Home Welcome By the Numbers Our Door is Always Open Fremont Area Chamber Small Business, Big Dreams Education Getting Fit Map of Fremont Home for the Homeless Housing Your First Stop for Business News Briefs Recreation Churches Seasonal Events       home | fremont news | chamber of commerce | sponsors | contact us Opening Fremont's Front ... DOOR The breaking of a banner marks the opening of the Highway 275 and Military Avenue Bypass. It also marks symbolic new growth for the city and a drive toward the future. For more than one year access to Fremont via Military Avenue East has been denied. US Hwy. 275 was being expanded to four lanes and a new off-ramp was required. During these months in 2005 and 2006, Fremont’s East side was changing at a rapid pace. New housing, new roads and new churches were being developed virtually unnoticed. Additional development of the Johnson Lake Area including the Fremont Middle School, a clocktower and water park were also in the planning stages, making this area the ideal location to be Fremont’s “Front Door.” Time For Change “One of the challenges we’re going to have is a four-lane highway with traffic going by at 60 mph,” Fremont Chamber of Commerce President Allan Hale said. “We have to figure a way to attract people and get them to turn into Fremont. Anytime you look at a community’s ‘front door’ you need to look at it in terms of image. We need to give people a feeling of what we stand for. We have to be a little more dramatic than just the typical highway signs when we have four lanes of traffic going by.” The result, as determined by the Front Door Design Task Force (commissioned by the Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce), is a 35-foot tall brick tower. The welcoming sign is styled to remind people of the former Union Pacific Railroad depot’s clock tower. It will be constructed of coated steel tubes and brick, have 30-inch letters spelling out Fremont and spaces at the top for clock faces or brass medallions of John C. Fremont on two sides. Also included in the design is a set of four flag poles, a possible foot bridge over a narrow portion of Johnson Lake and a connection to a walking trail around the lake. A Pool of Options The Summer of 2007 marked the opening of more than 12,000 sq. ft. of water surface formally titled the Family Fun Pool. In May 2006 the residents of Fremont approved a $4.9 million bond issue for the Fremont Family Fun Pool, to be located just off of the new bypass near the Fremont Middle School. Two-thousand two marked the end of Memorial Pool, formerly located outside of the Fremont Family YMCA. Increasing maintenence costs and decreasing revenues forced its closing. At the Family Fun Pool groundbreaking ceremony Mayor “Skip” Edwards pointed to a group of Middle School children and said, “You’re the ones it’s all about.” six-lane lap pool that doubles as a wave pool a zero-depth entry pool with water play features a water slide with plunge pool 35’ speed slide bath house sun deck green spaces and a concession area a floating “water walk” an additional splash pad or sprayground with interactive water toys home | fremont news | chamber of commerce | sponsors | contact us