07-05-2025
The Aloha Stadium Swap Meet set to make its move
HONOLULU(KHON2) — Something big is brewing at Aloha Stadium.
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'We're looking forward to big changes,' Aloha Stadium communications specialist Samantha Spain said.
After years of discussion and planning, the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet and Market place is just weeks away from relocating. It's new home is stones throw away in the Halawa parking lot.
'Right now we're kind of resurfacing everything and then we'll be re-striping everything and then you'll start to see the load in,' she explained.
Spain said they expect to begin moving in early summer and be read to go July 1st.
The construction currently going on in the upper parking lot is to make sure they have the proper electric and plumbing for the shopping area that's going to be built there.
'That's our Ho'okipa Hale area,' Spain said. 'We'll have a large entertainment tent. We'll have a food court, food trucks some brand new retail units that we are converting from shipping containers that are custom made for us.'
According to Spain, they have room for over 60 containers with space for traditional pop-up tent vendors on the other side.
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There are already have over a dozen containers on sight, ready to go.
'Wnce we turn it over to (the vendors) they'll have the opportunity to put flooring in, put shelving in as they want to,' Spain explained as she opened one of the containers.
She said the swap meet with have roughly 400 to 600 vendors on weekends with brand new bathroom facilities…
'We have custom restrooms that we have made out of shipping containers,' she explained.
It's all a part of their plan to enhance the customer experience while the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District (NASED) is being built.
'We are looking at anywhere from five to 10 years,' Span said. 'It will all depend on what the developer has planned.'
To honor the history of the stadium, they are calling on artists to create an original piece of art using the corrugated metal along the field.
'You can submit your ideas and we'll select one winner and then we will provide all of the corrugated walls and then we'll have this beautiful sculpture or 3D backdrop that we will have up in the swap meet,' she explained.
T he winner gets $1000 and a stipend to create the piece, which needs to be 70% made of the corrugated metal.
'You get bonus points if you put aloha in there,' Spain added. 'And of course being able to have your artwork in here for years to come.'
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