檀香山华埠邻里委员会11月5日举行例会，华商会华埠振兴项目受关注
檀香山市中心—华埠第13邻里委员会定于11月5日晚6时举行例会，地点为基利科拉尼中学图书馆，地址是皇后艾玛街1302号。檀香山位于夏威夷州檀香山县，华埠是当地华人最早落脚的街区之一。本次会议议程包括公共安全报告、国王街与旅馆街混凝土道路修复计划等社区事项。
在此前的委员会会议上，夏威夷华商会执行副会长孙尼·张介绍了华埠白皮书学生研究项目的进展，并提出三项计划：推出二维码自助建筑历史游览，目标在年底前完成；更新商户名录，并考虑印制版本供威基基酒店使用；与夏威夷旅游局推荐的旅游团队合作开发游览项目。这些振兴构想预计仍将是华埠社区关注的议题。
华埠是檀香山历史最悠久的商业区之一，也是华人移民最早落脚的地方。近年来，市政府持续投入公共安全、卫生、基础设施和公共空间改善，推动华埠复兴，而华商会的白皮书项目正是从社区自身出发，梳理华埠建筑历史和商户资源，让游客和本地居民更方便地了解这片街区的故事。华商会表示，商户名录和历史游览项目完成后，将有助于把华埠的文化资源转化为实实在在的客流，为区内中小商户带来更多生意。
Honolulu Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board Meets November 5, With Chinese Chamber's Chinatown Revitalization Work in Focus
Honolulu's Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board No. 13 will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. on November 5 at the Ke'elikolani Middle School library, 1302 Queen Emma Street. Honolulu is in Honolulu County, Hawaii, and its Chinatown is one of the earliest landing places for Chinese immigrants. The agenda includes public safety reports and a concrete roadway repair plan for King Street and Hotel Street, among other community items.
At an earlier board meeting, Sonny Zhang, executive vice president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, reported progress on the Chinatown White Paper student research project and outlined three initiatives: launching QR-code self-guided building history tours, targeted for completion by year's end; updating the merchant directory, with a possible print edition for Waikiki hotels; and working with tour operators recommended by the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop tours. These revitalization ideas are expected to remain a focus for the Chinatown community.
Chinatown is one of Honolulu's oldest commercial districts and one of the first places Chinese immigrants settled. In recent years the city has continued investing in public safety, sanitation, infrastructure and public spaces to revive the district, and the Chamber's white paper project starts from the community itself, documenting Chinatown's building history and merchant resources so visitors and residents can more easily learn the neighborhood's stories. The Chamber says that once the directory and history tours are complete, they will help turn Chinatown's cultural resources into real foot traffic and more business for local merchants.
来源：檀香山市邻里委员会办公室
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图片来源：图：檀香山华埠牌坊桥。（Herb Neufeld 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons） / Photo: The Chinatown gateway bridge in Honolulu. (by Herb Neufeld, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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