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A developer is pursuing a plan to build 1,050 homes, two hotels with 600 units, an 18-hole golf course, cultural center, Veterans Administration facility with 130 beds, park space and a helipad on 16,000 acres near South Point in the Kau district of Hawaii island.
The estimated $1.1 billion project called Kahuku Village is a scaled-back version of a more dense resort plan proposed in 2009 by the same developer, Nani Kahuku Aina LLC.
Nani Kahuku recently filed a draft environmental impact statement for the revised project, and said most of the site would be left as open space.
In the 1980s, another developer failed to develop a luxury resort called Hawaiian Riviera Resort on the same property, which is mostly barren lava.