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Life Care Services
loses retirement
condo contract

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Star-Bulletin staff

Life Care Services Corp. of Hawaii has lost its contract to manage the 166-unit One Kalakaua Senior Living retirement condominiums, but most of the 71 employees are expected to be rehired.

The board of the complex at 1314 Kalakaua Ave. will not renew the three-year contract, which terminates on Jan. 31, because it wants to find a local management company, said Francis Lum, resident and board president.

Des Moines, Iowa-based Life Care Services had been selected by the project's Canadian developer, Ira Young, in 1997.

The board has offered jobs to most Life Care employees, who are expected to rejoin, Lum said yesterday.

Life Care's separate 10-year contract to run One Kalakaua's skilled nursing facility will not be affected, Lum said.