Makaha Valley Country Club
Kamehameha Schools Learning Community on The Stone Family Land
A 300-acre parcel in Makaha Valley on the leeward coast of Oahu, includes the Makaha Valley Country Club, an 18-hole golf course with picturesque mountain and ocean vistas and a 20,000 square foot Clubhouse. In April 2010, Jeff Stone, on behalf of the Stone family, gifted the site to Kamehameha Schools and the Hawaii State Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL). The parcel will be used to create a sustainable, cultural and educational gathering place that supports, in perpetuity, the entire Leeward Coast, an area that is home to the world's largest population of native Hawaiians.
Called Ka Pua (translated: flower, symbolizing children or keiki), this educational and cultural initiative will feature The Kamehameha Schools Learning Community on The Stone Family Lands and over 500 homes being developed by DHHL. This innovative partnership between the private sector, two Hawaiian trusts and the Leeward Coast community represents a unique opportunity to transform educational and lifestyle experiences for all area families.
Kamehameha Schools will develop and manage a broad-based state-of-the-art educational complex on 70-acres that offers innovative and collaborative education programs for learners of all ages. The initiative will be integrated with the other schools, learning programs and social services on the Leeward Coast.
The 230-acre DHHL community that surrounds the school site will be developed into an affordable, energy-efficient Hawaiian homestead community and exemplify sustainable integration of "live, work, play and learn" ideals and principles. Plans include a community service center, a performing arts venue, a learning hall and indigenous gardens.
This uniquely Hawaiian learning complex and community development is intended to become the educational anchor for the Leeward Coast, ensuring that the families who live there are provided every opportunity to succeed professionally while making certain that the Hawaiian culture continues to flourish.
The Makaha project will unfold in phases over the course of the next 15-20 years. Planning is underway and construction to make the learning community a reality is anticipated to begin in 2012.
