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'Poor Door': Separate Tower Entrance Planned For Lower-Income Residents
A proposed high-rise condominium tower could bring a lot of firsts to the Ala Moana neighborhood.
ProsPac Tower would be the first 400-foot building along Keeaumoku Street. It’d be the first project built with a transit-oriented development special permit that includes affordable rental units in the same structure as its market-rate condominiums.
And, according to the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, it would be the first mixed-income building with a separate entrance for low-income residents
The controversial architectural feature has been called a “poor door” by critics elsewhere.
Read more: http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/11/poor-door-separate-tower-entrance-planned-for-lower-income-residents/