Washington County is the best of both worlds, small-town living with 6 great communities, over 97 thousand acres of corn throughout the county and directly north of the booming Omaha Metro. Founded in 1989, Gateway Development Corporation was organized to help Washington County, Nebraska grow through recruitment and business development of commercial and industrial enterprises in the Greater Omaha Metro. Gateway is a nonprofit investor based organization that is a cooperative partnership between the county’s public and private sectors focusing on business development services.