Projects

To advance the public’s understanding of the changes and challenges to the Missouri River and other Midwest lakes and rivers, we partnered with the Bemis Center to curate “From the Great Lakes to [...]

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 [...]

Due in part to this property’s location at the confluence of the Missouri and Platte Rivers, its acquisition is one of our top priorities. The Nutrien property provides a unique opportunity to [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]