--- title: UNK breaks ground on Regional Engagement Center description: KEARNEY – This isn’t your average office building. The University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Regional Engagement Center will transform campus and the communi --- [Skip to content](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/development-council-for-buffalo-county-blog/news-center/p/item/51020/unk-breaks-ground-on-regional-engagement-center#main-content) [![Development Council for Buffalo County logo](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/hubfs/Development%20Council%20Logo_1-23-23_V1.png)](https://growbuffalocounty.com) - About Buffalo County - [Communities](https://growbuffalocounty.com/communities) - [Livability](https://growbuffalocounty.com/live) - [Labor](https://growbuffalocounty.com/work) - Site Selectors - [Sites & Buildings](https://growbuffalocounty.com/sites-buildings) - [Target Industries](https://growbuffalocounty.com/target-industries) - [Regional Data](https://growbuffalocounty.com/regional-data) - [Location Advantages](https://growbuffalocounty.com/location-advantages) - Strategic Initiatives - [Build Buffalo County](https://growbuffalocounty.com/build-buffalo-county) - Business Support - [Incentives](https://growbuffalocounty.com/incentives) - [Resources](https://growbuffalocounty.com/resources) - [Entrepreneurs](https://growbuffalocounty.com/big-idea-buffalo-county) - About DCBC - [Services](https://growbuffalocounty.com/services-1) - [Staff](https://growbuffalocounty.com/staff) - [Board](https://growbuffalocounty.com/board) - [Investors](https://growbuffalocounty.com/membership) - [News](https://growbuffalocounty.com/news) - [Contact Us](https://growbuffalocounty.com/contact-us) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # UNK breaks ground on Regional Engagement Center [Admin](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/development-council-for-buffalo-county-blog/author/admin) Published Aug 04, 2022 Reading Time 1 min read KEARNEY – This isn’t your average office building. The University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Regional Engagement Center will transform campus and the community, bringing new opportunities to rural Nebraska and connecting people across the state. “It’s going to be the key gathering place for the university and for companies, businesses and visionaries in central and western Nebraska. Everything that we think is important will be able to happen here in the Regional Engagement Center,” UNK Chancellor Doug Kristensen said Thursday morning during a groundbreaking ceremony for the $15.6 million project. More than 125 people, including city, state and university officials, attended the event at UNK’s University Village development, where the 52,000-square-foot facility will be built directly west of the Village Flats residence hall. It’s expected to open in early 2024. Standing in the middle of the former farmland, Kristensen called the Regional Engagement Center a “linchpin” for the 104-acre development that’s started to take shape over the past four years. “We really are putting an urban village in a rural community, which is so unique,” he said. “That doesn’t happen anywhere else in Nebraska, but it’s happening here in Kearney.” [Click here to view the full article.](https://unknews.unk.edu/2022/08/04/unk-breaks-ground-on-regional-engagement-center-a-cornerstone-project-for-campus-community/) [Admin](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/development-council-for-buffalo-county-blog/author/admin) Share #### Let's Connect We’d love to hear from you—reach out anytime and let’s start the conversation. ## Related Posts [Development Council, Partners Welcome Community to New Building Kearney, NE | February 20, 2025 – The Development Council, Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce, and Vis...](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/development-council-for-buffalo-county-blog/news-center/p/item/61573/development-council-partners-welcome-community-to-new-building) [Law Enforcement Appreciation Banquet hosted in Kearney KEARNEY —The Law Enforcement Appreciation Banquet honoring the Kearney Police Department, Buffalo Co...](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/development-council-for-buffalo-county-blog/news-center/p/item/58876/law-enforcement-appreciation-banquet-hosted-in-kearney) [UNK recognized as national leader in advancing first-generation student success KEARNEY – The University of Nebraska at Kearney is a destination for first-generation college studen...](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/development-council-for-buffalo-county-blog/news-center/p/item/58878/unk-recognized-as-national-leader-in-advancing-firstgeneration-student-success) ![edcc-logo-1](https://blog.growbuffalocounty.com/hubfs/edcc-logo-1.svg) **Development Council for Buffalo County** 220 11th Avenue Kearney, NE 68845 [(308) 237-9346](tel:+1308-237-9346)[mailto:info@growbuffalocounty.com](mailto:info@growbuffalocounty.com) [info@growbuffalocounty.com](mailto:info@growbuffalocounty.com) - [Buffalo County](https://buffalocounty.ne.gov/) - [City of Kearney](https://cityofkearney.org/) - [Kearney Area Chamber](https://www.kearneycoc.org/) - [Kearney Visitors Bureau](https://visitkearney.org/) - [Contact](https://growbuffalocounty.com/contact-us) - [Site Map](https://242034849.hs-sites-na2.com/sitemap.xml) © 2025 Development Council for Buffalo County. 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