Thank you, Senator, for your kind thoughts.  As an individual who was raised near the Middle Street “terminus” (Fern, Kalakaua, FHS), the Middle Street rail station, for example, will bring investment to this area (I recall nearby a very active Kalihi Bowl and a Ben Franklin store – in the late 1960s), like restaurants and convenience stores, perhaps a dry-cleaner’s. Aside from businesses coming to the rail station, there exists no list of investors clamoring to put funds into Kalihi-Palama and hire local residents.  Kalihi-Palama is a census tract with a population of >40,000 (Kauai’s total population is 65,000).   A mixed-use development at the Middle Street station – the “edge” of old-time Honolulu (ironically, the westernmost Honolulu electric trolley station up to World War II was Fort Shafter) – is a great idea: any business investment IN Kalihi-Palama is a great idea, so close to Downtown (west of Liliha Street), yet so far from the 2016 Hawaii economy.