The Low-Hanging Fruit is Housing Construction

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Registration Required. Webinar link will be emailed the day before to registered attendees.

In normal times, our overcrowded housing is often dismissed in Hawaii as “cultural.” Today, it is a public health crisis. The pandemic has highlighted just how overcrowded our existing housing is. Our enormous latent housing shortage has not gone away during the pandemic. Now is a golden opportunity to close the gap for our young people and future generations by accelerating the building of reasonably priced housing for all. The lowest-hanging fruit for pulling Hawaii out of our economic downturn is housing construction. Christine will explore the chronic problem we have in Hawaii and outline a realistic path forward to solve this longtime problem.

Speakers:

Christine Camp is president and CEO of Avalon Group, a consortium of real estate related companies that she founded in 1999. Avalon is currently the largest industrial land developer in the state with over 178 acres in development. Avalon just completed the $175 Million Hale Ka Lae project in Hawaii Kai and successfully worked on bringing the $500 Million Sky Ala Moana project to construction. Previous to Avalon she was Vice President of Development for A&B Properties and a part of the planning engineering management team at Castle & Cooke Hawaii. With over 30 years of real estate development experience, Christine has earned many accolades for her leadership in the industry and in the community, including NAIOP’s Developer of the year, Construction Industry’s Partners in Industry Award, BIA’s Developer Dynamo and PBN’s 40-under 40 Community Leader of the year. She previously served as Chairwoman of the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Honolulu Police Commission, board member on the HCDA, chair of Hawaii Urban Land Institute, and President of Hawaii Developers’ Council. Currently Christine is on the board of Federal Home Loan Bank, and is a member on the boards of Central Pacifc Bank, Blue Planet Foundation, YMCA and Kahala Nui. A Kalani high school graduate, she received her degree in business management and fnance from Hawaii Pacifc University and holds CCIM and Counselor of Real Estate designations. She has been nationally recognized for her understanding of real estate issues and trends and is a winner of the prestigious CRE James Felt Creative Counseling Award.

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