Mayor Kay Barnes spoke at the event about this project’s importance as part of the Riverfront Heritage Trail and the City’s progress in completing capital improvement projects to enhance Kansas City’s livability. Councilwoman Bonnie Sue Cooper spoke on the subject of how improvements to this area and all along the trail help create a better environment for those living and working in this area of the city.  Amenities like this help to attract businesses and tourists to this vital area that is part of Kansas City's history.  The trail is a 10-mile, bi-state system of riverfront and urban bicycle and pedestrian pathways that will be the hub of the many existing and planned pedestrian/bicycle trails.

In early May, work began at River Bluff Park to create a small park overlooking the West Bottoms and the Missouri and Kansas rivers along the Riverfront Heritage Trail route.

This project will include the formation of an overlook park the Riverfront Heritage Trail, as well as street improvements to Beardsley Street.

This project will extend the trail through River Bluff Park overlooking the river valley, and will accommodate a pedestrian bridge to the West Bottoms. The Capital Improvements Management Office has worked expeditiously to complete this project before the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration.

Please click here to view the official invitation and map to this groundbreaking.