The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands broke ground Wednesday on a new 160-home subdivision, the first phase of a 404-acre master-planned community.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa joined other officials to celebrate the groundbreaking for the new 24.5-acre community known as Kauluokahai.

“These homes not only represent an incredible opportunity for 160 Hawaiian Homes beneficiaries, but also a great opportunity for leveraging state monies with federal funds in a way that only our state department, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands can do,” Abercrombie said in a press release.

More than 70 percent of the project’s $11.59 million infrastructure price tag was funded through the federal Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act. The U.S. Department of Agriculture contributed an additional $3.7 million.

Infrastructure construction, which includes installing sewer lines and building roadways, is expected to start next month and finish in August 2015.

The completed master-planned community will include schools, a multi-purpose center, 800 single-family homes and another 1,000 multi-family homes.

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