Posted on: Sunday, May 22, 2005
Map: Kalaeloa (Flash Player is required to view the graphic.)
Advertiser Staff
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| Bushes and weeds crowd out what once was a mess hall at the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station. A lack of upkeep shrouds a decade-old vision for the shuttered base.
Photos by Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| Children in the Makakilo and Kapolei areas use a baseball field that the Navy still owns. Some see the area's transformation as something that will occur over decades in "baby steps." |
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| Control Point employees Carl Loando, front, and Quintin Kea survey land for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. |
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| VIP Sanitation is one of a handful of businesses that operate in Kalaeloa, despite the area's poor roads and lack of infrastructure. |
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| The University of Hawai'i moved its Pacific Aerospace Training Center into what was Hanger 111 when Kalaeloa was a naval air stattion. |
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| Bunkers, dug deep into the ground, still mark Kalaeloa as a former military installation. Uncertainty over the Navy's future plans for the site has hindered its ability to transform itself for civilian use. |
