Address
98-020 Kamehameha Highway, Aiea, HI 96701
98-020 Kamehameha Highway, Aiea, HI 96701
TMK
(1) 9-8-022:074
SHPD Historic Site Number
50-80-09-0816
Abstract
Designed in the Early Modern style by a Japanese American engineer, the shopping center was one of the first strip malls to be built in Honolulu and followed a mainland pattern of locating retail developments in the vicinity of new subdivisions. A familiar visual landmark on Kamehameha highway for 57 years, the shopping center was developed by a Nisei grocery owner who had been born in Honolulu, raised in Japan, and returned to the city before the outbreak of World War II. The building is individually eligible under criterion A in the areas of Commerce and Ethnic Heritage at the local level of significance and under criterion C for Architecture.
Designed in the Early Modern style by a Japanese American engineer, the shopping center was one of the first strip malls to be built in Honolulu and followed a mainland pattern of locating retail developments in the vicinity of new subdivisions. A familiar visual landmark on Kamehameha highway for 57 years, the shopping center was developed by a Nisei grocery owner who had been born in Honolulu, raised in Japan, and returned to the city before the outbreak of World War II. The building is individually eligible under criterion A in the areas of Commerce and Ethnic Heritage at the local level of significance and under criterion C for Architecture.
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