Phase one for River Front Park begins
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Downtown Bowling Green will start to see some new changes as we head deeper into 2026.
The long discussed River Front Park is beginning construction on phase one and will begin a years long process to change the way the river front in downtown Bowling Green looks. Phase one will include the event lawn, the picnic grove, the boat ramp and kayak launch among many other amenities and features.
Leaders with Neighborhood and Community Services say they are very happy to see the start after such a long process.
“This project we’ve been talking about for years and years and years, and now we’re finally building something. We finally get to see construction taking place. We finally get to see progress being implemented. We finally get to see things moving forward in a positive direction. And we’re excited because now it’s just phase one to two to three to four and continue this momentum until we get Riverfront Park completed over the next several years,” said Brent Childers, director of Neighborhood and Community Services.
Phase one will cost over $4 million to build and will be located in an area that used to be a debris landfill.
Now, it’ll offer new opportunities for residents all over the region.
“It’s a construction debris landfill. So it didn’t have garbage in and or anything like that. It was like building materials, things like that. That’s what it was. But it sat there for, you know, 40 years, really unused. And now we’re going to take it from being just this open space to bringing life and activity and opportunity for a new adventure here in Bowling Green that we never had before,” Childers said.
Phase one is expected to be complete some time during the summer. Next week, the city will release the renderings for what phase two will look like, and News 40 will be there to bring you the latest.
