“We need to make sure our representatives in the east see what’s good for rural Nebraska as well,” Gov. Jim Pillen said Thursday at North Platte s Lee Bird Field.
North Platte Planning Commission members recommended City Council backing of three housing initiatives that would bite into into a 2018 estimate of the city’s shortage of housing stock.
The nine-member panel voted to recommend tax increment financing for the 128-lot Village Park Flats on West A Street, annex a 10.35-acre north-side lot and make 260 east-side acres TIF-eligible.
Wasserburger is a founding member of Sustainable Beef, a producer-owned company that is building a packing plant on the east edge of North Platte along Newberry Access Road.