2008 MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC SITES IN HAWAII
By Michael Keany, Courtesy of Honolulu Magazine
What can be done?
It’s not too late for an inventory of ‘Ewa Field’s historic elements. Ideally, Ford Island Properties and the HCDA will work together with the community on development plans for the area to include the preservation of ‘Ewa Field. Says Bond, “I’m not against Hunt or anyone developing here, I just want to protect what historically we think is important here.”
photo by rae huo
‘Ewa Field
(‘Ewa, O‘ahu)
What threatens it?
As we went to press, the Navy, which had owned the property, transferred 499 acres of Kalaeloa land, including parcels containing the former Marine Corps Air Station, to private developer Ford Island Properties, a subsidiary of Texas-based Hunt Companies.

The transfer went through without the historic resource inventory analysis requested by the state Historic Preservation Division, a survey that would have cataloged the historically significant architectural, archaeological and cultural elements of the property.

Ford Island Properties hasn’t made public its intentions for the land, but given its prime location near the Barbers Point Golf Course and the 67-acre shopping center being planned by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, it’s safe to say it will make an attractive site for development.
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