It’s been a quarter-century since the closure of Barbers Point Naval Air Station launched high hopes for Kalaeloa, with visions of a bustling local community of housing and mixed-use vitality. Instead, the former military base on Oahu’s West Side remains an arid, underused patchwork of 3,700 acres — mired by an unreliable electrical system left by the Navy as well as parcels of questionable environmental quality. It is high time that Kalaeloa’s potential be realized, underpinned by much-needed improvements in infrastructure, financially enabled by the military.