Facilities Development Plan - The University of Nebraska Kearney

Facilities Development Plan
the College of Business and Technology
are also located there. The remainder of the
Business College, the College of Education,
the nursing program delivered by the University
of Nebraska Medical Center, and the residence
halls occupied by Greek organizations are
housed on the west part of campus. On its
longest axis, the main campus extends nearly
a mile from Founders Hall in the east to a
large recreational fi eld on its western edge.
The three streets that form the perimeter of
the main campus are major vehicular thoroughfares
for students and UNK employees, as well
as for the community at large. Surface parking
lots for student and employee vehicles are
located on both east and west campus. Privately-owned
property adjacent to the main
campus is zoned primarily for residential use,
with some limited commercial uses including
a bookstore, restaurants, gas stations, and
convenience stores located along U.S. Highway
30. Many students live in private houses and
apartments in neighborhoods immediately east
and south of the main campus.
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Located about ten blocks north of the main
campus is University Heights, which was
built in 1960 to house married students.
Today, its 100 apartments house married and
nontraditional students. The complex, which
features substantial green/open space and
surface parking lots for residents, is located
on a 10 acre land parcel that is surrounded
by private residences: single-family homes
on the east, south, and west, and garden-style
apartments on the north.
Also north of the main campus, just north of
Kearney Lake, UNK owns 5.23 acres known
as Westlake Acreage. Surrounded by the lake
and private homes, this tract was donated to
the University to be kept in its natural state and
used for biological studies.
Directly south of the west part of main campus,
across U.S. Highway 30, is a 103.52 acre plot
of undeveloped land currently contracted
for agricultural use and planted in corn. A
recent acquisition has added 3.5 acres of
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