HONOLULU -- Mayor Mufi Hannemann on Wednesday announced a deal that will keep residents at the Kunia Plantation Village.

The village is filled mostly with former pineapple workers from Del Monte. Del Monte ended operations in Hawaii in February 2006.

The James Campbell Co. will transfer the 119-acre village to the nonprofit Hawaii Agriculture Research Center for $1. HARC will help maintain and help preserve the historic village.

Agricultural workers and retirees will be allowed to remain at the village. That means there will be dozens who will still have to move. Those residents will have until the end of the year to leave.

The James Campbell Co. agreed to the transfer because city officials said they will count the village's 115 homes as part of the company's required 1,230 affordable homes in its Makaiwa Hills residential project.

"This is the type of public-private partnership that our administration prides itself on. I’m hopeful that the Planning Commission and City Council will recognize the merit of this important plan and approve it," Hannemann said.

James Campbell Co. will also pay about $1 million to upgrade the village homes' fire safety infrastructure.

"These families have worked long and hard, and they truly deserve the housing security this agreement will help provide," ILWU Local 142 President Fred Galdones said.

More than 500 people lived at the camp.