HONOLULU -- Homeless campers have spent their last night at Thomas Square.

Plans to give the park a facelift include pruning the park's trees and sprucing up the restrooms with new floors and paint. Crews also will install additional lighting, repair park benches and add irrigation systems along with other infrastructure improvements.

But even after the work is completed on Friday, the city will continue nightly closures of the park between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., leaving the homeless men and women who used to live at Thomas Square without any place to go.

"This is home," said homeless camper Tony Frazier. "I ain't going nowhere. I can't. I have nowhere else to go. It's one thing to beautify the park, but it's another thing again -- the homeless people have nowhere to go."

Homeless campers like Frazier said the city is once again squeezing them out. But city officials said park users have long complained about the growing homeless population. Mayor Mufi Hannemann said the city's parks are in dire need of repairs.

"What we're embarking upon this week will make Thomas Square a park that will be better and available for all our residents," he said, adding that the city would be sensitive while dealing with the homeless.

But campers like Frazier are skeptical.

"I stayed in the shelter for four nights, and all four nights that I stayed there, I'd wake up the next morning, and my things were gone," Frazier said.

About 200 homeless campers were forced out of Ala Beach Park last year, when the city began permanent night closures of the park. The homeless also were most recently urged to leave Maili Beach.