“What has to happen to make downtown more inviting, cleaner and safer for people who work and live in the area?
Kim hails the effort as an opportunity to explore what’s possible for a downtown where office space is making way for residential apartments and property owners are exploring an added tax — an assessment to help reach that goal. But what worked in Waikīkī may not fly in downtown.
“Part of what we were trying to do with this project is to get people to understand what the challenges are, to look at the analyses that have been done, and then see some of the potential outcomes of this. And so in addition to reports and presentations, each of the students was required to do a poster," Kim said.”
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