The bridge connects the neighbourhoods of East Village to the south and Bridgeland to the north, with access from the bridge to St. Patrick's Island Park in the middle of the river.

The bridge was built by the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) as part of the wider redevelopment of the East Village neighbourhood, in tandem with a $45 million redevelopment of St. Patrick's Island Park.

[1] During June 2013, Calgary and most of Southwestern Alberta were impacted by catastrophic floods.

About 75 000 of Calgary's population of 1.2 million people at the time had to be evacuated from their homes as the rivers burst over their banks.

After the flood, it was decided that the entire bridge deck which had been completed to that time would have to be replaced, setting the project back by more than a year.