FAQs

The project's vision is to build a "University Village" community around Hawaii Community College Palamanui, a community where local residents can live, work, play and of course, learn.

Designed to be completed in four phases over a 20-year timeline, the project will build new homes for middle income local families, a University Village Town Center commercial development to support the adjacent communities and the college, extensive walking and biking trails, a 74-acre dry forest reserve, 230 acres of open space and a 20-acre regional park as well as smaller neighborhood parks.

Palamanui remains a committed community partner to help shape Kona's future for generations to come.

Palamanui's $22+ million investment with the University of Hawaii to build the Hawaii Community College Pālamanui campus is laying the foundation for community building in West Hawaii and long-term success for the college.

• The University of Hawaii received nearly $9.7 million in cash from Palamanui in 2012 to begin construction of the first phase of Hawai'i Community College Palamanui campus.
• Palamanui committed another $12+ million in infrastructure improvements for the university to provide water, sewage treatment and connect to power.

Palamanui's investment of $22+ million for higher education access resulted in a now open college campus in West Hawaii.

Palamanui built and dedicated a $12 million water system designed for the project and college to the County Department of Water Supply.

Palamanui creates a community around HCC Palamanui and is designed to be completed in four phases over a 20-year timeline.

• Phase 1 - 250 mixed income single and multi-family residential units, University Village Town Center, 60-room hotel
• Phase 2 - 100 mixed income residential units, business park, park and roadway improvements
• Phase 3 — 150 mixed income residential units, roadway improvements
• Phase 4 — 616 mixed income residential units, additional commercial and business park

The proposed connector road (connecting Palamanui to Mamalahoa Highway) will move forward in a staged manner proportional to the project's traffic impacts after 900 of the 1,116 units.

Palamanui creates a community around HCC Palamanui and is designed to be completed in four phases over a 20-year timeline.

• 725 acres, located mauka of Queen Kaahumanu Highway and about one mile north of Kona International Airport
• 1,116 new homes for middle income local families (116 – 232 Affordable)
• 30-acre University Village Town Center
• 70-acre business park
• 74-acre dry land forest preserve
• 20-acre regional park and smaller neighborhood parks

The proposed connector road (connecting Palamanui to Mamalahoa Highway) will move forward in a staged manner proportional to the project's traffic impacts after 900 of the 1,116 units.