Developers for 1588 Ala Moana presented an interim Planned Development Transit (IPDT) concept to the committee on Nov. 20 for a 4.3‑acre transit‑oriented site at the Ala Moana Center fronting Ala Moana Beach Park.

Alana Kobayashi Pakala (BSC Acquisitions II) said the project — an affiliate of Black Sand Capital and the Kobayashi Group — aims to mix hotel, market residential and affordable rental units with ground‑floor retail and a pedestrian‑focused arrival plaza. Project planner Isaiah Sato showed slides describing a program of 291 hotel units, 145 market residential units, 52 affordable rentals targeted at 80% AMI, ~26,000 square feet of commercial space, and a two‑tier massing with the hotel up to 400 feet and residential up to 200 feet.

Sato described a graywater reuse system for the resort portion intended to reduce potable water demand and said the project would add approximately 560 parking stalls back for the mall plus 575 for the hotel/residential portions and about 300 bicycle stalls. DPP confirmed the team has completed initial neighborhood‑board outreach (Ala Moana board) and will submit an IPDT application to DPP for a formal review, public hearing and recommendation to council.

Public testimony included supporters from construction unions (Tricia Taketa, Sean Newcamp, Andrew Pereira) stressing affordable units, jobs and sustainability; one remote speaker raised concerns about the scale of luxury units relative to affordable units and traffic/parking impacts.

This was an initial presentation; the applicant told the committee they expect to submit the IPDT application to DPP and return for additional hearings next year.

Next steps: developers will file the IPDT permit application with DPP, which will start the formal review and public hearing process before returning recommendations to the council.