As Grand Island continues to grow, so does the need for housing options.

That’s where Legacy 34 Apartments owner Scott Rief steps in.

He knew he wanted to bring something different to the table.

“This is a step-up community, this is a community to recruit professionals to this community but also retain those professionals that are already living here, a place for them to live,” Rief said.

To develop such a community, Rief is offering what he calls the “Disney of neighborhoods”.

Monday night was the final presentation for Innate Development LLC in their plans to bring in hundreds of new housing units to Grand Island near the new hospital off Husker Highway.

The project is expected to add hundreds of individual homes, apartments, duplexes and even a senior living area filling a need Developer Scott Rief said Grand Island has had for a while.

"This is a step-up opportunity, what I mean is this isn't an affordable housing project, this is more for those professionals, like professors moving to the community for the University or for businesses that are trying to recruit people to come to Kearney," said Millennium Development and Element 30 Owner Scott Rief.

A new apartment complex is set to open in Grand Island, hoping to chip away at the community’s housing deficit.

Even as work continues on the first building, Talon Apartments is taking renters.

Plans for more than 200 new apartments in southeast Grand Island are moving ahead after the Hall County Regional Planning Commission gave their approval for redevelopment plans Wednesday night.

A second hospital in Grand Island could be the city's largest tax increment financing project yet.

It was a topic at Wednesday’s Community Redevelopment Authority meeting.

Members of UNK Student Government got a sneak peek of the new indoor tennis complex while checking out progress at the University Village development earlier this week.

A partnership between UNK and the city of Kearney, the Ernest Grundy Tennis Center is located along North Railroad Street near University Village’s southern edge. The 62,000-square-foot facility features six indoor courts, offices for Kearney Park and Recreation and UNK tennis, locker space, restrooms and an elevated mezzanine area with spectator seating.

A major housing project in Grand Island is currently underway.

Innate Development has started Phase 1 of a 150-unit housing project on Husker Highway, west of Prairieview Street.

Regional Planning Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved rezoning for Phase 2, from the R2 low density residential to RD residential development zone and CD commercial development zone.

Amazing things happen when ambitious, visionary people cross paths.

That’s the driving principle underpinning a $15.6 million office and regional meeting facility that’s scheduled to open sometime in 2023 in University Village at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.