WAILUKU — Commercial construction in Maui County is showing signs of recovery with two major projects.
WAILUKU — Commercial construction in Maui County is showing signs of recovery with two major projects.
Maui County has issued building permits for the largest private building project on the island in recent memory, a $304.5 million time-share resort on 26 acres at Kaanapali’s North Beach, the Maui News, a Wailuku newspaper, reported.
The county in January issued building permits for another large West Maui project. The nearly $46.5 million West Maui Village development in Napili is planned for 9.6 acres north of Maui Preparatory Academy.
The Kaanapali project, with six stories and eight wings, is planned by Starwood Vacation Ownership and will be called Westin Nanea Ocean Villas. Hawaiian Dredging Co. is listed as project builder. WCIT Architecture is the designer. It is scheduled to open in 2017.
The development will include a 10-acre public park and a restaurant featuring Hawaiian and international cuisine.
The resort’s rooms will be villas. The resort will feature 10,000-square-foot pool, a lagoon-style pool, a children’s beach pool and play area, two plunge pools, three oceanfront cabanas, a beach bar and a workout studio.
The resort is next to the Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resorts Villas.
Plans for the development in Napili call for 158 one-, two- and three-bedroom units in 25 buildings. Groundbreaking is planned in one to two months, said project sales manager Karla Aguera.
The value of all Maui County construction permits for January and February is $401.6 million. That’s nearly 86 percent of the $467.7 million in building permits issued by Maui County for all of 2014. It also exceeds the amount for building permits annually from 2009 to 2013.
Permits for single-family residential construction continue to lag behind 2008 levels.