![]() Diamond Head is getting harder to see from her lanai behind the city’s high rises. She’s planning to move to New Mexico next year because she can’t afford to retire here. Linda Nakagawara sits at Pawaa Inha Park. Now, Ala Moana, sandwiched between Kakaako and Waikiki, figures to be the next area to undergo a building boom. The redevelopment of adjacent Kakaako has been underway for the past five years, transforming warehouses, parking lots and auto shops into luxury high rises and hip shopping areas. And Nakagawara, 64, feels like the area doesn’t offer much anymore for local working-class people like her. The mall replaced Sears with Bloomingdale’s. Units in brand-new luxury towers sell for millions of dollars. ![]() Nakagawara loved Ala Moana so much that eventually she decided to buy an apartment there, a one-bedroom unit in a four-story walkup.īut the neighborhood has changed a lot over the years. It was a big deal back then, browsing at Woolworth and looking at the fancy dresses at Ethel’s. Growing up in Waianae, Linda Nakagawara remembers getting really excited when her family would take a trip into town to Ala Moana Center.
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