Rare Bellevue cybersecurity and defense tech campus poised for takeoff as anchor tenant secured ‘REACH’ facility funded partially by a $50M in state funds The planned “REACH” facility, represented here in the front row to the left, reached a milestone when an anchor tenant signed a letter of intent agreement with the Prairie Hill Farm Area Development Authority, a nonprofit that includes City of Bellevue officials and will own and manage the broader campus northeast of Highways 75 and 34 in the state’s third most populous city just south of Omaha. It is to house research and development of defense and cybersecurity technologies that will boost the missions at the Bellevue-based U.S. Strategic Command (StratCom). The REACH building is still under design. (Courtesy of the City of Bellevue and Prairie Hill Farm Area Development Authority) BELLEVUE — Now that its main tenant has been “nailed down” and an agreement signed, a campus focusing on national defense technology in this military-heavy Nebraska town should start to take shape. That’s the word from City of Bellevue officials working with anchor tenant Nebraska Defense Research Corp. on the long-planned Research, Engineering, Architecture Collaboration Hub, or “REACH” facility. The REACH complex — envisioned as a secure space occupied by researchers, startups, private industry and defense contractors — is to receive $50 million from the state and when fully built, total private and public investment could be $300 million, said Bellevue economic and community development director Harrison Johnson. It is to be the centerpiece of a broader neighborhood dubbed Prairie Hill Farm collaboration campus that, as planned, could span 45 acres northeast of Highways 75 and 34, not far from Offutt Air Force Base and the U.S. Strategic Command (StratCom). Prairie Hill over time could surpass $600 million in private and public investment, partners have