(KLZA)-- Falls City Economic Development and Growth Enterprise Executive Director Lucas Froeschl presented the organizations First Quarter report to the Falls City, City Council Monday evening and the Richardson County Commissioners Wednesday morning.

Froeschl noted that plans are being finalized for a third phase of the Wilderness Falls senior-living.

Excel Development is working to finalize layout plans for the construction of eight senior-living duplexes at Champions Crossing on the north edge of Falls City. Excel was shorted more than a million dollars in funding on the $4.7 million Phase III project.

Froeschl noted that EDGE continues to work with First District State Senator Julie Slama on LB-977, updating language, distinctive to Falls City, to access funding for additional electrical power from OPPD.

LB-977 passed in the Nebraska Legislature in 2022.