The art and design
of life on the Big Island
A new village opening early 2025
An elevated home, a cultivated neighborhood
Here on a hillside of South Kohala, we’re creating something new. Something else. A place where a world-class design team is crafting every detail to uplift each moment of your day. With homes that elegantly blur the line between heritage and contemporary, indoors and outdoors. In a neighborhood that will feel like a native botanical garden — an upland oasis — with panoramic views of ocean and mountain. A place that engages all your senses. And connects you to earth and sky. Mauka and makai. To ohana, nature and your neighbors.
Distinctive new homes on the Big Island
designed for lock-and-leave convenience.
Priced from $1.9 million.
NO DETAIL TOO SMALL
In Nānā Kai, it’s the fine points of home design and landscape architecture that will make all the difference.
A hillside oasis
Nānā Kai will grow into a neighborhood shaded by monkeypod and rainbow shower trees. Textured with native grasses and plantings. With maintained front yards for lock-and-leave convenience.
Sweeping views, sweetened
The terraced land of Nānā Kai is theater seating for the ocean and mountain show. And with careful, individualized siting, each home will make the most of this incomparable view.
Lanai-centric living
On the Big Island, outdoor rooms are as important as indoor rooms. The homes of Nānā Kai are designed with generous front porches and lanais that add up to 1,000 square feet of outdoor living space.
A laid-back country feel
Here in Nānā Kai, even the roads will hearken back to a simpler time. No over-engineered curbs and gutters. Just the easy elegance of a country lane in a hillside village.
Heritage features
Dry-stacked lava walls and a modern interpretation of the classic koa wood ranch fence speak to the deep history of the Big Island.
The homes of Nānā Kai
The architects of Newman, Garrison + Partners have designed the homes of Nānā Kai to feel very much of-Hawai‘i — dignified and traditional, an inspired interpretation of Plantation-style architecture — and yet uniquely of-today. Allowing for an effortless, breezy flow between indoors and outdoors. Creating a village ambiance unlike anywhere else on the Big Island. With the terraced land and individual siting of each home taking full advantage of ocean and mountain views. And with included front yard maintenance creating greater freedom to come and go as you please.
OUR FIRST NEIGHBORHOOD
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78
homes -
From
$1.9M -
5 plans
from 2,032 – 3,155 sq ft -
1 & 2 story
options -
Community center, neighborhood park & pool
Honoring the land
The organizing principle of Nānā Kai is the land itself. The entire village is guided by the unique character of Kohala’s terrain. It’s a part of the island distinguished by sweeping grassland, creased and pleated by ravines where rainwater has carved out a course toward the sea. We’re preserving these ravines intact. Letting them form a matrix of picturesque natural spaces that weave the village together and orient it to panoramic views of the ocean. We like to say Nānā Kai is being built around the land as much as it’s being built on the land.
Bringing everything, and everyone, together
Nānā Kai is just getting started. We’re progressing carefully, taking things a step at a time. Beginning with a single street of all-new home designs. And yet even this first street in our first neighborhood will embody, in a simple way, the vision we’re holding for all 867 acres of Nānā Kai. That is, the vision of a true village. A place where people come together around the things they love. Especially spending time out of doors … including car doors.
From Day One, Nānā Kai will invite you to be on your feet, out in nature. To hike or bike a trail. To head over to the nearby Kamakoa Nui Park, which we’re greatly enhancing and beautifying. Or to simply stroll down to the pool and clubhouse that will be part of our first neighborhood.
What we’ve planned for Nānā Kai is an even fuller expression of village living. With more nature. More trails and trail connections. (It’s conceivable you’ll even be able to ride your bike all the way to the beach.) Another neighborhood pool and clubhouse. And a big village green and community center where everyone can gather to share in music, food, wellness, new community rituals, all the great stuff that makes a village … a village.
Looking toward the sea.
That’s the meaning of Nānā Kai. And yet life here will embrace not only the ocean but the entire island. From here, the Kohala Coast, the charm of Waimea, Kona International Airport and the conveniences of Waikoloa Village are at your fingertips. And, yes, the panoramic view reaches from mountain to ocean and, on a clear day, all the way to Maui.
