Hawaiʻi Kai, Hawaii
Hawaiʻi Kai, also known as Maunalua or Koko Marina, is a largely residential area located in the Honolulu County, Hawaii, City & County of Honolulu, in the East Honolulu, Hawaii, East Honolulu CDP, on the island of Oahu, Oʻahu. Hawaiʻi Kai is the largest of several communities at the eastern end of the island. The area was largely developed by Henry J. Kaiser around the ancient Maunalua fishpond and wetlands area known as Kuapā (meaning "fishpond wall"). Hawaiʻi Kai or Koko Marina was dredged from Kuapā Pond starting around 1959. Dredging not only transformed the shallow coastal inlet and wetlands into a marine embayment, but was accompanied by considerable filling and clearing of the pond margins. In 1961, Kaiser-Aetna entered into a lease agreement with the land owner, the Kamehameha Schools, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, to develop the 521 acre (2.11 km2) fishpond into residential tracts with a marina and channels separated by fingers of land and islands upo ...
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