A unique $13.5 million facility intended to offer the homeless everything from emergency shelter to affordable rentals will accept its first residents Monday, just in time to take in campers being displaced from Wai'anae Coast beaches and parks in a new round of city cleanups and permanent overnight closures.

Kahikolu 'Ohana Hale O Wai'anae is a 72-unit rental complex and 40-bed dormitory facility complete with a preschool and certified kitchen that will offer services to get people back on their feet, said Pastor Wade "Boo" Soares. He is president of the Hawai'i Coalition of Christian Churches, which will operate the center. It is funded by the state and private sources.

Yesterday, workers were scrambling to finish preparations for its first clients.

Soares said he was asked to open the facility before it was completed in light of the city's plan to close several beach parks at night effective Aug. 11.

"The city is wanting to do this sweep on the coast, so the state is asking ... me to open sooner than I expected," he said. "Even though we're not fully ready, ready or not here I come."

In April the city announced its plan to displace up to 250 homeless campers and had set a July 28 deadline for people to vacate the parks, but that changed last week.

The city now plans to close parks at night and perform extensive cleanups at six beaches or parks in the next two and a half months, continuing a campaign to reclaim public spaces for the general public after heavy use by the homeless throughout the island, said Lester Chang, director of the city Department of Parks and Recreation.

But the city wanted to wait until shelters such as Kahikolu were available before acting, Chang said.

"This is another step along the way in the overall strategic effort working with the community, the city parks, HPD and the mayor to listen to the community and doing it in a sensitive humane way," he said.

Effective Aug. 11, Tracks (Kahe Beach Park), Nanakuli Beach Park (cove and beach), Lualualei Beach Park No. 2 and Poka'i Bay Beach Park will be closed permanently overnight, from 10 p.m to 5 a.m.

Soares' shelter will be able to accommodate at least 250 people, said Russ Saito, the state's homeless coordinator for the Wai'anae Coast.

"Hopefully by the time the city closes the beaches, everyone who's willing to move out of there to a shelter will have had the chance to move," Saito said.

Two other parks are scheduled for cleaning and night closure in September and October, a July 25 city press release says.

The city will close Ulehawa No. 2 (between Nani Kai and Ma'ili across from the 7-Eleven store) for extensive cleaning and maintenance from 10 p.m. Sept. 28 to 3 p.m. Oct. 3. Thereafter, the park will be closed from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily.

The city also will close "Sewers," or Lualualei No. 1, from 10 p.m. Oct. 12 to 3 p.m. Oct. 17 for cleaning and maintenance, after which the park will be closed at night.

Two more homeless shelters on the Leeward coast are also expected to open this year in time for the night closure of the two additional parks.

The state expects Building 36 at Kalaeloa, which will hold 200 adults only, to be completed in September, Saito said. The 80-unit Villages at Ma'ili, made up of studios and two-bedroom apartments, will open in October or November and house about 200 people, he said.

Once these are completed and everyone who wants to be in a shelter is in one, the state will face a new issue, he said. There are people who don't want to be in shelters because of the rules and some with drug and mental problems that can't be cared for in a shelter, Saito said.

"Those require a lot more intensive care than the shelters that we're bringing on line (can give)," he said.