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The Patsy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park (CORP) is a 269-acre (1.09 km 2) public park operated by the City and County of Honolulu. It held its grand opening on July 21, 2001 and it is located in Waipio , Oahu just off the Kamehameha Highway .
Bend formed a recreation department and hired its first director in April 1949. Before then, summer youth activities were organized jointly with the local school district. Sites were maintained by the public works department until 1964 when the maintenance and recreation programs combined to form a new Parks and Recreation Department. [1]
Hoʻolulu Park (officially the Hoʻolulu Park Complex; sometimes shortened to Hoʻolulu Complex) is a 56-acre (23 ha) park and recreation center operated by the County of Hawaiʻi in Hilo, Hawaii, east of the Wailoa River State Recreation Area and downtown Hilo, and west of Hilo International Airport.
Kakaʻako Waterfront Park, also known as "Point Panic Park", is a public park in Kakaʻako, south of downtown Honolulu, just off Ala Moana Boulevard at the end of Cooke Street. It was opened in November 1992 on the site of a former municipal landfill and consists of 35 acres (140,000 m 2 ) of grass-covered rolling hills adjacent to the ocean.
Ala Moana Park, 1934 with Diamond Head in background Ala Moana Park 1934 Construction in 1935 Construction, 1935. Ala Moana Regional Park as we know it today rests on reclaimed land that was once swampy marshland. In the 1920s Ala Moana Beach Park was a wetland with bulrushes, kiawe trees, and coconut palms that the city used as a garbage dump.
The Honolulu Police Department operates the Kapolei Regional Police Station for district 8 at 1100 Kamokila Boulevard. [25] [26] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Honolulu field office is in Kapolei at 91-1300 Enterprise Street. [27] Opened in 2013, it is the first federal agency to be headquartered in Kapolei.
Thomas Square is a park in Honolulu, Hawaii, named for Admiral Richard Darton Thomas. The Privy Council voted to increase its boundaries on March 8, 1850, making Thomas Square Hawaii's oldest city park. [2] It is one of four sites in Hawaii where the Hawaiian flag is allowed to fly alone without the United States flag.
Since 1913, the park has been maintained by the City and County of Honolulu's Department of Parks & Recreation. [3] In the 1920s, plans to drain the Ala Wai Canal through Kapiolani Park filled the park with mud and rubbish. It was rarely used until 1952, when it was renovated and its current boundaries were established.