NISHI
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