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Chinatown Hotel

Location: Downtown Honolulu

Type: Hotel

Units: 240 guest rooms

Status: Proposed

This ground-up hotel development will serve as an anchor for the Chinatown community and catalyst for investment and redevelopment of the area.

It will bring jobs, foot traffic, and tax revenues that have historically only benefited areas such as Ala Moana and Waikiki to Chinatown.  Over the next four years the site will be redeveloped into a lifestyle hotel with 240 guestrooms, two food and beverage outlets, meeting space, a museum, and a rooftop pool. With 240 rooms, 134 parking spaces, 2,177 square feet of meeting space, and a rooftop bar and restaurant with outdoor seating, the project is well-situated to provide business and leisure travelers with an upscale option outside of Waikiki.

The hotel will be 16 stories tall or 200 ft and includes several amenities for its guests including a gym and spa; a sky lobby; a rooftop bar, restaurant, deck and pool; and accessible lanais for views of the mountains and the ocean. The plans include a valet system utilizing mechanical parking lifts to park 134 cars on site.

Currently, the property is used as parking for the surrounding retail and as a storage building for the refurbishing of used furniture. The project is within the Chinatown Special District. The stand-alone building on the property is a historic building listed on the Hawaii Register of Historic Places as part of the Chinatown Historic District, which will also require approval through the 6E process with the State Historic Preservation Division. This project will retain the existing single-story historic structure, the Yee Hop & Co. warehouse, and will incorporate it into the plans for the site. Adjacent to the Chinatown HART Station and Nimitz Highway, the plans call for enhancing pedestrian-oriented uses and promoting long-term economic viability all while preserving and restoring the historic building on site. The design also calls for restoring the building back to its original condition and exposing its original basalt rock wall exterior.