Once completed, this beachfront development will have luxury residences, retail stores, entertainment venues, pedestrian friendly streets, a Skyline rail station, and public open space.

[1][2] Over the course of the next decade, The Howard Hughes Corporation plans to add more than one million square feet of retail shops and 4,000 high-rise residential opportunities.

To ensure the development of Ward Village honors the distinct history of Honolulu and Hawaii, The Howard Hughes Corporation engages in thorough and ongoing consultation with the O'ahu Island Burial Counsel, the State Historic Preservation Division, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Ala Moana/Kaka'ako Neighborhood Board, the Hawaii Community Development Authority, the City and County of Honolulu, tenants, neighbors and recognized cultural descendants.

In 2008, a redevelopment plan slated the IBM Building for demolition, but public backlash led to its preservation instead.

[10] Howard Hughes built model units in the building for several of their nearby condominiums, and also utilized it as office space; it occupied the second, third, sixth and seventh floors while maintaining an information center on the first.

[12] [13] [14] Gateway towers would be redesigned due to engineering problems, as well as the need for a bigger Victoria Ward Park.

Ae'o is a condo north of the Ward Entertainment Center and was designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, and it consists of 466 residences.

[16] Ke Kilohana is a affordable-housing condo that was designed by AC Martin in partnership with Honolulu based CDS International.

[17] Unlike the more luxury focused developments of Ward Village, A'ali'i is largely affordable micro-units, 751 in total.

Kōʻula a luxury condo that is designed by Studio Gang and is south of A'ali'i and west of the Ward Entertainment Center.

This park also replaced the cancelled Gateway Tower 2 and will include a pedestrian bridge over Ala Moana Boulevard.

The Park Ward Village will be a luxury condo that will be located across from Kōʻula and it is designed by Francesco Mozzati.

[26][27] Kalae will be a ultra-luxury condo and it will sit east on the intersection of Ward Avenue and Ala Moana Boulevard.

[28] The Launiu will a ultra-luxury condo that will sit west on the intersection of Ward Avenue and Ala Moana Boulevard.

Ward Village will be served by the future Kūkuluaeʻo Skyline Station that will be north of the Mahana condo.