The plan includes a pedestrian oriented "Main Street" that connects Maui Mall to Kaahumanu Center. The Main Street will include a two-lane vehicular driveway with angled parking and a landscaped Boulevard concept to create an active and comfortable street scape with convenient parking available to the retailers.

The Kahului Shopping Center block is a 19.9 acre site with roots deeply steeped in Maui's sugarcane plantation history. Until the 1950s, the block had a mixture of plantation camp housing in the interior with a band of commercial structures along Puuene Avenue and Kaahumanu Avenue. The commercial uses included the movie theater and the Alexander & Baldwin company store. The block served as Central Maui's piko, navel or center. It was a gathering place where people came to conduct errands, view the latest movie, visit with friends and linger on Sunday afternoons.

Ah Fook's Store

To better serve the plantation-based community, the Kahului Shopping Center was opened in 1951. The plantation houses had been replaced by A&B's Dream City project which gave the plantation's workers the opportunity to own their own homes. Kahului Shopping Center became the new gathering place for the community. In more recent years, Ah Fooks and the shopping center remained as a link to the past for many Central Maui residents who had witnessed so many other physical changes within their community as Maui grew throughout the last few decades.

Guided by this past and linked to the future, the vision of this project is to invigorate the central gathering place for Central Maui in the form of a refined "town center" blending traditional neighborhood development practices with local architectural and cultural character. In addition to the retail and recreational common areas, the plan includes residential housing that will be focused on serving Maui residents.

The master plan scope of work extends beyond the boundaries of the Kahului Shopping Center block to include the three block area stretching from the existing Maui Mall to Queen Kaahumanu Center. The scope extends makai along the central road to the Hoaloha Park. The development of the master plan concept for the entire three block district will act as a guide for A & B Properties decision making process for future projects on adjacent properties as well as potential site acquisition opportunities in the immediate vicinity that may enhance the current proposed project.