Updated at 2:12 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, 2007
State officials break ground for Kapolei Court Complex
Advertiser Staff
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The Judiciary has planned to build a new facility for Family Court operations and a juvenile detention center for nearly 20 years.
"We've known since the late 1980s that the population would be moving west because of plans to create a second city in what is now Kapolei," said Chief Justice Ronald Moon, the driving force behind the Kapolei Court Complex. "With this new project, the Judiciary will be expanding access to court services, not only to the people of West Oahu, but the entire island. We are moving forward to meet the future," Moon said in a prepared statement.
The latest design calls for a four-story, 123,118-square-foot courthouse and a one-story, 52,306-square-foot secure juvenile detention facility to be built on 10.97 acres provide by the James Campbell Estate.
Construction of the facilities is expected to be completed in late 2009.
Dignitaries at the groundbreaking included Chief Justice Ronald Moon, Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona, Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, House Speaker Calvin Say, Mayor Mufi Hannemann and First Circuit Chief Judge Colleen Hirai.
