/ Source: The Associated Press
A private foundation has awarded PBS Hawaii a $5 million grant to build a new broadcast center.
The public television station said Tuesday the funds from The Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation will help it move from the grounds of the University of Hawaii at Manoa to a new home along Nimitz Highway.
PBS plans to build its new facility on the former site of KFVE on Sand Island Access Road.
The grant means PBS Hawaii has secured $17 million to build the new center — more than half of the $30 million total it aims to raise.
PBS Hawaii has been at UH Manoa for more than 40 years, but it is losing its lease there because the university needs the space to house academic programs.