The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 43

SUNDAY Advertiser Mnt'Httlltiin fljfc -vfit ibjit JuM Iff HONOLULU, DECEMBER 17, 1967 vx i' mi 'I'l' JB i 1 jfe hit irini ii, "Hit Hi -MfeSSSVW x-: Mililani Golf Club's spacious clubhouse is in use already. It serves a par 72 public course. they ought to give medals for fitting a home with all A Town With a Plan this convenien ce I SwD 1 mi mm tern. 50 all ill By BILL COOK Advertiser Planning Writer Mililani Town's first homes will be offered for sale in May, 1968, and the first residents will move into them in September, 1968. Preceding these events will have been eight years of planning, replanning, an alteration here and a change there.

Also, an expenditure of $7 million already has been poured into the mammoth, new town project Hawaii's first. Eventually, Mililani Town will spread over 3,000 acres of cool, Central Oahu upland plains. Within 15 or 20 years, it is expected to have 60,000 residents. Alfred Boeke, vice president and general manager of Mililani Town, said the first phase of the development will include 310 acres, 1,300 dwelling units and a two-year working period of complete. The first phase, he said, will include a mixture of single family homes, town-houses, patio houses and garden apartments near a village shopping area and a community recreation center.

Phase one will be located on both sides of Kamehame-ha Highway and bordering the front nine of Mililani Golf Course, an 18-hole public course which opened in December, 1966. Mililani, which means "to look heaven-ward," is being developed through a corporate partnership headed by Oceanic Properties, land development subsidiary Castle Cooke. Also in the partnership are Aetna Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, and Honolulu Mortgage Ltd. I iX 'Z A network of landscaped pedestrian walkways will lace Mililani Town.

r- I i.Jaili.!as mil hih Our homemaker Is Kathee Francis The concept of Mililani Town was conceived in 1959 by Donald Rietow of Dole and Boeke, then a Los Aiigeles architect. A staff of 37 is assigned to the 1 a i of Mililani Town and it has come up with some development standards unique in the Islands. It will be built for all ages and economic levels the blue collar worker, young man on the way up and the senior citizen. It will be a community where newlyweds may find an apartment, move to a town or patio house with the first baby, to a single family house for the high school years and, finally, back to a condominium. Mililani is not to be just a bedroom community.

Its planners envision a new town with all the necessary cultural, commercial and civic facilities. Early sales in Mililani Town, according to George DeBacker, marketing vice on single family residences, custom and golf course lots. Apartment construction will be limited until H-2 Freeway is completed and higher educational facilities are available. The first six model homes, designed by DeMars Wells, AIA, will open to the public in May. They will range in size from 900 to 1,400 square feet.

Lots will vary from 5.500 to 7,000 square feet. Sales prices for do the houses and lots in fee, including private fencing, will range from about $24,750 to $32,750. The custom home sites on the waianae side of Kame-hameha Highway will vary from 6,500 to 7,500 square feet. Average sale price will be $15,500. It has been suggested that, homes on the custom lots range from $30,000 to $50,000.

Golf lots, averaging 10,700 square feet, will be priced about $25,000. A $50,000 model house will set the scene for the custom and golf lot area. The first two-story attached town houses will have private gardens. Models will range in size from 1.200 to 1,300 square feet one a three-bedroom and the other a four-bedroom unit. These units will be $1,500 to $4,500 cheaper than single family homes with equal floor space.

The Mililani staff has given special attention to the physical appearance of the new town. The three categories of streets collector avenues, distributors and minor loops and cul-de-sacs will have street trees appropriate in size to the function of the streets. For instance, the largest trees will be on the collector avenues. A town nursery already has been established to propagate the thousands of trees, shrubs and other plant materials necessary for full-scale landscaping. The first village shopping Continued on Page D-2 WA'iaW 'Alt -t- 111 Lots of trees and no visible trash cans and clotheslines aid street scene.

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