The Aloha Tower Development Corp. will continue its efforts to develop the waterfront despite a court's ruling Thursday that shot down any future plans to build a parking garage on Irwin Park. Irwin Park spared
but project will continue
Star-Bulletin staff
Ron Hirano, executive director of the Aloha Tower Development Corp., the state agency in charge of developing the area around Aloha Tower, said Friday that while he has not seen the ruling, parking would still be included in any future development on the waterfront.
Hirano said they are currently looking at proposals to develop Piers 5 and 6, the area between the Maritime Museum and the Coast Guard facility at Pier 4.
Land Court Judge Gary Chang denied on Thursday Aloha Tower Development Corp.'s May 2001 petition to remove restrictions on the title to Irwin Park that prohibited it from being used as anything but a public park.
Helene Irwin Fagan, daughter of early-1900s sugar magnate and philanthropist William Irwin, had given the property to the territory on condition that it remain a public park in perpetuity in memory of her father.
There have been no plans to develop Irwin Park since a proposal for a two-level parking structure was floated in 1999, Hirano said.
"During the time we filed the petition and until the judge's ruling and today, there hasn't been any proposal to do anything at Irwin Park."
