Good morning.

Well, the committee on infrastructure, transportation, and technology please come to order.

It is nine AM on Wednesday, May 2026, and I would like to welcome Committee Vice Chair Okimoto and as well as Committee Member Tupola virtually, and committee member DeSantos TAM.

Council Member Wire, Committee Member Wire is excused from today's meeting.

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Hi, aloha chair.

Uh no one is here with me.

Thank you.

Mahalo, Council Member.

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Moving to the first agenda item, members, thank you for indulgence.

We are going to have informational briefing first so that we can have the city administration then continue on with their um their cabinet meeting.

So we have the an update on the new Aloha Stadium Entertainment District, also known as NASAD project and the city's support for the project.

First off, um, I do want to note that while I am the council member of the district that does get that have the opportunity to have the Aloha Stadium as well as the Aloha Stadium and New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District.

We know that the uh Aloha Stadium and the future of it uh is something that holds a lot of memories for a lot of us, uh, but also will bring future memories uh and future experiences.

So I'm wholeheartedly support the project and I'm excited to hear um how we can move forward and uh from for the future.

Uh with that, um, joining us in the council chamber, we have Michael Yadow, we have manager for the stadium authority, and um, he'll come up first and then he will call upon um who will be next as well.

And members, uh, we'll let all the presentation presenters go up, which includes the stadium authority uh as well as um Stanford Car Development on behalf of Aloha Halaba District Partners, and then we'll move on to the city agencies and then we will take questions so that uh we can move this uh presentation along.

All right.

Um manager Yadal, please proceed.

Uh, sit your name for the record, and then you can continue with your presentation.

Thank you so much.

This is my name is Michael Yadal, and I'm from the Stadium Authority, and this is such an honor and such a privilege.

Thank you so much, Chair, Vice Chair, members of the committee, um, both here in person and on Zoom.

Um, again, thank you.

So we have a brief slide presentation, but I'll be going off of it quite a bit.

So if your eyes start to hurt you and you just want to listen to me speak, that's more than appropriate.

Or if you want to violently throw produce at me, that's more than appropriate, councilman.

Um, first of all, the NASAD project.

So the stadium as a whole.

The stadium fell into this tragedy of the commons place in previous iterations, where the maintenance and repair budget simply did not keep up with the maintenance and repair needed to operate a fully functioning stadium.

And so in 2019, the stadium was condemned because it simply had gotten to a place where it was unsafe to use.

What the state then entered into was a public-private partnership, which allowed the state to commit 350 million dollars on construction within an additional 50 million on pre-construction planning and preparation, of which 500,000 would be specifically dedicated to the swap meet and swap meet relocation, and then engage with the private sector so that we could have a much more robust stadium itself, and then potentially a build out on the rest of the 98.5 acres.

What we like to term is that the stadium is the obligation for our private sector development partner, but the build out of the rest of the district is the opportunity for that partner to recoup and to really build a vibrant city, a city where H1, H2, and H3 and rail all converge.

A city that is right across the street from the Arizona Memorial, which in pre-COVID numbers had about 1.2 to 1.3 million visitors with then no retail opportunities once they visited the Arizona Memorial.

You're also across the street from Pearl Harbor Hickham that does a majority of its billing either on base or in Waikiki and would be dying for the opportunity to be able to do that on site and closer to the base itself.

So that's the NASAD project.

The project is 600 650 million dollars worth in the stadium, but then two billion dollars worth in construction spending with an estimated 12,000 jobs over the course of both the stadium build-out and the build out of the rest of the district.

Next slide, please.

So this is kind of the build-out overview itself, and some of these slides were recently presented to us by our private sector district partner that gave us some of the populous renderings on what we should expect to see at the stadium site and in that phase one mixed-use retail development in that rail to stadium corridor, which they're calling Aloha Live.

If you have visited Los Angeles or even Angel Stadium in Anaheim, you're seeing things like OC Vibe and LA Live, which have this really beautiful development leading into the stadium itself.

And so that's kind of the opportunity and kind of the vibe, so to speak, that we're looking to court.

Please.

So this is the stadium.