FREMONT- On Tuesday, Gov. Jim Pillen visited Fremont to celebrate the collaboration between local officials, businesses, and citizens that helped lead to the construction of the U.S. Highway 77 Fremont Southeast Beltway project. The new freeway segment, located south of the city of Fremont, connects U.S. Highway 77 to U.S. Highway 275, which stretches east of the city. According to city officials, the project has already significantly reduced semitrailer truck traffic around downtown Fremont.

Having just come back from his first international trade mission, Pillen compared Nebraska to the southeast Asian country of Vietnam, saying that the nation lacks similar highway projects needed to expand its economy. "One thing Vietnam doesn't have is infrastructure," said Pillen at the event, "Infrastructure is a really, really big deal. This project is so critical to Fremont, so critical to the growing of Costco, so critical to the growing of Wholestone."

Pillen described the collaboration utilized to complete the project as an "everybody-in" level of cooperation between local and state governments. "Everybody was all on the same team to make sure we go this project finished," he said, "It is really going to be an extraordinary hub." The $62 million project began in 2020, and was only recently completed in May. The Beltway consists of a 3.2-mile long segment of four-lane highway, and was designed to divert traffic away from the city center of Fremont.

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