Thirty-four trees start the remake of the old ʻAiea sugar mill as a park
Milo, wiliwili, a Moreton Bay fig, and other trees went in at Halewikio Place, the first step toward Ke Ola O ʻAiea ʻOhana Park, with a $34,000 urban-forestry grant.
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Thirty-four trees went into the open ground at Halewikio Place on Friday and Saturday, the first planting for Ke Ola O ʻAiea ʻOhana Park on the former ʻAiea sugar mill site. Hawaii News Now reported that the city's Division of Urban Forestry supplied the trees with a $34,000 grant from the Laura Jane Musser Fund. The mix included milo, wiliwili, lonomea, crape myrtle, narra, manele, puakenikeni, colvillea, and a Moreton Bay fig.
Schools, civic clubs, and other partners helped put them in. The ʻAiea Community Association is leading the plan to turn the mill site into a community park. The trees are the start of that work, not a finished park.
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