Updated at 5:12 p.m., Thursday, March 12, 2009
SPRING CLEANING
Mayor lays out plans to spruce up, partially close Waikiki, Kapiolani Park
Advertiser Staff
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Mayor Mufi Hannemann, flanked by Department of Parks & Recreation director Les Chang, left, and city managing director Kirk Caldwell at Waikiki Beach, announces plans to clean up beach facilities and Kapiolani Park.
GREGORY YAMAMOTO | The Honolulu Advertiser
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Parts of Waikiki, Kapiolani Park and the diamondhead end of Kalakaua Avenue will be temporarily closed, scrubbed and refurbished under a plan unveiled today by Mayor Mufi Hannemann.
The new program, which Hannemann calls Malama o Waikiki, will progress in four phases:
Daily cleaning of Waikiki's pavilions along Kuhio Beach, which will require them to be closed from 6 to 9 a.m. beginning tomorrow with the pavilion closest to the Honolulu police substation. The three other pavilions will be closed for cleaning beginning next week. Grass areas of Kapiolani Park will be closed for renovations and extensive ground maintenance for about one month between the Waikiki Aquarium Kapiolani Beach Center, beginning on March 23. Bathrooms and pavilions along Kuhio Beach and in Kapiolani Park will be closed beginning March 30 with the most heavily used pavilion near the intersection of Kalakaua and Kealohilani avenues, which will be closed for one week. The three other pavilions along Kuhio Beach will be closed for one-week periods during April. Areas of Kapiolani Park mauka of Kalakaua Avenue, including the tennis courts, will be closed from midnight to 5 a.m. daily, beginning April 20. Areas makai of Kalakaua Avenue will be closed from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. beginning April 20.
