Six restaurants to open in rebuilt Moanalua center
By Andrew Gomes
Advertiser Staff Writer
Six restaurants, including Ruby Tuesday, Koa Pancake House and Loco Moco, will be among new tenants moving into the Navy's redeveloped Moanalua Shopping Center, expected to be mostly open in June.
The new 30,000-square-foot center, which replaces what had been a tired-looking, open-air retail complex built in 1954 one mile mauka of Pearl Harbor's Nimitz Gate, is 90 percent leased, according to developer MSC LLC.
Signed tenants include Subway, Starbucks, Jamba Juice, Yummy Korean BBQ, Verizon, Cingular, Vitamin World and Pearl Family Dental Care. A Panda Express will replace a free-standing Pizza Hut.
Many longtime center tenants were displaced, though several previous tenants that ringed the old center — Taco Bell, Jack In The Box, KFC, McDonald's, Chevron and 7-Eleven — will remain.
In 2004 the Navy selected MSC, an affiliate of local development firm The MacNaughton Group, to redevelop and operate the center for 40 years under a public-private venture. As part of the deal, MSC is replacing the 85,000-square-foot complex with the new 30,000-square-foot retail center and a 55,000-square-foot Navy office building.
The office building is scheduled to be completed late this year. The retail center will be open to the public.
Reach Andrew Gomes at agomes@honoluluadvertiser.com.
