< Missing image removed: Kapolei, Hawaii is an unincorporated area community of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States under the administrative jurisdiction of the City and County of Honolulu and the Mayor of Honolulu. The 2007 population puts Kapolei itself not including Makakilo and Barbers Point at around 38,705. Popularly called the Second City of Kapolei, it is not a legal municipal corporation and thus not properly a city. Kapolei sits on what once was agricultural land used for sugarcane.

The community takes its name from a volcanic cone, Puu o Kapolei. In the Hawaiian language, puu means hill and Kapo lei means beloved Kapo. According...

< Missing image removed: Kapolei, Hawaii is an unincorporated area community of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States under the administrative jurisdiction of the City and County of Honolulu and the Mayor of Honolulu. The 2007 population puts Kapolei itself not including Makakilo and Barbers Point at around 38,705. Popularly called the Second City of Kapolei, it is not a legal municipal corporation and thus not properly a city. Kapolei sits on what once was agricultural land used for sugarcane.

The community takes its name from a volcanic cone, Puu o Kapolei. In the Hawaiian language, puu means hill and Kapo lei means beloved Kapo. According to legend, Kapo was sister to Pele (deity).

Kapolei is being developed as an urban center of the Hawaiian Islands Oahu, second to Honolulu. It is situated on land that was once used for agriculturethe pineapple and sugarcane industries. Much of the land is part of the estate of Business magnate James Campbell. The major developer of Kapolei is Kapolei Property Development, a subsidiary of James Campbell Company.

Kapolei Hale is the civic center built by the City and County of Honolulu and includes an office of the Mayor of Honolulu and offices of various other government agencies.

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Kapolei is being developed as a second urban center for O~ahu (after Honolulu, Hawaii), the most densely populated island in the state of Hawai~i. Much of O~ahu's population growth is occurring-and future population growth is slated for-the ~Ewa Plain and southern slopes of the island's central valley: that is the former agricultural lands of ~Ewa and the mostly gentle slopes between Waipahu, Hawaii on Pearl Harbor and Wahiawa, Hawaii near the center of the island.