Business View Magazine l November 2022

36 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 11 Castle & Cooke Hawaii’s Aviation division prides itself on nonstop excellence and elegance. The premier general aviation facility in Honolulu, Castle & Cooke Aviation offers the development, leasing, and operation of corporate hangars, aviation office, and retail space. Staff are specifically trained in aviation conciergerie - comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy are top priorities. Castle & Cooke Hawaii was the brain and brawn behind Hawaii’s first major master-planned community: Mililani. A project that took four decades to complete, Mililani now features 20 unique home series and 16,000 individual homes populated by some 50,000 people. Following in Miliani’s footsteps is Castle & Cooke Hawaii’s newest master-planned community: Koa Ridge. Mr. Matsunami shares, “It’s been about two decades since we started on Koa Ridge, and we probably have another 10 to 15 years of work to bring the community to completion. Koa is a gorgeous species of Acacia native to Hawaii. The wood has a long history in canoe-making and is known for its strength and beauty. In Hawaiian culture, E Ola Koa (Live Like a Koa Tree) is used as a greeting to wish someone a long and healthy life. At Koa Ridge, we’ve adopted this greeting to welcome our residents and guests to the community. We are also a proud corporate sponsor of Saving Hawaii’s Forests, which is a non-profit organization that seeks to plant and protect the native Hawaiian forests through educational experiences. For every home we sell we donate a tree in an effort to plant and preserve this species, which was once prevalent on Hawaii’s Big Island. New homeowners also receive a certificate that lets them know they’ve been part of the movement to revive Hawaii’s Koa forests.” CASTLE & COOKE HAWA I I