Ten minutes with a calculator would tell you what anyone in construction and development (and a LOT of other people too) knows intuitively - that this would be the biggest cockamamie idea ANYONE has come up with yet.  Tear down hundreds of millions of dollars worth of operating and functioning buildings and then build the same capacity somewhere else.  "One way to help alleviate these issues is to move the University of Hawaii at Manoa to the West Oahu campus at Kapolei. The state can sell the high-value land in Manoa, "  And MAGICALLY, Magically this will solve "high cost of living, traffic, homelessness and marginal economic growth".  Oh yeah sure.  Most of the other comments are about marijuana today - I'ld like to know what this letter writer is smoking.  Hands off Manoa.