Past Projects

In 2024, we joined the National Park Service and others to bring the Lewis & Clark Discovery Expedition organization’s Keelboat and its living history demonstrations to our section of the [...]

Partnering with Bellevue Rocks! Riverfront Festival allows us to support free events bringing 80,000 visitors to Bellevue’s Riverfront, and we have history with this celebration’s site.  We [...]

The City of Council Bluffs, together with numerous partners, proposed a new, family oriented festival for Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park.  We agreed to join this partnership and support [...]

The “Baby Bob” spans Riverfront Drive and the UP tracks, connecting the award winning Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge to 10th Street. This extension will greatly improves visitor access to the [...]

We have and will continue to partner with the Missouri River Relief to remove trash from the river. For example, in 2021, 116 volunteers and 29 crew members worked on 12 miles of our riverfront. [...]

In 2022, we helped land a colorful, 15-foot-tall pelican landed next to the River’s Edge Pavilion! This pelican features climbing structures, a slide, a hammock and a lookout perch. Its new home [...]

After years of major events – and big crowds, flooding and COVID forced this Park’s Great Lawn to “go dark”. In 2021, we agreed to partner, with the City of Council Bluffs, to return a [...]

Other Channels explored the history of the Missouri River as it flows in and through our riverfront. For this composition, we partnered with the Bemis Center to bring artist and composer Nadia [...]

Deal finding platforms are websites that connect sellers and buyers, reducing the costs linked to the deal-making method. These systems often incorporate due diligence tools, business [...]

Back to the River began as a loosely formed group of agencies, representing both sides of the river, and interested in coordinating and cooperating in their Missouri River efforts. As the group [...]